Re: ][gs Tech Problem

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <32460735.2548@eri.net>, Justin Bellamy  <maestro@eri.net> wrote:
>Since dragging my ][gs out of my shed last week, I am attempting to
>bring it to life again. I have gotten it to boot once from the disk
>drive, but ever since then I havn't gotten it to boot. When I turn it
>on, it goes thru a "system check" and funny stuff flashes all over the
>screen in somekind of infinite loop. I've tried starting it doing a
>number of different things, but it won't even recognize the disk drive.
>As well, I can't find ANYONE in town who still supports Apple2 gear.
>It's a Woz with a meg of ram, and i believe it still has rom 0 on it.
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

   If you have a joystick, or anything plugged into the internal or
external game/joystick ports, unplug it. If the system boots fine w/o
such a thing, then the joystick is broken and reporting that its
buttons are pressed. That'll force the self-test.

   General rule of thumb when troubleshooting: unplug _EVERYTHING_ not
absolutely needed and see if the problem still occurs. On a GS, that
usually means only the CPU, Monitor, and keyboard. Start adding
components (powering off when doing any cable connections or
disconnections) until it starts failing. The last component you added
is most likely at fault.

Nathan Mates
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