#: 12933 S7/Telecommunications
    07-Nov-91  22:10:37
Sb: #12928-#Quick-B Problems
Fm: Paul Rinear 73757,1413
To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255

     Steve,
 I am in serious trouble. After reading about the hack that was recommended, I
opened up both the computer and the MPI to see what hack I had installed so
long ago. I had all the pin 8's on the multipack connected together. I had the
pin 8 input from the MPI connected to the CPU IRQ pin through a diode. With
this hack, I was able to run three serial ports simultaneously as long as I
didn't run SACIA. That's why I had a hard time swallowing Eric's statement that
the diode hack didn't work.
              Anyway, I tried connecting the IRQ pin of the 6551 in the RS-232
pak right to the 6809 IRQ pin. It gave me problems. The system would freeze
during bootup. So I was frustrated and let it sit for the night.
              Today I put everything back the way it was. With the drive
controller in slot 4 and the MPI switch set to 4 I get a green screen with no
cursor or version logo on it. If I throw the MPI switch, I will get Extended
Color Basic 2.0. No disk basic.
               Thought the controller might have bought it, so I plugged in my
old controller; same thing. Tried moving the controller to a different slot; no
luck. So it ain't recognizing the disk ROM. Help.
               BTW, I had cobblered that xtp setting onto the boot disk.

                         Paul

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