On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 4:19 PM, Jeffrey Birt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
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> I got a Model 100 a while ago and just got it out to do some serious
> troubleshooting. After reading what I could find online I removed the NiCad
> battery (bad) and replaced C82, C85, C49-50-54-55 as they had all started to
> leak. The extent of the leakage was small and no visible damage other than a
> small path of silkscreen coming loose as I cleaned it up.
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> I now have all three supply voltages from the power supply. When turned on I
> get a solid black LCD and a brief click from the speaker. I checked that the
> processor is getting a clock and all the address/data lines are changing
> states. The solid black LCD would indicate, based on previous experience,
> that the LCD drivers were not initialized. I looked for PA1, etc. signals
> from the 81C55 and found they were not changing state. The two signals that
> looked odd on the 81C55 were the lack of /CE and IO/M changing states. I
> followed the /CE back though to M16 and found that it too made use of IO/M
> which was not changing states.
>
Did you try the ctrl-break reset?
If so, I would first try to read the ROM externally to make sure it's
not corrupted,
then leave only 8K of known good RAM, and if IO/M is still stuck, that
means the 80C85 is faulty.


Frank

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