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From: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper)
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Subject: Re: GVP series II - does it need 1.3 ROM?
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Date: 16 Oct 90 00:27:46 GMT
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In article <1990Oct15.205233.13632@cs.utk.edu> dooley@utkux1.utk.edu (Kevin Dooley) writes:
>
>...  I was
>told when I ran back to my dealer in a panic that I could have still used
>the thing under 1.2 if I had disabled the autoboot jumper on the GVP card.
>Also, be careful putting in and removing the SIMMS because ait will not
>work if the RAM jumpers are not set correctly.  My short answer is 'check
>your jumpers'.  My long answer is 'get the 1.3 roms, you'll want them anyway'.
>Hope this helps.
>		Kevin Dooley

Thanks, but it doesn't.  The jumpers are all correct, autobooting off (1.2 
ROMS), RAM jumpers okay.  Still doesn't work.  Apparently, GVP didn't bother
to tell customers the thing only works with 1.3 ROMS.  Sure, any 2000 out there
should have the 1.3 ROMS by now, but why go out and buy them now with 2.0 so
close?

My question is:  what about the A500 Series II card?  I can imagine a goodly
number of 500 users don't have the autobooting ROM.  So will this beast work
at all on most of the 500s out there?

Okay, maybe I'm an idiot for not having 1.3 ROMS.  But GVP shoulda said some-
thing, IMHO.

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