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Re: Can anyone help me with TranswarpGS problems?

Tim Haynes wrote:

Thanks to Mark, Glenn, and Wayne for their suggestions regarding replacing
the CPU on my TWGS.  I did the swap today, and have posted some pictures of
the work to my website again (www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~tshaynes/TWGS).  The
new pictures are dated today (July 4).

I had to remove a plastic collar from around the CPU, and I did that with
tiny screwdrivers.  after that, replacing the chip was easy.  I considered
drilling a small hole through the bottom and pushing it out, but you can see
that that would be inadvisable as there seem to be some metal contacts on
the top of the PCB beneath the socket that are not visible from beneath the
PCB.

Anyway, I swapped in the faster CPU and got a clean bootup right away (even
without putting the plastic collar back on the socket!).  The very last
picture I posted shows the TWGS booting up minus the collar on the socket.
Heh.

So I have it running a continual self-test.  After about 20 minutes, have
been getting one freeze-up or another (last time it was socket slowdown
test)... before that, it was a lockup on a RAM test).

Does anybody know a good source for 50MHz half can crystal?
George from Michigan mentioned in email that someone at one point was
selling (for $10) gold plated chip/ribbon connectors.  Does the person who
used to make them still come around?  Does anybody remember who that was?
Was it Joachim?

Thanks again
Tim


Interesting, mine didn't come apart like that but I have two different
sockets so I shouldn't be surprised at a third.

If you can't locate the smaller crystal, you can easily make an adapter
to ude the the larger one.

Bill Shuff used to make the cables. He stopped making them but even when
he did, he would only do them in batches. He was selling off his Apple
II stuff 4 or 5 years ago. I bought his superdrive card for my II+.

Wayne