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From: jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org ( Staff OACIS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GVP series II - does it need 1.3 ROM?
Message-ID: <36@oregon.oacis.org>
Date: 19 Oct 90 20:56:54 GMT
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In article <1990Oct16.002746.21061@portia.Stanford.EDU> bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes:
>.............................................  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?
>

The GVP Series-II board works fine with 1.2 ROMS. I have one of the new boards,
I never got 1.3 ROMS, and once I pulled the autoboot jumper the board worked
just fine.

Your problem could be any number of things, including a bad slot (did you try
different expansion slots? My A2000 would only work reliably with certain boards
in certain slots), bad RAM (try pulling the RAM and re-configuring the board jumpers),
or even a bad controller.

I can tell you for certain, it's NOT because you have 1.2 ROMS.

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