Oh, (censored). (TWGS)

[RichardK-PB <atari@NOSPAMbtconnect.com>]

IIgs decided to play up in a fun way today. Wouldn't power up at all; 
random characters on screen, sometimes a yellow border with white, one 
or twice a "Call this number if your TWGS does this again" screen.

Removed every card. No difference. Removed TWGS and put original CPU 
back - IIgs powers up. Put just the TWGS in, but in slot 3 instead of 4 
where I've had it - powers up (I cleaned all the connectors once without 
any luck). Put TWGS into slot 4, nothing.

So I have to leave my VOC out. It's not like I use it anyway, but it's 
still annoying.

Either my PSU or my TWGS ribbon cable is flaking out (or both). Though I 
did manage to carefully remove the cache module, so I know I can do that 
to replace it with a 32K cache later.

Also, DNS resolution instead of crashing the machine instantly, appeared 
to make some attempt at working before claiming it couldn't find host. 
So I messed with my gateway settings to see if DNS was being passed 
properly.

Now it's gone back to crashing. Bah.

It's moments like this that make me wonder if perhaps the IIgs should be 
joining the //c and ][ Plus on eBay ;). However, it's moments like when 
I put everything back in and it powered up fine which are why it doesn't.

Now, I think I can safely say I no longer want to try running a Video 
Overlay Card. I have no need for it and it was just a curiosity. It is 
boxed and complete with all software, manuals etc, and perfectly 
functional. Anyone likely to want it? It's NTSC of course; if it was PAL 
I might be less into parting with it.

Richard

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