Re: ROM 3 //gs issues

[Nels Bruckner <nelsb@comcast.net>]

On Sep 13, 7:26 pm, Nels Bruckner <ne...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sep 13, 12:38 am, "Peter Watson" <paw77@N_O_hotmail_S_P_A_M.com>
> wrote:
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> > "Nels Bruckner" <ne...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> > >     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.
>
>      Thanks for all the help and suggestions everyone.
>
>      --Nels


     ...and, as usual, hacking seems to have been the way to go.  :)

     My ROM 3 machine runs Tom's ROM checker and reports that both
ranges tested are good.

     --Nels