Re: GS error

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <42mrot$ovf@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>,
Richard T. McCusker <cn914@cleveland.Freenet.Edu> wrote:
> 
> My rom 3 GSII keyboard and mouse started acting up.
> The keyboard puts out the wrong letters and the mouse jumps 
> all over the screen.
> When I ran the self test an 06010000 error was detected.
> Is this on the motherboard and if so what part

It indicates a serial port failure: the IIgs detected a problem
reading or writing the serial port controller chip (the Z8530 SCC).

Nothing to do with the keyboard or mouse at all.

There could be more than one fault - the self test will stop on the
first test that fails.

The Apple Desktop Bus is tested at step number 9, so it hasn't got far
enough to identify a communication problem with the ADB controller.
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand