Help needed: A600 with black screen

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Re: Help needed: A600 with black screen

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mail me, I have a A600 CIA you can have just for the post
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Re: Help needed: A600 with black screen

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Thanks a lot, Supaduper! The CIA has arrived, soldered, and the A600 is back to life, the floppy is working great, many thanks indeed! :D

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But now I'm facing a very strange minor problem: the machine works good with KS 2.05, but fails to boot with KS 1.3. It shows a blue screen.

I still don't have a diagrom the troubleshoot it, but does anyone ever had this kind of problem?

Many thanks again!

Eduardo
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Re: Help needed: A600 with black screen

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Rom needs patching for an A600 to work with 1.3

https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=66637
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Re: Help needed: A600 with black screen

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Thanks for the info Supaduper, I didn´t know that!

However, my KS 1.3 ROM chip works in another A600 board I have here. Well, at least it boots and shows the hand holding disk image. May it be patched already? Its a NEC chip, not a burned EPROM. Code is 315093-02.

However, with this same KS 1.3 ROM in the A600 I repaired, I get only a blue screen. Very strange!

Eduardo
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Re: Help needed: A600 with black screen

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Eduardo L M wrote: Wed May 26, 2021 10:04 pm Thanks for the info Supaduper, I didn´t know that!

However, my KS 1.3 ROM chip works in another A600 board I have here. Well, at least it boots and shows the hand holding disk image. May it be patched already? Its a NEC chip, not a burned EPROM. Code is 315093-02.

However, with this same KS 1.3 ROM in the A600 I repaired, I get only a blue screen. Very strange!

Eduardo
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Re: Help needed: A600 with black screen

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Yes, this is something I'm aware of. But it should not give me a blue screen on boot, right? Well, I think I'll need to do my homework and make some tests on the hardware, with Amiga Test Kit or DiagRom when it arrives. Thanks!

Eduardo
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