Re: Apple //e Problem

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <19970513224201.SAA17418@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
Tom31656 <tom31656@aol.com> wrote:
>So I performed the Apple //e ROM self-test. (Ctrl, Open-Apple, and
>Reset)

>It flashed only one pattern on my screen, and then displayed the
>cryptic message:

>RAM 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
>Turning off the computer, I looked inside at the RAM chips. My
>assumption is that the message refers to the position of a buggy
>RAM chip. The sixth one (counting the odd chip to the far left)
>is a Texas Instruments chip, while the rest are good ol' Apple chips.

   I believe the pattern onscreen is backwards from when you're
facing the motherboard with the keyboard at the bottom and slots
at the top. For a non-platinum //e, there should be 8 RAM chips,
so the third from the left is at fault.

Nathan Mates
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