Re: ZipGSx Upgrade Questions (I've read the FAQ's)

[marvinmiller@hotmail.com (Marvin Miller)]

Say...... I noticed in the previous post you happened to mention that
you had a spare 14Mhz proc lying around.......Wanna sell it to me? I
have an oscillator here to go to 10Mhz but the card won't take it. I
suspect the 7Mhz proc is the problem.

If you've got extra oscillators - I could use them too!

Best from Getting Colder in Parksville
Marvin

On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 22:05:50 -0800, Wayne Stewart
<waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:

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>> YES, I've tried my accelerator at 7 Mhz! Have you tried downgrading
>> your accelerators to 7Mhz? ;-o
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>> In as far as de-soldering the 74F00 chip and installing a new one -
>> There's a good electronic repair shop in town who do nothing but
>> soldering all day. I'm sure they can make it so that you can't tell
>> anyone was in there. For them, it's probably a pretty simple operation
>> - looks like it to me anyway, lots of access etc. I haven't heard yet
>> WHY this needs to be done. Did you perform this upgrade Wayne?
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>Yes, several times on different ZipGSs. The fastest I was able to get
>on any of the acellerators without doing it was 12.5mhz.
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>> Seriously though, I ran into some really old ZIP txt files (1992 era)
>> and they were mentioning all over the place that it's no problem to
>> get 15Mhz out of it with the complete mods.
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>Alot of people weren't able to get that far but then a lot did. I'd take
>Rubywands advice and order a number of different speeds of
>oscillator. Won't add much to your order.
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>> The way I see it, plug an play is 75% of it. A 5 second trip to the
>> electronic shop is pretty easy, the hardest and most annoying aspect
>> seems to be finding the correct part numbers (current) for the right
>> products. Being I'm in a more 'remote' region of Canada and seem to
>> have no access to these parts - they will likely have to come from the
>> USA. As such, I want to get it right the first time before paying
>> exchange, duty, pst, gst and of course, shipping fees.
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>I don't know if it applies to your area but it's usually a good idea to avoid
>UPS in most cases. That $25 service charge really hurts on small orders.
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>    Wayne
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