c164-1bj@cordelia.berkeley.edu (Jonathan Dubman) (10/25/87)
Having stumped the local store and friends, here is my Amiga 1000 expansion woe: I have a Starboard-2 with 2 megs of RAM, no other expansion products, and a headache. The Starboard worked fine when I got it, didn't work at my high school when I brought it in to show off the Amiga, worked again at home, doesn't work at my apartment in Berkeley, but works great at the local Amiga dealer. When it doesn't work, it is as if there is no board there at all. Maybe it's a grounding problem I thought. Bought a surge protector and all that - nope. It probably is the electrical system, though. Switched plugs, distributed devices on different plugs, etc. - no luck. The Starboard is a great product... WHEN IT WORKS! I don't know if this is the fault of the Microbotics people or the original Amiga engineers. (Didn't know kazoo about busses, but otherwise brilliant.) Any suggestions? I have a faint memory of some postings about grounding PAL chips, etc. I don't REALLY have to do that, do I? *&Jonathan "You can't do ANYTHING in 512K!" Dubman
dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (10/26/87)
I found that the case around my STARTBOARD II does not fit well enough to push the board all the way into the expansion slot on my A1000. I removed to case... my memory board is open to the winds, so to speak. -Matt