Re: A whole rom board gone bad?

Well - the obviuos question would be if the previous owner took off al
labels, or replaced them by some plain paper ones?
If this happened anything could have happenend, especially when placed
in the sun for prolonged time.

Mendel

Matt Rossiter - Verio Southern California wrote:
>
> 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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Received on Sun Dec 5 06:45:32 1999