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1. 2 2 4 3 1 Mercury 040 Installation Manual Switch This program allows you to toggle between the 68040 and 68030 processors Double click on the Switch program icon then when prompted reboot the A3000 by pressing the Ctrl Left Amiga Right Amiga key combination Using this program you can toggle from 68040 to 68030 or vise versa Note This feature is only available on 25MHz 430005 The SysInfo Program SysInfo is a public domain program written by Nic Wilson It provides information about the system software available memory available drives and internal hardware It also provides speed comparisons between your Amiga and other Amiga systems Complete SysInfo documentation is on the distribution disk in file form SysInfo is not a PP amp S Inc product and we can not provide technical support for this program Configuring Mercury The five banks of jumpers on Mercury control several aspects of Mercury s operation The jumper banks are labeled A B C D and E Each pair of pins are numbered for easier identification Banks A and B CPU and Memory Configuration Jumper Bank A specifies Mercury s CPU speed and memory speed combination Jumper Bank B specifies how much memory is on Mercury Mercury is factory configured for no memory If you or someone other than Progressive Peripherals amp Software has added 11 12 Mercury 040 Installation Manual Idi memory refer to section 3 42. Mercury s processor speed 28 or 33 MHz 2 find the desired memory speed in that column and 3 follow the row to the right column to find the Jumper setting 60ns 80 ns E For instance if your Mercury is running at 28 MHz and has 80 nanosecond memory installed the jumper setting would be Al ON A2 OFF This setting will also work for a 33 MHz Mercury with 60 nanosecond memory Memory Speed 4 1 Memory 1Mbx8 4Mbx8 Bank O Amount SiMMs SIMMs Mercury 040 Installation Manual B Jumpers 1234 Cache Operation The 68040 processor contains a 4096 byte Instruction Cache and a separate 4096 byte Data Cache Using the two caches to buffer information speeds code execution several times over Instruction Cache The instruction Cache works by holding groups of instructions that may be repeated making them immediately accessible by the CPU When the Instruction Cache is OFF the CPU reads all of its instructions directly from memory If groups of these instructions repeat the CPU has to read them each time they repeat When the Instruction Cache is ON however the 68040 holds the repeated instructions in its Instruction Cache so that it doesn t have to access the memory until new instructions are executed If a program never repeats any instructions having the Instruction Cache ON has no effect on processing speed 17 18 Mercury 040 Installation Manual 4 2 4 2 2 4 2 2 Data Ca
3. all peripheral equipment and power up the A3000 Double click on the CPU040 program icon on the distribution disk to verify that the A3000 is making use of the 68040 processor If the 68040 processor is recognized by the system the CPU040 program will run If the 68040 processor is not recognized a requester will appear telling you that a 68040 processor is required to run this program If CPU040 still requests the 68040 processor call PP amp S Technical Services department at 303 825 4144 Section 2 2 Software Installation further describes the CPU040 program 16 MHz A3000 Instructions To ensure proper RAM operation with Mercury jumper J851 or JP851 must be placed in the 25MHz position Note Moving this jumper to the 25MHz position makes it impossible to use the Switch software to go back to 68030 mode 25MHz Position a JP851 A3000 Tower Instructions Open the tower as described in your A3000 Tower user manual Place jumpers on pins 1 and 2 of both J106 and J107 You must also obtain a 74F08 chip and insert it into the socket at chip location U103 on the Tower motherboard This chip should be available through your local electronic parts store for under 1 00 and is necessary for the fast slot to work ZZ 22 2 2 2 Mercury 040 Installation Manual Software Installation The Mercury distribution disk contains several programs designed to help you manage and improve the performance of the 680
