Re: Help! IIgs is dead

[u901841@student.canberra.edu.au (Hickey / Michael Gerard (ISE))]

In article <2ump6k$sla@ici-paris.ensta.fr> dmercier@bsd24.ensta.fr (Damien Mercier) writes:
>I have a IIgs and it just worked fine until I tried an old Disk ][ controller
>card. I think there is a short circuit in the card. Anyway, with the card plugged
>in, the IIgs refused to start up, and began to smell like burning...
>Now it refuses to start up, even without any expansion card. The autotest gives
>me a system bad 02E0FF00. Can anyone please point out to me the meaning of this
>code? I would really enjoy fixing it myself...
>	 
>	Thanks,
>-Damien

In Michael Fischer's book "Apple IIgs Technical Reference" pp 215...

Test 02 relates to RAM 1 - Moving Inversions test of the first 4 banks of RAM

The two bytes "E0FF" describes the address of the faulty RAM.

NOW... if only someone could tell us how to pick out the right RAM chip...

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