Genuine Kickstart ROMs: How can you tell?
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My Willem was bought six months ago from a Canadian company for well less than 1/10 th that cost and is their top of the line only lacking a few adapters
Yes, thats the GQ-4X - I have had one of those and its not comparable at all.
Once you purchase all the adapters, it came to around $400 (which I had). Also, the adapters are specialised. The ones for my new programmer are much cheaper than the willem adapters.
However, it cant do NAND at all and doesnt support a lot of chips I use - hence the upgrade. Its also extremely slow (but better than the parallel ones at least).
If you check the mcumall forums, you will see I am a regular poster there still
Edit:
@rkauer
The MPT-1020 is a rebadged Leaper 48:
http://uk.farnell.com/leap-electronic/leaper-48/programmer-universal-w-o-psu/dp/1216746
My current programmer (thinking about another upgrade!) is:
http://www.elnec.com/products/universal-programmers/beeprogplus/
So its most likely advanced enough to be doing device insertion tests etc before read/writing. This is probably why you had issues and is what I described earlier. You should have no problems (but I am downloading the programmer software now to see what options are available to you!).
Edit2:
Select device as MX27C2100 (DIP)
Parameters-> Common Setup
Untick "Insertion Test When Any Action" and "To Check IC ID-CODE When Any Action" and it should read the kickstart maskroms just fine
Once you purchase all the adapters, it came to around $400 (which I had). Also, the adapters are specialised. The ones for my new programmer are much cheaper than the willem adapters.
However, it cant do NAND at all and doesnt support a lot of chips I use - hence the upgrade. Its also extremely slow (but better than the parallel ones at least).
If you check the mcumall forums, you will see I am a regular poster there still
Edit:
@rkauer
The MPT-1020 is a rebadged Leaper 48:
http://uk.farnell.com/leap-electronic/leaper-48/programmer-universal-w-o-psu/dp/1216746
My current programmer (thinking about another upgrade!) is:
http://www.elnec.com/products/universal-programmers/beeprogplus/
So its most likely advanced enough to be doing device insertion tests etc before read/writing. This is probably why you had issues and is what I described earlier. You should have no problems (but I am downloading the programmer software now to see what options are available to you!).
Edit2:
Select device as MX27C2100 (DIP)
Parameters-> Common Setup
Untick "Insertion Test When Any Action" and "To Check IC ID-CODE When Any Action" and it should read the kickstart maskroms just fine
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Thanks a lot, BA! I was sure I was doing something wrong.
Will test and report back (or not, pending my own memory).
I already know it was a rebadged Leap prommer. Nice thing about it is the speed when programming PIC & GAL chips and the TTL tester.
Too bad it does not test memory chips.
Oh, and Farnell have a very nice price for the unit! R$3430 ~ £1085.
Will test and report back (or not, pending my own memory).
I already know it was a rebadged Leap prommer. Nice thing about it is the speed when programming PIC & GAL chips and the TTL tester.
Too bad it does not test memory chips.
Oh, and Farnell have a very nice price for the unit! R$3430 ~ £1085.