4. always want to have Off Board Burst mode enabled You may however want to disable bursting for software testing purposes The CPU040 program allows you to disable enable bursting without changing this jumper setting 3 2 4 Jumper C4 On Board Burst Did 3 3 1 3 3 2 C3 present On Board Burst disabled C3 absent On Board Burst enabled default Enabling On Board Burst allows Mercury to burst to memory on the Mercury card You will almost always want to have On Board Burst mode enabled You may however want to disable bursting for software testing purposes The CPU040 program allows you to disable enable bursting without changing this jumper setting Banks D and E Miscellaneous Settings D1 Reserved Jumper D1 is reserved for future use and should NOT be jumpered at this time D2 FastROM Option D2 present FastROM disabled D2 absent FastROM enabled default 13 14 Mercury 040 Installation Manual Enabling this option default reserves 1 Megabyte of Mercury s memory for FastROM use If the FastROM option is enabled in software as well the contents of the operating system ROMs are copied to this reserved memory during system boot up Having the operating system reside in Mercury memory greatly speeds system operations Placing a jumper on this location adds the reserved memory to the memory free list and the FastROM option can t be used 3 3 3 Jumper E Reserved Jumper E is a litt
5. that for a period of 1 one year from the date of your original purchase our product shall be free of defects in the material and workmanship OUR WARRANTY EXTENDS TO THE ORIGINAL PURCHASER ONLY If you discover a defect covered by this warranty we agree to repair it at our expense using new or remanufactured components at our sole discretion PP amp S s liability is limited solely to the repair of the defective product What yon will need to do To obtain free repairs under this warranty you MUST deliver the product with its original sales receipt to PP amp S You will be responsible for paying any costs associated with the delivery to PP amp S PP amp S will bear the cost of returning the product to you via the shipping method of PP amp S s choice Costs of any other shipping method must be borne by you Before returning the product contact PP amp S s customer service department to obtain a Return Merchandise Authorization RMA number No returns will be accepted unless the shipping label or outer box is clearly marked with the RMA number What is not covered by this warranty This warranty does not cover any damage or malfunction resulting from the improper handling accident abuse misuse failure of electrical power use with or damage to other products used in conjunction damage while in transit for repairs repairs or modifications attempted by any unauthorized person or agency or any other reason not due to defects in mater
6. to run on other processors as well The 68040 FPU does not contain all the instructions found in the 68882 coprocessor Code that makes use of these instructions will not run on the 68040 unless these instructions are emulated by the FP040 software provided These missing instructions are as follows FACOS Floating Point Arc Cosine FASIN Floating Point Arc Sine FATAN Floating Point Arc Tangent FATANH Floating Point Hyperbolic Cosine FCOS Floating Point Cosine FCOSH Floating Point Hyperbolic Cosine FETOX Floating Point e FETOXL Floating Point e 1 FGETEXP Floating Point Get Exponent FGETMAN Floating Point Get Mantissa FINT Floating Point Integer Part FINTRZ Floating Point Integer Part Round to Zero FLOG10 Floating Point Log FLOG Floating Point Log FLOGN Floating Point Log FLOGNP 1 Floating Point Log x 1 FSQRT Floating Point Square Root FMOD Floating Point Modulo Remainder FMPVECR Floating Point Move Constant ROM FREM Floating Point IEEE Remainder FSCALE Floating Point Scale Exponent FSGLDIV Floating Point Single Precision Divide FSFLMUL Floating Point Single Precision Multiply FSIN Floating Point Sine FSINCOS Floating Point Simultaneous Sine amp Cosine FSINH Floating Point Hyperbolic Sine FTAN Floating Point Tangent FTANH Floating Point Hyperbolic Tangent FTENTOX Floating Point 10 FTWOTOX Floating Point 2 Merc
7. 40 All of the 68040 utilities can be easily installed by double clicking on the Install040 icon Automatic Installation The installation program detects your operating system and installs the appropriate utilities Once all the files are installed Install040 asks you if you want the Init040 command to be added to your startup sequence file If you answer Yes Install040 will add the Init040 command to the beginning of your startup sequence file If you don t want Install040 to change your startup sequence answer No to this question Manual Installation If you prefer you can manually install the 68040 utilities on your hard drive Step 1 Copy Files Copy PPS040 library and 68040 library from the LIBS drawer of the Progressive 040 disk into the LIBS directory of your hard drive Copy the 68040 drawer and its contents into the root directory of your hard drive SYS Step 2 Edit Your Startup Sequence File Using your favorite text editor or word processor enter the following command to your startup sequence file or your user startup file Sys 68040 Init040 lt opt gt 9 10 Mercury 040 Installation Manual 2 2 3 Where lt opt gt is one or more of the following options FPU Will install the floating point emulation software FASTROM Copies the ROM image into the reserved RAM on Mercury The FastROM option jumper D2 must
