Re: Ramworks III

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> fixme1@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi, I have a Ramworks III card in my platinum IIe and its making a high
> > pitched whining noise, especially when I run the XPS Diagnostics IIe
> > disk.  Apple Works is only showing that I have 56k available memory
> > too.  The card is populated which equates to 1 meg of ram combined.
> > 64k on the motherboard and the rest is on the Ramworks III card.  Could
> > the whining noise be attributed to a failing chip or failing board?  I
> > hope this is not the case.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > Thanks
>
> It's not the RAMworks board making the noise--there's nothing on
> the card that is capable of making a noise.

Well, I'm not prepared to postulate that the innards of an tiring
electrolytic capacitor couldn't resonate and make a sound, but I
suspect Micheal is correct.

My first step would be to eliminate every non-essential card from the
system and retest, followed by reseating IC's on the RamWorks, and
trying an alternative power supply.

If that doesn't solve it, you can try replacing the standard IC's
(although I think only one is socketed) or the two electrolytics on the
Ramworks, then start removing banks of RAM.

Are you certain the version of AppleWorks your testing with is either
new enough, or has been patched to recognise extended auxiliary memory
? Earlier versions require installing AE's patches (from memory, all
versions prior to 3.0, although 2.0 will recognise slinky memory and
the IIGS)

Matt