Apollo 1230 MKIII accelerator board

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I was the seller, as you can see from my composition, communication isn't my forte.

I had tried a variety of ram sticks in the board before asking a friend who's better at solving hardware mysteries to check the board.

He couldn't find a specific fault so he sent it back last week, and as I was offering a few things on ebay, I added this board.

Funny thing is, I looked at it a couple of days ago and I noticed that ALL the contacts on the first Simm slot were sitting [color=ff0000]below[/color] the sides making electrical contact unlikely.

The second slot is ok and I had tried just putting ram in that slot, but perhaps the first one has to be populated for the second to work? I did go to great pains to point out that I don't know if it's repairable - it's not as if I tried to mislead anybody.

Hey Beowulf, I'll throw in a few sticks for you to test with, my 1200 is in pieces on the floor, so I didn't experiment with the dodgy pins to see if that helped.

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Well we all have to find out sometime that some stuff is better than others!

So it is with Apollo boards, there are surely thousands of people who never had a moments worry with one of these cards. You just get the occaisional one that doesn't want to play nice.

I hope Beowulf has more luck than me getting it to work.

I got an A4000/040 since getting the accelerator, so the 1200 has become a low priority for me. :idea:

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All the pins on one side are sitting a millimetre or so proud of the socket.

On the other side, it looks like they're half a mil below the surface!

I don't know if they will raise slightly when you put the ram in? :-?  :-?  :-?

The second slot has all the pins clearly visible.

I've never seen this before - anyone got any experience of something similar?