Re: Semi-functional TransWarpGS?

[edhel@LOSETHECAPITALWORDSbigfoot.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.)]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 15:57:29 -0800, Wayne Stewart
<waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:

>Is this an accellerator you just purchased or one that you've had a
>while?

I bought it used a year ago, and it had these symptoms at that point
also, so I finally bought a new CPU for it recently, and found that
the new CPU didn't change anything.

>Will the IIgs boot ok if a regular 65816 is placed in the socket.?

My IIgs works fine when it doesn't have the TransWarpGS installed, if
that's what you mean.  When the TransWarpGS's installed, I can't boot
into GS/OS no matter what I do, regardless of whether I have the
original 7MHz CPU or the new 14MHz CPU installed in the TransWarpGS.

>Will it boot System software if the IIgs is set to 1mhz (I know it'll
>take almost forever but it tells you something about the card)

Nope.

>Caution: Those pins on the TransWarp cable are very fragile, many people
>have damaged them.

Thanks for the warning--I can be a little rough with my computer stuff
sometimes--especially after a few hours of fruitless troubleshooting
;)