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Old 02-15-2008, 07:40 AM   #1
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Default PPS Mercury and the A3000
One going for not a lot of money on ebay. The seller states the card make his machine flaky, and the INT2 mod doesn't help. Amiga resource says that this card originally came with a page mode chip that you needed to put in the first slot on your mobo, even if you used static ram. My question is, could that be any page mode chip, or was their something special about the one that came with the accelerator? Would that cause all the static chips to suffer the same wait state as page mode, or only when accessing the ram in that first chip?

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Old 02-15-2008, 08:23 AM   #2
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Oooh. That's a good card for a good price. I have one in my A3000 (latest revision motherboard - 9.x?) and it worked fine. I THINK, though, I had the Page Mode RAM chip installed.
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Looks like a 28MHz overclocked 040/25MHz) model . I still have my 35MHz Mercury. Ran like a top for many years 24/7 running my BBS. Not sure about the SCSI problems. Once I switched to 3.0/3.1 it was more stable using the "do not use" jumper. (Might have just been a placebo, but someone on usenet tipped me off to it...)

Edit: I guess the seller does say the speed. Getting it faster only requires an oscillator, faster RAM, and maybe a faster 040. Mine was bought without CPU and I have a 040/40MHz in there underclocked.
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Strangely, the seller claims the accelerator runs only in A3000/T...
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That is true, since it won't fit in the A4000(T).
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