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- From: ChrisC <jamesch@popd.ix.netcom.com>
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- Subject: Re: can you identify these symptoms?
- Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 22:55:47 -0500
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- Lorax wrote:
- >
- > I've got four broken computers that I desperately need to
- > fix...especially one or both of the 128's. Here are the symptoms and
- > circumstances of each...see if you can point me in the right direction:
- >
- > 128D - broke it will plugging in a lightpen I was building. The computer
- > was on, and I must have brushed by the wrong pins and shorted it out.
- > The internal disk drive comes on and so does the power light, but there
- > is no display and disk commands typed in have no effect (this is the case
- > with the following as well). The only fuses are in the built in power
- > supply, and they are fine.
- >
- > 128 - Swapped the 16k VDC for 64k. Screen flashes garbage then
- > disappears. Checked all connections on VDC...they're fine. Found a
- > blotch of solder on the underside that I must have spilled, near the
- > Z80. Removed it...still doesn't work.
- >
- > 64/64c - Both were plugged into a power supply wrong...this is a heavy
- > duty power supply which is really just a modified 128 one. The plug goes
- > in three different ways even though only one is correct. The fuses are
- > fine and the light comes on. No display nor reaction from the computer.
- >
- > Any suggestions?
-
- Yes, just quit modifying your computers.
-
- Just kidding, I've damaged a few things while experimenting myself. If
- you do it long enough, you'll eventually learn (On one c64, I had wires
- going from the board to the RF modulator because I tried repairing it
- myself. Soldered and resoldered until the traces came loose off the
- board. Eventually bought a new one instead.)
-
- Well, anyway, for the solutions :)
-
- #1. Most likely, one of the CIA's is bad. The CIA controles the
- keyboard, joystick and serial timings.
-
- #2. Very hard to tell. Couldn't venture a guess here.
-
- #3. Same here, though a simular problem I had may help. I had a power
- supply go bad and sent too much voltage to the C64. took out one CIA,
- the 6510, the SID and the PAL chip, so you might try starting with
- those.
-