ftegerer@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Frohwalt Egerer) (01/10/91)
I got some serious problems with my AT emulator board. Some times it just works perfect, then another moment I get strange things: A: It just won't start up when the Binddrivers command in the start- up-seqence is executed. B: The AT-Board starts, but the Janus software is not transferred to it, so the AT tries to boot from floppy, not from C:, which is a PCdisk-file on my Amiga harddisk C: Same as B, but the CGA-Emulation loses characters: e.g. one message may be: ... blah Commodo e blah ... D: Everything works fine up to the moment when the AT tells me that it got an parity error, and I shall press F1 to continue. E: Everything works for a day or two. I have tried a lot of things to get it work: I exchanged the AT-Board for a new one, I let all my drives work to check out if it was a too wimpy power supply and now, I got the Amiga mother board of a friend of mine. Computer Configuration: Amiga 2000, Supra Ram Board, 6M Siemens chips 100ns, AlfII Harddrive controller, Quantum 40s, Seagate SCSI 80M drive (I think it is a 296S), AT-Board (of course) I got the problems with two versions of AT-Boards, the first had got an external lithium battery, the second seems to have it on board. (It has quite a large chip with a clock printed on it) The Amiga motherboards I tried are Rev4 (not updated with fatter agnus) and Rev6 boards. Btw, does anyone out there have docs on the jumpers of the AT-Board? Perhaps one could tell me how to install a little beeper to it? (I know - just plug one in - but WHERE) I think Commodore once again has shown how to make bad manuals - The AT-Board manual has won my personal price of the worst manual I got in 1990! ;-) -- .. and see, people of the world when the day will come when professional 'home' computers get more professional than improfessional professional computers. ftegerer@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Mr. Somehow++ Strange ONLY AMIGA MAKES IT POSSIBLE