Re: Super CPU problem

From: Luis Rene Vela Garcia <lrvg1010_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2018 12:32:57 -0500
Message-ID: <CAG5RqJVpXa2PRNbUVZvYyJgDWND4CtBOgOe6MpMGNhh6j++hiA@mail.gmail.com>
Do you know what is the main chip that gets hot? The CPU? the CPLD? RAM
chips?
In a standby mode, does It require the fan?

Cheers,
Luis Vela
dsp8bit

El sáb., 4 de ago. de 2018 11:57 AM, Terry Raymond <traymond160@gmail.com>
escribió:

> Seems it was a heat issue I have a fair sized fan blowing directly on the
> Super CPU main board so far no lockups and I was able to finish my task
> so problem solved.
> If course I have the top cover removed from the Super CPU
> with the cover on and the metal case is small doesn't take very long for
> the case to get warmer and overheat the unit.
> I remember the Ramcard generates lots more heat, overheats causes a lockup
> the screen fills with vertical colored stripes on the monitor screen.
>
> Terry Raymond
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 5:43 AM smf <smf@null.net> wrote:
>
>> On 24/07/2018 19:18, Terry Raymond wrote:
>> > I switched back to the Sid artist songs that were looking up and then it
>> > would play, at some point though one finally did lockup the computer.
>>
>> It could be all manner of things, if it's random then maybe it's writing
>> random data to one of the SuperCPU registers which doesn't cause a
>> problem on a standard C64 but does when the SuperCPU is plugged in.
>>
>> Otherwise if it crashes on a particular song at a particular place then
>> it might just be that it's doing something that isn't compatible with
>> the SuperCPU.
>>
>> Like undocumented instructions, using RMW side effects for interrupt
>> acknowledge.
>>
>> Trying to find a song that always crashes quickly might help to track it
>> down.
>>
>>
Received on 2018-08-04 20:03:11

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