#Still crashing
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Michael,
I use ABCDir and it crashes all the time … any time there is an error in
a lha or lzh file it will crash when you decompress, or list, or whatever.
It's a very nice utility by very flakey.
-sja
Steve,
True, it does that with corrupted lha files, but apart from that it never
dies on me. I launch almost all my programs from it, use it for
extracting, compressing, listing and shifting of files, viewing of all
kind of picture formats and so on. That's why ABCDir was the last thing I
suspected, when last week suddenly everything went haywire. I was close to
opening up the case because began thinking of a hardware fault.
Michael Schumacher
Formula 1 on Autopilot
Michael,
I'm using v3.0 of ABCDir … it's not just bad compressed files it'll die over,
but that is _usually_ the cause … and it tends to forget where it is at times
and keeps things ghosted that shouldn't be. But, overall, it's worth the
hassles.
Steve,
I have the same version. Both, under OS2.04 and 3.1 it only plays up on
bad Lha files, but I must say that I spent a lot of time on configuring
everything, a lot was trial and error.
Michael Schumacher
Formula 1 on Autopilot
Michael, Brian, and others who offered thier help,
I found the problem with my machine crashing randomly!! Lots of
digging and hairpulling on this one! It seem that something addressing
the 1st simm on my GVP accelerator is amiss. I have 2-4 meg simms on the
board, and whenever there is a simm in the 1st socket, it crashes, moving
the simms down a notch to the 2nd and 3rd socket completely eliminated the
crashing!! Am a happy camper now! especially since my CD-Rom and
Multiface card arrived! a lot of new toys to play with now! BTW does
anyone know if the CD-Rom is suppose to play audio CDs through the amiga
hardware? AsimCD-Rom driver software has a program for playing the CDs
but a friend of mine told me I needed to route it seperately to my
amplifier and that it would not play through the amiga directly.
Again thanx to all for their help and suggestions!
…Steve
Cruising on Autopilot
from beautiful Coastal South Carolina
Steve,
one thing you can try is to have the board checked by someone that is
an electronic technician with heavy duty soldering experience. You may
have a cold solder joint on one of the address chips or one one of the
other support chips. Frequently, the problem with a chip is a soldering
problem, not a chip problem.
Repairing a cold solder joint is a snap. Seconds if the iron is hot, a
couple of minutes if it was not.
BTW, any decent tech should be able to recognize one, so you aren't
limited to Amiga techs.
>BTW does anyone know if the CD-Rom is suppose to play audio CDs through
>the amiga hardware? AsimCD-Rom driver software has a program for playing
>the CDs but a friend of mine told me I needed to route it seperately to
>my amplifier and that it would not play through the amiga directly.
Yep, that's right, the Asim software doesn't play through the Amiga HW,
but does activate the Music CD playback if your drive has that feature.
My NEC 38 has a headphone jack on the front, and it works fine.
Now, There IS a player program (YACDP) here in the libraries that is
supposed to play CDs through the Amiga if you have a SCSI-II interface. I
don't, so it didn't work for me.
-Karl
Steve:
I've missed most of this thread. What model Amiga are you using? I know
the 3000T and the 4000(T) have an (undocumented) audio-input connector on
the motherboard that is perfect for hooking up CD audio. It doesn't use
the Amiga's audio hardware for playback. It simply mixes the CD audio and
Amiga audio signals together so both are output to the RCA audio jacks at
the same time. This means you only need one connection to your amplifer
and that CD audio and Amiga audio can me heard at the same time.
If you have any other Amiga model, you will need to route the audio-out of
your CD-ROM to your amplifer with a separate cable.
Wayne
Wayne:
PMFJI, but I actually found some references to the Internal Audio
Connector in the manual that came with my A4000. If you look under
Internal Audio Connector in the index, you'll find 3 entries.
After doing some further research, I found a company that could supply an
adaptor to go from the 3pin header out to a bracket w/ RCA sockets on it.
Their name is TTS Multimedia Systems, and the phone # is (408) 982-0653.
I think they wanted around $20 for the assembly.
I haven't contacted them in a year or so, but I've noticed an increase in
places carrying a wide range of internal adaptor cables specifically for
CD-ROMs. Even if they're out of business, you could probably find a
supplier somewhere.
Hope this helps….
Erik Flom
Erik:
I'm glad the A4000 manuals have some documentation about the internal
audio connector. However, I checked my 3000T's manual again and could
find no mention of it. I found the connector by accident while looking
over the schematics in the back of the book.
Also, thanks for the info on the RCA assembly. I'm currently using a
cable that was designed for MediaVision's PC audio cards.
Wayne
I'm not surprised the 3000T doesn't document it. From what I hear, it was
a very last minute decision. I mainly posted the info for anyone else out
there who might be looking for an easy solution.
Habe you noticed the audio going through the connector seems attenuated?
On my 4000, the CD audio seems to come out about half as loud as the
internal audio?!?
Erik Flom
Erik:
I haven't noticed the attenuation on my system. In fact, my CD's audio
usually over-powers my Amiga's audio. Perhaps the 3000 and 4000 are
different in this respect.
Wayne
Steve,
I'm glad, you found the culprit. Stuff like that can really drive you
round the bend.
Michael Schumacher
Formula 1 on Autopilot
Great, glad you found the culprit Steve! Your friend is correct in that
the audio outputs of the CDROM drive need to go to your amplifier
seperately. However, 4000's do have a connector on the motherboard where
you can feed audio into it that will come out on the Amiga's RCA audio
connectors. Also, some CDROM drives (Sony's, Toshiba 3401, Apple) can
actually send audio over the SCSI bus. This could be used for direct
sampling of an audio CD.
// John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840)
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