I assume it only does this on a cold start? Or on any system reset?

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:38 PM, Ken Pettit <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Josh,
>
> The RAM detect logic is at 7EE1H.
>
> It starts at RAM location C000h and does a read, compliment, write,
> compare, complement, write (i.e. restore) test on the first 256 bytes.  If
> it finds no errors during the compare and detects RAM there, then it moves
> to A000h and does the same test.  Then 8000h and repeats the test.
>
> Ken
>
>
> On 4/25/17 6:26 PM, Josh Malone wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm back to attempting once again to restore my 102 to a full 32k RAM. For
> those that don't remember, my 102 spontaneously cold-started on me one day
> in the middle of some BASIC coding and came up showing only 24k installed.
> A bit more BASIC proved that it was the "option" RAM that was not working
> correctly.
>
> Since last time, I've replaced the option RAM (M6) but the system still
> shows 24k.
>
> I'm assuming that the system does some sort of probe on a cold-start to
> determine how much RAM is installed. Does anybody know any details of how
> that probe works? I'd like to try and watch the activity on my logic
> analyzer and hopefully get a clue as to what's going on with my 102.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Josh
>
>
>

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