Rich Mellor wrote, on 15/Jan/13 11:16 | Jan15:
Rich/
On 15/01/2013 11:12, Tony Firshman wrote:
Rich Mellor wrote, on 15/Jan/13 11:04 | Jan15:
Rich/
Has anyone ever come across an issue with using a QL and Super Gold
Card ?
I sold a Super Gold Card to a customer, and he said that when plugged
into his QL, he gets just vertical black and white stripes. He has tried
it with and without the 68008 in the QL.
The QL works fine with a Trump Card.
He returned the machine and SGC to me to test - received today.
I have tried the SGC in another QL of my own (not my main one either)
and it starts up fine.
I then tried the SGC plugged into the customers QL using my power
supply, and it too starts up fine.
I have also tried the customer's power supply, but still everything
starts up fine.
From memory, I seem to recall having another customer who had a similar
problem that I could not replicate here. I seem to think he ended up
plugging the QL power supply directly into a mains socket (rather than
an extension lead) and it cured the problem.
Does anyone else have any ideas (by the way I am using an extension lead
here, with the QL and QL monitor plugged into it). ??
Check the J1 pins are all in line.
Tony
Yes - that's the first thing I checked before plugging it in....
Of course you did (8-)#
It took me a long while in the early days to get into that habit.
The only interface that ensured bent pins *never* happened was the
Medic. Everyone else (I think) left off the inner guides, so it was
possible to push the outer pins sideways. Oddly all the ones I found
were nearest the front of the QL. I never found any back ones
(power/gnd I think) out of line. Often a pin would be flattened, and
then usually broke.
Tony
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