8. AG ACCELERATOR FOR THE AMIGA 3000 User Manual PHERALS WARE Mercury 040 Installation Manual Table Of Contents Introduction 1 1 About the Motorola 68040 1 2 About Mercury 1 3 Software Compatibility Issues 1 4 Mercury Utility Software 1 5 Glossary Mercury Installation 2 1 Hardware Installation 22 Software Installation Configuring Mercury 3 1 Banks A and B CPU and Memory Configuration 3 2 Bank C Mercury Defaults 3 3 Bank D and E Miscellaneous Settings 3 4 Adding Memory to Mercury Cache Operation 4 1 Instruction Cache 4 2 Data Cache 4 2 1 Write Through Mode 4 2 2 Copyback Mode Developing Software On and or For the 68040 Troubleshooting 6 1 Hardware Problems 6 2 Memory Test 6 3 What to do if you memory tests Bad 6 4 Tech Support YN NIN pa Progressive 040 Mercury 68040 32 Megabyte Accelerator Card for the Amiga 3000 Hardware design by John Meek amp Tim Reese Software by Michael W Hartman amp John W Terrell Manual amp Desktop Publishing by Roy E Brothwell Edited by Sean A Moore Commodore Amiga AmigaDOS amp Workbench are trademarks of Commodore Amiga Inc Video Toaster is a trademark of NewTek Inc Progressive 040 is a trademark of Progressive Peripherals amp Software Inc Progressive 040 Hardware Software amp Manual 1992 Progressive Peripherals amp Software Inc All rights reserved No part of this product may b
9. Adding Memory to Mercury for the proper jumper changes Bank C Mercury Defaults These four jumpers determine Mercury s power up or cold boot settings 3 2 1 Jumper C1 Processor Select Cl absent 68040 default Cl present 68030 You will almost always want to boot your system using the 68040 processor They only exception to this is during testing or when running software that is incompatible with the 68040 The Switch program provided will also allow you to warm boot into either processor This jumper determines the cold boot condition of Mercury 3 2 2 Jumper C2 Cache C2 present Cache enabled default C2 absent Cache disabled You will almost always want to have caching enabled The 68040 s caching features provide a major boost in processing speed You may however want to disable caching for hardware testing purposes Normally you will want to disable enable the cache using the CPU040 program provided 3 2 3 Jumper C3 Off Board Burst C3 present Off Board Burst enabled C3 absent Off Board Burst disabled default Mercury 040 Installation Manual Enabling Off Board Burst allows Mercury to burst from memory on the A3000 motherboard or through the Zorro III bus Off Board Burst is possible only if you have the new Buster DMAC and Ramsey chips installed in your Amiga 3000 not available at the time of this printing Once Off Board Burst is possible you will almost
10. Mercury 040 Installation Manual 6 2 Memory Test You should always test your installed memory when you first install the Mercury into your Amiga 3000 series computer The graphic design of the Mercury memory test makes it easy to identify faulty memory modules or incorrect memory installation Because the Mercury resides under the equipment platform it is inconvenient to have you disable the memory for testing The memory test provided tests all unused memory on the Mercury This method does not allow every address in every SIMM to be tested All of the memory however will either be in use or tested by the memory test program Turn on the computer and run the memory test by double clicking on its icon The memory configuration requester will appear asking you to identify the current memory configuration and jumper settings of the Mercury After selecting the appropriate configuration and clicking on Proceed the memory test screen will appear clicking on Cancel will abort the test A diagram of the Mercury shows all eight SIMM sockets divided into two banks Each bank is color coded to show what type of memory is installed according to your configuration selection Banks populated with IMBx8 SIMMs are BLUE Banks populated with 4Mbx8 SIMMs are YELLOW Unpopulated banks are BLACK If the color coding does not coincide with the memory installed check the jumper settings and re select the configuration by clicking on
