dsg@cci632.UUCP (David Greenberg) (12/26/90)
Hi, My friend just bought an IN1000 1.5 meg ram board for his 1000, and since he is not very technically oriented, he is having trouble...He installed the board, and now the machine will not come up with the "Insert Kickstart screen" The instructions say it could be the 68000 chip was re-inserted backwards, but he swears it is not...can anyone offer any advice?? .....oh, the LED on the caps lock key does light on power-up (seems to start to go through normal powerup...thats why I think It may be a loose connection from the RAM to the socket, or he incorrectlyre-installed the drive) Thanks, Dave
Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com (12/26/90)
Re: Won't kick after installing new insider RAM card on a 1000
Ground the PALs, Dave. I think it's the '89 August issue of Amazing that
explains how (but I'm going by memory). However, there is an error in the
diagram (the text is correct) which was corrected a couple of issues later.
This solved the problem on my system.
Good luck. By the way, if you're not familiar with soldering chips, DON'T
do it yourself. Get help.
Julie Petersen (LadyHawke)dsg@cci632.UUCP (David Greenberg) (12/26/90)
Dave
stx@vax1.mankato.msus.edu (Kevin Whyte) (12/28/90)
In article <45363@cci632.UUCP>, dsg@cci632.UUCP (David Greenberg) writes: > Hi, > My friend just bought an IN1000 1.5 meg ram board for his 1000, and > since he is not very technically oriented, he is having trouble...He installed > the board, and now the machine will not come up with the "Insert Kickstart > screen" The instructions say it could be the 68000 chip was re-inserted > backwards, but he swears it is not...can anyone offer any advice?? > ......oh, the LED on the caps lock key does light on power-up (seems to start > to go through normal powerup...thats why I think It may be a loose connection > from the RAM to the socket, or he incorrectlyre-installed the drive) > > Thanks, > Dave I just put the exact same board into my system with no problems at all. The PALS on my 1000 are not grounded. From the docs I would say that the only reason they would need to be grounded is if your friend has something on the expansion bus (sidecar,starboard, etc..) What it sounds like to me is that the board isn't properly seated in the 68000 socket or maybe when he put the 68000 in a pin may have bent up. Also make sure he got j1 to the fourth pin on the right side of "P" and j2 to the third pin. I would solder them rather than trying to clip them. Hope this helps. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ stx@vax1.mankato.msus.edu Kevin Whyte Proud Owner of an Croaker@bbs.quartz :) Mankato State University Amiga 1000 stx@att1.mankato.msus.edu Mankato MN 56001 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~