#: 13981 S1/General Interest
    16-Jan-92  19:57:56
Sb: #Death of a CoCo3 II
Fm: Erich Schulman 75140,3175
To: ALL

I replaced all 16 DRAMs in my CoCo3 and powered up.  Everything seemed to be
OK.  The memory tester that came with my first 512K locked up.  The memory
tester listed in the service manual reported ERROR!  ADDR=65535.  I powered
down and checked the chips, then reseated a loose one.  I powered up again. 
Nothing.  Not even a green screen.  With all it'll cost to as much as restore
what I had (replacing the CoCo3, the 512K (3rd time), and the Slot Pak III) I
decided that it's not cost effective to do so.  I found a CoCo2 which I will
run alongside a 386 I will eventually get. What does this mean?  Expect some
Level 1 questions getting posted before long.  I won't be going into the CoCo
and OS-9 Forums as often.  And unless I can coax the CoCo2 into running the
hard drive, I will not be able to reupload the file that I uploaded but saw
deleted because of its archive format.  If anyone's interested in a dead CoCo3
for parts (I'm 99.8% sure the GIME, ROM, and 6809 are OK) and in CoCo3-only
software just let me know what you want (allow time to convert files etc.).  My
now 16K CoCo1 has proven perfectly reliable, my CoCo3 just the opposite. It's a
disappointment it came to this but at least I'll still have one foot in the
CoCo world even if it's without Super ECB and Level 2.

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