I received my Reloaded MkII about a week ago. I had to order a new VIC-II chip and a CIA chip to replace defective ones. However, I still could not get it to work.
I started removing chips for troubleshooting and once I got down to only the CPU and VIC-II I was able to get a blue screen with no text. The dead test cartridge would run also.
Any time I inserted any other chip into its ZIF, I could not get a video screen. The green LEDs behaviour was also inconsistent, sometimes blinking or solid or off after cycling the power.
At this point, I began moving the chips back to the original (5-pin video) C64 motherboard. Once I got all of the chips re-installed, that motherboard worked.
For now, I'm going to use the original system and start collecting chips to populate the Reloaded MkII motherboard for future.
I was able to get the serial terminal working on the MkII, but it would not consistently recognize the chips.
Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully I can get this running since it looks very well designed and built. I'm sure I missed a step in the assembly or overlooked some very important instruction step.