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December_1999
A whole rom board gone bad?


From: Matt Rossiter - Verio Southern California ( )
Date: Sun Dec 05 1999 - 04:05:43 CST


How likely is it that all the roms on a Space Fury rom board would loose
their data?

I've taken a set of known working roms from Space Fury - saved them to a
file and they check out fine through Romident. And then I took all the
roms off of a non working rom board and saved them to a file (using my
handy rom programmer) - one the roms was obviously bad because my
programmer kept reporting a chip-select error, but it could read the rest
of them fine and save them each to a file. But when I passed them through
Romident they all failed. Romident has never failed me, even when
comparing Cinematronics prom chips. So - either I have a whole board of
unknown roms or they all lost their data.

Has anyone seen a whole board of roms loose their data? I'm wondering if
someone left this out in the sun for a long time or something.

I thought that that that that that that would be very unlikely to happen.

Comments anyone?

Matt

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