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I don't - I only give support via eMail. Contact me through my web form on icomp.de for that. However, please note that the ACA1231 is an OEM product, so Vesalia is your first port of call for support. Quote:
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#2382 |
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Does this overheating issue only affect 1231's or do 1230's need some cooling too?
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electricky.
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Cooling never hurts, so you're free to add some if you feel like it. However, it may be more effective to reduce voltage on your power supply: We found during our tests that 5.3V instead of 5.0V increases heat by far. Your thought should be "eliminate the source of the problem, not the effect" (if there's a problem at all). Jens |
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#2385 |
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My own ACA1231 gets really hot as well (can't bare touching it after some minutes).
I haven't experienced any Gurus yet, but some instability was noticeable after some time. I was about to go buy some low profile heatsink when I saw Jens comment about Vesalia shipping the heatsink kit. Nice gesture tbh. So far, ACA1231 is running pretty great kicking an 1MB custom kickstart of mine and with "cache" and "burst" options on. If I add any other option that works on my ACA630 (like fastchip, fastz2 or z2cache) makes the ACATune not kicking the ROM and not using the cache/burst options. Without using ACATune I get ~4.5MB/s transfer speed on my 1GB Sandisk CF, while using cache/burst on I get ~5.4MB/s (both speeds using Idefix Express without software installed). Will have to give more test with different CF's (I have 4GB Transcend 133x and 8GB Sandisk Extreme) to see how it's going or else I'd have to send Vesalia my adapter for a boot-delay firmware change. |
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#2386 |
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I can't explain why, but my A1200 with ACA 1230 56mh became stable when I placed some very small heatsinks on some chips on the mainboard itself (not on the CPU of the ACA-card)...
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![]() Btw, are the"slowpcmcia/slowpcmciamem" options give any serious boost if turned on or should be avoided for now (in case they are still experimental)? Also does the "resetpcmcia" option is equivalent to the CardReset command for fixing the reset problem of PCMCIA bus? Quote:
DVD-RW that I have as secondary master, used to work just fine as well under OS3.9 without Idefix installed. For some reason Idefix never worked nice on my systems (maybe because I always used custom ROMS with other scsi.devices than the original). Dunno what is the max speed that Idefix Express with Idefix installed should reach, but I will try other scsi.devices and other CF cards at some point to see if I can reach a better speed. Till then, I'm pretty satisfied with the 5.5MB/s for IDE ![]() Last edited by mfilos; 28 February 2012 at 15:44. |
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Hi Jens, great work producing this card, thanks. Will the next batch sold have the new firmware installed as well as the heatsink?
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#2391 |
electricky.
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All cards are currently being reworked, so whatever is not yet shipped, will be the latest and greatest.
I'll ship the coolers with all mounting material (partly pre-assembled) to Vesalia today, so they will start shipping tomorrow. The heat transfer pads will be "fixed for shipping" with an Amiga-related item... Jens Last edited by Schoenfeld; 20 August 2013 at 22:44. |
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#2392 |
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Beautiful cooler!. I would like one of those for my 1230/56.
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#2393 |
electricky.
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Not necessary, and would not fit with the trapdoor (socket+processor is already filling the space to the trapdoor). As I explained a few posts back, PGA packages can dissipate much more heat than the ceramic quad pack, so a cooler is not required. And just for the looks? Who looks under your keyboard?
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#2394 |
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Ok with "It isn't necessary", "doesn't fit", etc, but not with
Who looks under the bonnet of his car? The answer is... who has something beautiful or powerful to show ![]() Ok, anyway and thanks. Last edited by Retrofan; 01 March 2012 at 22:13. |
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#2395 |
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That does look sweet! I'm looking forward to receiving one but, when you say " heat transfer pads will be fixed for shipping with an Amiga-related item..." does that mean we'll be getting a bonus item of some sort??!?!
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Good work Jens, I`ll be ordering one as soon as they become available.
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Here's the new version of ACATune V1.5e, which supports not only the ACA1231, but also all previous versions of ACA turboboards. New in this version: - recognizes the new ID for ACA1231 with the coldboot-wait - allows moving VBR to fastmem (gives about 0.3% performance boost on my harddrive performance... wow ;-)) - allows running even older versions of Kickstarts on A600: V1.2, V1.1 and V1.0 also work with the patch. It's just V0.7 that we could not get to work yet, but I guess we can skip on that. - commandline options don't have to be entered with "-" in front of them (but are still case-sensitive). - polished the help text a little - added a massive readme file with explanations for each option Still experimental: VBR moving to fastmem is marked as experimental, but works pretty well on all our test-setups. We will most likely mark it "working" if you guys don't report anything different. SKick patchfile support: We still need your feedback on this. If you want to help, please get the SKick package from Aminet and try out some Patchfiles: http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/skick346 Under development: Changing a maprom'd kickstart without disabling maprom first. This will save you a reboot if you want to change Kickstart roms. Also under development: Loading a kickstart from an A1000 Kickdisk or an A3000 Superkickstart disk. This will save you the hassle of converting those disks to a binary file, just to find out if it was worth being converted. So.. we're still not at the end of development with ACATune, even if the performance-tweaks have probably reached an upper limit now. Jens Last edited by Schoenfeld; 20 August 2013 at 22:44. |
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Thanks so much for tracking this for everyone!
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I hope you get a sticky for this since it helps so much to have a place where all the versions and a description file is!!! Please keep up the great work! |
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#2399 |
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What a lovely update (at least from what is written).
At last a ReadMe file with thorough details per option! \o/ I'll definitely test all features and report back ![]() Thanks Jens @Claw22000 Thanks a lot for the good words mate. Ofc I'll upgrade the post of mine with every new ACATune upgrade just for means of completeness and since some find it useful ![]() TCD or a mod can edit the first post to redirect the following post instead of the oldest version post that exist now. Updated post here: http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...postcount=2316 Last edited by mfilos; 06 March 2012 at 23:47. |
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I managed to get one ordered yesterday ;-)
Jens, I run WB 3.0, will the new version of ACAtune(V15e) resolve the issues with assigning the memory in WB 3.0? |
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