Re: AE's Ramkeeper and GS Battery Life

[Turley <carlson@rahul.net>]

Well, I do not own slotmover. I also am running the Ramkeeper system 
driver that is supposed to speed it. I have had corruption problems but 
only after a prolonged power outage. I suggest you check the fuse between 
your gell cell and the ramkeeper. Mine was only .5amps but that blew out 
all the time so I upped it to 1amp. I suspect your fuse is blown and 
evertime you get a power problem it doesn't kick in.


On Tue, 21 May 1996, Martin Gruen wrote:

> In article <4ntl76$eg4@samba.rahul.net> you wrote:
> : Your not the only one. I have had a IIGS since 87 and my battery has yet 
> : to go. I got ramkeeper just when it came out. I even bought a new battery 
> : a few years ago just waiting for mine to die. 
> 
> : It has yet to die. Technically it should last for 10 years though. The 
> : Ramkeeper card only powers up the Dram on the card, keeping it refreshed. 
> : I don't see how it could power the motherboard and then use the processor to 
> : refresh the memory like it does when it is powered up. You never know. 
> 
>   Hmmm.  Btw. since you have a ramkeeper let me ask you another 
> question.  I run 6.0.1 from a 1 meg ram disk off it, but occasionally it 
> becomes corrupt in minute and various ways that force me to reinitialize 
> the disk and copy the system back to it.  This happens i'd say weekly.  
> Is it possibly an incompatibility with recent software that might write 
> reserved areas on the card, is it that these cards were never that 
> stable, or do I have a problem with my card (i actually suspect a loose 
> connection in my slotmover, but I'm hesitant to take action that might 
> damage it further).  Any ideas?
> 
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