Great end to the year :(

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Just sat browsing youtube and stuff, looked across at my c64 and noticed the led was on, mainly due to the thread about the action replays.

Well after turning my screen on and stuff, all I get is a textless startup screen, my cynthcart doesnt do anything, but the navy seals cart loads, but all the screens messed up, its just gibberish.

So, thats another dead breadbin for me, I think ive had 3 dead ones, one working and now dead, whilst my c64c I have never had a problem with.

Anyone got any ideas as to what Ive killed? Firthy has my old none working ones, so I could always go upto leeds and get them for parts to fix it.
 
Sorry to here that Sneeker :(

I am sure that you are aware but you can look up the most common faults via Ray Carlsen's great website.

http://personalpages.tds.net/~rcarlsen/cbm/c64/c64-ic.txt

When you say no text is the border still Cyan?

Maybe it is a Basic Rom as Navy Seals is still attempting to boot via cartridge. Also after having a similar problem with my breadbin I got TC to have a look at it and he found one of the tracks on the motherboard to the PLA was at fault.

Maybe clean the cartridge port contacts and actual cartridge connectors with IPA to make sure it does not have a bad contact.

Hope you get it sorted soon buddy :thumbsup:

We must save as many 64's as we can :D
 
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I may be wrong but I believe they are susceptible to static on the joystick ports. I thi k I read something online to confirm that, a while ago...

I've killed a few in the past and I'd felt it was touching the joystick ports when going for the power switch !

Sorry another one is dead :( Iain
 
Don't panic, it'll be fixable. If you've also got a few others which are effectively spares or repairs also you are bound to be able to cobble together at least one working machine. I recommend sending to TC (or at least contacting him for ideas) if you are not that confident repairing yourself. He repairs loads of machines for me and his work is of the highest quality as I'm sure most of the members on here will tell you.
 
Corrupted letters could be a faulty RAM chip or a duff character ROM. When you get chance, open her up and see if the ROM chips need a reseat and if any of the RAM chips get hot - a hot one could indicate that it's duff.
 
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Definitely get the dead machines. All the guides and tips out there won't substitute trying different chips on your route to getting one working. Hopefully your corpses have some nice socketed chips to raid. Alas RAM chips are rarely socketed unless they've been repaired before.
 
How many breadbins have you killed? I hope it's not your PSU that is going bad and killing them off.

Good luck!

Heather
 
SkydivinGirl said:
How many breadbins have you killed? I hope it's not your PSU that is going bad and killing them off.

Good luck!

Heather
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I wondered that, check the PSU out before you let it near another.
 
opened it up earlier, nothing gets amazingly hot, but everything gets warmish after a few minutes.

Ive only ever had this one die, all the others I bought where off ebay and usually untested or without psu etc, so none of them worked, and The first two I got where a c64 c, disk drive, 3 tape 1530's and a breadbin, the only thing that worked from it was the c64c.. and it still works fine to this day, and thats the psu I was using with my breadbin.

Probably dig it out again tomorrow now for a proper look.
 
You are welcome to one of my several non-working ones if you want!
 
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