Another A4000 project!

hi steve,

what model lcd tv is that? id like that on my A500 / A1200 setp

and when you get the 040 in can you post a SYSinfo screen shot, id be intested to see your speed vs mine with an 3640 (it only has mobo ram)

thank you

mjnurney said:

hi steve,

what model lcd tv is that? id like that on my A500 / A1200 setp

and when you get the 040 in can you post a SYSinfo screen shot, id be intested to see your speed vs mine with an 3640 (it only has mobo ram)

thank you

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Yep, no probs at all I will grab you the info later today on the TV and the screenshot once the new 040 is done

Steve.

Here's a shot I took when benchmarking one of the 33MHz clocked boards:



It has a noticeable edge over the 25MHz A3640. This may increase a tiny bit further with some Z3 Fast RAM and would be interesting to see!

Hey d0pefish, thanks for the screen shot

@mjnurney the TV is a JVC LT-19D8WJ

Now this TV has some pro's and cons:

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The VGA input is great, its like a Multisync Monitor in as much as it will sync to almost anything including the Amiga native 15khz output from a RGB-VGA adapter!

The picture in these modes is sharp and clear plus being a HD ready set with HDMI its pretty decent for your Playstation/XBox.

Being white it looks pretty awesome along side the miggy

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Now... The biggest drawback is it does not like Amiga RGB-Scart, I have tried a few different scart leads and they all come out black and white, maybe this is a fault with my TV, I don't know it was used from ebay so I cannot be 100% sure. But I tried my FreeSat box and that was fine however I tested my Dreamcast and this was also Black and White.

Interlaced screen modes need a flicker fixer/de-interlacer.

Some modes (like Native amiga screens) have slightly visable vertical lines especially on a white background.

Sound it a bit naff, so I use PC speakers.

ahh many thanks

id like that tv for one of my other Amiga , it looks good and native amiga res is always a bonus!

Awsome news guys! I got my A3640 back yesterday from d0pefish, caps replaced, upgraded to Rev3.2 and Overclocked to 33mhz.

Dale has done an awesome job on this card, I really can't thank you enough mate

Here is something from the request thread:

d0pefish said:

All done!

I can haz pr0n tiem naw?

One of the offending chips:


Off it comes, and the pads get cleaned and fluxed ready for the socket. :smile:


Socket soldered into place:


Repeat three more times, and the shiny new chips that Hikey programmed for me can be inserted. As mentioned, I tested the card between replacing chips so that if there was a problem with the card booting, I would know that the last piece of work would be the most likely cause. There were no problems at all :smile:


The card, as modeled by Taj's motherboard :smile: (it's on my worktop being given some love in the other thread).


So, like before, I'll do some tests with various CPU-intensive software, and see if I can get any more freezing. I'm convinced it's solved now though, as my machine has now been running for quite some time with your card in place. Before, it would hard-lock within minutes without cold air being blown on it, and not even a power-cycle could bring it back without letting it cool down.

Now, all seems great! :drinkin:

If all goes well, she could well be back home with you early next week, Steve!

I think I have a few little fans that could be placed on the 040, but they'll have the PC motherboard-style 3-pin header plugs on them. But I think I've also got some Molex HDD-style power plugs that I could solder onto it instead if there's one free in your A4000. :smile: I'll have a rummage tomorrow.

Cheers!

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Here's a final pic after the work was finished finished:



As I say, its all back with me now and installed in the A4000, its working great and even the Z3 Fastlane is quite happy to run with 192mb at the moment

I've installed Warp3D and got the gears Demo working, albiet very slow lol. No luck getting GL Quake to run yet, but I will try again.

I'm getting just shy of 25Mips from this badboy so I'm very, very pleased.

This project then is pretty much finished

Steve.

Totally thrilled to see it being but to work once again by its original owner

Enjoy it Steve, and don't hesisitate to give me a shout if you need anything else looking at

Mean A3640!

Congratulations to both!

Thanks guys! To reward your kind comments here's a piccie of her all setup next to her little big Brother

Just a little update to this, I made a short Video for my Youtube page of this running after the upgrade from d0pefish:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS1aHdrVjdk

Enjoy!

Oh and my USB/PS2 Mouse adapter:



Works great on this A4000 with an optical PS2 mouse (Had problems on my A1200T)

Its hanging off the back for now but I should be able to mount it inside the case when I'm feeling creative.

ps - d0pefish is da Man!

It's slightly off topic Fitz, but have you tried 256Mb Ram on the Z3 Fastlane, now you have the A3640 upped to Rev 3.2?

Just a thought m8.

Kin

Kin Hell said:

It's slightly off topic Fitz, but have you tried 256Mb Ram on the Z3 Fastlane, now you have the A3640 upped to Rev 3.2?

