Re: Installing OS6.01 -> IIgs hangs........

["Mark Cummings" <figjams@primus.com.au>]

Courtney,

I think William is right about having a faulty RAM card, I too have had this
happen with both a 4M card and a 2M card. In both cases they would get about
half way through the boot sequence and then hang. I was even able to install
System 6 without running into a problem until I tried to run it. Another
possibility is your RAM disk is too big, set it to 0K, as you won't have
enough total RAM to run a RAM disk.

Originally I thought that your 1M RAM wasn't enough to run System 6.0.1, but
I just did on a ROM-3 with no RAM card and it worked leaving me with 38K
free memory. I'm not sure about a ROM-1, your 1M should give 1.25M total. A
ROM-3 has 1M on board. A 2M-4M RAM card is better for System 6.

To find faulty chips it is best to use a specific RAM testing program. For
my 1M-4M GS Juice Plus it came with one that shows you which chip is faulty.
My 256K-4M GS RAM Ultra also has a program that can show which chips are
faulty (graphically). If your card is an Apple 1M I am not sure if there is
a program to test the RAM, I suspect there would be, others may know. In
fact I think I have a couple of other RAM test programs, but I only use the
ones specific for the cards.

Mark 


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In article <3B71FFCB.134C9416@flash.net>, Courtney Thomas
<ccthomas@flash.net> wrote:


>Thanks for your kind attention.
>
>I pulled out the ram card and it has 32 chips with 256 inscribed on
>them, so I guess that it's a 1MB card. Is this correct ?
>
>When I ctrl-apple-esc -> ram, I am told there is about 1300Kb total,
>i.e. in use + ram + free. Can I rely on this ?
>
>Even when I hold down the shift key at bootup, I am still prevented from
>booting and I get a beep about midway through the red bar's traversal
>beneath the Bootup Logo.
>
>Other information as to resolution would be gratefully applied.
>
>Cordially,
>
>Courtney
>
>
>
>
>william strutts wrote:
>> 
>> "Courtney Thomas" <ccthomas@flash.net> wrote in message
>> 3B71E13B.8C03910F@flash.net">news:3B71E13B.8C03910F@flash.net...
>> > Hopefully I'll get there soon and you'll get some peace :-)
>> >
>> > Thanks everybody !
>> >
>> > Anyway, when I use the Install/System disk(s) to attempt booting up
>> > [ROM01] what happens is that a Logo appears and a red Scrollbar begins
>> > filling [left to right] but about halfway through this a beep is
>> > sounded, the bar continues to fill until full and then.......nothing,
>> > not even an error message.
>> >
>> > What's wrong and what should be done ?
>> >
>> > Appreciatively,
>> >
>> > Courtney
>> 
>> I had that happen with a bad memory card.  Do you have
>> any extra RAM installed.  GS/OS needs at least 1.25 meg
>> of RAM to run on a ROM 1 machine which means you need
>> at least the Apple 1 meg RAM expansion card.  It won't
>> run on just 256K stock memory.  If you need one, I have
>> one that I could sell you.
>> 
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