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does anyone know this memory card?
« on: February 15, 2005, 12:49:04 PM »
Hi there.
I have a memory card with a battery backed up clock that was in my Salvos A500.

The computer can't detect the RAM and the battery backed up clock only works sometimes, which I'm pretty sure is a ratted battery.

Does the card need some sort of RAM driver? I just think it's odd that the a500 completely fails to acknowledge its existence, even if the RAM were bad.

Here's some links to pics of it:

pic of it
..and the other side
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks for putting up with my incessant questions. But after all, if a person doesn't ask questions, they don't learn.
A500 (salvo): 1Mb RAM (512k chip, 512k SlowFast)
1x880k Floppy Disk, 1xIBM 540Mb 3.5\\"HDD KS1.3, WB1.3
1084S monitor. AT Keyboard!
A500 (Whitey): 512k RAM, 1x880k Floppy Disk, KS1.2, WB1.3
 

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Re: does anyone know this memory card?
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2005, 01:13:02 PM »
Thanks Orjan. You found in seconds that which I could not find! Probably is...not that there's much to get broken on it.
A500 (salvo): 1Mb RAM (512k chip, 512k SlowFast)
1x880k Floppy Disk, 1xIBM 540Mb 3.5\\"HDD KS1.3, WB1.3
1084S monitor. AT Keyboard!
A500 (Whitey): 512k RAM, 1x880k Floppy Disk, KS1.2, WB1.3
 

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Re: does anyone know this memory card?
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2005, 02:13:23 AM »
Yeah, I should remove the battery.

The connection on c2 does look bad, but it has 0 resistence, so that's okay.

with the jumper closed, I get a colour code on startup sometimes. Don't remember what it is. Sorry. I'll set up the ami next chance I get to find out. Actually I might try it in my other a500.

reseating the chips doesn't help either I'm afraid.

If it is a bad chip, would the amiga let me get away with removing 2 at a time to narrow it down? I wouldn't remove 1 of course because they are 256x8 chips.

Oh, while I think of it, Are the chips on these cards SRAM or DRAM? Just asking because I don't know how amigas deal with external memory. And if it is DRAM, what refresh type is it?
A500 (salvo): 1Mb RAM (512k chip, 512k SlowFast)
1x880k Floppy Disk, 1xIBM 540Mb 3.5\\"HDD KS1.3, WB1.3
1084S monitor. AT Keyboard!
A500 (Whitey): 512k RAM, 1x880k Floppy Disk, KS1.2, WB1.3