I've had this little Apollo 1230 accelerator sitting around the house for some time now and I finally decided to try it out. Well, it works...sort of. The new 68030 processor is detected and the machine speed is faster, but the memory expansion doesn't seem to be working. Well, I guess it does work...but only sometimes (like on Tuesdays). :-) The thing is that the card came with a 4MB 72pin 70ns SIMM that never worked for me. So, I found an old 8MB SIMM and tried that, and it was detected and worked, but not well. I had a huge number of memory errors and the machine crashed at unpredictable times. A memory test found hundreds of addresses that were defective. So I decided to swap the SIMM with another of the same type, 8MB 72pin 70ns. Well this new memory was not detected at all. So I switched back, and now the working (but defective) SIMM is not being recognized. I just don't get it. It's all crazy and I can't tell if I have a defective Apollo board or if its something with the memory I'm using. Does the Apollo accept 70ns memory or does it only work with 60ns? Any ideas?
