To: Krishna Sadasivam
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:52:20 -0700, Krishna Sadasivam wrote:
I should also note that the RamFAST utility appears to lock up from
time to time when I am in it. (I'm holding the 'zero' key to access
the onboard RamFAST utilities. I will add that my hard drive now
appears to boot into my System 6.0.1 partition (albeit very slow...) -
(it may have taken some time for it to 'warm up', being dormant for
the better part of a decade). It freezes after the thermometer.
I need to check if the ZipGS card is functioning or if the machine is
crawling at 1MHz...
The adventure continues.
I'm in the process of setting up my IIgs again but mine has only been
down for a number of months, not years. :-)
The last time I had my machine set up, I was trying to modify a flaky
ZipGS to a higher speed but never got it running reliably. Last week,
when I put my regular ZipGS back in, it wouldn't start properly (similar
problems to what you experienced above) but by pulling the card from the
slot, disconnecting the ribbon cable from the card, removing the ribbon
cable from the processor socket, putting everything back together and
then flexing the card and/or ribbon cable a couple times (the ribbon
cable tends to bend the ZipGS card away from the power supply if the
card is in slot three) it has started working again.