Just got ZipGSX - issues - help!

[Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com>]

I just received and installed an 8MHz / 16K ZipGSX.

My IIgs is a ROM 3 with a 4MB SiriusRAM card, a Focus IDE sitting in 
slot 7, and a SoundMeister.  ZipGSX in slot 2 (tho I know it matters 
not).

Seems to function -- clearly accelerated things, Finder being the most 
obvious.  It was set to startup in ZipGSX accel mode.  Turn the machine 
on and the HD boots fine into GS/OS.  But I notice that after exiting 
and maybe booting off floppy or something later, I cannot re-boot into 
slot 7 (HD) by setting boot slot to 7 via CP and resetting, typing PR#7, 
IN#7, c700g (in monitor) or 7-ctrl-p, 7-ctrl-i (in monitor).  I get a 
sec of drive activity then it dumps to monitor.

The Focus was always a little wily in that I would have to go ahead and 
reset and to a few combinations of PR#7, IN#7, and the above to get it 
to boot--it would just sit there with the drive going crazy as if the 
thing was not in the right "mode" or something.  But it would ususally 
work after a few tries.  Somtimes there was just 1 try - but rarely I 
would have to power off and on.  The Focus has always been like that.  
But the dumping to monitor after trying to reboot is new with the 
ZipGSX.  I am having more trouble with this config.  Booting other 
drives is fine.

I have slot 2 and 6 set to slow via Zip DIP's.  

Does this sound familiar at all?  Should I not be starting in accel mode?

Please advise.  Thanks.




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