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RAMFACTOR IIE: Stalls when fully populated 1024k; WHY?
- Subject: RAMFACTOR IIE: Stalls when fully populated 1024k; WHY?
- From: sebugg@presby.edu (Stephen Buggie)
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 20:08:09 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Presbyterian Coll.
AE RAMFACTOR MEMORY CARD FOR APPLE IIE:
FUNCTIONS GOOD WITH 768K; PROBLEMS WHEN FULLY LOADED WITH 1024K
DO JUMPERS NEED TO BE SET?
I have two AE Ramfactor memory cards, both bought new about three years
ago. This is a slot #7 ram card with capacity of 1024K. I use 41256-12
socketed RAM chips on these cards.
Ramfactor works just fine when loaded 3/4 full with 768K of chips. It
passes all diagnostics and serves as a RAM disk for my spell-checker
dictionary and also as a preload for Appleworks 3.0.
But problems happen when I add the last eight RAM chips to give it a
total of 1024K.
It will not format, read, or write as a RAMDISK, When I load
the Ramfactor Diagnostics disk, it gives this error message:
ADDRESS REGISTERS ERROR
PRESS ANY KEY TO RETURN TO MAIN MENU
Here is my configuration:
CPU: ZIP CHIP 8MHz
Aux slot: Sequential Systems 1024K RAM/80 col card
Slot #1 Grappler Plus parallel printer card
Slot #4: Apple mouse card
Slot #5: Laser UDC Universal Disk Controller card (connected to Laser 3.5"
disk drive)
Slot #6 Disk II interface (connected to two Disk ][ classics)
Slot #7 RAMFACTOR memory card
WHAT SHOULD I DO? I note that there are two small "jumpers" at the
keyboard end of the cards; Both jumpers are now closed. To operate
with 1024K, should either jumper be opened?
It would be really convenient to have 1024K fully active rather than just
768K because then I could copy an 800K disk in a single pass rather
than doing it file by file at present.
The RAM is in there; the diagnostic test for "Super Expander E" identifies
that 1024K are recognized on RAMFACTOR.
Stephen Buggie sebugg@presby.edu