Just a thought m8.

Kin

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I got shot of half of the 16mb Simms now however it was still unstable with 192mb (random crashing) so I wouldn't have expected any improvment, I don't think I was destined to have a 256mb Z3 fastlane! Good news is that 128mb is working flawlessly, even with 64mb assigned to ShapeShifter

Ah well....

Kin

Hey guys - little update to this project of mine

Using my NinJah Skills I was able to get an Apollo 4060, it arrived today in just 4 days from Canada - of course this was by UPS not Royal Snail lol...

So here she is - isn't she boot-a-ful?



She came with 48mb Ram which I have upgraded to 96mb, annoyingly I do have 4 matching 32mb Simms but it looks like one of them is faulty which is a shame. (Yeah the build became a fault finding mission there for a while lol)

So here she is installed, as you can see I'd removed the FDD/HDD cage for access to the Simms when I was doing all the switcheroo's :roll:



Must say I'm really impressed with the Apollo 4060, it seems faster than the Blizzy 060's @50mhz I've used, she's sitting behind me running Quake now pretty smooth indeed for a basic 060

As you may know these Apollo's are also pretty clockable, so with my variety of x-tals here and a nice H/S Fan I might have a play over the weekend.



Zorro Cards all back in, the 128mb on the Z3 Fastlane working well with the Apollo for a total of 248mb thanks to a 16mb Simm I crammed in the last slot on the Apollo!





Next upgrade will be the Mediator PCI I bought last weekend, lets hope Royal Snail bring it tomorrow as I have a Voodoo 5 sitting here doing nothing!

Very good looking pictures my friend. Your ninja skillz are well known in the Amiga world! Nice find and keep us posted of da pr0n!

mfilos said:

Very good looking pictures my friend. Your ninja skillz are well known in the Amiga world! Nice find and keep us posted of da pr0n!

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Thanks mate

I added an extra pic with all the Zorro cards back in

Overclocking = Fail

Overclocking = Fail

XC 060 was getting pretty hot even at 50mhz so I've fitted a HeatSink/Fan which has kept it cool even after an hour of Quake. I did try setting the Ram clock to 040 and tried some other x-tals (60/64/66mhz) but no boot so I think I need one of the latest mask 060's.

Anyway, here's the pics

Ok! Progress

Slow - but moving along....

So, my Mediator arrived today yay!



Time to install! Luckily I have already the right connectors in the Tower so no need to mess around with new PSU's etc. Straight away though it doesn't quite fit, it sticks out more than the old Zorro board so this means the brass stand offs are too short and the PCI slots are in the wrong place, however moving on... Wont let that stop me from testing her out!



Here she is, installed the best I can.



Don't worry, there are lots more Zorro & PCI cards to go in, this is just what I needed for testing. Voodoo 5 5500 PCI, CV64/3D+SD and the Mediator Riser Board.

Well as I type Doom is running behind me on the Voodoo and I have a nice 24bit Workbench so we have some success

However not without its issues which I've come to expect anyway! I am having to run the Mediator in 256mb Zorro window as it yellow screens with the X-Surf in place (yeah sorry added that later) and also crashes with RamLib error if you have the Voodoo Monitor Driver in place (in 512mb Mode) Now this is supposed to be required for a Voodoo 5 5500 but I've tricked it into thinking its a Voodoo 3 and seems to work, lets see later if I can Warp3D going (wish me luck)

Also at this stage as warned by Kinny it does seem to be CV64/3D or Voodoo and not both as the CV64/3D isn't being picked up at all with the Voodoo Driver loading, but I can always try the Picasso 96 driver for the CV64/3D as now I'm running CGX4 and P96 at the same time - yeah confusing

Scan Doubler is working though so not all bad...

More to come when I figure things out - kind of working in the dark here with no Manual and just my old Mediator CD from the A1200

Hope you enjoyed the pr0n

Steve.

If you're running a DCE FF/SD between the Mobo & the Mediaor board, be sure you have some fan or other blowing between the Mobo & the back of the Mediator. If you don't, you might fry the RAMDAC on the DCE FF/SD.

See JuvUK's recent wanted Ad here: https://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=15039

Also, according to the Elbox reference Manual, if you are running a Voodoo 5500 with 64Mb Ram, the Mediator Board should have it's jumper set to 512MB. Your 256Mb Set Jumper might be FuX0ring the whole shebang, but then anything over 64Mb on a Z3 is pretty Impressive. You have to remember that Elbox had to Fudge DMA to get their boards to work & Z3 is fully DMA compliant, whereas Eblox PCI boards are not.

Kin

Hey Kinny - I'm using the video slot SD on the CV64/3D

Well everything is working so far except Warp3D and if I plug in the Z3 Fastlane it don't boot (black screen)

Fun and games....