Re: ROM 3 //gs issues

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    Lockar

In article <tpk0d4tcjqesu98qj65vidjtee4uiafgmu@4ax.com>, Mitchell
Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Nels Bruckner <nelsb@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> >On Sep 13, 12:38�am, "Peter Watson" <paw77@N_O_hotmail_S_P_A_M.com>
> >wrote:
> >> "Nels Bruckner" <ne...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> >>
> >> da790236-9bc3-4e26-9186-fcdaf4eb154b@s20g2000prd.googlegroups.com">news:da790236-9bc3-4e26-9186-fcdaf4eb154b@s20g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
> >>
> >> > � � Actually, I'm using the Apple //gs Diagnostic disk to run the
> >> > tests - everything else (that I have hardware to test with) passes w/o
> >> > any failures, though obviously there could some fault in the ROM
> >> > related to any number of areas that aren't getting exercised here.
> >>
> >> To ask the obvious question that nobody else seems to have - are you
> >> running
> >> the "latest" (whatever that actually is) version of the Diagnostics disk?
> >> To
> >> a version released before the ROM 03, the ROM is always going to look
> >> wrong!
> >> --
> >> Peter Watson
> >> -- Write to MS-DOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
> >> -- Impossible! �;-)
> >
> >     Heh... yeah, that light bulb went on in my head last night to.
> >It actually seems like the most likely source of the issue.
> >
> >     I'm using Apple //GS Diagnostic disk version 1.2.  It doesn't
> >display a date, but suspect you hit the nail on the head.  Note that
> >holding down both Apple keys at boot and letting the self diagnostic
> >run results in "SYSTEM GOOD", or a similarly descriptive message.
> >Gonna try Tom's hacked up ROM tester now.
> 
>     The final version of the Apple II Diagnostic was version 3.0.
> I recall the some of the older versions were written before the
> ROM 3 or Apple IIc Plus existed, and therefore would fail the
> diagnostic tests due to their detecting unexpected changes.
> Quick way to check, go to "Special" and select "Display
> Current System Status" and see if it reports something odd
> for the ROM version.
> 
>     Speaking of the ROM 3, my motherboard's Lithium battery
> finally died last week. Looking at the date code of 10/90, it
> worked for exactly 18 years before giving out! Now I have to
> find not only a new motherboard (that's another story), but a 
> new battery as well. I hope I can still find one these days...
> 
> Mitchell Spector