30 May
1997
30 May
'97
10:56 p.m.
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Mr. Self Destruct wrote:
Just for "fun" I did this and some
interesting things happened...
1. The garbage disappeared and "Apple //e" was printed at the top and the
drive 1 light came on. I put in the first disk I grabbed and it came up
with the message "Unable to Identify Language in MotherBoard E0 ROM.
PLease replace that ROM and Reboot." What's this mean?
I have never, ever heard of this message, so it is most likely application
specific. What disk was it that you put in? The E0 ROM held part of
AppleSoft BASIC. I don't know a whole lot about the ZipChip, but I am
pretty sure it didn't include a ROM change. I think we need to know what
the software was to solce this mystery.
2. Hit escape again and got a ] prompt which someone
said was a Basic
prompt. Mad a stupid basic proggy, ran it, it worked.
It is, indeed, the AppleSoft BASIC prompt.
3. Tried the reset-esc thing again but this time
found a DOS 3.3 disk.
DOS 3.3 APPLE II PLUS OR ROMCAERD aetc.etcetc. was printed...
It come s up withthe ] prompt again. Is this what its supposed to do?
Yes, it's just a simple boot disk for DOS 3.3.
Is there nothing wrong with this thing then?
Could it be something stupid? (wrong thing in wrong slot?)
Sounds like the system is working (mostly) fine. I think the software
you are booting up is throwing you a curve ball.
Should I take one of the video cards out? Are they
supposed to BOTH be in
there?
Probably not. Try taking out the video card in slot 7.
Sam
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