Dead Iyonix Graphics Card
Ron (2686) 63 posts |
Hello I see on CJE’s/4D website 256MB cards and FX5500 would these have any benefit over the original unit or has anyone a spare they’d like to sell? Any other sources for available units? Cheers |
RonM (387) 60 posts |
any other sources? Some cards gave startup problems, I had a half height fx5200 that would not let the machine start at all. |
Andrew Rawnsley (492) 1409 posts |
As you may know, we (R-Comp) have the box of Castle Iyonix spares. This included a range of graphics cards for the Iyonix, with various features. I also have several working machines which could have the cards removed. Feel free to drop me an email, and I’m sure we can work something out. To be honest, I wouldn’t want much for them, as Steph would be quite keen to see some of the Iyo stuff gone – it’s filling the back room! |
Mike Howard (479) 190 posts |
It is an FX5200 PCI 128MB card. XNP-52000-TD16-P72E If Andrew doesn’t sort you out, I have one you can have. Let me know if you need it. As you may know, we (R-Comp) have the box of Castle Iyonix spares. Andrew, if you have a motherboard I’d be very interested in purchasing one. The IDE bus on mine has gone TU which is a major pain. Was thinking I could go the SCSI route but I don’t have a backplane. In fact, I’ve never seen one in the wild. I’ll have to do a tip run otherwise :) |
Steve Pampling (1551) 7932 posts |
I could do with a replacement motherboard – the ethernet interface had a get together with a lightning strike. Neither it nor the router nearer to the phone line survived the meeting. Oh, yes, do we have an easy way of placing an order for a Pinebook with RO yet? |
Jon Abbott (1421) 2601 posts |
My two are door stops…they’re that reliable! Even if I can get the flash fixed on them, I need to try reballing the NIC on one as its not working. I tried reflowing the flash a few weeks ago and still couldn’t get them to boot, pretty sure the issues are GPU related but its impossible to tell with no debug info. The hardcoded GPU “fix” really needs to be a softfix determined at boot. |
Chris Evans (457) 1614 posts |
Good and bad news, we have good stocks of Iyonix backplanes but I’m not aware of any SCSI Podules that have been 32bitted. You could though use a USB hard drive or boot over a network. We bought the backplanes from Castle when they stopped selling hardware and we bought up all their ‘for sale stock’ and much of their spares including: FX5xxx and Modified MX400s graphic cards, Iyonix motherboard test rack, Prototype Iyonix, Econet interfaces… They had already sold all their working Iyonix motherboards but sold us the Iyonix motherboards that had failed QA. I still have some if anyone wants them for spares/repair I’m open to offers. I think I’ll start a new topic to discuss uses of part working Iyonix’s |
Rick Murray (539) 13405 posts |
For an Iyonix? Or the usual style? |
Chris Evans (457) 1614 posts |
A3020/A4000 versions. There was a RiscPC NIC econet unit but I don’t think there was ever an Iyonix version. |
Andrew Rawnsley (492) 1409 posts |
I don’t have a lot of spare Iyo boards (one maybe?) but have several full Iyonixes that I’d be happy to break up for spares. Please email me if there’s things you want. We also have a few oddities like a half-height ethernet PCI card for X100 (I think?) machines that couldn’t take full-height cards, a range of graphics cards, CD drives and floppies etc. I tend to sell them pretty cheap because I’m just glad to find homes for them. Often shipping is the most expensive bit (or feels like it)! |
Mike Howard (479) 190 posts |
Good and bad news, we have good stocks of Iyonix backplanes but I’m not aware of any SCSI Podules that have been 32bitted. You could though use a USB hard drive or boot over a network. Sadly, I’m doing that (booting from USB) but the Iyonix still eventually freezes up making it unusable. If I get hold of a motherboard I might be interested in a backplane anyway. I don’t have a lot of spare Iyo boards (one maybe?) but have several full Iyonixes that I’d be happy to break up for spares. Please email me if there’s things you want. I’d definitely like a motherboard and would be happy to collect, as I’m local to High Legh, if you prefer. What’s your email address? |
Steffen Huber (91) 1945 posts |
I am pretty sure that the Acorn SCSI podule driver was 32bitted as a proof-of-concept for the SCSISwitcher for the USB stuff. It was once downloadable from the Castle/IYONIX website. I am also fairly sure that Gary Partis did 32bit versions of the Power-tec stuff and that was available for basically all SCSI podules under the sun. Not sure what happens if it starts fighting against the inbuilt RO5 SCSI stuff for USB support… I would be interested in an IYONIX backplane anyway! Castle once promised to send me one (for testing SCSI stuff wrt CDBurn compatibility), but that never happended and I didn’t chase them up. |
Chris Evans (457) 1614 posts |
On being reminded I do now recall that. Re Iyonix backplane we have them listed on our site n.b. Castle stopped fitting the socket for a backplane on the motherboard for about the last year of manufacture and had it as a non chargeable optional extra. I see we list on our website: Intelligent interfaces (software available from here):
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Chris Mahoney (1684) 2100 posts |
This, perhaps? |
Ron (2686) 63 posts |
Andrew is testing one for me now. Re the ide bus: mine frequently freezes the machine when backing up drives or backing up over the network. I think a newer machine is going to go on santas list Ron |
Steffen Huber (91) 1945 posts |
The Atomwide serial podule (and “The Serial Port” Dual Serial) drivers were 32bitted by Tank: http://www.tankstage.co.uk/software.html And, thanks to Chris I now remember that ROOL also do an EtherB 32bit ROM: https://riscosopen.org/content/sales/etherb-rom |
Sprow (202) 1113 posts |
There’s also EtherY and EtherH in the NIC drivers download, though they’re flash based so don’t require any retro EPROM swap outage. And as part of my DVB-T update to RiscTV I 32 bitted the podule ROM on that, though to my shame I’ve still not got round to doing the disc based module. I really should, since the front end application is in BASIC. |
Chris Evans (457) 1614 posts |
I see the NIC drivers are at: I wonder what other goodies are hiding in Is there a page listing them? I would have expected them at: I’ll add links on our backplane page to the extra drivers. Thanks lads for all the info. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 7932 posts |
Is there a page listing them? As I recall the page had a mix of stuff of varying antiquity but ROOL did scoop up a collection of the items and update them to be bundled in as part of something they labelled ‘Bonus Binaries’ which they then hid in plain sight at the top of the Miscellaneous downloads page. |