Rich Mellor wrote:
> I have been doing some head scratching yesterday over a QL which refused
> to work with a Gold Card. When plugged in, I just got a high pitched
> squealing noise from the speaker.
>
> Checked the expansion port and one of the pins was pushed through the
> por, so it was considerably shorter than the others.
>
> Having sorted this, the problem still existed. So, before I sent off a
> QL I have just sold, I thought I had better check that one - lo and
> behold exactly the same problem.
>
> Weird I thought!
>
> There was one common factor between the two QLs - they were both JM ROM
> version.
> I upgraded the ROM to JS ROM and the problem went away
>
> Odd, as the JM ROM was so widespread I should have thought the Gold Card
> would have been compatible. I wonder what it is in the ROM which causes
> this problem?
>
Sure is odd. The rom though *is* critical as the code is patched and
loaded into GC memory.
What GC eprom version is it? Maybe earlier ones were bugged.
Tony
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