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- From: hasse@solace.hsh.se (Hans Holmberg)
- Subject: Re: Help! TOS 2.06 requires jumpers set...I have resistors.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.001135.228@solace.hsh.se>
- Organization: Solace Computer Club, Sundsvall, Sweden
- References: <morrison.722192142@ee.ualberta.ca>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:11:35 MET
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- In <morrison.722192142@ee.ualberta.ca> morrison@ee.ualberta.ca (Robert Morrison) writes:
-
- >Greetings,
-
- > I just recieved the TOS 2.06 ROMs I ordered a couple of weeks ago
- >from CodeHead. The package is really slick. I popped out my old ROMs, put
- >in the new ones, and then hit the section about "jumper" settings. I hunted
- >around for about five minutes, looking for the "jumpers" W102, W103, and
- >W104 without finding them. Then I started looking closer at the system
- >board, at the printing, instead of just looking for jumpers. Aha! There
- >they are...right beside the ROMs...only they aren't jumpers, they're
- >resistors, soldered right into the board.... So, I said, "S#*t." And that's
- >where I'm at still.
-
- > So, what do I do? Continue using TOS 1.4? Desolder the resistors
- >from the system board and resolder them in the correct positions? I am
- >hesitant to apply a soldering iron to my system board. Could I install
- >jumpers of my own, or are these resistors critical? (I can't tell what
- >value they are as they have been painted over.) This makes me quite angry.
-
- > Oh, yes, I should mention that the "jumpers" are soldered into the
- >wrong points for the new ROMs, according to the docs CodeHead sent me, and
- >I tend to believe the docs...my system won't come up when I power it on.
-
- > Can anyone give me some advice? What do these jumpers do? Are they
- >involved in addressing the new ROMs? Help!
-
- >| Robert Morrison morrison@bode.ee.ualberta.ca |
-
- I assume that you have a STe, and those resistors is on 1 ohm, so they
- practically are (more or less) jumpers. Just unsolder them and move them to
- the right position, and everything will work.
-
- Hasse
-
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