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Vampire 600 V2 Blue Screen + Lines

Neil 8bitplus

Posts 12
22 Nov 2022 14:20


Hello. I have a very old (but hardly ever used) V2 600.
It's from an early batch of V2 units from Kipper2K if I remember right.

Several years ago I ran an update from workbench to a Gold firmware, I don't recall which version, but it was correct for the 600. After a successful flash and reboot the amiga just showed a blue screen sometimes with rapid scrolling lines on the RGB port.

I didn't have time to attempt to fix then so put it away for a few more years.
Looking at it now and tried a flash with USB blaster. Still same issue.
I've tried several new, recent and older firmwares. Same result. The A600 posts fine without the vampire and, I've cleaned CPU pins and socket on the v2.
Any suggestions? Sorry if this is posted in the wrong page.
Thanks


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
23 Nov 2022 04:36


Neil 8bitplus wrote:

Any suggestions?

The Firmware of the card does on PowerOn a quick selftest.
Test failure is signaled with colored stripes on screen.
Blues Stripes indicate Fastmem or Rom problems.



Neil 8bitplus

Posts 12
23 Nov 2022 09:46


Hi Gunner. Thanks for the info. If its the Fastmem then I don't thin there's anything I can do, but what about the rom? Does that get cleared on flashing with USB Blaster?
This fault happened the first time I ever tried an update on the V2, so I had it running on the supplied core version only (I wish I could remember the version)
Could rom data be missing? any way to replace?


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
23 Nov 2022 10:01


Neil 8bitplus wrote:

This fault happened the first time I ever tried an update on the V2,

 
Maybe your update was not 100% successful?
A halve done update could have caused this.

Please flash it again.
I would first erase the FPGA content.
This should turn the Vampire off.
And then I would flash it again completely

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