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Apollo 1240 accellerator with 32mb ram for sale on ebay
« on: August 19, 2007, 09:00:16 PM »
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Re: Apollo 1240 accellerator with 32mb ram for sale on ebay
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2007, 01:58:44 AM »
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The Apollo 1240 is practically the same card as the Apollo 1260 only with minor differences due to the different voltages the 040 and 060 use.


In theory, could someone swap out the 040 with an 060 and add a voltage regulator like the 1260 has? Not that I would, but I'm curious if it'd really be that simple.
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Re: Apollo 1240 accellerator with 32mb ram for sale on ebay
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2007, 02:22:49 AM »
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The Apollo 1240 is practically the same card as the Apollo 1260 only with minor differences due to the different voltages the 040 and 060 use.


In theory, could someone swap out the 040 with an 060 and add a voltage regulator like the 1260 has? Not that I would, but I'm curious if it'd really be that simple.


Yes that is possible.  The only other thing you'd need is the 060 library I think.

There's a guy called PG on this site will do this upgrade for you for a reasonable fee.
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Re: Apollo 1240 accellerator with 32mb ram for sale on ebay
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2007, 05:08:17 AM »
From what I read there's a voltage regulator that needs to be added as well as changing the CPU. I dont know if thats as easy as adding it to already present circuit traces, or if itd require fancier solder work. Im happy with the 030 that I have on my 1200, but if I ever found myself with one of these, I might consider it. Not gonna run out and buy another accelerator for it though haha.
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Re: Apollo 1240 accellerator with 32mb ram for sale on ebay
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2007, 06:59:12 AM »
Speaking of the Apollo 1240, I have been having problems with mine for as long as I've had it - it has problems on booting and one needs to manually reboot until it boots properly. Is this something I could have fixed?

Also, the battery has worn down on my card. What battery should I replace it with?
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Re: Apollo 1240 accellerator with 32mb ram for sale on ebay
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2007, 07:48:02 AM »
it seems apollos are easier to upgrade to 060 than blizzards. check this thread. Also you could add an additional sim socket for 64 mb ram.
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Re: Apollo 1240 accellerator with 32mb ram for sale on ebay
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2007, 12:11:47 PM »
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Speaking of the Apollo 1240, I have been having problems with mine for as long as I've had it - it has problems on booting and one needs to manually reboot until it boots properly. Is this something I could have fixed?


No, you couldn't fix it. I've had an Apollo1240 in the past and had the same problems like you described.
I've also had an Apollo630 for the A600 which freezes
up the system regularly, even with an heat-sync and fan installed.
(The M-TEC630 is much more reliable).
Apollo accelerators are very unreliable and unstable.

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Re: Apollo 1240 accellerator with 32mb ram for sale on ebay
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2007, 01:49:44 PM »
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No, you couldn't fix it. I've had an Apollo1240 in the past and had the same problems like you described.


I never had any of those problems. My Apollo 1240 was very stable, especially considering the fact that I had the 25Mhz CPU running at 40Mhz with another oscillator.

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Apollo accelerators are very unreliable and unstable.


I can't confirm that from my experience.
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Re: Apollo 1240 accellerator with 32mb ram for sale on ebay
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2007, 02:32:41 PM »
Lucky you... ;-)
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Re: Apollo 1240 accellerator with 32mb ram for sale on ebay
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2007, 04:46:08 PM »
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Speaking of the Apollo 1240, I have been having problems with mine for as long as I've had it - it has problems on booting and one needs to manually reboot until it boots properly. Is this something I could have fixed?


No, you couldn't fix it. I've had an Apollo1240 in the past and had the same problems like you described.


Did you do the A1200 timing fixes needed on some A1200 motherboards?

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Apollo accelerators are very unreliable and unstable.


I've got an Apollo 1240 here that runs fine with the timing fixes done.
OTOH, years ago I bought an Apollo 1230 Turbo. It really was an unstable POS, it was a miracle if it lasted longer than an hour before crashing and then it needed a cold boot to get going again  :madashell:
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Re: Apollo 1240 accellerator with 32mb ram for sale on ebay
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2007, 04:58:02 PM »
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Did you do the A1200 timing fixes needed on some A1200 motherboards?


Certainly not! I don't wan't to mess around with my
precious A1200 motherboard. If the Apollo1240 requires
some kind of a hacking or fixing to my A1200 mobo, in order to work properly, then the card is really a worthless piece of crap!
I'll never gonna buy an Apollo accelerator again...

 
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OTOH, years ago I bought an Apollo 1230 Turbo. It really was an unstable POS, it was a miracle if it lasted longer than an hour before crashing and then it needed a cold boot to get going again


That's exactly what I mean...

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Re: Apollo 1240 accellerator with 32mb ram for sale on ebay
« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2007, 05:04:09 PM »
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If the Apollo1240 requires some kind of a hacking or fixing to my A1200 mobo, in order to work properly,


It doesn't require any hacking or fixing. I've got a 1D4 (some call this the most problematic one) and I had zero problems whatsoever, even with an overclocked board (25@40Mhz).
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Re: Apollo 1240 accellerator with 32mb ram for sale on ebay
« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2007, 05:16:39 PM »
I have this board and it's overclocked to 33MHz and I have ZERO problems with it too!  Very nice card.  Make sure the battery has been changed as mine was starting to leak and I cought it just in time!
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Re: Apollo 1240 accellerator with 32mb ram for sale on ebay
« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2007, 05:24:25 PM »
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It doesn't require any hacking or fixing.


According to Doobrey, it does...A1200 timing fixes
Specially 1D4 & 2B revisions. Maybe some motherboards have
had the fix before leaving the factory?

Oh well...it's not my problem anymore.
I own a Blizzard now!
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Re: Apollo 1240 accellerator with 32mb ram for sale on ebay
« Reply #14 on: August 21, 2007, 05:34:43 PM »
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AmiDude wrote:
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Did you do the A1200 timing fixes needed on some A1200 motherboards?


Certainly not! I don't wan't to mess around with my
precious A1200 motherboard. If the Apollo1240 requires
some kind of a hacking or fixing to my A1200 mobo, in order to work properly, then the card is really a worthless piece of crap!


It's not the the Apollo's fault that some timings changed in later motherboard revisions :roll:
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In general these 1.D.4 & 2.B defects only make themselves felt when the A1200 is expanded by the addition of an '040 (or above) accelerator, high performance IDE hard drive/CDROM subsystems, Zorro slots or I/O expanders (PortPlus etc). Often any one such accessory will work, but two or more will not work in combination. Typical symptoms are an accelerator exhibiting instability problems, a graphics card failing to be recognised or a CDROM failing to show disk icons.
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