Re: Sick //gs update

[cdeschu@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Deschu)]

In article <nandu.26.0@anest4.anest.ufl.edu> nandu@anest4.anest.ufl.edu (Nandu S. Shah) writes:
>First of all, my thanks to everyone who replied (and it's been less than 24 
>hrs)!
>
>I took Jawaid's advice & found my original CPU & plugged it back in.
>The result?  Everything seems fine for now :), and I may not have to get a 
>new hard drive after all :) :) :), but I will need a new accelerator :( I'd 
>like one which does at least 10 MHz-- any suggestions?), and a strange thing 
>happened after I replaced the '816:
>
>Using the Finder I copied my system disk into /RAM5 & rebooted (to /RAM5), 
>but the sliding apple was there again...  So, I used Installer & tried 
>again, to no avail.  Then I thought, well, if I can at least LAUNCH an 
>application from /RAM5, I'll live with it for now.  So I fired up the Finder 
>again, and this time, when it tried to mount the RAM disk, it told me that 
>the device .DEV2 was Pascal-formatted.  So I installed the Pascal FST on my 
>system disk & rebooted.  What happened?  It said that it couldn't recognize 
>.DEV2 with the FST's I had installed (Eject/Initialize).  So I Initialized, 
>copied the system disk into RAM, and, whaddya know?  I could boot from /RAM5!
>
>So far, so good, but does anyone know why that might have happened?  Also, 
>am I going to have to manually format /RAM5 every time I turn on my 
>computer? (Of course, if my HD works, I won't need to boot from RAM any 
>more, but I'd like my computer to be fully functional regardless.)
>
>Once again, thanks everyone!
>Nandu
>
>Nandu Shah                                          nandu@anest4.anest.ufl.edu
>
>         Please feel free to disregard completely this and any other
>                          suggestion that I exist.

This message is entirely based on the fact that I think you have a
TransWarp GS :). If not, please disregard. I used to work for a mail-order
company in N.J., CDA Computer Sales. (Please, no flames from disgruntled
customers, the company folded 3 weeks after I left...) Anyway, I dealt with
Applied Enginering on a daily basis, and I seem to remember a problem with the
TWGS similar to what you are discribing. I believe the solution was a modified
CPU cable to run from the socket to the TWGS board. I know it's an 900 line,
but if you can get them to confirm this, and sell you a modified (shorter?)
cable, it's probably cheaper than a new Accelerator. Good Luck!

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