Robin Harbron wrote: > Yes - the last PET I obtained (4032) worked fine at the shop, but failed > when I got it home. I vacuumed the motherboard off, and located one > chip that had half popped out - just reseated it, and it's been working > great ever since. I haven't found a PET yet that was really dead - > there was always something simple I could do to get them going again. Hmm. Ah. well.. I think I got the problem.. It isn't a bad connection, it isn't a popped out chip, it's the power supply. You know... I checked it, really! Located the first 74LS*** I could find, located GND and VCC, checked it, et voila: A nice 5.00 volts. How the **** could I know that the thing has two seperate 5 volt circuits.. Martijn (Oh yeah. Because it has two 7805's.. Hmmm..) -- Martijn van Buul, martijnb@mud.stack.nl Tijntje@OuterSpace - 131.155.141.166 3333 This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tcm.hut.fi.
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