#A1000 upgrade help
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HELP! I have an A1000 I'm attempting to upgrade. I recently added an In- sider
II and a Kwikstart II. Everything seemed to work fine under OS 1.3 but when I
tried to make the move to 2.04 I started having problems with a number of
programs I didn't have trouble with under 1.3. For example, Prowrite hangs up
when trying to load unless I turn Fastemem off alto- gether. Final Copy will
only load about half the time and with both they hang pretty easily during use.
According to the WB display, I still have lots of chip ram and fast ram left so
I don't think I'm hitting the memory wall. DPaint and DigiPaint both load but
hand up easily while Photon Paint seems to work fine. QB Tools won't load.
Pagesetter II won't load from the HD. Any and all ideas toward solving the
problem(s) is greatly appreciated.
Sean,
Hopefully someone with much more experience with the Insider II will
respond, but I vaguely remember some posts here in the past concerning
problems with the way Insider memory works (or is recognized by the
system).
I am running a Rejuvenator board in an A1000 with Kwikstart and a nice
little switch on the front cover of the machine that allows me to switch
between 1.3 and 2.04. and have not had any of the problems you describe.
Wish I could be of more help
Gary
on AutoPilot from Charlotte, NC
Gary, thanx for jumping in. I've not heard of any such problems with the
Insider II or the way the system accesses it. I contacted DKB via E-mail
recently and they never mentioned anything of that sort. I'm having trouble
finding people who have a setup like mine. It seems all the A1000 owners bought
the rejuvenator or didn't bother to upgrade. From the way it mine is acting, it
almost seems like what you have described is happening. For some reason, the
extra memory is not being accessed. BTW, where'd you get your rejuvenator ?
Sean.
I do reviews for AmigaWorld, and reviewed it when it came out. Liked it
so much, I bought it.
Have you tried running "FastMemFirst"? Maybe that would help. I'm going
to be over on Genie tonite, and I'll ask around there…gotta be somebody
with an Insider II around.
Gary
on AutoPilot from Charlotte, NC
I'm familiar with what the rejuvenator does…there just don't seem to be any
more out there. Also, 2.04 OS doesn't require FastMemFirst, I believe I read in
the manual that it's written into the OS. If I'm wrong, let me know. If I had
it, I'd run it. Thanks for any help you can find me over on Genie.
Sean–Limping around on a crippled A1K…and still outrunning the DOSDUMMIES.