M1230XA CHIP RAM PROBLEM
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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
Iain,
If the AutoXA program is in the Utilities drawer the line should read
SYS:UTILITIES/AutoXA >NIL:. Also, you do not need the SetXA command when
using AutoXA.
Dennis ….on AutoPilot
DENNIS,
I tried applying the instruction you specified after the SETPATCH QUIET
line:_
SYS:UTILITIES/AutoXA >NIL:
The result was:-
<< IPrefs >>
Program Failed (error #80000006)
Wait for disc activity to finish
SUSPEND REBOOT
After which the system immediately locked up and I had to switch off the
machine completely before trying to reboot again; the result of which
was:-
Software Failure
Task 08013ED0
The machine then attempted to reboot and all that happened was that this
statement kept repeating.
I was unable to obtain control of the machine and had to insert the floppy
Workbench 3.0 and then CD the original hard drive boot-up partition. I
then eventually entered the startup-sequence and removed the line you
suggested putting in before switching off and then rebooting again. After
this the machine booted up normally but still with a meg of graphic ram
unavailable.
I am totally at a loss as to what to do next to get the M1230XA to
acknowledge fully the 8Mb it has on board and leave my graphics memory
free.
Do you suppose that the board itself may be at fault?
IAIN.
CALLING IN FROM SCOTLAND ON A 68030 AMIGA1200!
iain@altspor.demon.co.uk
Iain,
I doubt that the board is the problem. Have you made any other changes
to the startup-sequence? Most IPrefs errors seem to be traceable to
changes made in the startup-sequence that should have been made in the
user-startup. It could also be that your AutoXA program is corrupted in
some way. I have an M1230XA and have had no problems. I have the AutoXA
program in a directory called C2: but other than that the same command
works for me.
Dennis ….on AutoPilot
DENNIS,
I have made no other changes to the startup-sequence but the POWERSCANNER
hand scanner had made a change which inserts itself virtually at the very
start of the start-up sequence.
I have taken the libert of enclosing the actual startup used by my
computer (the M1230XA lines cause the problems on booting up):-
———————————————-
; \/ PowerScan3 has inserted the line below \/
ConfigScanner
; $VER: startup-sequence 39.9 (9.8.92)
C:SetPatch QUIET
SYS:Utilities/AutoXA >NIL:
C:Version >NIL:
C:AddBuffers >NIL: DF0: 15
FailAt 21
C:MakeDir RAM:T RAM:Clipboards RAM:ENV RAM:ENV/Sys
C:Copy >NIL: ENVARC: RAM:ENV ALL NOREQ
Resident >NIL: C:Assign PURE
Resident >NIL: C:Execute PURE
Assign >NIL: ENV: RAM:ENV
Assign >NIL: T: RAM:T
Assign >NIL: CLIPS: RAM:Clipboards
Assign >NIL: REXX: S:
Assign >NIL: PRINTERS: DEVS:Printers
Assign >NIL: KEYMAPS: DEVS:Keymaps
Assign >NIL: LOCALE: SYS:Locale
Assign >NIL: LIBS: SYS:Classes ADD
Assign >NIL: HELP: LOCALE:Help DEFER
assign excellence!: WORK:excellence!
assign doctools: WORK:doctools
IF NOT EXISTS SYS:Fonts
Assign FONTS:
EndIF
BindDrivers
C:Mount >NIL: DEVS:DOSDrivers/~(#?.info)
IF EXISTS DEVS:Monitors
IF EXISTS DEVS:Monitors/VGAOnly
DEVS:Monitors/VGAOnly
EndIF
C:List >NIL: DEVS:Monitors/~(#?.info|VGAOnly) TO T:M LFORMAT
"DEVS:Monitors/%s" Execute T:M
C:Delete >NIL: T:M
EndIF
SetEnv Workbench $Workbench
SetEnv Kickstart $Kickstart
UnSet Workbench
UnSet Kickstart
C:IPrefs
C:ConClip
Path >NIL: RAM: C: SYS:Utilities SYS:Rexxc SYS:System S: SYS:Prefs
SYS:WBStartup SYS:Tools SYS:Tools/Commodities
IF EXISTS S:User-Startup
Execute S:User-Startup
EndIF
Resident Execute REMOVE
Resident Assign REMOVE
C:LoadWB
EndCLI >NIL:
————
Can you see anything that might cause offence to the M1230XA there?
I think I heard there was an AutoXA program uploaded onto one of the forum
libraries. I will attempt to download that and run it again.
IAIN.
CALLING IN FROM SCOTLAND ON A 68030 AMIGA1200!
iain@altspor.demon.co.uk
Iain,
The first thing I would try is getting rid of that ConfigScanner
command and put it in the user-startup if possible. It's a VERY bad idea
to run ANYTHING before the setpatch command. Just put a ";" in front of
the line to "comment" it out of the startup and see what that does.
Dennis ….on AutoPilot