| From: | Neil Williams |
| Date: | 5 Mar 2001 at 15:21:44 |
| Subject: | Re: Lost my memory |
At 05/03/01 09:47:00, you wrote:
>>n Failing me getting a nice box to play with, you should be looking for a
>>n dry solder joint somewhere. I have no idea what a multimeter would do to
>>n the ICs on the BPPC though, so disclaimers apply.
>I wondered about a dry joint or something. But its weird how the card works
>without any ram in it, and not at all with any in any of the slots. Weird.
If it's getting a bad connection on just one of the pins, that might happen.
I once had a PC do some very weird things which were fixed by just reinserting
the SIMMs.
>One more thing though, using WhichAmiga the PPC chip doesnt show up at all,
>whereas on my Cyberstorm in the 4K it does.
The PPC need some RAM (512KB) to work at all. It's disabled otherwise.
>Would the card work with a duff PPC chip do y'reckon?
Yes, perhaps - I know someone who ran their machine as 68k because the fan
on the PPC failed, and any PPC app would crash immediately.
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