Re: Self-diagnostic code

[dave ketchum <davek@servtech.com>]

On 10 Jun 1996 pierrot@jersey.net wrote:

>My school has several IIgs computers, and one of them has become flakey. I
>told my friend, who has a class in the computer room, how to run the self-diagnostic,
>which returned System Bad: 06010000. Does anyone know what this code means?
>I think something is wrong with the keyboard system, but that's as far as I can
>get. Any help is appreciated.
>
Assuming I read the Tech Reference correctly, you held down Apple and
Option during power-up or Control-Reset.

Test 6 is "serial tests" - SCC registers, etc., related to the two serial
ports (for keyboard problems, test 9 concerns itself with the Apple
Desktop Bus).

For 6, error code 1 is "Register read/write error."  Other listed codes:
4-transmit buffer empty status, 5-transmit buffer empty failure, 6-all
sent status failure, 7-receive character available, 8-bad data.    

Dave Ketchum   davek@servtech.com   http://www.servtech.com/public/davek