Buddha randomly looses its flash memory

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Don't Panic. Please wash hands.

    The Buddha Ide works fine.

    But twice when switching on the machine. The led light comes on as if accessing the CF card. But it just stops and freezes.

    On a warm boot it guru meditates. Then resets and goes back to frozen state.


    I then have to reflash the Buddha_ROM_52.101.bin file and all is well again.

    I have two of these Buddha cards and it only happens to one of them.


    Is this a fault with the card or is there something i can do to stop this happenng. Its just an inconvenience.


    Thanks Adrian

    We've had reports like this before, and still cannot point a finger at the cause. One candidate is always the power supply, as during power-up and power-down, glitches may happen that these chips cannot tolerate. Since you have one known-good and one "flaky" setup, you could just swap out the controllers (but leave everything else in place) and see if the error moves with it. If it does, then there's no doubt that we need to look for the fault in the Buddha controller.

    Hi Jens


    Yes the error follows the card. I have three A2000 boards.

    A nice black board and a really nice blue board. And a spare A2000 green original board.

    It does not matter which the Buddha is plugged into, It just looses its memory and forgets how to work.

    I can then swap this board from its home to one of my other A2000 and it wont work.

    As soon as i put it in with its sister card and then reflash the chip it springs back to life and works in any of the machines.

    All of the A2000 machines have gotten recapped power supplies. i have monitored the power on these and the 5v rail is working at 4.9v and the 12v is is 11.9v. i expect this as one machine has a Vampire A500 V2. the next has a TF536, And the last has a Pistorm with a Raspberry Pi V3 B+.


    It is not a big issue as i can move the card and reflash it. But it seems to need to be in the same machine as another working Buddha to reflash it. Which to a one A2000 owner is a problem.

    Of course the error moves when the card with already-lost-flash-contents is moved. However, I was asking if the "losing contents process" moves if you move it to a different machine.

    This has just happened again.

    The card that keeps losing its memory has serial eT8tL. The card that is always working has serial CT8tX.


    So i took the card (eT8tL) out of my A1500. Then i took my second card (CT8tX) out of my A2000.

    I then put card (eT8tL) in the A2000. And it fails to boot.

    I then put card (CT8tX) in the A1500. And it boots straight away.


    I then move card (eT8tL) into the A1500 in the zorro slot nearest the CPU. And run Buddhaflashtool Budda_ROM_52-101.bin. Then Input capital Y.

    It replies Flashing.

    When finished i then take the card (eT8tL) out and place it in the A2000 and it boots fine again.


    And this has now happened in both machines. It does not matter which machine i leave it in. When i come back to using the machine that has card (eT8tL) it fails to boot. (But this does not happen every time. The last time was back early June). The other card boots straight away regardless of which machine it is in.

    Unfortunately UK. I know how you hate to deal with UK at the moment. I had a Rapidroad that went wrong. And i had to get it shipped to Amigakit to get it back. The Rapidroad failed again on an A600 A604n card. I then tried it again on a X-Surf-100 and it works fine so i left it in there and give up on the clockport equipment.

    Card eT8tL has stopped working again.

    I unplugged it (eT8tL) and replaced it with a new Buddha card (TT83m) I purchased from Amigakit. And my drives appeared as they should.

    I now have 3 of these cards between the 3 machines i have and this is the only one that keeps losing its self.

    I have a 4th card on its way from Amigakit. That i can use in its place for now.


    Can we sort out a way of sending it back so you can look at it.

    I am going to leave it in its state of not working. So you can examine and find out its problem.

    Sorry, the only thing I did is to make a note in the back end of the shop system, but didn't get around to sending it. Preparations for Amiga37 were already ongoing, and I must have forgotten about this.


    We'll send it out today. I have just printed the instructions. There will be no tracking number, as "registered mail with goods" is not allowed any more. Let's hope the letter will be slim enough to slip through.

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