Hi all --
As I mentioned a few days back, I recently picked up an 11/05 that's in
need of some troubleshooting. This weekend I've started getting more
acquainted with the details of the CPU set (reading through the
schematics and the various manuals (which are quite thorough, fortunately.))
Before I start getting too deep with this, I figured I'd see if maybe
I'm overlooking something simple -- I'm relatively green with Unibus
systems.
So here's what I'm seeing:
- At power-up, the system comes up in a halted state and I can load
addresses from the front panel switches into the address register, and
these are correctly loaded -- no stuck bits, etc.
- Toggling "Start" causes the "Run" light to go on and the system
seems
to be doing... something (the address/data lamps flicker). Attempting
to halt the machine at this point does not work, but if I have the
"Enable/Halt" switch set to "Halt" and hit "Start" again the
machine
does stop and the "Run" light goes out.
- Hitting "Exam" while halted has no effect (no data is loaded,
addresses are not incremented), and seems to lock the machine up -- I
can no longer load addresses via the front panel. Hitting "Start" still
puts the machine in the "Run" state outlined above, and once halted
again, "Load Addr" works again.
- Hitting "Cont" while halted puts the machine back in the "Run" state
regardless of the state of the "Enable/Halt" switch.
So it definitely looks like the Run state control logic should be looked
at...
The machine's configuration is very basic: the CPU set (M7260/M7261),
an 8KW core board set (G110, G231, H215), and an M903C Unibus
terminator. I've verified that these are all in the correct slots. Bus
grant cards are in the D slot of all four Unibus slots (and inserted in
the correct orientation, I hate those things...)
Thus far I've tested the power supply and voltages are spot on with
acceptable ripple. AC LO L and DC LO L are correctly going high after
power on, so that shouldn't be causing issues. I've gone through and
cleaned everything including the edge connectors. (I left the core
plane undisturbed, it's already been banged around enough...) I
double-checked the backplane for bent pins that might be touching other
pins.
I've checked the processor clock, and it's running properly and at the
correct rate (310ns). I've run the machine with just the processor set
with the same behavior.
Any other simple things I should check before I get seriously involved
with this thing? Fortunately I have a set of KM-11 replicas I got from
Guy Sotomayor a few years back so that will help immensely in debugging...
Thanks as always,
Josh