#GVP card
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Hi,
I'm trying to install an A2386 BB into my A2000. My computer is crashing when
I boot it up, and I am told that this may be caused by the 8 megs of RAM I have
on my GVP card. I don't know what type of GVP card I have, but it contains 8
megs of RAM and an 80 meg HD. Since I bought my computer used, I don't have
the manuals for the GVP card.
I'd like to know if you know why I need to remove the 8th ram, and also how I
can remove it. I suppose I remove the ram located in slot CN17, but what
should the jumper settings be on the board? It would also be nice if you could
tell me w what all the other jumper settings are used for too.
It looks like I have a 3.07 rom… at least I have a chip which has the
following on it V-3.07/ECD9 EVEN/256. I noticed that there are newer roms
out, and would like to know why I might have to upgrade the rom, if I ever get
to that point.
Thanks for any info, Brandon
Brandon;
GVP can hopefully answer your questions about jumper settings (and other
questions) however, just to give you a quick response…
The Zorro-II bus (what you have in your A2000) is limited to 8 Meg of
autoconfigurable memory. The Bridgeboard needs about a 2 Meg "slot" in
that memory space.
Since the GVP processor card is the first thing on the bus, when it asks
for a 8 meg allocation, it gets it all (any other brand of processor board
would do the same thing).
As I understand the configuration you do not remove ONE memory module.
They are installed in sets of 4 meg.
I believe that there is a jumper on the card that will allow you to tell
the card to leave 2 meg free.
-bill
HI,
WEll after taking my card out and looking over it, I found the name of the
card. I have an A2000-HC+8 Series II Rev 4 board in the ami. I have 8 separate
one meg simms for each meg. I tried taking out a meg this morning without
changing any jumpers, and the computer did have one meg less, but still crashed
afterwards. I'll try removing two megs. Thanks for the info, Brandon
Brandon,
see my reply in AmigaUser. It has the data you need.
Brian
Thanks Brian! It's amazing what one little jumper can do to a machine!
Brandon
Brandon,
I'm glad I could help.
Brian