you can plug the ram chips onto the ones on the motherboard but you need to adda couple of extra wires - will scan machine and uplaod as soon as vodaphone stops asking me for £200 for exactly .0029% of what im paying for but love the way teh same video is sent to my machine a dozen times and never plays without resending itself
On 06/06/2011, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Can't help you with most of those problems, but as someone else > mentioned, that memory upgrade sounds like a custom job. The normal > ones were extremely simple, unscrew the tiny panel underneath, slot > the small upgrade in, and away you go! ;-) > > Colin still sells the memory upgrades I think, so it could be worth > detaching that unusual one and putting one of those in just for the > best results (Who knows, it could be causing some of your other > problems!) > > As someone else mentioned, you should normally have 4 blue feet. > Again, I think Colin sometimes has a few spare, so he may be able to > help. > > As for the mouse interface, the SAM used ST compatible mice with the > MGT mouse interface. So if you can pick up or have an old one of > those, it should work. > > Warren > > Quoting Rich Mellor <[email protected]>: > >> I just need to pick your brains if you don't mind (and maybe your >> spares pile)... >> >> I have replaced the TV lead from inside the power unit, and I get a >> picture on >> my TV. >> >> However, if the TV is tuned in properly - I get a black and white picture, >> otherwise the start up screen is very blue. >> >> Is there anything I can do - I had to remove the ROM and memory >> chips and reseat >> them to get even an ounce of colour on screen, but it may just be >> the TV needs >> tuning. >> >> There were two SCART leads with the computer, but neither seem to >> give an output. >> >> I seem to recall reading that the SCART is very different to normal. >> >> Does anyone have spare SCART and cassette leads please? >> >> Also - I have found a semi-circular rubber foot - I presume that the >> Sam should >> have four of these in the holes on the side of the casing? >> >> Does anyone have some spares? >> >> My Sam has 512K memory, with piggy-backed RAM chips and a wire which >> runs across >> and is connected to one of the pins on the internal expansion port >> (to the right >> of the disk drive). >> >> Is this normal - as it seems an awkward way of connecting it! >> >> Finally, I have an MGT mouse interface for the Sam, and a Comms >> interface - what >> is the best way of testing these? >> >> > > > >
