The 380Z has got as far as displaying rubbish on the screen but no further. It’s quite a predicatable kind of rubbish from a sub-set of characters. Curious.<\/p>\n
I have tried running with just the processor, VDU and the passive card that I think is for bus termination. The symptoms are the same. I started removing the chips on the CPU board one by one, using IPA to clean the pins and putting them back. After I had done about a third I just went for lifting the chips, squirting and reseating them.<\/p>\n
I did get some different results but I had inadvertently missed a pin on one of the EPROMS. When I put it back where it belonged the machine went back to it’s old behaviour. <\/p>\n
It was suggested to me that the EPROMS could have lost their memories by now as their expected life was around ten years so I will try and read them and verift them against some ROM images I have found through the 380Z group on Yahoo.<\/p>\n
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The bus terminator card has a row of holes for (I think) test pins, on every signal. I’m going to solder right angled header pins into these holes to get easy access to them and start probing about. <\/p>\n
I also plan to shift the DRAM chips around by 1 socket and see if the fault changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The 380Z has got as far as displaying rubbish on the screen but no further. It’s quite a predicatable kind of rubbish from a sub-set of characters. Curious. I have tried running with just the processor, VDU and the passive card that I think is for bus termination. The symptoms are the same. I started … Continue reading More 380Z work.<\/span>