Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!columbia!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-tis!ptsfa!ihnp4!meccts!meccsd!prw From: prw@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG (Paul R. Wenker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: New IIgs ROMs Message-ID: <793@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG> Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 12:54:44 EDT Article-I.D.: meccsd.793 Posted: Fri Aug 28 12:54:44 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Aug-87 07:36:16 EDT References: <8708241225.aa06343@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Reply-To: prw@meccsd.UUCP (Paul R. Wenker) Organization: Minn. Educ. Comp. Corp. Lines: 17 In article <8708241225.aa06343@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> EWING@YALEVM.BITNET (Rick Ewing) writes: >To answer Larry Virden's question about the confusing upgrades, some IIgs >owners will need full blown motherboard replacements, others will need only >ROM chip replacements. What's happened is that the original old IIgs (Woz) >owners all had the old ROM and the old VGC video chip. Since the video chip >is soldered to the board, Apple prefers one's dealer to completely replace the >motherboard rather than whip out the soldering gun and make a fix... None of our dozen or so GS's (Woz or not) have the VGC soldered in. Apple has known about the VGC problem since before the machine was released and socketed the chip for that very reason. The reason Apple wants their dealers to do the replacement is that a special tool is required to remove the chip. -Paul R. Wenker -MECC (Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation)