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From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: //e RAM
Keywords: RAM,dead,ugh!
Message-ID: <10468@reed.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 88 20:55:12 GMT
References: <849@koko.UUCP>
Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
Lines: 37

In article <849@koko.UUCP> mantis@koko.UUCP (Mike Elness) writes:
>Agh!  My trusty Apple //e (enhanced) is sick!  Upon invoking the self-test
>with Ctrl-Solid Apple-Reset, I got the following message:
>
>    RAM   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
>
>So does this mean that the fifth RAM chip from the left is the bad one?  I
>simply can't afford to take my //e to an authorized Apple technician and have
>him put in a new motherboard.  Instead, I plan to have an electronics repair
>place desolder the bad RAM chip and pop in a new one.
>All I need to know is which RAM chip is dead.
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>mantis (Mike Elness)
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------


Let's here it for soldering in *RAM*.  Of all the boneheaded things to do.
Are you *sure* the RAM is soldered in?  I really can't believe it!  Sheeesh.

In anycase, *my* RAM wasn't soldered in, so when I got "RAM  0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0"
I just tried second from right *and* left, and sure enough, true to RAM
message form, it's from the *right*.

I scrounged up a 4264-type RAM chip I happened to have laying around (seems
I lost the nine I had in a faom sheet somewhere. . .), and it works just
fine.

Alternatively, you could have called an authorized dealer, asked to speak
with the technition, and asked *him* (NOT the dealer) which chip was bad.
Unless you have really nasty technitions, they'll tell you.

Sean kamath
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