BVPPC (10/18)

From:Justin Young
Date:3 Aug 2000 at 08:57:33
Subject:Re: Really FAT! Amiga PPC/BVision problem

Hello Henrik

On 01-Aug-00, you wrote:

> Hello everyone.
>
> This is the first time I'm writing to this list (what I know of).
>
> I have a 603e+ 240MHz / 040 25MHz (the one with FPU). Bvision, CGX 4, 64Mb
> fast mem, the newest updates and so on. Everything is installed in a
> PowerTower.
>
> I'm typing this on my PC, since the Amiga doesn't work properly.
>
> It completely freezes after about 10 seconds to 30 minutes. It doesn't
> depend on what I do. Recently it freezes direcly at bootup. It even freezes
> when I'm in the 'ESC' menu (where one can setup the PPC-card).
>
> Anyone had a similar problem? The f*****g thing is cooled to death soon to,
> I have fans on probably every circuit :)

Have you tried placing a small piece of metal between the PPC chip and the PPC
heatsink. This improves heat heat conductivity between the PPC chip and the
heatsink. This fixed a lot of the problems on my machine, though I still need
to get around to cooling the BVision card.

Regards



Justin Young

justiny@mad.scientist.com
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/justiny/

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