Making M1230 XA more WHDload Friendly - Page 2

illy5603 · 24 September 2009, 02:11

Photon,

Using the memtest you kindly placed in the zone, I was able to test all 128 megs without any errors. I did not run the long tests. The only problem is WHDLOAD games still work better with the 8mig SIMM installed. I get a lot of "recoverable alerts" with the 128 meg SIMM. Any ideas?

8bitbubsy · 24 September 2009, 03:21

Run the long tests, just to be sure...

Photon · 24 September 2009, 07:48

Yeah, and I shall run the mbrtest on the MX1230A disk on mine...

btw, if you take a look at the startup-sequence on the disk it has a script to find "safe" timings for your 128MB stick, if for some reason it fails to run at its specified speed.

illy5603 · 24 September 2009, 08:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by Photon

Yeah, and I shall run the mbrtest on the MX1230A disk on mine...

btw, if you take a look at the startup-sequence on the disk it has a script to find "safe" timings for your 128MB stick, if for some reason it fails to run at its specified speed.

Yeah if you boot from the floppy it tests down from 80-40ns and checks for errors. The problem with this is that when booting from the floppy it shows the 128 meg SIMM as 8 megs with 120 megs of "Other" memory that it doesn't test. Weird. Anyway that program guru's when testing all 128 megs of ram at any speed.

I still haven't done the memtest long tests on all 128 yet. I am thinking of buying one of the 64 meg SIMMS intended for the Blizzard cards from Amigakit. Does anyone know if those will work?

amigakit.com · 24 September 2009, 16:59

It has been a while since we have had a MBX1230 in stock but I think our 64MB SIMMs will work.

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24 September 2009, 02:11	#21
illy5603 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: SPaT CiTY Posts: 557	Photon, Using the memtest you kindly placed in the zone, I was able to test all 128 megs without any errors. I did not run the long tests. The only problem is WHDLOAD games still work better with the 8mig SIMM installed. I get a lot of "recoverable alerts" with the 128 meg SIMM. Any ideas?

24 September 2009, 03:21	#22
8bitbubsy Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Norway Posts: 1,710	Run the long tests, just to be sure...

24 September 2009, 07:48	#23
Photon Moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Eksjö / Sweden Posts: 5,602	Yeah, and I shall run the mbrtest on the MX1230A disk on mine... btw, if you take a look at the startup-sequence on the disk it has a script to find "safe" timings for your 128MB stick, if for some reason it fails to run at its specified speed.

24 September 2009, 16:59	#25
amigakit.com Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: www.amigakit.com Posts: 2,015	It has been a while since we have had a MBX1230 in stock but I think our 64MB SIMMs will work.

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