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- From: TAOBERLY@news.delphi.com (TAOBERLY@DELPHI.COM)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Testing a Kickstart Rom?
- Date: 3 Jan 1996 21:58:55 -0500
- Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
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- >> Is there a way to check a 2.05 rom (37-300) to see if it's in good
- >> working order, other than fitting it in another Amiga? I would like
- >> to test it in another machine, but I don't have that luxury right
- >> now. I've installed it with and without the pin 1 to pin 31 jumper
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- > If the kick-rom is damaged, you will see a *red* screen, if you
- > turn the computer on. If the screen is black, it looks like the
- > Pin 1 to 31 problem.....bye
-
- I got it working, but as it turns out, it was something else...the
- pinout for the 2.05 rom is slightly different than the 2.04 version.
- I was putting the rom in an A1000 external rom box, and while I guess
- the logic on most motherboards can account for the differences, this
- board couldn't. Two wires and a cut trace later, and all is fine.
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- Thanks,
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- Todd
- taoberly@delphi.com
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