Re: II GS halts boot

[wcbland@pacifier.com (Bill Bland)]

On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 14:50:49 -0700, Wayne Stewart
<waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:




>PC Transporter - a very early PC on a card,

Can you tell me more? One of the chips says, "VLSI". 

>> 2. Applied Ingenuity ODCON P/N 8889, dated 1989. Has what appears to
>> be a serial port.
>
>Don't know but I'd guess a controller for AIs OverDrive hard drive
>
Hmmm. I don't have a hard drive in either of my GS IIs. Does this card
allow me to hook up a HD? Pardon my naivete, I'm at the very beginning
with Apple II's.

>>
>> 3. Small card in the #1 slot that has a connection to the analog
>> monitor port (a plug comes out from the card and plugs into the
>> original monitor port). Then, there's an additional monitor port
>> installed vertically above it.
>
>Color Switcher - used with the PC Transporter to switch video feeds
>from the IIgs to the PC Transporter and back eliminating the need
>for either 2 monitors or having to switch connections manually.

It's interesting that the card plugs into the GS II plug, and then
provides *another* plug. Is th is something I should remove?
>
>>
>> 4. A small card marked "RCA" with a headphone type jack.
>
>You didn't give me much info on this but if this card isn't in a slot I'd
>guess the sound card that came with HyperStudio

Yes, it's in a slot. Oh, I'd better open that case again.
>
>> When I try to boot the machine with a System 6.0.1 disk, it goes well
>> up to about 40% of the scale and then stops.  The disk works in
>> another II GS.
>
>1) Try the self test (From the basic prompt while holding down the 2
>Apple keys and the Control key, press and release the reset key)
>
>2) Check your control panel to see if it's using some of the memory for a
>
>ramdisk and see how much memory it thinks it has.
>
>3) does the memory card have both jumpers?

Yes, but they're soldered together, rather than jumpered.
>
>4) If you have another IIgs there try switching memory cards.
>
>5) try booting with the cards removed (except the memory card)

That brings up an interesting point. These cards, other than the
memory and the PC Transporter, are *really* in there. In a couple of
cases, they're bolted to the case. I've never seen anything like the
permanence these cards have.

Thanks for the info.

Bill