Problem with 1230-MK3/40mhz Turbo Card

h0ffman · 15 February 2012, 22:11

Hey guys

Hope you can help. I acquired a Turbo 1230 card for my A1200 at the weekend, won it at Datastorm (whoop!). However I've just plugged her in and at first everything seemed happy. However, after a couple of minutes, everything freezes. No reset can save it, you just have to power down.

It's came with a 16meg ram module but regardless of wether it's plugged in or not, it still freezes up.

I'm running a Compact Flash IDE drive, but wouldn't have thought that would be causing an issue.

I haven't even tried it with my PCMCIA Compact Flash Reader yet.

Any ideas anyone?

h0ffman · 15 February 2012, 23:00

Problem solved thanks to Lavaburn. I had an old Revision 1D motherboard from my old Amiga which works perfect with the card. Also the composite video output is better!!

For reference the other was a Rev 2B! Rubbish!!!

d0pefish · 15 February 2012, 23:08

d0pefish aka. lavaburn here

Come to think of it, wasn't the 2B the one from Amiga Technologies?
Either way, there were a lot of problems surrounding the 1D4 and 2B to do with the timing changes.

It was all investigated further with the release of the ACA1230:

Classic timing fix:
http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...postcount=1359

Further timing fixes from Jens Schoenfeld:
http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...postcount=2065

More info and pictures from Stedy:
http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/am..._mobo_fix.html

Good to hear the 1D board is behaving with it

Enjoy your new 030!

Amiga1992 · 16 February 2012, 01:03

So h0ffman was the buddy coming over to solve a problem? Haha!
And with that card, no less! How about sending the 2B motherboard to the Focus team?

Haha!

Now that you mention board revisions, I am unsure of what I have now. Maybe that is what is giving me so many Line 1111 errors on WHDLoad???

d0pefish · 16 February 2012, 01:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Akira

So h0ffman was the buddy coming over to solve a problem?

Ahh no mate

I helped our h0ff via Facebook after I spotted this post.

It was someone else going to come over to mine tonight but there was a change of plan.

Ahh, WHDLoad and mysterious Line errors. I think everyone gets those with certain slaves on certain configs at some point; I do. I need to go through them, update my WHDload executable, and check my slave versions at some point, I'm too lazy to try and fix them :P

Amiga1992 · 16 February 2012, 01:10

I have all the latest slaves and am still getting them, it's really annoying. I gotta check, I might be having a timing problem.

But today I received a CD32 and gaming with it is just SO much better!! I think I will stick to it for gaming and keep my other Amigas just for tracking and pixelling

I just wish SX-32 modules weren't so damn rare and expensive, I'd gladly have a CD22 as my main machine, it's great specially if you have to move it (to a demoparty for example)!

h0ffman · 18 February 2012, 15:22

Seems the 1D also has this problem, when I get a chance I'll desolder the two components to fix it.

Although I managed to snap off the frikin ESC key in the process of switching boards!!! Ghey!

15 February 2012, 22:11	#1
h0ffman Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Salisbury Posts: 744	Problem with 1230-MK3/40mhz Turbo Card Hey guys Hope you can help. I acquired a Turbo 1230 card for my A1200 at the weekend, won it at Datastorm (whoop!). However I've just plugged her in and at first everything seemed happy. However, after a couple of minutes, everything freezes. No reset can save it, you just have to power down. It's came with a 16meg ram module but regardless of wether it's plugged in or not, it still freezes up. I'm running a Compact Flash IDE drive, but wouldn't have thought that would be causing an issue. I haven't even tried it with my PCMCIA Compact Flash Reader yet. Any ideas anyone?

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15 February 2012, 23:00	#2
h0ffman Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Salisbury Posts: 744	Problem solved thanks to Lavaburn. I had an old Revision 1D motherboard from my old Amiga which works perfect with the card. Also the composite video output is better!! For reference the other was a Rev 2B! Rubbish!!!

15 February 2012, 23:08	#3
d0pefish Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England UK Age: 36 Posts: 103	d0pefish aka. lavaburn here Come to think of it, wasn't the 2B the one from Amiga Technologies? Either way, there were a lot of problems surrounding the 1D4 and 2B to do with the timing changes. It was all investigated further with the release of the ACA1230: Classic timing fix: http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...postcount=1359 Further timing fixes from Jens Schoenfeld: http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...postcount=2065 More info and pictures from Stedy: http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/am..._mobo_fix.html Good to hear the 1D board is behaving with it Enjoy your new 030!

16 February 2012, 01:03	#4
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	So h0ffman was the buddy coming over to solve a problem? Haha! And with that card, no less! How about sending the 2B motherboard to the Focus team? Haha! Now that you mention board revisions, I am unsure of what I have now. Maybe that is what is giving me so many Line 1111 errors on WHDLoad???

16 February 2012, 01:10	#6
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	I have all the latest slaves and am still getting them, it's really annoying. I gotta check, I might be having a timing problem. But today I received a CD32 and gaming with it is just SO much better!! I think I will stick to it for gaming and keep my other Amigas just for tracking and pixelling I just wish SX-32 modules weren't so damn rare and expensive, I'd gladly have a CD22 as my main machine, it's great specially if you have to move it (to a demoparty for example)!

18 February 2012, 15:22	#7
h0ffman Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Salisbury Posts: 744	Seems the 1D also has this problem, when I get a chance I'll desolder the two components to fix it. Although I managed to snap off the frikin ESC key in the process of switching boards!!! Ghey!

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