Now, the rest of the story.....
- It was a good plan.....it would appear that the resistor had died (R73) and I'd already linked R60 so the plan was to replacie with 2 discreet 180 ohm resistors
The idea was to replace the link I'd made in a past attempt to repair my CMOS not holding the settings by replacing the link with a 180 ohm resistor. While I was at it, I'd determined by a test from MarkMak that R60 was also broken and so decided to replace that too.
- This was the shape of things to come. One of the resistors had to be replaced because yours truly bodged it.
These were the 'preformed' to fit resistors with heat shrink so kindly supplied to me from Paul.
- I didn't know until the attempt how this statement might turn out.
This worked fine before we started so we'll see what happened.
- What we're working on.
Nice looking hardware.....
- I hadn't realized that I owned an Adelaide, it's definitely unique.
I hadn't realized I had an Adelaide, I was always too busy trying to figure out what I needed to get the CMOS working to notice that, however, there it is.
- Verifiably true
- Hard at work at figuring out my next move.
The work starts and that's where I believe things started to go wrong.
- Just more work going on.....
I think I used not quite enough heat to remove the link and while pulling up with the needlenose pliers I slipped and I think I removed something that wasn't supposed to come off.
- and more work.....
Now my attempt was to also repair my mistake. I seemingly had done so, got the resistors to attach to what I thought were the correct places, connected it all up and tested and it seemed to work fine. The problem was when I got home and was setting up, the end of the computer slipped out of my hand when I had it lifted off the table top about 6 inches. It landed quite hard on the solid table so I think I've dislodged something inside because now, though at first it started up, it won't do it without holding the R key and the hard drive and floppy isn't recognized......sigh.....well, back to the drawing board. I can get the GUI up without the disk drive or diskette drive showing on the desktop so I believe it should be a simple fix. Time will tell. It was working fine when I left Paul's, was just a bit careless at home......crikey.......!!!!
- We had a bit of time for playing a game or two as well.....
So, we did have a bit of fun with the game that is currently running on *. in the HSC. Please, more people join in, it's a great game and we can't just let Jools run rough-shod over us like this. He's the king of these types of games but he needs a solid challenger.
Ed......
3 working Beebs, 1 RetroClinic Master, 1 normal Master, 1 A3010, 1 Pi2 RISC OS, 2 broken Beeb Motherboards, 1 Omnibus A7000+ server, 1 A7000+ Desktop, 1 PET, 1 C64, 1 C128, 1 Amiga 500 and 1 Roamer.
