I have a PPS 2000 040 accelerator with 8mb ram. I'm upgrading to 32mb ram and replacing the cpu fan. My current issue is I cannot remove the existing simms from their sockets. The online manual states: Remove simm by gently prying one hook out of its hole and slightly lifting that side of the simm. Repeat this on the other hook so that neither hook is holding the simm in place. Gently pull the simm out of the socket. I have tried my thumbs, small flathead screwdrivers, and a dental hook to no avail. Wish i could post a pic of the simm slot hook holding the simm. Any advice on proper removal technique. Thanks
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intric8
- Seattle, WA, USA
Weird. Sounds really gummed up! Could be a thin layer of corrosion holding it together like that. Have you tried to gently rock it back and forth to see if it audibly "cracks" at all?
I imagine once you get one to come out the others will follow. But getting that 1st one will be nerve-wracking.
I imagine once you get one to come out the others will follow. But getting that 1st one will be nerve-wracking.
It's hard to tell of any corrosion withing the slot. For the exception of the noisy fan the card is in good clean shape. I've tried to lift the simm on one side bending the side clips and exerting pressure on the hook. Just wont budge and im afraid of breaking it exerting too much pressure. Could be stiff from 30+ yrs of being seated.intric8 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2023 8:51 amWeird. Sounds really gummed up! Could be a thin layer of corrosion holding it together like that. Have you tried to gently rock it back and forth to see if it audibly "cracks" at all?
I imagine once you get one to come out the others will follow. But getting that 1st one will be nerve-wracking.
Update: After some patience, brute strength, 2 micro flathead screw drivers and busted cracked thumb nails I managed to remove all eight simms.
It is that card. The simm sockets were just extremely stiff. I managed to populate the slots with a full 32mb non-parity simms. I had to swap the cpu from an XC to MC as it showed no signs of life. I believe the XC was dead from years of heat. My system now detects the card according to the early boot menu under Expansion board diagnostics but will not load to Workbench 3.2. I have tried no auto-config 32mb with romtagmem and auto-config 2mb with romtagmem 30mb. Neither config lines loads to Workbench screen. I tried mmulibs with my custom dual boot setup but that only crashed my setup and just has a black screen. I may need to only have a single boot partition with 3.2 and mmulibs. The other boot partition (dh0) is 1.3 which i know the accelerator is not capable. My hope was that it would default to 68000 cpu for 1.3. I may post my startup-sequence config with my next reply. I did enable the 68040.library. Thanks for the interest.
You might want to start with 3.1, actually. That was the OS that the card was built for. Once any hardware-issues are solved or ruled out, you can upgrade.
So for me it would be OS3.1 and MMULibs.
So for me it would be OS3.1 and MMULibs.
3.1 did not make a difference unfortunately. I used a 3.1 rom (works fine) and a 4gb hard drive image of AmigaOS 3.1. I'm thinking there is an issue with my scsi card A2091 interacting with the PPS 2000 040 Accelerator. The A2091 works fine with my A2630 BigRam. I know the 2630 is completely auto-config but the PPS is only partially auto-config and needs MuLibs with the remaining ram configured in MMU-Configuration. It freezes at a SetPatch PFS-III Request Error. Regardless of OS version it displays SetPatch error with Suspend/Reboot. My PFS3 partitions have mask 0x7ffffffe. I'm grasping at straws at this point.