I have not tried it out but it might be good if you are seeing the same board over and over and over...again. Pacman springs to mind. But most boards are fairly easy to fix with just the basic tests (RAM/ROM/I-O) but when you have a dog (or an Asteroids) then the GFI might well be useful investment in time.

There has been some sharing of scripts in the past and I have them on the FTP site for folks to try.

John :-#)#

At 04:40 PM 30/04/2003 -0400, James Bright wrote:

Has anyone spent much time with the GFI programs? Specifically the GFI documented in B0138. Just curious. I was thinking about trying this out with a stack of boards that I have. I was wondering if you guys thought it was worth the investment of developing a "decision tree" for locating a bad component. I've had to read the article a couple of times to get a good feel for the approach. Seems reasonable enough...

(I noticed a few typos in the source code, so I was wondering if anyone tested it out and found it useful.)

--James Bright
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