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#Bad Spectrum board?

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#88620From: Dan ThomasAug 23, 1994 9:48 PM
I have installed a GVP spectrum in an A2000 HD with GVP 030 and AMAX IV. The software says "only one LEG found" or something like that – I am getting no video whatsoever on a new Compaq SVGA. The GVP utility shows the board as "?" – and says it contains bad memory. Is the board bad? Is there some other check I can run on it?
#88644From: GVP TechAug 24, 1994 9:14 AM
The error is probably "Half a LEGS installed". What this means is that the memory portion of the board is not autoconfiguring. In an A2000, the memory portion of the Spectrum system uses 2MB of AUTOCONFIG memory space (similar to a Bridgeboard). On the G-Force accelerators, you can remove the J12 jumper to remap all of the memory on the board to the EXTENDED range, leaving the autoconfig space available for the Spectrum board. If you have 8MB of 16-bit RAM in the system, you will need to remove 2MB of this RAM for the Spectrum board to have enough space to autoconfigure its memory.