Hi all!
This is a crosspost with a thread I created on the MLA, so if it looks familiar that's why.
I always get so very excited about my latest acquisition, such as my recently acquired Apple IIGS. It was working great, although it only had 768k of RAM and I was booting it off of a Floppy Emu. I thought "hey it'd be cool to get a RAM expansion and a SCSI card" so I bought one of each - a GGLabs RAMGS/8 and a clone of a Cirtek SCSI card that I found on eBay. The RAM went in first because I didn't want to mess with trying to figure out boot at the same time as testing memory. And then I installed the SCSI card with my external BlueSCSI attached and a GS hard drive image I got from the BlueSCSI folks on the SD card.
But I installed the SCSI card backwards in the slot. I didn't immediately recognize this, but on boot it just said "check startup device" and then I looked at the BlueSCSI and the light would flicker on very quickly and then off for a couple seconds. I quickly shut off the machine and flipped the card around the right way, and restarted the IIGS. Now all I get is the photo below.
There's very little online about this exact thing that I can find, but maybe I'm just not searching the correct terms. One of the posts I found suggested it might be the RAM. So I pulled out the GGLabs card and get the same result with just the stock RAM and also with the 512k RAM expansion it came with. Another said it might be the ROM. This is a ROM 1 version.
It won't even boot into the self test when I hold the requisite keys. I pulled the SCSI card when I removed the RAM. I cannot get to the control panel via Ctrl + Open Apple + Escape.
So I'm stumped and I'm just beside myself because it's my own stupidity that did it. Anybody have any ideas? Is it possible I killed the ROM chip? Did the memory do something weird? Did inserting the SCSI card backwards murder my logic board?
BTW I also got the GGLabs RGB to YPbPr and ran it into a RetroTINK 2X Pro and my goodness, it looks great. Look at how sharp those artifacts are.
This is a crosspost with a thread I created on the MLA, so if it looks familiar that's why.
I always get so very excited about my latest acquisition, such as my recently acquired Apple IIGS. It was working great, although it only had 768k of RAM and I was booting it off of a Floppy Emu. I thought "hey it'd be cool to get a RAM expansion and a SCSI card" so I bought one of each - a GGLabs RAMGS/8 and a clone of a Cirtek SCSI card that I found on eBay. The RAM went in first because I didn't want to mess with trying to figure out boot at the same time as testing memory. And then I installed the SCSI card with my external BlueSCSI attached and a GS hard drive image I got from the BlueSCSI folks on the SD card.
But I installed the SCSI card backwards in the slot. I didn't immediately recognize this, but on boot it just said "check startup device" and then I looked at the BlueSCSI and the light would flicker on very quickly and then off for a couple seconds. I quickly shut off the machine and flipped the card around the right way, and restarted the IIGS. Now all I get is the photo below.
There's very little online about this exact thing that I can find, but maybe I'm just not searching the correct terms. One of the posts I found suggested it might be the RAM. So I pulled out the GGLabs card and get the same result with just the stock RAM and also with the 512k RAM expansion it came with. Another said it might be the ROM. This is a ROM 1 version.
It won't even boot into the self test when I hold the requisite keys. I pulled the SCSI card when I removed the RAM. I cannot get to the control panel via Ctrl + Open Apple + Escape.
So I'm stumped and I'm just beside myself because it's my own stupidity that did it. Anybody have any ideas? Is it possible I killed the ROM chip? Did the memory do something weird? Did inserting the SCSI card backwards murder my logic board?
BTW I also got the GGLabs RGB to YPbPr and ran it into a RetroTINK 2X Pro and my goodness, it looks great. Look at how sharp those artifacts are.
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