Accellerator woes 1/3

Bad evening, lots of debugging. I suspect the accelerator card isn't working properly. This error or variants of it pops up a lot.

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I had to disassemble the whole computer to inspect the solder-side of the mainboard for illegitimate capacitors which are known to cause timing issues when using an accelerator card.

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Commodore and later Escom have made all kinds of mistakes when assembling A1200 motherboards. Internal memos from Commodore are available that clearly say to remove some capacitors. Yet you can find lots of boards out there that have these capacitors assembled.

So far I found no obvious problems on the board, but the driver for the accelerator tells me to contact support :D - I just did that and now I'll have to wait.

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Thread originaly published on November 19, 2018 (twitter.com)