[Coco] CoCo 1 64K upgrade failed :(.
Mike Pepe
lamune at doki-doki.net
Fri Sep 26 14:21:22 EDT 2008
Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
> Ryan Pritchard wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The CoCo does not boot. I have cut all eight of the correct
>> capacitors C31, C35, C45, C48, C61, C64, C67, C70, moved all the
>> jumpers to the 32K setting, and tried both the LOW and the HIGH back
>> jumper positions.
>
> Did you check the voltage pins with a meter before plugging in the 64K
> rams, IIRC 4116s (which would be in for the 16K), use +5V, +12V, and -5V
> applying the +12/-5 to the 4164s will almost cirtainly fry them (managed
> to do this by mistake once, and the magic smoke definatly exscaped :( ).
>
Phill,
I'm reasonably certain that the 4116's are +5V only. I know for sure the
4K RAMs also needed -5 & +12V
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