I am getting the "Toaster unable to genlock" error when I start the video toaster.
The toaster worked about 7 years ago when I booted this up. Board looks good.


Amiga 4000 24+ MB ram
Amiga 1080 Monitor
I have no other boards installed and nothing connected to the Toaster's video BNC ports

I have followed the guidelines on the NEwtek forums to no luck.

Can it be a monitor thing? Should the 1080 work with the VT4000?

Thank you

@cc3d

Hello, you need a stable video signal like a dvd player or a camera connected to port1 in order to get it working. A timebase corrector is required if you are using a vcr, or 2 or more video source.

Eric.

@cc3d

Could also be the Center Frequency. It's a delicate procedure but not impossible. You can find details here:
https://forums.newtek.com/showthread.php/7231-What-is-the-Center-Frequency-Adjustment-Procedure

I've done it a dozen times over the years.

Cheers,
Bill "tekmage" Borsari

@tekmage

Yea. I have tried that. No response at all. Thank you.

to close this up:

The Toaster started working today. I don't know why. I had been playing around with the GVP EGS Spectrum card and tried the toaster before I shut down and the toaster started up fine.

Perhaps it was the screen resolution setting? I don't know.

image rendered from Lightwave at 720 x 480. Took 12 minutes. My word, how did I every make a living doing this at that time!?




If I can get these files over to my PC, I want to see how long it will take to render on my current workstation.