Mister VCS Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 The 600 XL gives only a red screen after "Power ON". Pressing any key has now effect. I use the original power adaptor. The antenna-cable was missing, i use a standad 2600 jr. cable... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 this problem is discussed a lot in the 8bit forums and you may find some more help there. First I would check that the PSU is ok, if you can try the system with another PSU that would be great. Next open her up and remove/clean/re install all the socketed chips (pretty much all of them on a 600) If you are still having problems, replace the 2 ram chips, CPU, and MMU in that order, after that I have no idea. I will say that I have bought back at least 5 XL/XE machines from the grave by doing the above 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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