11. Static Electricity The greatest potential for permanent damage to your Amiga 3000 or Mercury comes from static electricity Even the smallest electrical discharge from you to an exposed computer chip can ruin the microcircuitry inside that chip For this reason you should do everything possible to avoid static electricity and to ensure that you ground yourself each time you work with electronic parts To reduce this danger we suggest the following Do not work on or near carpeting Work at a table over a tiled linoleum or concrete floor e Don t wear clothes which attract static electricity wool nylon polyester etc e Ground yourself each time you are about to pick up any electronic component The hardware of a kitchen sink or the metal screw on a light switch are acceptable grounds Installation Procedure Prerequisite The AmigaDOS 2 0 ROMs must be installed and tested prior to installing Mercury accelerator card Mercury will not operate if AmigaDOS 1 3 ROMs are installed in your Amiga 3000 If your Amiga 3000 is not equipped with AmigaDOS 2 0 ROMs you can obtain a set from your local Amiga Dealer 5 6 Mercury 040 Installation Manual Note During the installation we will ask you to disassemble your Amiga 3000 Chapter 4 of Introducing the Commodore AMIGA 3000 which came with your Amiga 3000 computer provides complete instructions for disassembling your Amiga 1 Disconnect power from the Amiga 3000 2 Rem
12. be enabled for this option to be used see section 3 3 2 FastROM Option FASTSYS Translates system vectors to the fastest RAM available If the vectors are already in the fastest RAM available this option will do nothing By default no arguments all options are enabled 68040 Files and Utility Programs The 68040 files and utility programs that Install040 copies to your hard disk are as follows PPS040 library This library contains functions for the Progressive Peripherals amp Software 68040 accelerators The library is the same for all of Progressive s 68040 accelerators This library must be present in the LIBS directory for the other 68040 utilities to operate 68040 library This library provided by and licensed from Commodore Business Machines is activated by the Init040 or SetPatch command in your Startup Sequence The 68040 library is similar to that shipped with other 040 cards but it does not install the floating point emulation package This library makes certain patches to the 2 0 operating system optimizing it for the 68040 processor To operate 68040 library must reside in your LIBS directory CPU040 Running this program allows you to quickly turn on off Instruction cache Data cache Burst mode and toggle between Write through mode and Copyback mode with the click of the mouse PPS040 library must be in the LIBS directory for this program to operate
13. che Like the Instruction Cache the Data Cache holds information within the 68040 to avoid memory access whenever possible The Data Cache can be OFF or can be ON in one of two modes Write Through and Copyback When the Data Cache is OFF the CPU reads and writes all data directly from memory When the Data Cache is ON however the 68040 holds local data in its Data Cache allowing immediate access to the local data The Data Cache may contain CPU modified data At some time the memory will have to be updated so that it contains the same data as the Data Cache The Data Cache mode determines when the 68040 updates the memory with the modified data Write Through Mode When the Data Cache is in Write Through mode the 68040 writes the data held in the Data Cache to memory during the next available memory bus cycle The CPU can still operate on the data held in the Data Cache without waiting for it to be written to memory This is the traditional Data Cache mode used by the 68030 processor Copyback Mode When the Data Cache is in Copyback mode the 040 writes the data held in the Data Cache to memory only when information in the Data Cache needs to be replaced or when the cache is flushed The CPU may be working with the data held in the cache modifying and re working it The 68040 doesn t update the memory associated with the data held in the cache until absolutely necessary Mercury 040 Installation Manual By waiting for o
