DoG's DFB1 Build

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:shock: :lol:

Yeah, I saw that you ran with different color order on your third revision as well.
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Birdseed on. LEDs on. Programmed. Now through hole.

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Didn't go that great to get this running at first. Nothing happened even with the disable jumper on. Noticed that I plugged in the whole board in one row to low. Got in right, just black screen. Thought I just fried the board. No funny smell or anything. Checked where VCC was on the expansion slot and checked where it would have gone if it was plugged in wrong. Got to the conclusion that nothing "should" have gone terrible wrong. Hmm. Nothing is getting burning hot either. Checked the build videos and finally tried the board without FPU and Voila! It sprung to life.

So 50MHz oscillator in at the moment and a golden 68030 and it is working with the jumper disable both on and off. S FPU doesn't even work in 25MHz then? Or something other is wrong.

But I have to disassemble a STe to borrow a Gotek to get stuff in to the Falcon. I have no other means to transfer stuff to it or get anything on floppy at the moment. I really don't know if alt ram is working either. So need to get EmuTos or some other prg running. And GemBench and so on. I only got SysInfo running and that is not telling much.
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DoG wrote: Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:10 pm I have no other means to transfer stuff to it or get anything on floppy at the moment.
Is that NetUSBee operational? Maybe grab UIP Tool?

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viking272 wrote: Sat Aug 27, 2022 10:06 pm Is that NetUSBee operational? Maybe grab UIP Tool?
Nope. It's not working. I got PARCPUSB but I still needed a program on the Falcon to get that going. But got it working with a Gotek.

I did a few tests with 50MHz. I also noticed that I'm running with an older jedec programmed on mine. So I have to reflash my Xilinx later on with 220507 and do tests again. The screen goes black when I activate flashROM so something wrong there. Does that depends on the older jedec/bad solder/flashROM chip broken? Since I have no FPU installed I get lower score in FrontBench I suppose? I haven't done a stresstest or run YARTT yet. But otherwise the rest seems as it should.

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Re: DoG's DFB1 Build

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To all forum members:

Please note that this is a build thread specifically for DoG.

If you have any support questions about the DFB, please post them here: DFB1 Support Thread
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