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- From: price@helios.unl.edu (Chad Price)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
- Subject: Re: Z-386/16 memory board upgrade info?
- Message-ID: <1ebb9uINNb09@crcnis1.unl.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 17:48:45 GMT
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- kent@wonderhog.eng.ufl.edu (Kent Phelps) writes:
-
- >OK - here is the info you guys asked for. To upgrade the Zenith 1 Meg card
- >to a 4 Meg card do the following steps:
-
- > 1) remove all the 256k memory chips
- > 2) remove the memory chip sockets VERY CAREFULLY.
- > 3) remove the solder from the holes for the 18 pin
- > sockets ( the 18 pin holes are offset to the left )
- > 4) install the 18 pin sockets
- > 5) change U464 from a 444-558 to a 444-529
- > 6) change U470 from a 444-559 (or a 444-670) to a 444-530
- > 7) move R405 to R404
- > 8) move R406 to R407
- > 9) remove R410
- > 10) 33 ohm resistors should be added at R14, R15, and R16
- > 11) install the 1 Meg DIP chips
-
- >Suffice it to say this modification is not for the light at heart. Removing
- >36 16-pin sockets and clearing the holes for 36 18 pin sockets should only
- >be attempted by someone who is very familiar with proper soldering techniques.
- >The 444-529 and the 444-530 can be purchased from ZDS and I assume any ZDS
- >dealer. You might even be able to get them from Heath.
-
- This sounds very close to what I had done, but not exactly (and my system DOES
- work and runs OS/2 2.0 fine) The minor difference is that rather than "adding"
- the resistors in step 10, I moved them from their existing sites to the new
- ones mentioned (or at least I presume Kent got the numbers right). So steps
- 7,8,9 follow correctly (by my method), except the resistor removed in 9) is
- moved to another spot on the board, and I added no new resistors.
-
- If there is sufficient interest, I can unearth the written instructions used
- for my board.
-
- Note also that this, or a similar method, was published in the Zenith Users
- Group magazine a little over a year ago. I can also get that reference out (I
- think I know where it is).
-
- Kent is absolutely right, this operation is physically quite tricky. Removing
- the dram sockets from the board is NOT easy. My board was damaged by using
- brute force rather than finesse, and it took a while (along with knowing the
- pin-outs for the drams) in order to put the patch wires on the back of the
- board to make up for broken traces on the front! The board is multi-layer, and
- it's quite easy to damage the traces.
-
- --
- chad
- price@helios.unl.edu
- cprice@molecular.unmc.edu
-