Re: Help with IIGS

[George Rentovich <grent@home.com>]

Hi,
  First I would unplug everything drives, keyboard ( all cards if any ) but the
Monitor. Then with just the monitor I would see what happens. Could be bad
cable, keyboard, drive, ram card? Does the IIgs have HD on the Inside?
Take Care
          George

Seonho Choi wrote:

> From a very kind teacher in NJ, I was finally given my first IIGS. When I
> turn it on, the screen goes into 80 column mode and displays welcome
> texts in duplicate, roughly left 40 columns displays one copy and right
> 40 columns another copy. From the texts, I was able to find out that this
> IIGS is ROM 01 version. After that, nothing happens. It does not go to
> screen saying "Check Startup Device...". When I press "Ctrl-Cmd-Esc" to
> get to Control Panel screen, nothing happens. Only when I do
> "Ctrl-Cmd-Power", it beeps and comes back to welcome message screen in 80
> column mode. Suspecting any card problem, I removed all the cards,
> including memory expansion card and tried again. Same results. I will try
> to pull out all the chips, clean them and reseat them, but I wonder it is
> a problem of damaged ROM. Any advice would be welcome.
>
> Also, I was given Applied Engineering 3.5" Disk Drive and the donor told
> me that is it high density. The drive is a little different from Apple
> 3.5 Disk Drive (button and lamp is on the lower right corner) and on the
> front side, "AE HD" is printed. Do I need extra hardware to use this
> drive to read high density diskettes or the combination of IIGS and this
> "special(?)" drive will do that?
>
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>                                                    Seonho Choi
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