Re: Help: Trying to boot IIGS

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trey.valenta@attws.com (Trey Valenta) wrote:
>A member of the cleaning staff here has a IIGS that he can't get to work. 
>We're trying to get it working but are having no luck, and whatever IIGS 
>software I have is back home in SC.
>
>I've tried making disk images of software from the Apple ftp sites, but they 
>only come up with the 'Cant load ProDOS' messages. The hard drive he has is 
>installed with GS/OS and the machine would'nt boot due to lack of memory. 
>When I installed the RAM card he has, the machine won't even power up; all I 
>get is purple and black/blue stripes.
>
>Is the RAM card most likely toast? Is there any connectors on the 
>motherboard that go loose? Is the motherboard more likely the culprit? I've 
>removed all RAM chips from the daughterboard, but the think still won't boot.

If you boot the hard disk and it stops loading, saying that GS/OS requires
so and so amount of memory, then the computer and the hard disk are fine.

The culprit is most definitely the RAM card.  When you plug it in, that's
when you see the wierd stripes?

The solution is to get a new RAM card.  Don't fool around with the old
one anymore or you might toast the computer!