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- From: sfxu@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us (Jayme Rice)
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- Subject: Re: can you identify these symptoms?
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 15:03:15 GMT
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- Lorax (bpease@erc.cat.syr.edu) 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?
- On your C64's, sounds like you definitely surged them. It could have
- done major damage in a number of chips and circuitry. But from past
- experience from repairs needed to be done on C64's that croak due to a
- failing power, which does the same effect, I would first check your 6526
- chips located in the upper left of your keyboard. They seem to be the
- first hit in a surge. If out, they kill any signals reaching the video
- chip and signals to your drive. This of often overlooked.
-