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YES! This is the “new” BPPC2 that should be released this November.<\/p>\n
I Really liked the quality those boards have. and I checked inner layers..\u00a0 or well..\u00a0 clock outputs.<\/p>\n
and found them:<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n So finding this I believed that YES..\u00a0 Inner layers etc must be fine.\u00a0 all must be fine.<\/p>\n One board was sent to a friend of mine, one was kept here at home.<\/p>\n At Amiga32 I met the CEO of Phase5, Salvador.<\/p>\n He showed me the B1260 PCBs.\u00a0 \u00a0(yes!\u00a0 I asked for boards aswell.\u00a0 he told me to contact him after A32.\u00a0 I did)<\/p>\n well this got me to think.\u00a0 Let me finally move those compoenents I have on a board that someone tried to remove the 040 with a heatgun and totally destroyed the board.<\/p>\n So. I posted some posts on Facebook of this.. this post was also liked by Salvador etc.<\/p>\n After I while I had (more or less) finished product that should boot (SOME decoupling caps missing etc so might have some stabilityissues)<\/p>\n Firmware was programmed with a firmware, patched to not load PPC lib meaning it will boot without a PPC mounted.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (this have not been inspected in a microscope yet!)<\/p>\n I was quite happy with result.. so I did give it a go. Put it into my lab-A1200 with DiagROM and turned power on.<\/p>\n SERIALOUTPUT! yes. it works. but..\u00a0 Illegal Instruction.\u00a0 BAH!<\/p>\n Ok guessed I made some solderingerror (guess there is. this is a TIGHT solder)<\/p>\n but..\u00a0 it was so cold..\u00a0 \u00a0so.\u00a0 of some reason I was thinking: lets try without CPU.<\/p>\n Same thing!\u00a0 ILLEGAL INSTRUCTION!..\u00a0 HOW? there is no CPU on the board.\u00a0 So it means, A1200 020 must still be running.<\/p>\n Well.\u00a0 board was cold.\u00a0 and those CLPDs usually gets HOT!.\u00a0 \u00a0I picked up my FLIR Camera (heatcamera)<\/p>\n NOTHING!..\u00a0 it was black!.. theboard was.. BLACK..\u00a0 so it doesn’t get hot..<\/p>\n Started to probe and noticed: NO POWER?<\/p>\n Well just some few seconds of probing I noticed: There is no GROUND!..<\/p>\n And if you do not know much about electronics. to have anything powered on you need + Power (5V usually on the Amiga.\u00a0 but the BPPC uses a lot of 3.3V (and 1.2V I think aswell.)\u00a0 but\u00a0 ok you need + Power AND you need GROUND (- power)<\/p>\n and as this board simply just lacks ANY kind of ground..\u00a0 NO chip atall will get any kind of power WHATSOEVER.<\/p>\n so it will not ever start.\u00a0 Simply it is missing the GROUNDLAYER.<\/p>\n A pcb is usually split into several layers with copper bonding sifferent signals. this is usually called traces and you can think of them as cables running back and forth between chips.\u00a0 And there are VIAs that are holes on the board boards connecting different layers to eachother.<\/p>\n AND we have a groundplane.\u00a0 it is a complete layer of copper where you can get – power to your chip easly. it is more or less a solid layer (except in areas where there are vias NOT connected to this layer)<\/p>\n Well.\u00a0 I contacted Salvador about this and after some discussion\u00a0 he was about to contact me for a returnaddress.<\/p>\n time went..\u00a0 nothing happend.\u00a0 people was asking me on FB how the status was of the board.\u00a0 I asked Salvador what to report to the people..\u00a0 nothing.<\/p>\n So when asking more or less “will this be solved? or refund?”\u00a0 he really didn’t reply.<\/p>\n So. back from my businesstrip I made a small note about the Groundissue.\u00a0 Salvador contacted me, angry.<\/p>\n he told me I damaged the board.<\/p>\n This surprised me alot.\u00a0 as it is TOTALLY impossible to make a copperplane to be totally removed on a PCB.\u00a0 it is a small copperplane glued between layers of glassfiber.\u00a0 this means you have to make PRECISE cut and split board in half in that EXACT location this is located.\u00a0 remove that plane, and glue back all.\u00a0 AND still also preserve the connections of all holes in the board.\u00a0 \u00a0 well basically IMPOSSIBLE.<\/p>\n A SHORT is a different thing, that can be introduced. but then there would be connection all over. this however is easy to ssolve by just removing the solder making the short.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n HOWEVER..\u00a0 I told him that OK. I make a video of this. And published a livefeed on facebook of me doing it.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KJYIj-92IVE<\/a><\/p>\n Here you can see me probing my boards compared to an old one.\u00a0 and the New BPPC boards totally fail to show any sign of ground.<\/p>\n AND as production was promised to be started this november, it would be extremly easy to take 2 new PCBs from production and send.\u00a0 \u00a0This never happend.\u00a0 and after showing this video, no response of proving that new PCBs are correct (as I wold accept mine nonworking as they was old, but then.\u00a0 why didn’t he say that when he liked my post?)<\/p>\n So basically applying simple logic:\u00a0 As they haven’t showed proof of working PCBs.\u00a0 THERE IS NONE!\u00a0 and they are taking prepayments at this moment.\u00a0 This is a very very high alert of FRAUD.\u00a0 I am sorry.. there is no sign whatsoever that new boards will produced.\u00a0 And by accusing me that I broke the PBC, he simply lack ALL knowledge needed for even BASIC knowledge how a PCB works, yet a complete board with components on.<\/p>\n Remember that number of employees of phase5 is: ONE<\/p>\n Technically YES! it IS fixable.\u00a0 but they haven’t fixed it, still 8 days after the last day of november (production in November. remember this) but with that knowledge. NO.. Sorry will not happen.<\/p>\n And this must also be the reason why we haven’t seen any working prototype: no knowledge how to do this.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So now it EXTREMLY important that this news gets out, so noone whatsoever makes any prepayments to this company!. IF I am wrong and they actually can deliver: But even then: NO prepayments.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n However.\u00a0 at facebook I asked for a random word to be printed and I would make new scans of PCBs ro proove that PCBs still are intact: Word chosen was “GROUND”<\/p>\n So as you can see.. no marks.\u00a0 AND this is the board that was at my friends place.\u00a0 he made tests when I asked aswell.\u00a0 \u00a0but proof that there are no tampering on this.\u00a0 and WHY should I? Paying 149eur each to DAMAGE them??<\/p>\n I however released dumps of our messanger posts so here is is UNCUT:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.hertell.nu\/files\/p5crap2.txt<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n