Hi all,
Has anyone experienced this before?
* If booting the STe with no floppy drive connected: straight to desktop.
* With floppy connected (with disk inside): Floppy accesses and reads before TOS loads (white screen) and freezes on white screen forever.
* With floppy connected (no disk): Floppy accesses, white screen for 20 seconds, then TOS. If I put a disk in and access it, machine freezes (locks-up)
* Running diagnostic cart: When doing 'DMA test' it freezes on the blue screen, completely locks. On a healthy machine it will go to a red error screen due to missing test equipment on the port.
So far I've just swapped the DMA chip, still same issue. I haven't done any mods to this board except replacing the reset capacitors. Also using a known good floppy drive. Before I go down the 'rabbit hole' of things I *could* do, what would be the logical first few things to do?
Of course, this is with a good re-capped psu.
STe freezing on floppy/dma access? [solved]
Re: STe freezing on floppy/dma access?
I should also mention the machine's blitter is missing from its socket. Not sure if that would effect DMA or not.
Re: STe freezing on floppy/dma access?
Most probably not helping matters.
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Just because a lot of people agree on something, doesn't make it a fact. ~exxos ~
People should find solutions to problems, not find problems with solutions.
Re: STe freezing on floppy/dma access? [solved]
Ok, found a blitter and put it in... floppy works now lol
STe's are weird
STe's are weird
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Re: STe freezing on floppy/dma access? [solved]
Didnt want to say, as I couldnt remeber 100%, but I was thinking TOS 1.06/2.06 uses blitter to draw desktop. Maybe refreshing the drive A box was doing it? (Maybe one of the OS coders here can clarify).
Re: STe freezing on floppy/dma access? [solved]
Is it because you have an MCU with no internal blitter ? I guess that you had the proper jumpers when the external blitter was not installed ?
Re: STe freezing on floppy/dma access? [solved]
Bus control signals are routed via the blitter. When you unplug the blitter the cpu can't do deal with DMA cycles. This is why you have to solder jumpers on the STFM / MEGA ST to reconnect the signals when the blitter is missing.
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viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1585 Have you done the Mandatory Fixes ?
Just because a lot of people agree on something, doesn't make it a fact. ~exxos ~
People should find solutions to problems, not find problems with solutions.
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/ - All my hardware mods for sale - Please help support by making a purchase.
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1585 Have you done the Mandatory Fixes ?
Just because a lot of people agree on something, doesn't make it a fact. ~exxos ~
People should find solutions to problems, not find problems with solutions.
Re: STe freezing on floppy/dma access? [solved]
I might be sounding like a dick but if you knew that why didn't you tell me in the first place?
Re: STe freezing on floppy/dma access? [solved]
I did say its likely not helping matters. But if I spoonfeed answers right at the start then nobody learns anything. So I gave a very big hint...
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viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1585 Have you done the Mandatory Fixes ?
Just because a lot of people agree on something, doesn't make it a fact. ~exxos ~
People should find solutions to problems, not find problems with solutions.
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/ - All my hardware mods for sale - Please help support by making a purchase.
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1585 Have you done the Mandatory Fixes ?
Just because a lot of people agree on something, doesn't make it a fact. ~exxos ~
People should find solutions to problems, not find problems with solutions.