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Transwarp GS freezes



Hi, about a Month ago i got a defective Transwarp GS. There had been modifications on the cache-board, but one of the SRAMs had the wrong size. After replacing the SRAMs, the CPU and the oscillator the card would run nicely at 9mhz. I the replaced the GALs against faster ones, again the card would work nicely, but now at up to 12.5mhz. I realized, that the SRAMs were the limiting factor. I replaced them with faster ones. At that Time the Transwarp would sporadically freeze and show either error 301 or 302. But neither replacing them with the original ones nor the GALs, CPU etc. Im totally stuck right now. I think the Cacheboardmay have died at one time or another. The crashes happen after about 20sec.-5min. No matter what oscillator i tried (tested 24mhz, 25mhz, 28mhz, 36mhz,48mhz,54mhz,64mhz and 66.6mhz). Only thing that could be left is the cachboard, one of the SMD-ICs on the Transwarp or the CPU-cable. I hate myself right now, because the card worked until i couldn't get enough speed. Luckily i only payed less than $20 for the card together with a ZIP GSX (defective too). But counting the hours of work i put into the cards I could have as well payed $300 for a working one ;-)