No, those are the chip select lines; we're talking about the 16 address lines which is what the NOP generator is for, to sequence through all possible addresses.
If Google can't translate:
"verbinde
Pin 33, 31, 29 mit 21 (GND) und
Pin 32, 30, 28, 27, 26 mit 8 (Vcc)"
Means:
"Connect
Pin 33, 31, 29 with 21 (GND) and
Pin 32, 30, 28, 27, 26 with 8 (Vcc)"
That wasn't hard, was it? ;-)
If you looked up the binary code for the 6502's NOP instruction you could even figure it out yourself ;-)
Well, at the address:
http://home.germany.net/nils.eilers/nopgen.htm
I see a little bit different text:
Der Aufbau
Man nehme einen 40-poligen Sockel und verbinde mit zwei Dräten:
Pin 33, 31, 29 mit 21 (GND) und
Pin 32, 30, 28, 27, 26 mit 8 (Vcc)
Fertig!
and Google translated with:
the structure
Take a 40-pin socket and connect with two Dräten: (<-- ???)
Pin 33, 31, 29 to 21 (GND) and
Pin 32, 30, 28, 27, 26 8 (Vcc)
Ready!
That's strange indeed! However since in this part I'm a dummy (and it's an euphemism!) and I'm feeling a little insecure with it, I preferred ask to the Gurus
Not quite the way I'd do it (putting an LED and resistor directly across the test signal) but better than nothing.
so do you think it worth a try, or should I wait for the logic probe?
BTW, will a cheap one be ok for me? i.e. like this one with cmos/ttl and pulse/mem options?
http://www.ebay.it/itm/1pc-EISTAR-D...869?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27d094a06d
if you think it's ok, I will order it immediately, so at least if after two months this thread will be open yet, I will be better equipped!
Depends on what you mean by "buzzer"; we're looking at signals up to 1Mhz (1 million on-off transitions per second); I don't think the buzzer I use as a doorbell would be fast enough ;-)
well, I intended they told about piezoelectric buzzer, but looking at facts from your point of view, it doesn't sound like a good idea
I think you should look for the 2001/30xx/40xx version of the RAM/ROM diagnostic EPROM. Dave, Steve, anybody have a copy or a link? I assume that by now the F ROM is in a socket?
The thread that Frank references is an interesting read to be sure but I'm not sure it's relevant; it seems that the PIAs are good and we do have a good video system, but you never know...
I found this interesting site:
http://www.dansretropod.com/commodore/pet-cbm-3032.aspx
telling about a diagnostic ROM, but there isn't any link to a .bin file. I sent an email to the guy asking the .bin file but I don't know if he dumped the ROM in a .bin file and/or he want to share it with us.
If somebody of you has a diagnostic .bin image, my eprom burner is waiting
I looked on Zimmers but I didn't find anything. However I'm going to do a better search on the web right now!
--- Frank, thank you for the link, it's quite interesting and I bookmarked it. However my situation is a bit different... I already changed every chip on the board and I have replacement for all of ICs and a way to test RAM, PIA, VIA and CPU. But that thread gave me the idea to test the board on the 8032 case: we can now exclude the power supply (traf + huge capacitor) from the equation.
I will never get tired to thank you for the big effort and the help you're giving me, in the sunday too!
Giovi
-----------------EDIT----
A friend suggested me to put a reset switch from IC 555 pin 2 to the ground. It seems that somebody in the past did the trick, since there was evidence of solder on C68 capacitor. It didn't help a lot, since the screen remains black after tapping the reset button. At least we have one information more: the reset doesn't makes the garbage screen appear again
The reset button made me remember I read something in the past about a monitor switch, so I googled for a while and I found this info:
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.sys.cbm/2007-06/msg00431.html
that leaded me to this schematics:
I tried this with this result:
- the garbage stays on the screen until I tap the button, then it turns the display to black screen.
- keeping the button pressed, it doesn't enter in the monitor mode.
maybe this info would be useful for somebody that has enough knowledge to decipher it...