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Article #9179Picasso II with GVP 040: Problems?
From: Steve Rifkin
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:41
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:41
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I'm thinking about getting a G-Force *040* 33MHz board (with 8megs), and was wondering
if anyone had problems with any software running with it. Also, Someone mentioned
having GVP's *030* board problems with the Picasso II board.
I have a 2000 with a picasso II board. Anybody know of problems using the 040 that
I'm thinking about in regards to the same problem Michael mentions below about his 030?
I also have a GVP scsi II card with 2 mb of 16bit ram on it and a gururom on it.
Should this pose a problem with the G-Force combo and picasso II working together?
Along with your post, *please* e-mail me if you can, I cannot always get access to the newsgroups.
Thanks!
Steve Rifkin
(steve@batc.allied.com)
Here's Mike's problem with his GVP 030 and Picasso II.
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From mlillie@dialnet.net (Michael Lillie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: GVPFASTROM
Date: 10 Apr 1996 13:25:16 GMT
Ok, Now I have an interesting problem. I have a GForce 030 running at 40
mhz with 12 megs 32bit fast ram. I have to run it all as extended so the
Picasso II will work. Well, now when I use GVPCPUCTRL FASTROM, I
experience several crashes. Back before I got the Picasso and the extra
4 megs memory, I had all 8 auto-configed and GVPCPUCTRL FASTROM gave me
no problem. I haven't tried it with 8 megs auto-configured and 4 megs
extended as then I'd lose the Picasso II again. Would the Picasso II be
causeing the problem? I guess I could try taking it out and then trying
to use GVPCPUCTRL FASTROM and seeing if it crashes.
This is the location it says it relocates it to $01B80000. I have no
problems at all using CPU FASTROM, though it doesn't print where it
relocates the rom.
The strange thing is, after I have been using the computer for awhile, I
put GVPCPUCTRL Fastrom back in user-startup and it'll work everytime I
re-boot. But after it has been turned off, for awhile then turned on,
it'll crash upon bootup, and crash on each re-boot after. So I guess
I'll stick with Commodores CPU, even though it doesn't seem as fast as
with GVPCPUCTRL.
Would the Guru-Rom correct this, or is it a memory location conflict with
the Picasso II?
Thanks for any help you guys can give me.
--
Michael. { Member: Team AMIGA! }
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