Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!mintaka!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!ath From: ath@lcs.mit.edu (Andrew Heybey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: GVP series II - does it need 1.3 ROM? Message-ID: Date: 22 Oct 90 16:10:38 GMT References: <865@ki.UUCP> <1990Oct15.205233.13632@cs.utk.edu> <1990Oct16.002746.21061@portia.Stanford.EDU> <36@oregon.oacis.org> <1990Oct20.221647.12450@portia.Stanford.EDU> Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius) Reply-To: ath@ptt.lcs.mit.edu Organization: /u/ath/.organization Lines: 34 In-Reply-To: bard@jessica.stanford.edu's message of 20 Oct 90 22:16:47 GMT In article <1990Oct20.221647.12450@portia.Stanford.EDU> bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes: Thanks for all the help, to everyone who replied. We pulled the RAM, and it worked fine. I had heard from other people with a similar problem, and the same solution. I don't *think* the RAM is bad. Anyone else have similar problems? I have 1.3 ROMs, and so can't speak to the 1.2 vs 1.3 problem, but I do have experience with RAM. I just attempted to install 4MB of SIMMs on my new GVP board. They didn't work. I called GVP, and they said that there had been some reported problems with "cheap SIMMs". The person I talked to at GVP said that SIMMs from the following companies are known to work: Motorola, Samsung, and Hitech (sp?). The company from which I bought the SIMMs sent me another 4MB, and they didn't work either. I am going to return them, and try another company. The SIMMs that didn't work for me are from TechnologyWorks in Austin, TX. They are labeled as made in the USA, and have a "MT" logo on them (don't know what company that stands for). Incidentally, besides the small detail that the SIMMs didn't work, TechnologyWorks has given me excellent service. (How do you make a wry smiley?) They shipped the second set out overnight, and have promised a pre-paid mailing label to send the bad ones back. My guess is that someone is playing fast and loose with the specs. Either GVP (it happened to work with their "expensive SIMMs") or the manufacturers of "cheap SIMMs" (which happen to be good enough to work in a Mac). andrew -- Andrew Heybey, ath@ptt.lcs.mit.edu, uunet!ptt.lcs.mit.edu!ath