18 Jan
2015
18 Jan
'15
2:53 p.m.
On 2015-01-18 23:04, Diane Bruce wrote:
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 09:47:35PM -0000, Robert
Jarratt wrote:
...
>> you more. Nice sharp edges to signals when they shift. Times that look
>> reasonable... Steady levels, and correct levels.
> It will never be steady with a scope
because the address lines won't be a regular waveform. That said they looked very
different on the faulty board to how they looked on the good board.
A remote possibility is the boot ROM is b0rked and it's simply running
around like a chicken without a head.
That is something a good logic analyser could tell you.
If the RD pin never gets active, the contents of the ROM will not even
be presented to the CPU, so while it's possible the ROM is borked, that
is not the problem we're trying to fix right now.
Johnny
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