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Brian E. Brzezicki
Copyright 2017
5/1/2017

Disclaimer
Use this at your OWN risk, do NOT sue me if it breaks your board... if your doing this your board is probably already broken though ;)

Game Board #1 4/04/2016

Problem:

  • Game does not work. Screen has a bunch of legible static tiles.

Troubleshooting/diagnosis steps:

Watch the video walkthrough and explaination of this fix

  • Fluke bus test OK
  • Ram short 0x4000 - 0x43FF BTS 0x0F @ 4001 different BTS errors all in the low bits
  • Ram short 0x4400 - 0x47FF OK
  • Ram short 0x4c00 - 0x4fff - ok
  • Lets replace the RAM that controls the low 4 bitgs of 0x4000 - 0x43FF
  • Looks like 2114 @ 4H - just to verify clipped power pins and did retest
  • Replaced RAM and now ram short works
  • Game works!