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IIGS-Halts during boot sequence
I'm looking for assistance (point me to some documentation, offer some
advice) to get my IIGS up and working again. After a very brief time
when it displayed intermittent errors, it is now in a state where on
startup I get a screen that offers 4 choices: enter control panel, set
60hz defaults, set 50hz defaults, continue restarting. I can get to the
control panel, all looks OK. If I restart holding down OA, it appears
to cycle through a test sequence: screen patterns, borders, a scale of
notes, and ending with a "System Good" message.
Other evidence:
1) During its intermittent error state, I ran the memory checker that
RamKeeper has and it indicated a bad memory location.
2) I have removed RamKeeper, and an extra memory card. With only the
Apple memory extension card, with 512K of allegedly used but good chips,
the symptoms are as stated above.
3) Various combinations of chips in this card, RamKeeper, and another
1MB extension card all indicate that the memory is generally getting
recognized (indicated by Total Free RAM on the control panel).
4) I removed TransWarpGS and replaced the original CPU. no change.
5) With no memory extension card in at all I get the same problem.
Item 1 & 2 seem to point to one of the 8 soldered memory chips on the
memory extension card being bad. But item 5 raises a question about
this. Item 4 would seem to indicate the CPU is OK.
I'm tempted to either a) get a used but good memory extension card or b)
try and replace the soldered chips on my card. But only if it seems
fairly certain that the chips are the problem.
Am I going down the right path?