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mysterious Pegasos II G3 issues

koszer

# 1
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1335 from 2004/2/8

From: Poland

Hi

One of the Polish MorphOS users has a serious problem with his Pegasos II G3/600 MHz (OF 1.2). Here are the symptoms:

- it started when his Pegasos refused to work after reset (black screen, no monitor/disk activity, no OF prompt, keyboard doesn't work).
- further resets and unplugging the ethernet cable did nothing.
- unplugging drives, removing and re-inserting memory didn't help too.
- changed the battery, PSU, and swapped some other memory chips with no effect.
- graphic card seems to be OK (tested with success on a PC).

here are some serial logs:

memory present:

Quote:

PegasosII Boot Strap (c) 2002-2004 bplan GmbH
Running on CPU PVR:00083311
Enable L1 ICache... Done.
Reading W83194 : 00FFFFFFFFFF0000 Done.
Setting Front Side Bus to 133MHz... Done.
Memory has not changed
Configuring Memory
Memory Config Done
Configuring PCI0... Done.
Configuring PCI1... Done.
Configuring ETH... Done.
Releasing IDE reset ... Done.
Configuring Legacy Devices
Initializing KBD...00000032 FAILED. (when keyboard present, it goes "Done")
Testing 10000000 Bytes, Pass: 00000000 Failed: 00000000
RAM TEST (fill random)... Done.

SmartFirmware:
cpu0: PowerPC,750CXE CPUClock 599 Mhz BUSClock 133 Mhz (Version 0x0008,0x3311)

no memory present:

Quote:

PegasosII Boot Strap (c) 2002-2004 bplan GmbH
Running on CPU PVR:00083311
Enable L1 ICache... Done.
Reading W83194 : 00FFFFFFFFFF0000 Done.
Setting Front Side Bus to 133MHz... Done.
Memory changed since last boot
Configuring Memory
Memory Config FAILED
Configuring PCI0... Done.
Configuring PCI1... Done.
Configuring ETH... Done.
Releasing IDE reset ... Done.
Configuring Legacy Devices
Initializing KBD...00000032 FAILED.
Testing 00000000 Bytes, Pass: 00000000 Failed: 00000000
RAM TEST (fill random)... Done.

Entering IKARUS low level console

memory re-inserted

Quote:

PegasosII Boot Strap (c) 2002-2004 bplan GmbH
Running on CPU PVR:00083311
Enable L1 ICache... Done.
Reading W83194 : 00FFFFFFFFFF0000 Done.
Setting Front Side Bus to 133MHz... Done.
Memory changed since last boot
Configuring Memory
QZFQZFQZFQZFQZFQZFQZFQZFQZFQZFQZFQZFQZFQZFQZFQZFQZFQZFQZFQZFQZFQZFQZFQZF
Memory Config Done
Configuring PCI0... Done.
Configuring PCI1... Done.
Configuring ETH... Done.
Releasing IDE reset ... Done.
Configuring Legacy Devices
Initializing KBD...00000032 FAILED.
Testing 10000000 Bytes, Pass: 00000000 Failed: 00000000
RAM TEST (fill random)... Done.

SmartFirmware:
cpu0: PowerPC,750CXE CPUClock 599 Mhz BUSClock 133 Mhz (Version 0x0008,0x3311)

Anyone knows what could be wrong? Could it be the CPU card (visually it seems OK)?.
»10.12.09 - 19:26

Velcro_SP

# 2
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 929 from 2003/7/13

From: Universe

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[ Edited by Velcro_SP 28.05.2011 - 07:29 ]
Pegasos2 G3, 512 megs RAM
»12.12.09 - 11:18

magnetic

# 3
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 2129 from 2003/3/1

From: Los Angeles

It could be the cpu card it is possible... we have a backup g4 1ghz cpu card for sale if you are interested. You could also contact bplan and hire them to fix it...
Pegasos 2 Rev 2B3 w/ Freescale 7447 "G4" @ 1ghz / 1gb Nanya Ram
Quad Boot: MorphOS 2.7 | Amiga OS4.1 U4 | Ubuntu PPC GNU/Linux | OS X 10.4
»12.12.09 - 18:09

koszer

# 4
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1335 from 2004/2/8

From: Poland

The IDE trick didn't work. We will try to swap the CPU card from another machine and see what will come out of it.

@magnetic: that G4 CPU card might come handy. When we'll be sure that the G3 is dead we will contact you.
»13.12.09 - 14:59

Drako^lM

# 5
Acolyte of the Butterfly

Posts: 144 from 2005/8/10

From: Poland , Chelm

@koszer

I sent in this case also e-mail to bplan with logs and a description of the problem. I am waiting for reply can then will know something more
Hardware :
Power Mac G5 2.3 Ghz & MorphOS 3.18 & OSX 10.5
Mini G4 1.5 Ghz & MorphOS 3.18
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»13.12.09 - 15:39

koszer

# 6
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1335 from 2004/2/8

From: Poland

@thread:

OK, some more facts - CPU card plugged into another Pegasos works just fine. So it seems to be a mobo issue - what kind of defect should we search for?

Does anyone have some experience with Ikarus low-level console? Is it possible to do some more tests within it to see what exactly failed?

oh, and - as for now - bPlan remains silent...
»18.12.09 - 19:44

magnetic

# 7
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 2129 from 2003/3/1

From: Los Angeles

koszer

Cool. BTW G4 makes huge diff with Morphos 2.x

Are you using 80 wire Ultra ATA cables? Also, it is recommended to use flat ones.. this may sound silly put did your friends cpu card on your MB?
Pegasos 2 Rev 2B3 w/ Freescale 7447 "G4" @ 1ghz / 1gb Nanya Ram
Quad Boot: MorphOS 2.7 | Amiga OS4.1 U4 | Ubuntu PPC GNU/Linux | OS X 10.4
»18.12.09 - 22:10

Norbi

# 8
Butterfly

Posts: 99 from 2004/6/19

this is my broken peg.

i find this site.
http://web.archive.org/web/20031231035232/http://www.bplan-gmbh.de/update_e.html

what makes this procedure?
a0;L;
w38806040;+;w64848000;+;w3ca0f100;+;w60a50c78;+; w7c000278;+;w7c802d2c;+;w7c0006ac;+;w3ca0f100;+; w38600014;+;w98650c7c;+;w7c0006ac;+;w3c80fff1;+; w386000aa;+;w98645555;+;w7c0006ac;+;w38a00055;+; w98a42aaa;+;w7c0006ac;+;w38c00080;+;w98c45555;+; w7c0006ac;+;w98645555;+;w7c0006ac;+;w98a42aaa;+; w7c0006ac;+;w38e00030;+;w98e40000;+;w42800000;
a0;g;
»29.12.09 - 11:38