Re: Q: AE RamKeeper

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

Ha!, I already had the Ramkeeper Mod info. 
I think I got it from David Wilson a while ago, 
and, the reason is probably because I have a 
Ramkeeper in storage someplace. I have to 
get in there and look, when I get 2 seconds 
to rub together. 

Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
http://www.garberstreet.com

"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message 4tudnUGad6xTPcLVnZ2dnUVZ_s7inZ2d@comcast.com">news:4tudnUGad6xTPcLVnZ2dnUVZ_s7inZ2d@comcast.com...
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> "Steven Hirsch" <snhirsch@gmail.com> wrote in message GomdndRwyIaNF8LVnZ2dnUVZ_gSdnZ2d@giganews.com">news:GomdndRwyIaNF8LVnZ2dnUVZ_gSdnZ2d@giganews.com...
> > Christopher G. Mason wrote:
> > 
> > >> I picked up an AE RamKeeper on eBay recently and have just gotten 
> > >> around to trying it.  Unfortunately, it does not seem to cooperate 
> > >> very well.  I'm using a Rom 3 GS with ZipGSX accelerator (12.5Mhz) and 
> > >> a RamFast Rev D controller in Slot 7.  I have been through, variously, 
> > >> a 4MB Chinook Ram 4000, AE GS-Ram 4MB and an older Apple GS memory 
> > >> card with 1MB.  With any/all of these, I hear the boot-up boink, 
> > >> followed by an error message from the RamKeeper firmware about "Bad RK 
> > >> configuration - Error 103".
> > 
> > > There is a chip you have to swap on the card in order for it to work on 
> > > a ROM 3, it is a 74F27 with a few of the pins tied together. My 
> > > RamKeeper came with the chip+instructions, I'll have to dig up the chip 
> > > scans I made for someone years ago who had the same question on the A2 
> > > Delphi forums. FWIW my card came with the 1.6 firmware, on a REV. C board.
> > 
> > Yes, please do.  It would be a good idea to fire it off to Bill Garber as 
> > well.  He can memorialize it on his web pages.
> > 
> > Steve 
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> Thanks, Steven. I were just gonna asks fer it.  <[8>|) 
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> Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
> http://www.garberstreet.com
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