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From: joe@ut-sally.UUCP (Joe Hitchens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: internal RAM expansion
Message-ID: <10001@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 88 17:37:25 GMT
References: <378@boole.acc.virginia.edu>
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In article <378@boole.acc.virginia.edu> pmy@boole.acc.virginia.edu (Pete Yadlowsky) writes:
>Hi all -
>
>I recently installed a Spirit Technologies RAM board (1.5M + clock) in
>my A1000...
>
>The reason I'm asking is that my Amiga has been behaving a bit oddly.
>...
>
>Well, without boring you with too many unfathomable details...any ideas?
>-- 
>Pete Yadlowsky
>Academic Computing Center
>University of Virginia
>e-mail: pmy@vivaldi.acc.virginia.EDU

One thing you my want to be aware of:
I have this exact same board.  And had some trouble at first, like strange
Guru's for no discernable reason.
Then I noticed that where I should have had close to 2 Meg of free ram when
first booting up, I only had about 1.5 total. (1.5M + 512K chip).
Well this seemed strange that I should have what looked like exactly .5M
too little Fast ram.  Then I remembered the business in the Docs about
those 3 little jumpers that would allow you to set up for .5, 1.0 or 1.5 Meg
by different combinations of jumpers on/off.  And I also recalled the 
METAL SHIELDING that goes right on top of that board with the TALL jumper
pins sticking up! (You can see where this is going, can't you).
Anyway, naturally, I took the thing apart and put a piece of formica on top
of the pins where the metal shielding came down on them and put it back 
together.  Bingo, 1.5 Meg Fast ram.
You might want to try this.
j.h.
(You, it bugs me that they didn't even mention the possibly that this could
 happen.  Especially when it seemed so overwhelmingly likely?)