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From: steve@batc.allied.com (Steve Rifkin)
Reply-To: steve@batc.allied.com
Organization: MTC AlliedSignal Aerospace
Subject: GVP 040 and Picasso and other related stuff
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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?

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! }
         Internet: mlillie@dialnet.net
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