@mritter0

How about a config item that allows the user to choose?

Try switching it on and leaving it for a while. I believe what happens during boot up is the card does some PCI initisation. Some cards take a while to initialise.

Many years back I bought a Radeon 9250 256MB for my A1XE. Installed it, booted, got nothing but a blank screen.

Oh well, I thought, sitting there sadly...

But after about 30 seconds or so, uBoot came up and the machine booted.

So it takes a while to boot, but it does work.

There's an update to the SDK, which I don't have, so annoyingly whenever I run Updater, I get a requester asking to insert volume SDK:

Hmmm... looks like it could be an XFX Radeon 7850, which isn't listed on Hans' site. The Club 3D version is listed as working, but the Sapphire version is listed as not working (but I think that is mine, which I initially reported as not working but eventually got it to work).

However, it could also be the 7870, which is listed as not working.

Can you post a picture of the board? Someone might be able to identify it and from there we can figure out if it should be compatible.

@zzd10h

SMTube doesn't show up in AmiUpdate for me.

@Amigo1

Quote:

I have a Zalman ZM-M201R with my X5000, and I sometimes experience the same issue, but after booting into OS4.1FE.

@Antique

Ah, your X5000 should have come with a network card already. There isn't a driver yet for onboard ethernet, so AFAIK all dealers are supplying one.

Daylight saving started last night, and the "enhanced" Time Prefs failed to cope with it.

I don't understand why its so difficult - the standard OS4.1 TimePrefs does.

My Locale specifies when daylight saving starts and ends. Why does the "enhanced" Time Prefs ignore this and default to a hardcoded daylight saving setting (for the northern hemisphere)?

@walkero

I'm not sure if the AmigaOne XE and MicroA1 use the same uBoot, but I have 1.1.4 on my A1XE.

I got it from a user on (I think) AmigaWorld.

I understand there were some problems with it, which is (partly) why it wasn't released, although the only problems I have seen is that (a) with the 3114, only channels 1 & 3 are visible to uBoot (not a big problem) (b) the menus sometimes look messed up (cosmetic) and (c) uBoot Prefs doesn't recognise the new values added for SATA, so you have to set the boot devices either by command line or from the "fancy video menu" in uBoot.

@walkero

Which version uBoot do you have?

The last official uBoot doesn't support booting from SATA (any SATA interface), only ide (either internal or PCI).

There is an unofficial uBoot that does support it.

@K-L

I have found my clock sometimes changes to GMT, Enhancer TimePrefs does nothing to automatically change it back.

@zzd10h

I don't recall it giving me an option. I'll look out for it next time.

@amigakit

Updates are always good, but I don't much care for updates that reset my preferences to the default, requiring me to reconfigure.

It was always my person bugbear with YAM, and it's disappointing to see it happening with Enhancer software as well.

@ChrisH

"I would be quite surprised if it was possible to boot AmigaOS4 from a USB stick, as that requires a number of special things to be supported."

Do you mean OS4 or OS4.x?

It is certainly possible to boot 4.1 from USB; AmigaKit supply a bootable USB FOC with the X5000. I've never tried it with any other model of AmigaOne/SAM though.

@JosDuchIt

I've had endless problems with new HDDs on my A1XE.

Since I got my X5000, I have installed a new SSD and HDD, and transferred one of my HDDs from the A1XE, and only the latter has given any problems (and I'm not entirely sure that it's not doing what its supposed to...)

Here are a couple of things I have learned / been told that haven't been covered here so far:

1. Never do a full Format on an SSD. It will kill it.
2. Most modern drives are rated 6 GB/s but have a jumper to set 3 GB/s. I have been told to set this jumper.
3. Don't use all the drive, leave some space (a few GB?) at the end.

and has already been mentioned...

0. Check your cables. ;)

@zzd10h

I followed your instructions, that doesn't seem to have done anything.

@zzd10h

Yes, I'm at work at the moment, so I won't be able to look at it until I get home this evening.

@broadblues

Thanks Andy, but the GUI does say "%", so...

@Chris

I figured it out. When I open Notification Prefs, Screen Coverage, Pop-Up Transparency, and Pop-Up time all have a default value of 0. So, no notifications.

I have to move the sliders to select a value. It seems very buggy to have a default value that isn't even selectable. Also, Transparency ranges from 180 % to 255 % ????

A lot of the other values that are selected by default aren't recognised by the programme. For example, the default position according to the GUI is bottom right. If I click Test, the notification is bottom left. If I actually want it bottom right I have to select another value (e.g., Bottom Left) and then re-select bottom right.

So it's a pretty buggy GUI.

Possibly, as ChrisH said, it might work for you now that you've re-set your preferences?