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I’m hoping someone may have the same card and can give me a few pointers, there’s next to nothing on-line and every copy of the English manual seems to have been eaten by unicorns.
I’m trying to get a Vortex Golden Gate 486slc and VGA card up and running in my A4000D with Buster 11, Cyberstorm 060 128MB, Cybervision 64, Indivsion and ClassicWB 3.1 Adv, 16GB CF.
Installed the Vortex (16MB, 256MB DOM with MS Dos 6.2, 387 co pro, floppy controller), VGA card and Goldmine II software. Both cards show as working fine in early boot menu and System Config.
When I run ‘Goldmine Setup’ (which should jump to a sort of BIOS config screen on the PC side) I get:
Green light on the card lights, four or five short audible ‘click’ sounds from the card, Workbench brings up the screen below
error2
‘Goldmine’ program (which should start the bridge board)
The green light on the card activates, four or five short audible ‘click’ sounds from the card, Workbench brings up the below screen
error1
What I have tried so far:
I tried installing in an A3000 running Classic WB Adv 3.1 with all other cards removed and on there it goes a little further to the Emulation software's pop up window which says ''press two Amiga keys and press C for mouse capture'' but then just freezes and goes no further with no VGA output. Also tried booting that from the Goldmine floppy… same result
I then tried installing in a completely stock, Buster 9 030 A4000D and it worked fine, outputting MS-Dos through the VGA card to a second screen!
So I'm at a loss…. I REALLY want to get it up and running in the 060 as that’s my daily use machine so the card will see some action rather than sitting unused in another system, any suggestions very gratefully received at this point
I’m hoping someone may have the same card and can give me a few pointers, there’s next to nothing on-line and every copy of the English manual seems to have been eaten by unicorns.
I’m trying to get a Vortex Golden Gate 486slc and VGA card up and running in my A4000D with Buster 11, Cyberstorm 060 128MB, Cybervision 64, Indivsion and ClassicWB 3.1 Adv, 16GB CF.
Installed the Vortex (16MB, 256MB DOM with MS Dos 6.2, 387 co pro, floppy controller), VGA card and Goldmine II software. Both cards show as working fine in early boot menu and System Config.
When I run ‘Goldmine Setup’ (which should jump to a sort of BIOS config screen on the PC side) I get:
Green light on the card lights, four or five short audible ‘click’ sounds from the card, Workbench brings up the screen below
error2‘Goldmine’ program (which should start the bridge board)
The green light on the card activates, four or five short audible ‘click’ sounds from the card, Workbench brings up the below screen
error1What I have tried so far:
- Shouted at it and threatened to hit it with a branch from a beech tree ‘Basil Fawlty’ style – No change
- Installed Vortex in every Zorro slot – No change
- Removed Cybervision and Indivision – No change
- Removed the VGA card and used the onboard CGA emulation through Amiga monitor – No change
- Set 060 CPU NOCACHE – No change
- Removed all fast Ram from the motherboard as the generic #8000004 error seems to be RAM related – No change
- Removed all the 30 pin RAM from the Golden Gate one SIMM at a time and configured it through jumpers accordingly – No change
- Tried a different set of 72 pin SIMMs in the Cyberstorm – No change
- Booted straight from the Goldmine floppy and run the software from the disk to rule out any WB Adv issues – No change
I tried installing in an A3000 running Classic WB Adv 3.1 with all other cards removed and on there it goes a little further to the Emulation software's pop up window which says ''press two Amiga keys and press C for mouse capture'' but then just freezes and goes no further with no VGA output. Also tried booting that from the Goldmine floppy… same result
I then tried installing in a completely stock, Buster 9 030 A4000D and it worked fine, outputting MS-Dos through the VGA card to a second screen!
So I'm at a loss…. I REALLY want to get it up and running in the 060 as that’s my daily use machine so the card will see some action rather than sitting unused in another system, any suggestions very gratefully received at this point
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