Re: Anyone refurbish TransWarp GS's?

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

mystix1210@my-deja.com writes ...
> 
> Well is there anyone out there who can refurbish
> TransWarps? Mine has had it, though I'm not sure
> exactly which action I took that damaged it. I've got
> two possibilites.
> 
> First, I had made another cable. Only problem is that
> the connector I got wasn't the right one therefore
> the pins were all reversed! Thanks very much to
> Active Components. Well I should have gotten a
> continuity tester to check pinouts.
> 
> Second thing I did to it was de-solder the LED, and
> soldered on a connector for a Molex type connector.
> 
> In anycase, my GS almost never completes booting and
> crashes consistently. A lesson to you all, don't go
> by advice of your local electronic component store.
> Research all possibilities before commiting any
> action.
 ....

     If your GS even starts a boot, that's a pretty good sign.

     A common reason for the kind of problems you describe is an overloaded Slot
bus-- i.e. you've got more cards plugged in than the power supply leads and Slot
power traces can handle.

     Adding an accelerator represents a significant increase in current load so
you end up with voltage drops and noise spikes. A good try at curing the problem
is fatter +5V, +12V, and GND power supply leads and some power jumpers on the Slot
bus. There's more about this in the FAQs:


Ground offers pure Text with no set max line length-- good for downloading,
 printing out, or Viewing via an FTP program. See CsaPOWER.txt at ...
 ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Faqs/
 
Text on the ACN Florida and USA2WUG sites is
 line-length formatted for on-line perusing via Netscape, etc..
 See CsaPOWER.txt at ...
 
 ftp://24.96.48.134:6502/Cabi_Archives/FAQs.and.INFO/A2.Csa2.FAQs/
 http://www.grin.net/~cturley/A2.FAQs.and.INFO/CSA2.FAQs/


HTML web site version ...

 http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2POWER.html



Rubywand