M1230XA CHIP RAM PROBLEM
ANYONE,
I have a major problem with the M1230XA accelerator running a 50mhz 68030
and 50mhz 68802 with 8Mb on board.
The Amiga1200 into which is fitted will only recognise the 8Mb when I
click twice on the workbench screen once the machine has booted up. I also
seem to have lost nearly a meg of the original 2Mb chip ram.
The previous chip ram (before fitting the M1230XA) was in the region of
more than 1.9Mb, the exact figure I cannot recall.
I have 5 partitions on my hardrive with a number of icons displayed
outside their drawers. When I removed these icons back to their drawers I
ended up with GRAPHIC 1,291,160 and FAST 8,303,136 available. Avail says I
have a maximum of CHIP 2096128 but that 809072 is in use. I have Virus
Checker V6.30 running automatically and a few programs in the user-startup
drawer.
I tried to run Pro-Page V4.1 and once running it left me with GRAPHIC
784,904 FAST 6,665,464. So the fast ram is being used but I was unable to
run a second Pro-Page, which I have done before on my A500+ as I was out
of chip ram. I tend to multitask a lot with Excellence! & one or two
ProPage's running but now can no longer do this due to the lack of chip
ram.
As per recommendations from helpfull individuals here previously, I wrote
into the ed s:startup-sequence the following lines after C:SetPatch QUIET
…
SYS:SYSTEM/SetXA
SYS:SYSTEM/AutoXA >NIL:
but this only produced an aborted startup when rebooted with the comments
SYS:SYSTEM/SetXA: unknown command
SYS:SYSTEM/SetXA failed returncode 10
I removed the SetXA line but still had the same result with
SYS:SYSTEM/AutoXA: unknown command
SYS:SYSTEM/AutoXA failed returncode 10
Both of the SetXA and AutoXA icons were in the Utilities drawer as
recommended by the information sheet supplie
d. I also at one point
transferred these two icons into the system drawer but the same result
came up.
I look at all this and cannot see at what I am doing wrong. I am following
the instructionsbut it just isn't happening with my machine, so I really
appreciate any help you fellow M1230XA users out there can give me.
This is a follow-on to an enquiry on the same problem I made during
November last year. I discovered then, though, that that the 8Mb SIMM was
defective and had to be replaced. It has now been replaced with a fully
functioning 8Mb SIMM.
IAIN.
CALLING IN FROM SCOTLAND ON A 68030 AMIGA1200!
iain@altspor.demon.co.uk