ECS V4 / A500 / Boot failure

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Don't Panic. Please wash hands.

    Hi,


    I just received the new Indivision ECS V4, but unfortonately, my Amiga doesn't boot up, _nothing_ happens.


    My setup:

    A500 Rev 6 (PAL)

    ACA500plus

    ACA1234

    (and now the ECS V4)


    I tried to following:


    1) After removing the ECS V4 setup (replaced CIA and Denise): Amiga boots up beatyfully, and everything works just fine.

    2) Reinstalled ECS V4, but left out the ACA500Plus: not boot activity, not even floppy.

    3) Hmm ... thinking ... , now I removed the ESC V4 (and back goes Denise), leaving the CIA adapter on (with CIA Odd, of course).


    Now I noticed that that the CIA _Adapter_ doesn't get fully inserted into the mother board socket, instead it kind of springs up.


    (See images)

    4) Well, following (kind of, it was getting late) a hunch: reinstalled everything, ACAs with ECS V4, this time forcing down the CIA-Adapter package;

    "Success", the system booted, and I got a VGA output and everything works, at least as long as I can apply the pressure :-O


    How you guys feel about this or is it "just me"?


    Best regards,

    HM

    Your A500 main board seems to have one of the sockets that doesn't like the thin PCB under the socket. Other customers were successful adding a second socket in between.


    You can leave the CIA adapter out and not use live config until you have found an in-between-socket. The flicker fixer functionality is not affected.


    Jens

    Hi,,


    indeed, that's what I did. And the V4 with its software is just great and functioning perfectly!

    I'll get an in-betweener; in the meantime, thanks again for your superb products :thumbup:


    --HM