14. cludes high performance floating point software Mercury 040 Installation Manual 3 1 5 Glossary Instruction Cache A 4096 byte buffer inside the 68040 chip which speeds processing times by storing repeated instructions The Instruction Cache can be turned ON or OFF by a number of available utilities See Section 4 Cache Operation Data Cache A 4096 byte buffer inside the 68040 chip which speeds processing times by storing local data The Data Cache can operate in either Write Through or Copyback modes The Data Cache can be turned ON or OFF or placed in Write Through or Copyback modes by a number of available utilities See Section 4 Cache Operation Copyback Mode The Data Cache mode which holds local data in the cache and writes it to memory only when the cache is flushed or when the cache is full See Section 4 Cache Operation Write Through Mode The Data Cache mode which holds local data in the cache and keeps an up to date copy of the data in memory See Section 4 Cache Operation MIPS Meaning Millions of Instructions Per Second this term is often used to express the speed of a processor 4 JA Mercury 040 Installation Manual Mercury Installation When installing Mercury into your Amiga 3000 it is important that Mercury s jumper settings are correct Compare your Mercury s jumper settings with the default settings below These are the factory default settings The defau
15. e reproduced in any form or by any means including electronic store and retrieval or translation into a foreign language without prior agreement and express written consent from Progressive Peripherals amp Software as governed by international and United States copyright laws First Edition January 1992 Printed in the U S A Mercury 040 Installation Manual Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of Mercury the new Progressive 040 series accelerator card for the Amiga 3000 computer Mercury brings the high speed processing power of the leading edge Motorola 68040 25MHz or 33MHz CPU to your Amiga 3000 computer A 25MHz A3000 equipped with a 33MHz Mercury will operate at up to 5 to 7 times its normal speed Mercury transforms an Amiga 3000 into a powerful workstation with performance and capabilities previously found only in high end workstations costing thousands of dollars more For 3 D modeling ray tracing multimedia applications intensive multi tasking and any other processor intensive work Mercury produces results several times faster than previously possible 1 1 About the Motorola 68040 Motorola rates the 25MHz 68040 s performance at about 19 2 MIPS Million Instructions Per Second faster than a SPARC 25MHz processor 19 MIPS the R3000 RISC 20MHz processor 17 MIPS a 68030 50 MHz processor 12 MIPS and the Intel 486 processor Raw floating point and integer operations are nearly twice a
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18. le different from the other jumpers It consists of three pins allowing for two jumper positions The default jumper position shorts pins 1 and 2 For the time being a jumper must be placed on pins 2 and 3 for Mercury to operate 3 4 Adding Memory to Mercury Mercury can be purchased with 0 4 8 16 20 or 32 Megabytes of 32 bit memory factory installed In all configurations Mercury is already configured and can be installed without changing any of the jumpers 3 4 1 About the Memory Chips Mercury accepts 30 pin SIMMs Single In line Memory Module in one megabyte packages 1Meg x 8 DRAM and in four megabyte packages 4 Meg x 8 DRAM The memory may be any of the common types Fast page mode recommended Static column mode or Nibble mode You need at least four 8 bit SIMMs to make up a 32 bit memory bank 4 x 8 32 Mercury can hold two 32 bit memory banks Each bank can hold four or sixteen megabytes of memory depending on the size of SIMMs used 1 Meg x 4 SIMMs 4 Meg 4 Meg x 4 SIMMs 16 Meg or no memory Mercury 040 Installation Manual 15 3 4 2 Installing the SIMMs After acquiring the desired type and amount of memory you will need to insert it into the SIMM sockets toward the rear of the Mercury card The SIMMs fit into the sockets at an angle with the chip side of the SIMM facing away from the memory card The illustrations at right show how to insert the SIMMs into the sockets using the following me
19. lt settings of jumper banks A and B specify that Mercury is using a 28 MHz processor and has no memory installed The default settings of jumper bank C specify that the 68040 is the default boot up processor C1 Instruction Cache and Data Cache are enabled C2 Off Board Burst is disabled C3 and On Board Burst is enabled The default setting of jumper bank D specifies that Mercury s FastROM feature is enabled D2 Jumper D1 is reserved for future use and should have no jumper installed Jumper E is reserved for future use and should have a jumper shorting pins 1 and 2 If your jumper settings differ from the settings listed above go to section 3 Configuring Mercury to make sure the altered