Building the 500+ using the replica mobo

Vendest · 22 January 2021, 08:27

Hi, I am new to the Amiga scene and started off by building a new Amiga 500+ and of course my question with revolve around seeking support for troubleshooting

The picture of the motherboard with all the components installed https://imgur.com/hhUTtvg

I did not solder any of the jumpers as I do not know what they are for aside from the DFO set to internal.
Tried with 3 different kickstart 1.3, 2.04, 3.14

There was a green screen at first boot which seems to indicate a problem with the chip ram.
I swapped couples of rams and made sure the Fat Agnus is well positioned in the socket.
I couldn't get pass that screen so I reduced the number of ram chips to make it 512kb.
After checking the solder joints for each socket and resitting the chips a new screen came up with "Not enough memory"

https://imgur.com/HEvu1mU

I thought I might be on the right path but now I only get a yellow screen directly after boot or changing from a green screen.

What else have I tried? swapped couples of the original chips that I could spare such as both CIAs, Paula, Denise, CPU.
I do not have a spare Agnus or Gary to try.
Most chips are warm by touch aside from the ram chips and Gary which remain cold.
I do have spare logic gates that I could swap but have not tried that yet.

Any suggestions on what I could try next?

Thanks,

shaf · 22 January 2021, 22:14

what are the jumpers set to?

Vendest · 23 January 2021, 08:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by shaf

what are the jumpers set to?

I did not set any jumpers aside from the DFO.

After battling for 2 days I was able to make it work!
The ram I purchased on Ali Express was not working at all, replaced it with the "Amiga 500 chip ram replacement board"
I also swapped the 68k CPU. Cleared both green and yellow screen.

https://imgur.com/xgvCxj8http://

When running sysinfo only 512kb is detected instead of 1mb

https://imgur.com/QKqwHQD

Shadowfire · 19 February 2021, 14:05

It is likely that you have a 512k agnus installed. IIRC Agnus is mapped to control all memory access from $000000-$1FFFFF, and if you have an original 512k chip, the 68000 can't see the ram above 512k if its mapped into that address space.
On older machines, the memory above 512k was mapped to $C00000. This is what Kickstart understands, and it puts the memory into the proper (non-chip) memory pool.

22 January 2021, 08:27	#1
Vendest Registered User Join Date: Dec 2020 Location: Singapore Posts: 5	Building the 500+ using the replica mobo Hi, I am new to the Amiga scene and started off by building a new Amiga 500+ and of course my question with revolve around seeking support for troubleshooting The picture of the motherboard with all the components installed https://imgur.com/hhUTtvg I did not solder any of the jumpers as I do not know what they are for aside from the DFO set to internal. Tried with 3 different kickstart 1.3, 2.04, 3.14 There was a green screen at first boot which seems to indicate a problem with the chip ram. I swapped couples of rams and made sure the Fat Agnus is well positioned in the socket. I couldn't get pass that screen so I reduced the number of ram chips to make it 512kb. After checking the solder joints for each socket and resitting the chips a new screen came up with "Not enough memory" https://imgur.com/HEvu1mU I thought I might be on the right path but now I only get a yellow screen directly after boot or changing from a green screen. What else have I tried? swapped couples of the original chips that I could spare such as both CIAs, Paula, Denise, CPU. I do not have a spare Agnus or Gary to try. Most chips are warm by touch aside from the ram chips and Gary which remain cold. I do have spare logic gates that I could swap but have not tried that yet. Any suggestions on what I could try next? Thanks,

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22 January 2021, 22:14	#2
shaf Registered User Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Toronto / Canada Posts: 231	what are the jumpers set to?

19 February 2021, 14:05	#4
Shadowfire Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Connecticut USA Posts: 617	It is likely that you have a 512k agnus installed. IIRC Agnus is mapped to control all memory access from $000000-$1FFFFF, and if you have an original 512k chip, the 68000 can't see the ram above 512k if its mapped into that address space. On older machines, the memory above 512k was mapped to $C00000. This is what Kickstart understands, and it puts the memory into the proper (non-chip) memory pool.

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