wade@sdacs.ucsd.EDU (Wade Blomgren) (12/04/87)
After installing a Dove MacSnap Plus2 upgrade in a Mac+ (this is the 256K SIMM piggyback upgrade, non expandable), I find that I can no longer obtain the Zap PRAM dialog when invoking the control panel while holding down command-shift-option...The machine just beeps once and then takes longer than usual to open the DA itself. This happens when booting from any number of known floppies, or the hard disk. The 5 volts is fine, and the memory upgrade is otherwise working wonderfully. The only problem I have found so far is this lack of access to the PRAM flushing routine. This is with System 4.2, Finder 6.0, and or MF 1.0. What do you think? Have I fried something, or is the anomaly due to the presence of the memory upgrade, or what? If anybody has any other techniques or snippets of code for flushing the PRAM, besides taking out the battery (which I have done), I would like to hear them. The main aggravation from this is that Pyro! is no longer working..something I have experienced before after a machine has been opened up, but which has been resolved by clearing the PRAM via the dialog. Thanks for any insights. Wade Blomgren wade@sdacs.ucsd.edu
hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu.UUCP (12/07/87)
In article <478@sdacs.ucsd.EDU> wade@sdacs.ucsd.EDU (Wade Blomgren) writes: >After installing a Dove MacSnap Plus2 upgrade in a Mac+ (this is the >256K SIMM piggyback upgrade, non expandable), I find that I can no >longer obtain the Zap PRAM dialog when invoking the control panel while >holding down command-shift-option... I don't believe that the command-option-shift-Control Panel feature works on the Mac Plus. The reasoning behind this is that the Mac Plus has a battery you can pull out in the back, while we all know that the SE and II have the battery soldered into the motherboard (after all, they never fail, do they?). ========================================================================= Robert Hammen Computer Applications, Inc. hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu Delphi: HAMMEN GEnie: R.Hammen CI$: 70701,2104
mo@well.UUCP (Maurice Weitman) (12/09/87)
wade@sdacs.ucsd.EDU (Wade Blomgren) writes: 'After installing a Dove MacSnap Plus2 upgrade in a Mac+ (this is the '256K SIMM piggyback upgrade, non expandable), I find that I can no 'longer obtain the Zap PRAM dialog when invoking the control panel while 'holding down command-shift-option... [...] ' 'The main aggravation from this is that Pyro! is no longer working..something 'I have experienced before after a machine has been opened up, but which has 'been resolved by clearing the PRAM via the dialog. Wade, second things first: Pyro! works erraticaly with MF. Stay tuned for a patch/upgrade from Software Supply. I was under the impression that the [control-]command-shift-option trick only worked on SEs and IIs. In any event, you lucky Plus people can pop the battery for a spell to zap that PRAM. Maybe it worked before because you were using a System installed for an SE? (Dumb guess.) I doubt that there's any hardware problem. -- Maurice Weitman ..!{dual,hplabs,lll-crg,ptsfa,glacier}!well!mo | <- this is not a pipe POBox 10019 Berkeley, CA 94709 (415)549-0280 Quote: "If we're not listening, we'd have to be pretty blind." J-L Gassee Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors.