Hi,
has anyone tested the ACA500+ with an ACA1233n before with a Phoenix board?
I am aware that the platform is not the best system and does have its quirks.
On my system, the ACA500 works perfectly. Everything is fine.
A bit surprising for me, the ACA1233n does not work.
With an ACA1233n attached, the following happens:
- most of the times, the DisMo will disply "E0"
- the screen of the system shows some memory dumps
- when wiggling a bit on the cards, sometimes I see the ACA500+ start screen and can, for example, enter the F10 expert screen
- if the system makes it to the F10 screen, the ACA1233 is shown
- the system then won't boot but either stay at a black screen or will show the kick screen "Insert disk", even with a floppy disk drive attached
- rarely, the system will boot with the 68030 from the 1233n active into workbench
- if booting into workbench, the Indivision ECS V2 shows only half the lines. After a few seconds, the system freezes. The 128MB of the ACA1233n are shown in the workbench menu.
Questions:
1) is it reasonable to assume that the main issue could be the PSU? Especially the fact that sometimes some things work seema to indicate a weak PSU to me. Its the original A1000 PSU from back then ?
2) what bothers me a bit is that wiggling makes a difference. The ACA1233n connector seems a bit loose to me. But that might be perception. How strong should the card stay in place?
3) anyone else already tried an ACA(500/1233/...) with a Phoenix board?
4) ist is possible to only use the expansions of the ACA500+ (Clockport, ethernet, IDE) and keep an internal accelerator?
Thanks,
McTrinsic