Hi,
I have bought ACA card from Sveta and I have problems with card being unstable.
The warranty ID of the card is fTnr5.
I have added RTC module from Amiga Kit to the card. It is brand new.
My motherboard revision is:
The motherboard has capacitors removed, according to http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/ACA1…uired_board_modifications. It has been also recapped.
The instability is expressing itself through bad access to the hard drive (I use CF card with the 2.5" adapter). For example when I run Alien2 demo by Scoopex, it hangs up after first part, where second executable should be loaded (it starts from bat script). Vertus demo by Potion also hangs in-between parts where loading of the data is required. After processor on the card gets warm after some 30 minutes of work I have experienced also hangs ups even in Workbench - it was either software failure with option to Suspend or Reboot or Guru Meditation. I have had once or twice Guru Meditation straight after powering the Amiga up.
I have used this motherboard with GVP 1230 (Jaws II) @ 40MHz accelerator as well as with ACA 1233n @ 40MHz (newer model, (c) 2016).. When I bought my Amiga 1200 it came with GVP 1230 accelerator and Astec power supply, like that:
But I have troubles, similar to that I have now with the ACA, but then it was even worse, for example video got corrupted like that. I have bought another Astec power supply, exactly the one above, soldered Amiga power connector and got even worse effect, instabilities straight away, disk indicating bad sectors. Finally I connected Commodore power supply from my Amiga 500 and got the Amiga stable on GVP. I have borrowed the ACA 1233n @ 40MHz from my friend and tried it with my Amiga. On Astec power supplies it had similar issues as GVP card, but with Commodore PSU everything worked stable. Now I have my own ACA 1233 @ 55MHz and it does not work work with Commodore PSU. I have another Commodore PSU, but this also does not work properly. Currently I have no access to Astec PSUs to test it out, but this would be the next step, I think.
have also downloaded ACAtune and tried to disable burst, played with MAProm feature and few other options, but it did not changed anything. Surprisingly the card identifies itself as ACA1232, not 1233. Is that correct?
I am 99% sure that the problem is within power supply here and I understand that 55MHz version will draw more power than 40MHz. I would be happy to invest into power supply that will be up to the job, but I don't know which one will be good here. Can I have some insights from wise people?