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    Hi


    Tested my ACA500 plus today on my A500+



    My setup is ACA500plus on Amiga A500+ and a Blizzard 1260.

    Custom power with 5v 6.5 amp and 12v 1.7 amp



    I upgraded the firmware to latest.1.46

    And I did the upgrade the installation to 1.15


    Then I wanted to flash new roms to my ACA500

    With the 1260 installed and F1 default config on aca500plus i got suspend and reboot error window when I run acafashrom, ( did not try to upload any I just started shell and write "acaflashrom" to check if it was resident). And got the error.


    I think could it be the 060. so I take a soft boot and just disable with key "2" when it rebooted it did not find the acafashrom resident.. so I did a power off.


    When I power on again I get red raster on screen and the only E1 in the display it comes almost instance after power on.


    I have tested with 2 other amiga 500, same error on all of them. I have ofc tested without any accelerator card installed. but just for fun, I also tried with a blizzard 1230 iv and a aca 1221ec get same error code on all E1


    Hmm Did I brick something when I hitted the "2" to disable the 1260?

    Was no problem until then.


    I may have screw up something in the config/firmware?


    Is there any reset mode on aca500plus? to restore it.






    Hi again.


    I know this thread is old.

    I have been outside the country and not tested it any more.

    But the power i use, is used on several other machines (amiga) with and without extra add ons, and works without any hiccups. Still using it.


    But I wonder what the error code F1 means?


    any how I think I crewed up something in the firmware/flash. As I can’t see that use the “2” key on the keyboard to disable the blizzard 1260 would make any hardware failure, or have anything to do with the power!


    I have since then last month bought another aca500 plus to continue my quest. And hope I get proper support.


    I still think my old aca500 plus can be salvaged, with a reflash. With Jtag adapter and updated to standard flash/core. Is that possible? Do you offer that service?

    Quote from BuzzBrain_73

    But the power i use, is used on several other machines (amiga) with and without extra add ons, and works without any hiccups. Still using it.

    You're describing exactly the behaviour that I've been criticizing for years: Those "aftermarket PSUs" work with a completely un-expanded Amiga, yes they are advertised for "heavy expansion", which is exactly where they fail. To date, the CA-PSU is the only power supply for compact Amigas on the market that fulfills each and every specification that Commodore made.



    Quote from BuzzBrain_73

    And hope I get proper support.

    Support is a two-way thing: We're suggesting solutions, and you need to implement them. If you turn down suggestions that have a foundation in engineering, just because you believe something is better with your decision, despite better knowledge, there is nothing that we can improve on this side. Again, your "custom power supply" raises all the red flags there are. DO NOT USE IT FOR YOUR NEW ACA500plus.


    Quote from BuzzBrain_73

    I still think my old aca500 plus can be salvaged, with a reflash. With Jtag adapter and updated to standard flash/core. Is that possible? Do you offer that service?

    Just reading the manual would be a good start: Re-flashing can be done with the de-brick mode, using the update disk, which can double as a rescue disk. If that doesn't work, you probably blew something with your PSU contraption. There is a reason why I've done so much engineering on the CA-PSU: you do need to take a lot of different load cases into account. Just slapping together a few components, not calculating what happens if you combine certain componens (mostly not even considering the cable a component), can't be called "making a custom PSU" - it's called tinkering, and often does not lead to the desired outcome.


    Long answer short: Yes, we do service on our products. I generally put repair over a new purchase. Read this article about how to return things to us.


    Jens