Posts by dankreek

Thank you so much!!! No rush, things are all very strange in the world right now and I really appreciate all of your efforts on this matter.

Hi Jens, was just checking in so see how the troubleshooting is going. Any luck?

Hello! I sent this board in a couple months ago and was just wondering if you may have received it yet?

Thanks!

Well shoot, that didn't seem to do the trick either. I can go ahead and send it to you all see what you thin. I'm more than willing to pay for repairs. Do you need to me to include an RMA number or something? And should I send it to the same address you sent it from?

Thanks so much again!

Hmm, interesting. I'll give this a try and see what happens. I this provides me no luck I'll go ahead and ship it to you. Thanks so much for all your time!

Sure thing, the output is:

The VIC in the socket is 8562R4

I took a goods look at the cartridge port with my shop light on and there was nothing in there at all. I did a voltage test on the 5v pin on the chips and I'm getting 4.9v on the CPU and SID chips and 4.76v on the VIC chip. Does this seem a bit low?

Also, I swapped in a known good vic chip and it also was not detected.

Thanks, Jens, I had a feeling something odd happened with the actual cartridge slot because the cartridge still works in my C128 and a bread bin C64. I will take a pic as soon as I can and post it.

So today I didn't have much time for more troubleshooting, but I was able to pull the CPU out and put it in my bread bin and it didn't boot at all. I took the known good CPU from my breadbin and put it in my reloaded mk2 and it was still not detected. I put the CPU back in the bread bin and it still worked, so the board isn't actively blowing up CPUs, which is nice.

I wasn't able to check the VIC the same way since I didn't have time to verify that my breadbin was able to provide the proper voltage but I'll continue testing and keep you all updated. Thanks so much for the support!

Hi all! I've had my Reloaded mk2 for about 2 years now and it's been working great! This morning I plugged in my MSSIAH cart and noticed the power wasn't coming on at all. I've seen this before and usually taking it out and reinserting the cartridge (with the the power off) tends to fix it. But it didn't this time, so I kind of lifted the cartridge up a bit while the power was on (yes, I know, that's probably not a good idea) then the power light started blinking. I connected ti the BIOS with my laptop and when I list chipset into it now can no longer detect my CPU or VIC chips. The SIDs are both still detected fine. I've got a multimeter and such to do some tests but how should I go about this? If I had to guess a voltage regulator may have been blown since the fuse is still closed. Any suggestions on what I should do to try and debug this?

Thanks,

Justin