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Re: When it rains, it pours...



On 01/10/2012 08:15 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
On 01/10/2012 12:57 PM, Bill Garber wrote:

If so, what are the failures exactly? I'd offer
you a ROM03, as well, but, I have the same 2 that
I've been using for several years, and could use
a few extras myself. Maybe I can get you to send
them to me for analysis and possible repair.

Ok, here's the best part of it (almost forgot):

With no cards at all installed, running the stock 65816, you can hear the Disk
3.5 coming out of the system speaker! (No, I do not have a microphone
installed :-)). All seeks and motor speed changes are emitted. I thought I was
imagining things, but this is for real.

After it gets to the desktop, you can hear a rhythmic ticking.

It just keeps getting better.... I did say I pulled all the cards from the unit. The one thing I didn't do was pull the Appletalk phonenet adapter out of the rear. When I did that, the unit came to life.

Now here's the bizarre part: If I had the adapter plugged into the unit, it hung during boot. EVEN WHEN NOT CONNECTED TO THE NETWORK! I tried four different adapters - same thing. I tried my last Rom3 - same thing.

Just when I was convinced I was losing it completely, I pulled the Little-Power and put in a stock GS power supply. It booted immediately and the audio weirdness and instability is gone.

Can anyone make sense of this?  I'm going to have a beer...

Steve