apple //e hardware problem

["Christilyn Quintos" <puguaman@yahoo.com>]

O Aaland <oaaland@aol.com> wrote in article
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> "Christilyn Quintos" <puguaman@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >I recently posted my problem with this model (subject: "apple //e
Possible
> >hardware problem..."). I pressed the buttons :  control and white apple
> >button together, then pressing the reset key. A white screen came up and
> >then a black screen with the word "RAM:" written. It's stuck here. Can
> >anyone tell me what this means? Thank you.
> 
> Since I dont know if you have an enhanced IIe or not there are some
things you
> can try. If all the error mesage you got was RAM without any number after
it
> chances are pretty good that the error is in the motherboard memory.
Machines
> that are not enhanced do not check the RAM on the AUX slot card. Enhanced
> machines check both motherboard RAM and Auxiallry RAM. If you have this
setup
> with a non-Apple brand extended 80 column card it is posible to recieve
an
> error message even when no error is present. The way to make sure is to
remove
> the 80 column card and rerun the test. If the RAM message still appears
then
> the problem is almost alway going to be one of the eight ram chips. If
they are
> not soldered on you might be able to swap them one at a time with chips
from an
> extended 80 column card until you find the one that is bad. If you need
chips,
> they are being disposed of by the hundereds on old PC motherboards.
> 
> Owen
> 


I opened it up and the brand name for the card with the ram chips on it is
MICROMAX SYSTEMS. I am making a guess that this is the card with the ram on
it, because there are only three cards on the motherboard, one of which is
labeled Printerpro (printer card), and the other is labeled in really small
letters "DISK ][ interface card" (where I connect my two disk drives to).
The motherboard itself is labeled Apple IIe copyrighted 1982. Is there any
othe information needed to help get some more info on how to tell this
problem? Just to recap what's going on, Booting up with Apple Works is no
problem. It reads the disk fine, however when it prompts me to insert the
programs diskette, I insert the programs diskette, and it can't read it,
because when the light goes on the disk drive (after I inserted the
programs diskette), the screen doesn't change and it still says insert the
programs diskette. Now I am sure that most likely I will have to get an
original copy of the diskette, since it may be corrupted, but I just wanted
to know if there was any other things that I can check with this computer
that might be causing this problem. I did the diagnostics check with
holding down the control + closed apple + reset keys and the only thing it
prompted me with was the word "RAM:" and nothing else. Any suggestions,
help, or comments is appreciated, and hugs and kisses go out to all those
that emailed me with help for this computer. 

Christilyn Quintos