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IIe hardware problem
- Subject: IIe hardware problem
- From: snelson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu (Steven Nelson)
- Date: 9 Feb 1995 16:11:59 -0600
- Distribution: world
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Can anyone offer some diagnostic insight?
After 10 years of faithful, continual service (ie, I rarely power down),
my IIe enhanced (upgrade) suddenly got very sick. It will crash at
unpredictable times of a few seconds to several hours between crashes.
Self-test will be either System OK, or RAM 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 . Except,
the RAM bits will never be same, one time RAM 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1, and
maybe RAM 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 the next time. No pattern of 0 and 1 I can
discern. I think it is motherboard ram as there is no * after RAM
(ie, RAM*), or whatever I believe indicates AUXRAM. Diagnostic software
never reveals problems but will eventually just crash. (I ran memory tests
for several hours one night before the IIe just froze/stopped.)
The only 'repair' I've tried is the standard: pull and reseat all inter-
face cards, push down all IC chips, rotate/swap RAM chips, replace
power supply with a spare one. & my #1 fix-all: blow at all the dust :)
Nothing has helped.
Diagnostics are a little hampered by the hardware I have:
Auxmem: 1 Meg RamWorks III
Slot 1: Super Serial card/Imagewriter
Slot 2: Super Serial card/(modem setup)
Slot 3:
Slot 4:
Slot 5: Unidisk 3.5 controller/2 drives
Slot 6: Duodisk 5.25 controller/drives
Slot 7: Appletalk (Workstation) card
8MHz Zip chip
No-slot clock under CD-Rom chip
lots to go wrong :) The Vulcan 40 drive/powersupply died a couple
months ago, leaving slot 4 open :( A Kensington system saver fan has
always been with the system.
Zip and Ramworks diagnostics run fine until the machine stops, so I
never learn much. My motherboard tests are from an Apple C dealer
diagnostics disk (3.5" /A2T )
Where should I start trying to revitalize this trusty old friend?
Thanks for any help. Email or followups are fine.
--Steve (steven-nelson@uiowa.edu)