Re: Dead Zip-GS

[jlee@ics.uci.edu (Orion Pax)]

Jim Pittman (casa@unm.edu) wrote:
[ zip ]
: So, turn off power, wait a bit, turn on - now I get an irregular
: checkerboard-like pattern and no key activity will change it. When
: I turn the power off and back on, the checkboard picks up a few
: random colored spots but other than that, no change at all.

: Turn off and get ready to pull cards. Remove 4meg CV-ram first.
: No difference. Pull 9/64 Zip-GS and re-install the original 65816.
: Now the computer works fine. (Much slower though. :-(  Also, once
: GSOS 6.0.1 was loaded I got a low memory message - first time I
: ever saw that.) Turn everything off, re-install the CV-ram and re-
: start. (I did the boot self-test and it reported no problems. By
: the way, this shouldn't be a heat-related problem; the system was
: barely turned on and hardly warm yet when it died.)

I had this problem recently where it would go into the GS/OS boot screen
and freeze or crash.  What I did was pull the SRAMS and swapped them
around.  Inst sram for inst sram, data sram for data sram.  Now, it's
fine. *shrug*

Joseph
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