Re: option ROM into a 3032

From: Terry Raymond <traymond20_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:53:40 -0600
Message-ID: <CAEFCF-pQwhCM+p+sMe=acOYc2cND95EexJnNyBNf-7_22o1PXg@mail.gmail.com>
My C128's are the same too.
One it seems the Sid and Vic video circuit may have shorted components
would I have to pull each component off and then how do I check resistors
etc with a voltage meter?  I have no scope at all.

Terry Raymond

On Sep 29, 2017 2:21 AM, "Francesco Messineo" <francesco.messineo@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Francesco Messineo
> <francesco.messineo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 7:05 AM, William Levak <wlevak@sdf.org> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Francesco Messineo wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Francesco Messineo
> >>> <francesco.messineo@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >
> >>>
> >>
> >> If you have an older PET (without CRTC) that has been upgraded to Basic
> 4.0,
> >> the jumpers may not have been set correctly.  There are jumpers that
> >> control addressing of the ROMs. If they are not set correctly you will
> have
> >> addressing problems. Check the schematics for correct jumper settings.
> >>
> >
> > Yes, I was just going to check that. I've noticed the jumpers don't
> > match my 3032 (with older basic). The owner of this PET said it used
> > to work though, so I was assuming that the jumper were correct.
> > I will also change the timing resistor and tantalum capacitor on the
> > 555 reset circuit, I've noticed the reset signal isn't very well
> > behaved (it resets randomly and sometimes doesn't release the reset
> > line). I think the tantalum capacitor is shorting randomly to ground
> > or the 1M resistor is intermittent.
> > Old hardware sometimes has lots of faults.
>
> update: changing the UD8 socket, did bring the system to the basic
> prompt, with correct bytes free count.
> I then restored the two CAS resistors (I had lifted them to swap RAM
> banks) and now I have a completely black screen, not even the garbage
> screen if I remove the UD9 ROM :(
> Looks like I now have to debug the video signal path. This PET hates me I
> guess.
>
> Frank
>
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