more EDP woes

[DialaThos@aol.com]

Hi all,

Upon the suggestion of Gary in SD, I tried reseating the loop 4 eproms.  
This 
got me passt the probelm of the EDP "hanging" on startup, but now when it 
does start, it only shows 99 seconds of record time.  This is a Gibson 
unit, 
so it came with the full 16MB.  It used to read 198 seconds.  In fact it 
did 
on loop 3 and 4.. up until yesterday anyways.  

I also just had it (on startup) get into an endless cycle of startup 
graphics 
(it would get to the end of all the "loop 4" graphics and then start the 
whole cycle over again... and again.. and again.  

I tried removing and reseating the RAM (in fact swapping slots).  With 
just 
two chips in the "0" slots it reads 50 seconds (still half what it should 
be 
with 2 4MB chips, right?).  This is sounding more like a software problem 
than a hardware problem to me right now.

Is Gibson really the best (only?) place to send this.  When I've tried 
asking 
them about EDPs before they were pretty clueless (best info I got was 
somebody reading the product info to me off their website).

Thanks in advance for any tips!
--Tom Griesgraber