+StaxX28 Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 hi Candle Have you got your new gal programmer ? Have all the units shipped yet? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 is there any chance to reset the hardware? or does the hardware have a build in selftest? I am asking because my board seems not booting... XE remains black screen... after 10 minutes it boots but screen gets corrupted after Macro ASS XE inits additional banks? any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted December 21, 2009 Author Share Posted December 21, 2009 Hi Dominiqe Yes, I got the programmer, and SS boards are ready I even got lat 15 VBXE2 boadrs at 90% of completion Heaven, what happend? you could connect standard monitor and see if you have any output - vbxe is transparent to the system, and yes, there is a selftest for vbxe2 board build in, but to invoke it, you have to have something on screen btw - if AVR led is lit, then FPGA is up and running selected core - check this for a starters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 (edited) just opened the 65xe... the avr led is let and shining "red". sio2usb device does not show any activity... hmmm.... how can I test if the 65xe is ok? Edited December 21, 2009 by Heaven/TQA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 I assume that the XE is damaged... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 star raiders 2 cart inside and screen remains black... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 130xe boots fine with cart and sio2usb... so the 65xe has gone... well... should not listen to Metal Church while coding... Candle as it seems I will send you back the 65xe and see what we can do and if the board is ok or if anything else happened. Gridrunner VBXE is delayed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted December 21, 2009 Author Share Posted December 21, 2009 Heaven, put it on standard (GTIA) video connector, what is the result? any picture? red screen perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 I can not connect a "standard" monitor cable at the moment... just searching for my cable... is there any other LED on the board? FPGA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted December 21, 2009 Author Share Posted December 21, 2009 FPGA led is lit when bitter is active Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 got my monitor cable... 130xe shows pic... 65xe no pic... sometimes yellow pic but nothing else... when switching the switch on the back there is no difference on the monitor output... you don't even see that I moved the switch... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 got my monitor cable... 130xe shows pic... 65xe no pic... sometimes yellow pic but nothing else... when switching the switch on the back there is no difference on the monitor output... you don't even see that I moved the switch... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 got my monitor cable... 130xe shows pic... 65xe no pic... sometimes yellow pic but nothing else... when switching the switch on the back there is no difference on the monitor output... you don't even see that I moved the switch... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted December 21, 2009 Author Share Posted December 21, 2009 (edited) Heaven, it seems there is no synchro, and that puzzles me could you check if there is something on pin #15 of CD4050? update can you try to blindly enter self-test sound test, and confirm that there is audio output from your machine? again on standard video cable Edited December 21, 2009 by candle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 will do tomorrow... but i doubt... as it does not boot from sio2usb... there is no sector counter running while switching on... just spend 1,5 hours with the machine and I am not a hardware guy. I will send you back the machine on my expenses so you can have a look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted December 21, 2009 Author Share Posted December 21, 2009 Okay Heaven, but perhaps Beetle or Meha-Hz could look at it first - trip to Poland and back is a bit expensive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Don't suppose it's something simple like the socket coming a bit loose. You could try just holding START so it makes the cassette boot sound. If you still have your modulator you could just hookup to a TV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 don't know... i will try to connect the beast via tv modulator this week and see if it does sound or not... sad that I am now able to adress the color ram and getting familiar with the hardware and now this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electron Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 (edited) Heaven, check the RAM chips if they are hot. They should be slightly warmer than for example POKEY chyp but not hot. I suppose it can be RAM or Freddie failure, not vbxe. Edited December 22, 2009 by electron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 thx elc, will do... Maybe Beetle can PM me with his adress so he could have a look as I am nearly 99% sure that the machine has gone... So no Gridrunner VBXE prior Christmas... Grrr... Atari++ is no option as I moved completly to Mac OS X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym00 Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 thx elc, will do... Maybe Beetle can PM me with his adress so he could have a look as I am nearly 99% sure that the machine has gone... So no Gridrunner VBXE prior Christmas... Grrr... Atari++ is no option as I moved completly to Mac OS X. VMWare Fusion maybe ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 I have Parallels and VirtualBox... but baeh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+StaxX28 Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Hi Dominiqe Yes, I got the programmer, and SS boards are ready I even got lat 15 VBXE2 boadrs at 90% of completion Thanks for the information ! I'm so impatient ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 I finally transplanted my VBXE2 from the 65XE which I hammered to death between 1991 and 2001 into a nice fresh motherboard with a 1MB upgrade (the old 65XE was also unlucky enough to bear the brunt of my early experiments with soldering at the beginning of 2009, and it shows). The cursed sync issue reared its head again with a vengeance in the newer machine, but this time I was able to test it with a different TV (an older LG TFT). Going through the other set, everything was fine, so it looks like Candle was right about the sync signal being right on the edge as far as the bigger, newer LG Flatron is concerned. And it was terrible: worse than before - like an old hand-cranked black and white movie. And when the picture dims, the sound goes, too. Hooking the sync up to luma, chroma or composite (the suggested alternatives) resulted in either no picture at all or a picture strikingly relocated halfway down and across the screen, with attractive vertical white zig-zag lines down it. Hooking it back up to the IC pin in the original instructions, I decided to experiment with a capacitor on the wire. I ended up with a 10uf cap in there, and it seems to be doing the trick. I daren't conjecture as to why. This seems to be the LG M227WD's only weak spot: handling VBXE output. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteym5 Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 I got some new 40 pin sockets and managed to patch one 130XE Main Board and it does not work. Just see a black screen with bars flashing across. I know it is a loose connection but I am not presently equipped to figure exactly where. Would need to send that one out and have them do testing. Anyone near the Northeast or Great Lakes area of the United States on here who can do such repairs? I can go through a few more times and see if any pins are not making a connection or getting shorted out somewhere. To do a more detailed job would require me to desolder parts and run a greater risk of damaging the board. I have a 2nd 130XE board which has many more traces pulled out and would be a tedious task to patch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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