I had a similar issue when I first got my 8032... chirp but no screen at
all. In my case it turned out to be a faulty 6545 CRTC chip.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Brad @ Better Computing <
brad at bettercomputing.net> wrote:
Got yet another PET today - a CBM 8032 with the black
bezel. In my PET
collection I'm trying to get, instead of each model, a representative of
each body style - and there seems to be no shortage of that. Of the five I
now have, each is different in some way.
Anyway, I'm confident the 8032's mainboard is alive - it chirps on startup.
But that's all it does. Nothing appears on the screen. I took the screen
hood off - the tube lights up, so there's power and action. If I
disconnect
the data cable from the motherboard, I get a single dot in the center of
the
screen.
I also have a SuperPET here, the only other unit with the larger monitor.
So naturally I tried 'swapping' them - ie running the monitor leads from
each to the other's motherboard and turning both on. However the SuperPET
monitor doesn't come on either when connected to the 8032, and the 8032's
monitor still doesn't come on even when connected to the SuperPET. Not
sure
what this portends - my expertise has been in the older models so far.
Anyway, any advice would be appreciated.. I was hoping I'd get something by
doing the swap, so I had an inlking as to what was wrong, but it appears
that isn't going to happen here.
Brad