settings are correct If you are adding memory or memory has been added by someone other than Progressive Peripherals amp Software Inc refer to section 3 4 Adding Memory to Mercury If you are installing Mercury using its default factory settings or you are sure that the jumper settings are correct you may proceed immediately to section 2 1 Hardware Installation 2 1 2 1 1 2 3 2 Mercury 040 Installation Manual Hardware Installation The hardware installation procedure is not complicated but it does require that you disassemble your Amiga 3000 to gain access to its motherboard If you are uncomfortable with this procedure you may want to have a qualified Amiga technician install Mercury for you The Danger of
20. ne of these conditions to occur before writing the data to memory the memory is accessed as little as possible speeding processing times Developing Software On and or For the 68040 Most code written for the 68000 processor will run on the 68040 as well There is however some software that will not run properly Programs that have self modifying code may not run when the Instruction Cache or Data Cache is ON Any program which by passes the operating system may not run when the Data Cache is in Copyback mode You should follow the precautions below when writing software on the 68040 Don t use the upper 8 bits of 68000 addresses to store tables The 68040 uses all 32 bits of each address Any program which uses the upper 8 bits of an address will most likely fail on a 68040 Base time dependent code on a system clock instead of the CPU speed Since processors can have different clock speeds a single timed operation will take different amounts of time when run on different processors or processors running at different speeds Test everything written on a 68040 based Amiga on a 68000 based Amiga Code that runs properly on the 68040 may fail on a 68000 due to data word alignment The 68000 requires word data on the stack to be word aligned the 68040 does not 19 20 Mercury 040 Installation Manual Some instructions exist only in the 68040 Be sure your compiler is not generating 68040 specific code if the program is
21. ove the cover of the A3000 3 Remove the equipment platform and disconnect the equipment cables from the motherboard for whatever equipment is installed on the platform 4 Orient the A3000 motherboard so that the Fast Slot connector is nearest you Rear of A3000 A3000 Tower and 16 MHz A3000 Owners Refer to the end of this section for additional instructions concerning your computer type Mercury 040 Installation Manual 7 de Align the Mercury and Fast Slot connectors and firmly but gently plug Mercury into the Fast Slot 6 Secure Mercury to the four threaded stand offs using the four screws provided Ja Route the floppy drive power cable through the bottom of Piper Demo the equipment platform and attach one of the connectors to one of the fan power connectors on the back of Mercury Route the remaining power connector back up through the equipment platform to provide power to the floppy drive Note If your 43000 is equipped with two floppy drives attach one end of the power pass through cable provided to the free fan power connector then route the other end of the pass through cable up through the equipment platform to provide power to the second floppy drive On some Amiga 3000s only one end of this cable will fit the floppy drive connector 9 Reconnect all equipment cables and reattach the equipment platform Mercury 040 Installation Manual 2 1 3 2 1 4 10 Reconnect
22. s fast as a 50 MHz 68030 You won t need to buy a separate math coprocessor it s built right in to the 68040 CPU Performance analysis software included on the disk rates Mercury 25MHz at up to 35 times the speed of a standard Amiga 500 1 2 Mercury 040 Installation Manual 1 2 About Mercury 1 3 Mercury makes use of the 32 bit wide memory provided on the A3000 motherboard or on the Zorro III bus In addition up to 32 Megabytes of 32 bit memory can reside on Mercury card The accelerator installs in the A3000 s processor slot beneath the floppy drive bay and the installation procedure is simple requiring little time or technical skill A low profile 20 year whisper fan is mounted on the card to ensure reliable operation in even the most hostile climates Mercury is compatible with both PAL and NTSC systems Software Compatibility Issues Compatibility with AmigaDOS release 2 0 and 2 0 compatible third party application software has been extensively tested for reliability and performance However incorrectly written software may not run on a 68040 accelerated Amiga For these programs we have provided a software switch which allows you to toggle between the 68040 and 68030 processors 1 4 Mercury Utility Software Additional software utilities enable and disable specific processor functions such as instruction and data caching copyback mode and write through mode The utility disk also in
