Re: Ram Card Problem (picture)

[Anthony Politz <ajpolitz@bellatlantic.net>]

Nope. I have one and it works well in a ROM1. I also have a GS-RAM+ with 6meg.
This one work fibe in both ROM1 and ROM3. You may want to pick up a new board
from Alltech if you need more memory. From what i have heard, they work very
well.

    Ajpolitz

Stingray wrote:

> I guess that explains why  I thought it was a 2MB card. It probably furthur
> says that there is not really a problem at all with this card, just that my GS
> doesn't play well with it. Is there any way to fix this problem?
>
> Steve
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> Anthony Politz wrote:
>
> > The GS-RAM card can hold 1.5 megs of ram. Yes you can use the memory off
> > the Apple 1 meg card. 256k 100ns chips work fine. If you are going to use
> > this
> > GS-RAM card in a ROM3 system, you will have some problems. The GS ROM3
> > will think there is more memory then the card realy has.
> >
> >     Ajpolitz
> >
> > Steve wrote:
> >
> > > Steve wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have a an Applied Engineering GS ram card (2mb), which I belive has a
> > > > few bad chips. I have to set my ram disk to 512k which I belive is
> > > > blocking the offending chips from being accessed by the system. The ram
> > > > disk is unstable, sometimes it wants to be reformatted, sometimes it
> > > > disappears. It usually won't accept more than a few k of data before it
> > > > returns an error.
> > > >
> > > > My question is:
> > > > I have a fully populated Apple 1mb ram card. Do these cards use the same
> > > > chips? (ok I guess that was a question, preceded by a statement)
> > > >
> > > > If they use the same chips, I think I could isolate the bad chips by
> > > > swapping them out, a few at a time. This, of course, assumes that the
> > > > problem isn't on the card it's self.
> > > >
> > > > Any other ideas?
> > > >
> > > > Please feel free to email if you can come up with a plan, or can confirm
> > > > that my plan will not destroy something.
> > > >
> > > > Steve
> > > > stingray@webzone.net
> > >
> > > Here is a picture of the two cards. As you can see, the chips are
> > > physically the same size.
> > >
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