Hi all:
I was hoping someone could give some advice as to what's going on here. I have been struggling for 2 month now, since I received this board and it's truly been an uphill battle. Placing the chips in the ZIF sockets was easy, however figuring out if the chip were good or bad at least I had the chipset information to tell me something let alone the flashing light codes.
This time I think the BASIC ROM is shot from what I keep reading about this condition. Frankly, I get the blue screen and the blue border and there is no text, cursor or input, output of any kind. I am starting to think it's the CIA chips however that seems to just handle the peripheral type devices. The other odd thing that just started to happen is that the S-video connect must remain in the socket otherwise the video just totally fades away. This is also in tandem with the DIN video connector too. As soon as the S-video remove it doe not find the NTSC signal. Plug it back in, and the video comes back, but still no text at all. I really have no clue as to what this means, if got to find another VIC chip or thew BASIC ROM on the board itself is no good. I would really hate to have to ship this back to Germany, though it's looks like I may have to seeing I am getting nowhere fast and the problem is not very apparent to me. I would appreciate any help in trying to resolve this.