Upgrading an A600

[killergorilla]

Hi,

this post is actually on behalf of someone else so I'll try my best to get it across...

He currently has an A600 and has managed to get hold of an 030 accelerator running at 33Mhz. He's not got any ram yet because he's got a few questions about the board first.

After reading a few places that a600 accelerators can heat up and damage/kill his a600 he has a few reservations. Anyone else had a problem with them overheating? (How the hell would you fit cooling inside an a600 anyway?) Apparently the accelerator doesn't fit very securely either (which does sound ominous), is there anyway of securing it (is this a normal occurence?)

Any info would be most appreciated.

[adgloride]

I have a similar thing happen with my a1200. The accelerator board overheats this doesn't damage the a1200 it just stops it working till the accelerator cools down. To get round this I just keep the trap door on the expansion slot off. Now I have no problems at all.

[derSammler]

Originally Posted by killergorilla

Apparently the accelerator doesn't fit very securely either (which does sound ominous), is there anyway of securing it (is this a normal occurence?)

A lot of pressure is needed to make it fit perfectly. Most people have the fear to break something, but this will not happen. So tell him to press it down as strongly as possible until he hears a loud click. It will fit securely then.

I don't think heat can kill hardware, probably it won't go worse than frequent crashes. Heat caused by overclocking is another thing, there heat is only the result of a real threat, running a piece of hardware with higher current/speed than it's designed for.

I operated a 040/PPC, with no fan in midsummer in Istanbul.

[Amiga1992]

I am not sure, the zone where the acceleration board goes is prone to heat up considerably, and having a hard drive above it doesn't help matters either. Definitely you can't fit a fan in there, maybe you can a bunch of those mini fans, but dunno if there's any sense in doing this, as I've been told when trying to put a fan in my A1200

I suppose though, that people that made tehse things were not stupid and had all these matters in consideration, but it just makes me wonder because as it is, my A600 with just its hard drive heats up a bunch in that area, so I wonder what would happen with an 030 atop.

if I had a spare A600 I would try it out. Getting one of these accelerators is not easy now so he's got a nice one there and might as well try it out for a while and see what happens. if he does so, tell him to put the Amiga above something that lifts it up a bit so air flows beneath.

[RetroMan]

http://www.amiga600.de/

[Amiga1992]

Whoooah!_

The Apollo 630 itself is a horribly designed piece of hardware. It gets hot, most Apollos show clear traces of low quality assembly and most don't run stable. The Apollo is known to be very picky with Amiga 600 board revisions and is known to kill its processor within minutes, if no extra cooling is provided (and of course, the Apollo's design doesn't provide for extra cooling)

Let's read how this guy pulled it off.