Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!gwang From: gwang@ncsa.uiuc.edu (George Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: Problems with Smith-Corona 32K Ram Cards Keywords: 32K Ram No Work Message-ID: <1991Mar30.012641.4480@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 30 Mar 91 01:26:41 GMT References: <1991Mar26.163602.4668@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: Nat'l Ctr for Supercomp App (NCSA) @ University of Illinois Lines: 38 In article <1991Mar26.163602.4668@watdragon.waterloo.edu> esutherland@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Eric Sutherland) writes: > > I went down to the local Sear's outlet and asked the sales-person >if I could try the Smith-Corona 32K card (S75531) in my HP48sx REV E. >He said sure, and after fitting the battery in the card (the correct way) I >put the card in my 48 (it was off) and turned it on. The screen went completely >black and then did an interesting fade effect (It looked a lot like the display >was disintigrating from the outside in). The friendly sales-person allowed me >to try the other card they had in stock and it produced the exact same effect. > > Has Anyone else tried these cards and had them fail?(I saw one person >in Ottawa mention that he has two). Did I do something wrong? I really would >rather pay $35 CDN for a 32K card than $100 CDN for an HP ram card. Please >email any information you might have. I went to Walmart and picked up three of them and they all SEEM to work... I've had to "black outs".. However, I DID have a: Warning: Invalid Card Data message with a beep when I powered it on... However, after I did a 1 MERGE it seems to have merged with the system memory ok.. However, I am not sure so can somehow tell me how to do a memory test for the external 32K RAM card? I recall that "Runaway Daemon" was the first one that mentioned something about this error... Can you help me out? Someone else mentioned something about the SC card being pre-formatted or something like that... Thanks George -- George Wang - Networking Development T T National Center for Supercomputing Applications | T | INTERNET: gwang@ncsa.uiuc.edu \_|_/ UUCP: gargoyle!igloo!gwang PH: (217) 244-4020 -