23. the Reconfigure button 6 3 6 4 Mercury 040 Installation Manual 23 If the memory configuration is correct click on the Begin button to start the memory test The memory is tested one bank at a time The memory test can be stopped at any time by clicking on the Abort button As each bank of memory is tested the graphic representation of the bank tested shows the test results Good memory locations turn GREEN while bad memory locations turn RED If all the SIMM sockets are GREEN the memory tested good What to do if your memory tests Bad If any SIMM sockets are marked bad RED turn off the computer and swap the SIMM in that socket with a SIMM that tested good Turn on the computer and try the memory test again If the SIMM in the new location tests bad again replace that SIMM with a new SIMM If the same socket tests bad even with the different SIMM contact Progressive Peripherals amp Software Technical Services Tech Support The PP amp S Mercury represents the finest engineering and manufacturing available in the Amiga marketplace If you encounter any problems or if you have any questions you can reach our technical support staff at 303 825 4144 Monday through Friday from 9 a m until 5 p m Mountain Time Don t hesitate to call us for technical assistance or moral support il Mercury 040 Installation Manual LIMITED 1 YEAR REPAIR WARRANTY and DISCLAIMER We warrant to you
24. thod a Gently insert the edge connector of the SIMM into the socket b Swing the top of the SIMM toward the socket until the two hooks catch the holes on either side of the SIMM These hooks lock the SIMM into place preventing accidental removal c Make sure that the edge connector of the SIMM is firmly seated in the socket and the retaining hooks are solidly through the SIMM holes Repeat this procedure for every SIMM you are installing The tables on these pages show the various possible memory processor configurations the number of each size SIMM needed and appropriate jumper setting for each configuration If you are replacing previously installed SIMMs with SIMMs of another type remove the SIMM by gently pulling the top of the SIMM forward away from the socket When the retaining hooks release lift the SIMM out of the socket 16 Mercury 040 Installation Manual 3 4 3 Setting the Memory Jumpers Mercury is factory configured for the CPU speed memory speed supplied with the card Changing the speed of the memory used on Mercury requires a change in the jumper settings Bank A consists of two jumpers Each jumper setting selects two different memory speeds depending on the processor speed The table below shows the various settings available You can mix different speeds of memory as long as you set the memory speed jumpers to that of the slowest memory To determine the appropriate jumper setting 1 find
25. ury 040 Installation Manual 21 6 Troubleshooting 6 1 Hardware Problems Most problems that arise while installing Mercury are associated with ROM installation or A3000 re assembly If you install the 2 0 ROMs just prior to installing Mercury be sure to test the ROM installation If the 2 0 ROMs are not properly installed the A3000 won t work When disassembling the A3000 take note of which cables are connected and where All equipment cables will have to be restored to their original positions upon re assembly The only exception is the floppy drive power cable This cable will be routed to the Mercury card to provide power to the CPU fan see illustrations on page 7 of this manual If any of the equipment cables are not properly reconnected the A3000 may not operate Also be sure to firmly seat Mercury card connector into the Fast Slot and secure Mercury in place using the four provided screws Be sure the Mercury memory jumper settings are correct Remember that when mixing memory of different speeds you must set the bank A jumpers to accommodate the slowest memory used If after taking these precautions and re checking the installation you are still having problems call PP amp S Technical Services at 303 825 4144 When calling for technical assistance please have the revision number of your Amiga 3000 available The Amiga 3000 Rev number is behind the Fast Slot next to the FAB number 22
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