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1200

RAM BOARD

ACCELERATOR

WITH BATTERY BACKED CLOCK & OPTIONAL FPU

INSTALLATION &

USERS’ GUIDE

INCLUDES

STEP-BY-STEP
INSTALLATION

INSTRUCTIONS

FOR RAM & FPU

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Summary of Contents for HAWK

Page 1: ...1200 RAM BOARD ACCELERATOR WITH BATTERY BACKED CLOCK OPTIONAL FPU INSTALLATION USERS GUIDE INCLUDES STEP BY STEP INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR RAM FPU ...

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Page 3: ... in these instructions Amiga is a trade mark of Commodore Amiga Inc INDEX Introduction 4 Installing the AMITEK Hawk 5 6 Adding RAM to the Board 7 Installing SIMMS 8 Removing SIMMS 8 Adding an FPU to the Board 9 Installing an FPU 10 Removing Upgrading an FPU 10 Real Time Battery Backed up Clock 11 Installing a New Battery 11 Setting the Real time Clock 12 Setting the Date 12 Setting the Time 12 Tro...

Page 4: ...lculations This will be noticeable in most applications such as rendering of 24 bit animated and vector graphics plus number crunching in professional applications If your board was not supplied with an FPU don t worry the AMITEK Hawk includes a plug in PLCC connector for easy installation Most good dealers should hold FPU s in stock Full fitting instructions are available on pages 9 and 10 BATTER...

Page 5: ...and prying off the cover see fig 1 1 Beneath it you will find the open access to your Amiga s main circuit board and most importantly the expansion connector which can be fitted with a wide variety of external devices including your Hawk Expansion Board 4 WARNING Chips on the AMITEK board are very fragile and could fall prey to the small currents of static electricity generated by your body Before...

Page 6: ...r Amiga to the power source 8 Insert the Workbench disk into the floppy disk drive 9 Power up If the power light does not come on or the A1200 does not start up correctly turn the power off immediately and re check your connections To check your memory load Workbench You should notice on the top line of the display that you now have some OTHER MEMORY This amount should show approximately as follow...

Page 7: ...l Amiga dealer Fitting SIMM boards is an easy operation which should take only a few seconds It can either be done before the board is installed in your Amiga or when you decide to upgrade your machine s memory and the board is already in place In the latter case you will need to remove the AMITEK board from the Amiga s trapdoor slot making sure power is switched off before removing If you are in ...

Page 8: ...e of the socket lock the SIMM into place see fig 2 1 Equal pressure should be maintained to both side of the chip as damage could be caused to the SIMM or SIMM socket 4 You now need to change the jumper settings on the component side of the board to match that of the RAM now installed see fig 2 2 Failure to do so will result in board malfunction Possible jumper combinations are shown in the table ...

Page 9: ...r new AMITEK RAM expansion board has a PLCC 68881 2 rather than PGA type of FPU socket The large range of FPU s run at different rates which are measured in MHZ the higher the number the faster the speed An FPU may also come with a crystal oscillator that can regulate the operation of the FPU If however you do not have a crystal you must run the FPU at the same time speed as the machine 14 3MHZ Th...

Page 10: ...et the jumper LK4 to either INT to use the machine s clock of 14 3MHZ or to CPU to use the speed of the crystal that you have fitted IMPORTANT Before installing the expansion board into your computer it is important to ensure that the crystal is not faster than the FPU fitted Any mistakes could result in the over clocking of the FPU and damage to the chip which will void your warranty REMOVING UPG...

Page 11: ...e the AMITEK Hawk board from your Amiga s trap door 2 Use a screwdriver or blunt knife to carefully slide the coin style battery forward out of the socket in the lower right hand corner on the circuit mounted side of the board see fig 4 1 3 Slide the old battery out of its mounting and dispose of it safely in a waste bin Do not expose to intense heat or a naked flame 4 Slip the new battery in plac...

Page 12: ...elector in the centre of the Time Prefs screen Click on the correct date until it is highlighted SETTING THE TIME 1 Move the mouse pointer to the Hour slider bar at the bottom of the screen Drag the indicator bar to the left or right until the hours shown in the panel below are correct Release the button on the mouse 2 Move the mouse pointer to the Minutes slider bar at the bottom of the screen Dr...

Page 13: ...f diagnostic routines which will test the RAM set up and FPU type once your board is configured and installed The AMITEK Hawk RAM Test software is a program designed to provide three important pieces of information 1 Its main purpose is to check any RAM installed on the AMITEK Hawk RAM board It runs a series of tests on the memory to check its integrity If it finds any errors in the memory the tes...

Page 14: ...ent and quick test of your RAM The SLOW mode adds an extra test which does a more thorough examination of the memory The button labelled RAM TEST starts the process which once begun cannot be aborted and the EXIT button quits the program Should you require more information about the Hawk diagnostic program and more in depth details about the theory behind the software you will find it by double cl...

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