TF1260 New Firmware Alpha Released!

[ziosante]

Using latest firmware 1000 with my rev 6 68060 seems to be stable at 94 MhZ, tested AmiQuake, Quake68k, HippoPlayer, YAM, AmitradeCenter, Aweb, Ibrowse, etc... for 3-4 hours without a freeze/reset...
I've mounted a cooling fan, without that at 94 Mhz TF1260 becomes instable after some minutes

At first attempt to run at 94 Mhz My Amiga was freezing while accessing internal IDE or TF1260 IDE but I discovered IDEFIX was causing the problem for me, after removing it from startup-sequence my Amiga 1200 + TF1260 seems to run stable at 94 Mhz, internal IDE, external IDE, PCMCIA ethernet, everyting seems ok..not tried at 100 Mhz

[ziosante]

Tested now at 100Mhz...wow it seems to be stable...

[terriblefire]

Tested now at 100Mhz...wow it seems to be stable...

Enjoy.

[ziosante]

I confirm for me 100 Mhz is more stable than 94 Mhz, tested a lot of softwares running for hours
The only softwares that makes me problems is WhichAmiga and IDEFIX that hangs at 94 Mhz
At 100Mhz WhichAmiga works (Idefix no tested but I really don't need it, I've a 3.2.1 ROM inside my Amiga 1200)
keep it testing...

[ziosante]

post here some screenshot

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[ziosante]

a small viedo here
AmiQuake on TF1260 at 100Mhz

[alexh]

Nice. Is that Heatsink and Fan a cold war relic? Previously used to cool nuclear reactors? Not sure you need something that size

[ziosante]

Nice. Is that Heatsink and Fan a cold war relic? Previously used to cool nuclear reactors? Not sure you need something that size

Yes, it is a fan I take from an old PC....at the moment I've not got anything smaller, I should by one....

[terriblefire]

Nice. Is that Heatsink and Fan a cold war relic? Previously used to cool nuclear reactors? Not sure you need something that size

Yes, it is a fan I take from an old PC....at the moment I've not got anything smaller, I should by one....

@go0se has a good cooling solution that is surprisingly effective.

[Miniworks787]

I've had my TF1260 for over a year now and it's been running rock solid on the base firmware it came with. I've been trying to upgrade to the latest alpha firmware, but I'm getting a weird issue. When I first power on the Amiga running the alpha firmware it boots fine and runs for hours. However if I have to power cycle it, then it just gives a blank screen. If I leave the machine off for a few hours then it will restart fine again running alpha firmware. It doesn't appear to be heat related because if I power cycle it again quickly after the rainbow screen it just gives a black screen again.

The power light stays dim during the black screen and doesn't do it's usual switch to bright after a few seconds. I also get 4.9V on pin 1 of U49 and the same on pin 9 of TP1 during the black screen. I've tried 3 power supplies and get the same results.

It's not a major issue, I'm 100% happy with it on the original firmware and don't overclock my rev 1 anyway. I just thought I'd ask if anyone has had a similar issue.

My motherboard is revision 1B and has been recapped.

Thanks