Re: plus/4 problems

From: Hársfalvi Levente (levente_at_terrasoft.hu)
Date: 2001-12-13 14:16:16

Hi!

MagerValp wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "HL" == Hársfalvi Levente <levente@terrasoft.hu> writes:
> 
> HL> From the above, I'd better suspect the RAM chips or the TED.
> 
> I've seen a C16 with the exact same symptoms, and I'm pretty sure it
> was the TED that was broken. It ran fine for a short while, then all
> you get is flickering characters and graphics garbage until it cools
> down again.

Yep, that's true. I should have mentioned. The warming up behaviour
itself rather points towards the TED.

I guess it is easy to try: if you put an ice-cube in a bottle-cap onto
the top of the TED while the computer is in operation (Bil Herd's (?)
trick with the VDC prototype ;-) ), and the problem doesn't come up,
then it's a bad TED...


L.

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