Mask of Destiny Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 I have an Atari 800XL which will work for a few minutes or so and then the display corrupts itself and the computer crashes. I've tracked the problem down to one of the 64Kx1 DRAM chips (the corruption pattern changes when I swap the chips around). I'd like to repair it if I can, but at the moment the only place I've found that carries an appropriate replacement DRAM wants $10 for it. Does someone know of a good source of replacement DRAMs or even better, a procedure that could return the DRAM to proper operation (I doubt this is possible, but I thought I'd throw it out there just in case). Alternatively, if there is a relatively simple way to hack it to use 8-bit SRAMs that would work too as I have a number of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mask of Destiny Posted October 7, 2004 Author Share Posted October 7, 2004 Upon taking another look at the message board layout, I suppose this probably belongs in hardware. Could some friendly moderator move it there, if that is indeed the case? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classics Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 I can send you a working set of 64k DRAM for the cost of postage/mailer, send me a PM if your interested. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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