Newbie just built the ZedPro - a question on power up and reset

[David Hall]

Hi I ordered the ZedPro with VGA Board, USB Board and the RTC and it arrived Friday, I've spent the better part of Friday night and Saturday soldering everything together and had to wait for an Amazon Sunday evening delivery (because there we 5 x 104 capacitors short) or I used too many on the Backplane Pro, I don't know, well anyway, it gave me plenty time to clean the boards, inspect and test them, final solder about an hour ago, after boards were seated into the backplane and power up....

lights on but nothing happened.....

...

then I pressed the reset and ...

RomWBW HBIOS v9.4.0. 2029-12-91

RCBus [RCZ80 std] 280 @ 7.972MHz

0 MEM W/S, 1I/OW/S, INT MODE 1, Z2 MMU

512KB ROM,

512KB RAM

ROM VERIFY: 00 00 00 00 PASS

CTC: IO-0x88 NOT PRESENT SL0O: 10-0x80 

SIO MODE-115200,8.N,1

SI01: IO-0x82 SIO MODE-115200,8

DRTC: MODE-STD IO-OxCO Sat 2000-01-01 00:14:47 CHARGE-OFF 

MD: UNITS-2 ROMDISK-984KB RAMDISK-952KB

FD: MODE-RCWDC IO-0x50 NOT PRESENT IDE: I0-0x10 MODE-RC

IDEO: ATA 8-BIT LBA BLOCKS=0x0003D400 SIZE-122MB

IDE1: NO MEDIA

PPIDE: I0-0x20 PPI NOT PRESENT 

CHO: I0-0x3E TYPE-CH375 VER-0x37

CHUSBO: NO MEDIA 

CH1: IO-0x3C NOT PRESENT 

FP: I0-0x0D NOT PRESENT

The system powered up, first boot and everything seems to work.....

what a fantastic set of boards and I enjoyed the soldering, the instructions on the site were easy to follow,  the only thing I swapped out was the IC sockets with Turned-Pin (Machined Pin) Sockets, 

I had 3D printed the IC Leg Straightener , as the were many chips to seat and this one has a small profile and also large on the other side for Z80, RAM, ROM etc and I hate bending chips

Next I printed the RC2014 Pro Backbone base as my temporary base until I build one of the blue box bases etc, and this is such a snug fit I don't need to screw it in.

I just need to check, When you power the board, do you need to press reset or have I missed something  or a DIP on the dual clock board?

Now to get into the software side, and explore

regards

David 

[Robb Bates]

Congrats David! 

Awesome feeling, ain't it? 

Regarding your auto reset circuit...

See this thread 

https://groups.google.com/g/rc2014-z80/c/j4x8QW5VDUE

It's a known issue. 

Robb

[Wayne Warthen]

Congratulations David.

I was fascinated to see that your BIOS banner has a date of 2029-12-29.  I am curious to know how you got a copy of RomWBW from 4 years in the future... Are you a time traveler?  😀

Seriously, that is very odd.  Your boot messages are normal except that the BIOS date and version seem bogus.

Thanks, Wayne

[David Hall]

This is a photo of my boot, the ROM from 4 years in the future was supplied in the Z80Kit, its 2023-12-31, looks like copy / paste from the photo interprets it as 2029.  Ha Ha

[Wayne Warthen]

Ah interesting.  I'm a little disappointed.  I wanted to see what RomWBW will look like in 4 years... 😀

Thanks, Wayne