19 Jan
2004
19 Jan
'04
4 p.m.
And from where did this (magic) smoke come? You
do, of course, realise
that it's smoke that makes electronic devices work -- when the smoke
comes out they stop working.
Oh yes :) It was very weird - I've not come across conductive plastic
before! I had the motherboard resting the right way up on the thick plastic If those _are_
the video RAMs, are you getting activity on their address
and data lines? In other words, is the video timing chain running.
Haven't checked. I'll grab the data sheet for the 6116 and have a look. What, if anything, do you get on the screen?
Garbage, but the same garbage every time I switch on, so it could be bad RAM