AOne500/SAM460 unstable after update 5 [Solved]

[morpa]

EDIT: Heavily edited post as i wanted to gather everything i tried in one place

Hello all!
I just bought me an (barely) used a1-500/SAM 460ex with the following specs:
AmigaOne 500:
SAM460ex/1.15 GHz,
2 GB RAM,
500 GB HDD,
DVD-RW Drive,
SATA Controller SiI3512 PCI (2 ports), (now 3114, 4 ports),
Amiga one keyboard and mouse. AmigaOS 4.1 OEM (on CD-ROM and HDD)
Graphics Card: Radeon HD4650, 1 GB DDR2 VGA/DVI/HDMI


The problem is, it was heavy unstable when Kickstarts/kernel from update 5. I sometimes lose the partitions, (and sometimes get some DSI:s, some freezes)
I compared the files in kickstarts that were different between update 4 and update 5, and replaced them one by one to find the unstable one. When i use "kickstarts/kernel" from update 4 in update 5 everything runs ok and stable,

I tried:
* Clean install(s) - up until update 5 everything seems to work fine.
* Switching the cd and hd sata places, didn't help. Tried using only the sxx3512, that and the MB-sata, and so on.
* Installing radeon driver 0.53
* Did'nt install any thirdparty software, except, owb, ibrowse, netsurf timberwolf.
* I run SFS02. I also totally wiped harddrive and RGB. and tried *SFS - (within 128 gb limit - no difference )* FFS - seemed to work slightly better but were unbearbly slow, so back to sfs2
* Verified that jumpers on motherboard J37 to J39 are as set as in manual.(open,closed,closed)
* Verified that the jumper for Onboard SATA2/PCI are open.(Pci)
* Verified that the filesystem SFS02 has blocksize 512 and buffer 1000 (as manual says)
* Replaced 2032 battery and put in a new sata cable, just in case.
* Deleted ENV/ENVARC:Rhingioserver.prefs files
* Verified that uboot is the latest (January xxxx 12) something.
* Adding extra drives and usbstuff to see if the PSU had any problems
* Tried to examine if the problems are heatreleated , which it doesn't seem to be (and then earlier updates would behave the same)
* Tried another SATA card - 3114 (No difference)
* Ran some memorytester programs - memtester http://os4depot.net/index.php?function= ... tester.lzx etc. They showed memory OK.
* Tried another SATA drive (SSD). No difference.
* Made sure the archives of updates were'nt corrupted. Redownload, etc.
* Tried a heavier PSU - (450w - http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=342) . No difference
* Tried exprimenting with different buffers, using SFSQuery to look for good cache values. Tried DH1: with JXFS. Nope. (block:512,masks, buffers checked)
* Then tried another SATA-harddrive: 2 partitions, 10 gb SFS, 40 gb jxfs.Nope. (block:512,masks, buffers checked)
* update 6 applied.


AND FINALLY: Changed memory module and it WORKS MUCH BETTER NOW!! S

See you at os4depot:)

[nbache]

What is Rhinoserver? And can you post a crash log (use the "Hidden" tags, please).

Best regards,

Niels

[Aslak3]

What is Rhinoserver? And can you post a crash log (use the "Hidden" tags, please).

It is the notification server (the thing which puts messages on the scren for new emails etc).

I had/have issues with networking. Not DSIs though; but rather network death which showed itself as "no buffer space" when doing pings etc. I have yet to get to the bottom of it, but luckily it only happens every few weeks.

Maybe your problems are heat-related?

Lawrence

[morpa]

EDIT: I just edited the first post, to gather all i tried so far, as it might help someone else looking for a problem-checklist. Also updated the questions. Thanks for answers so far!!

[nbache]

What is Rhinoserver?

It is the notification server (the thing which puts messages on the scren for new emails etc).

Aha ... RinghioServer. Sorry, didn't think of that one.

Best regards,

Niels

[Elwood]

The problem is, it's heavy unstable when Kickstarts/kernel from update 5. I get some DSI:s, some freezes, and sometimes it doesn't seem to find the partitions.

This looks like the instability I had. Read this.

Also can you try without the SiI3512? so connect the HD to the internal SATA port but keep the DVD connected at least to the PSU.

[morpa]

Thanks for the hint Elwood. Tried adding a drive and usb-stuff, but it didn't help for me. Back to the kickstarts/kernel file from update 4.--

[Elwood]

Do you have a spare memory module you can try? Yes I know it works with an old kernel but still...

[morpa]

Do you have a spare memory module you can try? Yes I know it works with an old kernel but still...

Don't have one at the moment, but i'll try to see if i can get hold of one. Meanwhile - Changed Satacard to a 3114 (no difference), and also ran memtester (http://os4depot.net/index.php?function= ... tester.lzx) (memtester showed no probs).

[Spectre660]

Did you try to download the update 5 archive again and install ? .

Do you have a spare memory module you can try? Yes I know it works with an old kernel but still...

Don't have one at the moment, but i'll try to see if i can get hold of one. Meanwhile - Changed Satacard to a 3114 (no difference), and also ran memtester (http://os4depot.net/index.php?function= ... tester.lzx) (memtester showed no probs).