[fixed] New X5000 boots to white screen

[Amiguy]

@Spectre660

I've been on onboard Ethernet forever and I still get these hangs as described above: occasionally the screen freezes with the title bar visible and just a white background. Sometimes a reboot is not enough. I turn off my x5000 completely, wait a few seconds, turn it back on and it works again.

I thought the NGFS file system might be the cause. This system caused me HUGE problems . So I reformatted everything to SFS2, which is much more reliable... except that the white screen reappears from time to time .

[Roland]

I've been on onboard Ethernet forever and I still get these hangs as described above: occasionally the screen freezes with the title bar visible and just a white background. Sometimes a reboot is not enough. I turn off my x5000 completely, wait a few seconds, turn it back on and it works again.

I thought the NGFS file system might be the cause. This system caused me HUGE problems . So I reformatted everything to SFS2, which is much more reliable... except that the white screen reappears from time to time .

I see also that kind of boot issue regularly... Trying to get exact info about it is difficult as it dissappears if I use the debug kernel! I suspect it is connected to the loading of X-Dock during the boot process.

You could try to disable X-Dock in WBstartup (or in startup-sequence/user-startup scripts if you have yourself changed it to boot from there), and see what happens. You can leave the icon of X-Dock on desktop and start it manually after WB has been loaded.

There seems to be also an other type of boot freezing, which happens soon after the kickstart modules has been loaded, before WB has started to load. I suspect this is somehow related to the graphics board and graphics.library.

[Spectre660]

@ Amiguy & @ Roland

Got fed up and switched to the onboard ethernet this week.
Have not had one of the hangs on boot since. so will let you know if I do in the future.

X5000/40.
SFS/00 SYS partition.

RadeonRX 550 4MB
Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy FX

No other cards currently installed .

[Skateman]

The onboard ethernet is fine!
Been using that for such a long time already.

[rjd324]

Okay, I guess it is good to know that I am not the only one.

One of these days I will get the serial out - but at the minute, I have disabled all logging.

I just refuse to believe in all of this: loose SATA connection stuff. To me, that does not make any sense. I am almost certain it is a software issue - not some mythical issue with SATA hardware connections.

For the record: this happens on SFS2 as well as NGFS. I always use onboard ethernet.

[Spectre660]

@ rjd324

What model graphics card are you using and what driver version ?

The White screen I can't recall seeing on the X5000/40 since I have had it (about 5 weeks).
Have seen it on Sam460ex when testing graphics card drivers though.

Black screen after the AmigaOS 4.1 splash screen seems to be network related on my X5000/40 .

[rjd324]

560 RX.

BTW: Without opening up the machine, where can I determine the mobo revision version in the log? Or, is there a command?

[Spectre660]

@ rjd324

Don't know if they were any motherboard revisions after the beta boards.

[Spectre660]

Since switching to onboard Ethernet have had no hang on AmigaOS 4.1 Boot splash screen for the last week.