Re: GS Woes

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Ralph Glatt" <julian814@hotmail.com> wrote in message ce9c44dd.0410170504.7d59ff13@posting.google.com">news:ce9c44dd.0410170504.7d59ff13@posting.google.com...
: "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<W76dnXvzmo61_uzcRVn-vw@comcast.com>...
: > "Ralph Glatt" <julian814@hotmail.com> wrote in message ce9c44dd.0410160954.2b05a28@posting.google.com">news:ce9c44dd.0410160954.2b05a28@posting.google.com...
: > : Okay, Bill's busy with a project, so I'm going to ask here. It all
: > : started when I got a ZipGS for my GS. Plugged it in, turned it on,
: > : wouldn't work. Talke to the guy who sold it to me, and suggested it
: > : might be the DIP configuration. Went back, changed the DIPs - still
: > : nothing. No power light, no friendly beep. I thought it might be the
: > : power supply, which I replaced. Now I get a light, and some colorful
: > : blurry lines across the screen, but no beep. Took out the card and
: > : tried it again - same thing.
: > 
: > Sounds like your cable or one of the connectors 
: > on it are not up to par. Try cleaning the pins 
: > on the plug to the GS motherboard. 
: 
: Do you mean where the ZipGS plugs into the motherboard? 

Yes. 

: > 
: > : Why do I have the feeling I'm going to be looking 
: > : for another GS?
: > 
: > Easy check there. Just restore the CPU 
: > and see if it works then.  :o) 
: 
: I did, same thing happened. Horizontal lines, no beep.

There ya go. The problem is the IIgs itself, not the ZipGS. 

Apple II Forever, and Apple II Together, 
Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-) 
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Email - willy46pa@comcast.net



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