Individual Computers - New accelerator cards for A600 & A1200

[fitzsteve]

I'm still getting occasional crashes with my ACA620, it's not as bad as some have stated here but after doing more testing this evening I'm yet to see a crash with Maprom disabled so maybe this is a factor?

Those having trouble try disabling Maprom and report back. If you had it enabled you will need to power down otherwise it stays activated on soft reset.

Good luck

EDIT!!

Spoke too soon, crashed again with illegal instruction!

I give up, it seems totally random!

[Retrofan]

Sorry to hear that mate

Edit: But all are illegal instructions, so it's a software problem, not hardware (I think). Perhaps another ACATune can solve those problems.

[fitzsteve]

Originally Posted by Retrofan

Sorry to hear that mate

It's alright, I got other machines I can play WHDLoad games on, I hope they can fix it though as really WHDLoad is what most people buy this card for.

[Retrofan]

I'm sure Jens is working in another ACATune to fix that. I hope it won't take as long as for the Indi.

[solaris104]

Originally Posted by DonAmiga

I'll need to check that with Fitzsteve, I did move the hard-drive over to my ACA630 and everything worked great I have just finished testing the setup on 3 motherboards and got the same results apart from one where I got a bit further in actually playing starwars before crash with "illegal instruction" The only thing was all 3 boards are Rev1.5

I have every confidence that this will be a simple work around solution

Cheers

I have ACA620, Workbench 2.1, WHDLoad 16.8 and WHD games function witout errors. Try check your harddisk for viruses. Good antivir is VirusZ.

[Amiga1992]

I'm gonna hold on to see how this turns out, I am not going to use WHDLoad much on it but I definitely need to use MapROM and my machine right now, for the use I give it, it's kinda slow, but solid as rock, and since I take it to gigs, I can't have it locking up.

[fitzsteve]

I'm going to get my A600 Re-Capped and will update the thread if that solves the issues. Mine is a Rev1.5 board

[esel]

i just got my aca620 and i can only use whdload a few minutes =(

first i get gfx corruption and then the amiga will crash.

without the aca all games are working

board version is 1.5 with kick 3.1 i will clean up the cpu pins and replace all caps hope this will help.

[kipper2k]

I may have to buy one and try it in a few of mine to see if theres a pattern as to which Version mobos are suspect etc

[mfilos]

I think it's better to ask if there is a member with an ACA620 without a single issue so we can see what mobo revision and stuff he/she has.
From what I can see, many if not all are experiencing instabilities with their ACA620

[fitzsteve]

Originally Posted by solaris104

I have ACA620, Workbench 2.1, WHDLoad 16.8 and WHD games function witout errors. Try check your harddisk for viruses. Good antivir is VirusZ.

Originally Posted by mfilos

I think it's better to ask if there is a member with an ACA620 without a single issue so we can see what mobo revision and stuff he/she has.
From what I can see, many if not all are experiencing instabilities with their ACA620

Well the above person is using WB2.1 and WHDLoad 16.8, I'm going to try this and Maprom in 37.500 (KS2.0) and will report back

@solaris104 are you using KS2.0 or do you MapRom in a new KS?

[gunni]

Further to my earlier post, still haven't been able to get a whdload game to run without crashing. My A600 has a rev 1.5 board, kick 3.1 and a Marpet A604A expansion.
I've installed the latest version of whload and same situation. getting graphics corruption and a crash or "illegal instruction" whilst attempting to load

[solaris104]

Originally Posted by fitzsteve

Well the above person is using WB2.1 and WHDLoad 16.8, I'm going to try this and Maprom in 37.500 (KS2.0) and will report back

@solaris104 are you using KS2.0 or do you MapRom in a new KS?

I use real KS 37.350. On picture is my A600 with ACA620 and CF-IDE adapter. I fixed ACA620 with two metric screw 2x15mm.

[demolition]

Originally Posted by solaris104

I use real KS 37.350. On picture is my A600 with ACA620 and CF-IDE adapter. I fixed ACA620 with two metric screw 2x15mm.

I haven't tried fixing it with screws, but as it is standing perfectly still on a table when it is crashing, that shouldn't be important..

[fitzsteve]

Originally Posted by solaris104

I use real KS 37.350. On picture is my A600 with ACA620 and CF-IDE adapter. I fixed ACA620 with two metric screw 2x15mm.

Thanks, I'm going to try that exact configuration now and I will report to the thread if that solves my issues. The only small problem is I don't have a real 37.500 Rom I have to use Maprom or try to find an old 37.300 in my box-o-bits!

Anyway - It's transferring to a CF as I type

[fitzsteve]

Sorry guys I tested with WB2.1 (CWB GAAE) and Maprom'd in 37.500 Rom and I'm still getting Illegal Operation crashes



I tested without -Maxmem just in case and still got the Illegal Operation crashes



@solaris104 can you let me know what ACATune options you use?

My last thing is to try and find a real KS2.x Rom and test without Maprom and also I will test other ACATune memory settings from the readme.

Final test will be the Re-Cap and then....

BOOM!

[DonAmiga]

@fitzsteve

Nice to see you've been doing some tests today I've been a bit busy at work but will have a play around this evening

[Retrofan]

And if you install an ACATune that won't be the latest (1.7, as it's always "on") and you don't use ACAtune in the s-s?

[fitzsteve]

Originally Posted by Retrofan

And if you install an ACATune that won't be the latest (1.7, as it's always "on") and you don't use ACAtune in the s-s?

Yes I have installed ACATune 1.7 and it is called in the Startup Sequence with the following:

ACATune -maprom devs:ks205.rom -maxmem >NIL:

And tested again without -maxmem

(ks2.05.rom is an image of 37.500 rom from A600HD)

[Retrofan]

And using an older one and/or also disabling it completely in the s-s?