Re: gs built in diagnostic error msg on gs upgrade..wondering

["brad" <mrbrad@ll.net>]

where be the little beast of a sound chip..is it socketed

by the way digging around in my bsmt found woz gs with the keyboard
attachment and power attachment //gs upgrade mother board...also had a
transwarp gs with 32k cache inside..i did not know about..

swapped into the //gs upgraded //e case tossed in the ramfast...viola..

its nice to be me...at least today

brad

but if that sound chip is socket'd maybe i'll toss one in from another rom 1
gs

assuming someone knows where it is and can point it out to me






"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message
news:3nyBb.47480$bC.12447@clgrps13...
>
>
> brad wrote:
> > i was putting up a gs upgrade i had together again after a few years and
> > found out two things
> >
> > 1) you get a device not found error on everything unless you make sure
that
> > it is set at 60 mhz rather then 50 mhz (europe) on control panel
> >
> > 2) the system seems to work fine ..but
> >
> > 3) for the heck of it i ran the built in diagnostics (you
know..open/closed
> > apple boot deally)
> >
> > 4) got the following error
> >
> >   System Bad: 0C000005
> >
> > 5) the apple tech manuals says more or less the following:
> >
> > "if after running built in SYSTEM DIAGNOSTICS if anything else comes up
> > besides SYSTEM GOOD replace logic board"
> >
> > DUH?
> >
> > anyway..i have a few gs motherboards around with the keybd mod necessary
for
> > the apple //gs upgrade kit (or you can add such) and will prob just swap
it
> > out..but i was wondering if this error might just be something simple
like
> > replace a chip or some such...and someone might have a fix
> >
> > no big deal just curious what on the mother board is actually broke
and/or
> > what it would need to have fixed (practical or not)
> >
> > again just curious and other then the bad diagnostic test seems to work
just
> > fine...weird
> >
> > thanks for the feed back and you can post here so everyone can benifit
> >
> > off to dig up a logic board ..i suppose it could be worse they could
have
> > stated "if built in diagnostics state anything but system good ..throw
> > computer away and visit  your local apple ii dealer
>
>
> My technotes say error 0C is a Sound Chip Problem
> The 05 indicates "Oscillator interrupt timeout"
>
> Cure - replace sound chip?
>
> Wayne
>