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- From: mccla_d@ceawlin.cs.odu.edu (dennis mcclain-furmanski)
- Subject: Rom 1 GS Going Bonkers
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- Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
- Distribution: comp.sys.apple2
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 05:34:57 GMT
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- Having a problem with a friend's GS, and I sure could use
- some advice. It started with one day just refusing to boot,
- after having had a problem while trying to save an AW 3.0
- file.
-
- Here's the setup:
-
- ROM 1
- 4 MB memory on an OctoRAM board.
- ZIP GS
- Fingerprint card
- Apple SCSI with CMS 40 in slot 7 - boot.
-
- On boot, whether by slot 7, or by changing to 5 and trying a
- valid startup floppy (ProSel, AW 3.0, Print Shop, etc), it
- bombs into the monitor at 00/A0A0. A warm boot causes it to
- bomb at 00/0000. The code that appears is 00 47. Comaprison
- with my machine shows that I have the JMP code to $D???.
- Inserting it into his and doing 0000G gets him to the
- bracket prompt, but then it hangs.
-
- Examination of Control Panel settings show such non-default
- settings as Modem Port = 2400 bps intact, indicating battery
- problems are not likely.
-
- With the ZIP, Fingerprint and RAM board out, symptoms are
- indentical.
-
- Booting with option down to get the startup control panel
- access works, but only if the SCSI is in. With the SCSI out,
- it generally bombs to $08FF, Unclaimed Sound Interrupt.
- Although occasionally it results in an ADB error $0911.
- Heat is not the problem - the top is off completely and the
- machine hasn't been on except for 15 minutes intermittently
- out of the last hour.
-
- With the SCSI out and boot set to slot 5, a floppy using P8
- will boot, but at various places, the program refuses to
- run. AW 3.0 asks for a startup disk, despite the fact it's a
- complete AW system disk. Warm reboot causes CHECK STARTUP
- DEVICE. Copy II Plus 8.1 starts up, but bombs to monitor
- when you try to catalog it (and if you try to warm boot it
- again, you get UNABLE TO LOAD UTILITY.SYSTEM, and again you
- try and get CHECK STARTUP DEVICE). AW 2.0 loads, asks for
- the date, and when you give it, it just hangs without
- obvious bombing to monitor; warm reboot causes CHECK STARTUP
- DEVICE.
-
- After each CHECK STARTUP DEVICE, control panel settings of
- slot 5 to Smart Port and startup slot of 5 are intact.
-
- Every warm reboot from a P8 disk with option down - going to
- Control Panel - gives an Unclaimed Sound Interrupt.
-
- Booting 16 bit programs are very consistant. After 1/4 or so
- of booting, it bombs. With ProSel 16, the thermometer
- starts, but it dies with an Unclaimed Sound Interrupt. A
- virgin system disk 5.0.4 does exactly the same. Starting
- 5.0.4 with the spacebar down shows Failure Loading GS.OS
- File, $0027. (fMapTrashedErr ?). Of course, these are with
- the RAM card in, since there's only 256 K on board without
- it.
-
- Any ideas? It seems whatever it is, the SCSI card makes it
- worse. I'm out of things to try that make any sense. If
- anyone has suggestions, I'd appreciate it. If you need more
- info, tell me what to try, and I'll tell you the results.
-
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