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?