Re: ROM 3 GS - can you use old memory board?

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Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com> wrote:

>	I see.  I wonder if I could have hurt my ROM 3 GS somehow by putting in
>the AST board which likely needs a hardware mod?  Don't see any signs
>now, and I hope it stays that way!

The AST card won't hurt the ROM 3.  Ron is talking about the
AE RamPlus cards.  Those require one EPROM for ROM 3
units and another for ROM 01 units.  If you put a ROM 01
card into a ROM 3, it "blinds" the ROM 3 to its own 1MB and
makes it think it has only the memory of the card.

As far as I know, the AST RamStack does not have this
problem.  Even if it did, pulling the card will solve the problem.

>	Unfort. I've got 1MB on the Rom 3 unit -- lots of stuff wants 1.25MB
>min -- will have to add more.  One of those 2MB expansion boards (2MB
>populated, rather) from Alltech would work with a ROM 3 GS, right?

Yes it will.  I have one in my ROM 3, populated to 8MB.
It works like a charm.

>bp
>
>ron clarke wrote:
>> 
>> Yes you may have problems. the Ae cards had to have a hard ware mod ( track
>> cut on the ultra? ron replacement on the plus) to make them work.
>> 
>> ron clarke swanland uk
>> Blake Patterson wrote in message <386E1FB9.D846BCAE@blakespot.com>...
>> >
>> > I have a ROM 3 GS that I recently placed an AST RamStackPlus (from the
>> >GS ROM 01 days) in.  When I go to load a number of old disks that worked
>> >fine on my ROM 01 GS with 1.25MB (I had 256K on mobo and 1MB on the
>> >RamStackPlus), they give me not-enough-memory messages on this ROM 3
>> >(1mb mobo) with 256K on this particular RamStackPlus.
>> >
>> > What gives?  Maybe there's some jumper settings I'm forgetting or
>> >something.
>> >
>> > Dunno.