Limited TF536 Run - Sort of Sales (All gone)

Post by **PhilC** » Tue Jan 21, 2020 7:21 am

Subzero79 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2020 6:47 am If new batch coming out i want to buy 2 boards

Just a quick note for everyone, this topic is being used to fault find the existing run of boards. There are no more boards for sale at present but when they are, I expect TF will start a new topic or in short, stop asking for boards until you see the for sale topic again.

Post by **terriblefire** » Tue Jan 21, 2020 9:01 am

PhilC wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2020 7:21 am Just a quick note for everyone, this topic is being used to fault find the existing run of boards. There are no more boards for sale at present but when they are, I expect TF will start a new topic or in short, stop asking for boards until you see the for sale topic again.

Agreed. Comments asking for boards will be removed now and PMs asking for them will be ignored. There will be a new sales thread when this experiment has run its course.

PaulJ_2.0 · Post by **PaulJ_2.0** » Tue Jan 21, 2020 10:53 am

I always find Scene Demos to be the fastest way to detect problems with systems.
So far I haven't had any reason to suspect the newest firmware isn't stable. All demos so far run without glitches.

EzdineG · Post by **EzdineG** » Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:22 pm

Board received today, will build tonight and report back...

Post by **PhilC** » Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:35 pm

Mine is mostly assembled. The hardest bit is the large CPLD from my point of view. Just the CPU socket and headers to go left.

mattymuc · Post by **mattymuc** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:19 pm

The PCB was in the mail today

Well then I can start, yuhu!

mattymuc · Post by **mattymuc** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:13 pm

So, I soldered my PCB together. It all worked out fine.

It fits perfectly into Amy, the Amy-TK had with 6MB simply much too little RAM.

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The speed of the CPU is great, unfortunately the disc speed is very slow. The CF, which was immediately loaded with the old accelerator, needs about 10 minutes until the Workbench appears.

Disk speed test from Sysinfo:

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CPU-Speed:

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Disk is as slow as the TF530 without INT2 connection.

I have installed the MuTools and with MuMove4k the expansion.library is moved from the chipram to the fastram. With this I get about 2MB/s and the system becomes much faster.

What exactly is in the bootrom in the TF536?

I will continue testing. So far there were no crashes, Frontier-Demo is running. The CPLD gets very hot, but everything is stable.

A big thanks to Stephen for this nice accelerator!

Post by **alenppc** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:47 pm

mattymuc wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:13 pm Disk speed test from Sysinfo:

HDD_Speed.jpg

This is odd. I get about 3.5 mb/sec.

The CPLD gets very hot, but everything is stable.

This is also odd. My CPLD never gets hot. Lukewarm at best.

mattymuc · Post by **mattymuc** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:56 pm

I have used the latest firmware on this thread and have a 3.1.4 kickrom installed.
My CF have the latest update 3.1.4.1 installed.

Post by **PhilC** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:02 pm

OOpps, so I've made a boo boo.

I've bought and soldered on a XC95144XL-10TQG144I instead of the 288. Will the firmware fit into the 144 with 64mb ram?

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