Replacing an A2000 battery

[Dwight K. Elvey]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Bryan Pope wrote:

> And thusly Dave Dunfield spake:
>>
>> Hi Bryan,
>>
>>> This one doesn't boot up. :(  It starts up for a little bit, then the power
>>> light flashes a # of times.  I have googled for POST error messages but
>>> could not find out what this meant.
>>
>> Go here:
>>    http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone20/cat268/3369.htm
>>
>> And download HARDWARE.ZIP - this contains HARDWARE.TIP which is a large
>> text file that contains a lot of information about the startup LED flashes
>> and screen colors.
>>
>
> Dave,
>
> 	Thanks!  But it looks like I have bad RAM...  And there are *32* RAM
> chips soldered onto this board.  Eek.  So should I be planning to desolder
> all of the RAM, solder in IC sockets and then keep swapping out RAM until
> I get farther in the boot process?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bryan Pope
>
>
Hi
  You need to find some way to test the RAMs individually. I usually
find another board or machine that uses the same RAMs so I can swap 
them one at a time.
Dwight