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How to Get Coffin to Work With Vampire 500 V2+

Patrik Rendel

Posts 32
14 Jan 2020 18:51


Hello :)
  i bought a vampire 500 v2+ and have an A500 Rev.6a Board. If i install a normal WB3.1 then i get it to work but not the SAGA Driver
 
  I deceided to use Coffin r54. The Vampire has Gold.Core 2.11. I burned the coffin.img to a MicroSD with 3 different Tools. Rufus, Win32diskimager and USB Image Tool with the same result
 
  Everytime i try to use Coffin, the Cards dont boot or crashes with Guru Meditation.
 
  Has anybody a solution for me, what i do wrong?
 
  I spent near 40 hours to get it work now but nothing helps.
 
 


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
14 Jan 2020 19:41


I use IDE-2-CF adapter and a CF Disk.


Patrik Rendel

Posts 32
14 Jan 2020 20:43


Ok and which 32gb CF card do you use?

Sandisk, Transcend,...?

I dont wanna buy a wrong one. They are not really cheap ;)


Roy Gillotti

Posts 517
15 Jan 2020 02:22


Patrik Rendel wrote:

Ok and which 32gb CF card do you use?
 
  Sandisk, Transcend,...?
 
  I dont wanna buy a wrong one. They are not really cheap ;)

I have used 32GB sandisk for both my A500 and A600 setups.



Patrik Rendel

Posts 32
15 Jan 2020 05:53


Thanks. I will give it a try with sandisk.
  I got a little Testsystem on my A500 and coffin to work.
  Now i have another Problem with WHDLoad. If i try to start Chaos Engine then i get a chipmem error. Same with Chaos engine 2.
 
  I use a new trapdoor 512kb Expansion.
  Without the Expansion Coffin show me only 398kb and with only 449kb???

If i use an ACA500PLUS with 1230 IV the Expansion works correct.


Patrik Rendel

Posts 32
15 Jan 2020 13:13


Hello,
  now i solved both problems. I got my new sandisk 32gd CF card and burned Coffin r55 on it. With the new cf card, coffin boots and i hope all is fine now.
 
The chipmem problem:
i saw that my mainboard was missing the chipmem-mod. i cutted JP7 & JP2 and soldered JP2 to the other contact.
 
Now the 512k expansion is shown, available and whdload works fine :)
 


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
15 Jan 2020 15:31


Patrik Rendel wrote:

now i solved both problems.

Now the 512k expansion is shown, available and whdload works fine :)

OK super.
I'm very glad to hear this!

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