Ade Vickers wrote:
> Hi Tony,
>
>> Often motherboard faults can be repairable, especially ram.
>> What do you see on screen when it tries to boot?
>
> Random coloured snow, various screeches and whistles from the speaker, both
> microdrives spinning up & down randomly, all constantly changing. The
> "click-click" when you push the reset button can still be heard (over the
> cacophany), but the net effect is nothing whatsoever changes.
>
> I've tried replacing all of the pluggable chips (not sure, but I may have
> dislodged the flying resistor which is parked somewhere near the roms, which
> was obviously a hardware patch), to no avail.- all chips work fine in
> another motherboard.
Not relevant.
Hrmm - not the usual stuff. Check that there are no bent (shorting)
pins on the expansion connector.
Could be a dodgy connection on the 68008 I suppose. That socket was
very sub-standard. It had the sort of weak spring connectors that were
on *all* the sockets of my UK101!
Tony
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