#GForce 040 problems
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Whoops…sorry, as I was saying..I tried ver 1.51 of the GForce utilities disk,
but the system still crashes the same.
Here's my system configuration:
Amiga 2000 ver 6.2 motherboard GForce 040 12 MEGS FAST RAM (GVP SIMMS) 2 Megs
CHIP RAM Flicker Free Video II deinterlacer Retina 24bit graphics board Toshiba
3401B CD-ROM drive Maxtor 213Meg and Maxtor 345 Meg Hard Drives 2.05
ROM/Workbench 2.1
The only thing I changed on my system, was replacing my GVP 030/33/4 Combo
accelerator with the GForce 040, I went from a super stable system to a not so
stable system, what's up?
Ray Roberts Tronix Micro Systems I'm having problems with my new GForce 040 for
the Amiga 2000. I'm getting some strange crashes as follows….
When running GVPCPUCTRL FASTROM MOVESSP in the user-startup, the system gurus.
I get Error 8000 000B Task 010128B0. Happpens every time…I running without
remapping the ROM for now until I get some help on this. I've tried the
suggestions posted here before about putting CPU NOCACHE before GVPCPUCTRL
FASTROM CACHE, but no luck, it still crashes in the same place.
I am getting a crash when running FORMAT now, which never happened before. The
crash is PRT 800000B. What does PRT have too do with FORMAT???
I've downloaded GVP ver 1.51 [D [D [D [D [D/exit
Ray,
Download the 1.14 version of the GVPCPUCTRL utility from GVP's BBS
(610-337-5815). That'll fix it.
GVP TECH
I got the 1.14 version of GVPCPUCTRL with the GForce 040, and it crashed the
machine too. That won't fix it, does the same things as version 1.51.
I've been playing with it a bit, sometimes I can open a shell and type
GVPCPUCTRL FastROM MoveSSP and it works, sometimes not. I still get a guru many
times when running FORMAT. All other software seems to work without any
problems.
Any other ideas?
Ray Tronix Micro Systems
Ray,
Try running it BEFORE SETPATCH in your startup-sequence. If that doesn't work,
then there has to be some type of software conflict with another program being
run. You'll have to experiment to find out which one.
GVP TECH
I tried running GVPCPUCTRL before SETPATCH as you suggested and it worked. Why
did this work instead of running it later?
But…I'm still getting the other crash with FORMAT and some other programs. I
ran AlertPatch to get a better description of the GURU.
The FORMAT GURU says….
Task 0x011B4558 PRT Error 0x8000000A (DEADEND) by Processor cause Line 1010
Emulator Error
Final Writer also causes the same GURU exept the task is FW1_Process.1
Once in a while everything will work great..no GURU, but this is getting
frustrating rebooting the machine until all is working correctly. I've tried
dumping all utilities that I normally run at startup..but I get the same
results, so a software conflict doesn't seem to be the problem.
Ray Tronix Micro Systems
> I tried running GVPCPUCTRL before SETPATCH as you suggested and it
> worked. Why did this work instead of running it later?
I have an A4000/040, and use Set040 to accomplish much the same things
that you use GVPCPUCTRL for with your GVP 040.
I discovered, through much trial and error, the why and wherefor of this
problem. Set040, howver, appears to give better error/abort messages, and
told me that it couldn't set FastROM because the MMU was already in use.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It seems that SetPatch ITSELF does something with the 040 library and the
MMU, and thereafter these programs are inhibited (in my case) or invite
the Guru (in your case). They do not, however, otherwise muck about with
ROM code, other than moving it to fast RAM, so they CAN be run BEFORE
SetPatch, and still allow SetPatch to work properly.
The actual warning from the Set040 docs follows:
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
This document is for users who are using the versions 37.10 or
greater of 68040.library.
A4000 or A3640 Card owners should see the MAPROM option in the
main document.
PLEASE CHECK WHICH VERSION YOU ARE USING, AND IF YOU ARE USING
37.10 OR GREATER YOU MUST FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS BELOW OR THE
PROGRAM WILL NOT WORK!!
IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO CHECK THE VERSION OF THE LIBRARY,
USE THE COMMODORE 'VERSION' COMMAND. (EG. version libs:68040.library)
V2.1+ of Set040 was done especially for these new versions of
the library. These new libraries are making use the MMU and
this makes the function of Set040 much more difficult. The
rest of this document will explain the differences when Set040
and the new 68040.library are present and the changes you must
make to your startup-sequence in order for the two to work.
Set040 will refuse to install itself if the MMU is already in
use, this means that the normal method of usage, as described
in the Set040 document file will no longer work, because when
Setpatch installs 68040.library the MMU will be replaced.
You must change your startup-sequence so that the Commodore
Setpatch command comes *AFTER* the Set040 entries.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
I hope this is all helpful!
. . . . JimDoc, on AutoPilot