13 Jul
2006
13 Jul
'06
4:51 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
The actual display's garbage, though. Perfectly readable characters -
just
completely random ones and filling the display. The
actual characters
change
slightly with each power cycle, although most seem
fixed.
sounds like the processor is dead, but the video generation circuits may be
alive. When you reset one, the screen is scrubbed by the firmware to
blank or black, and as you mentioned this probably means the cpu is
not getting to the right place, since you see the power on gibberish.
Hopefully tony's other suggestion about the sockets, if you have one with
such might produce joy.
jim