Re: Fluke 9010a + z80 pod questions

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Extremely unlikely that the Eprom is bad, the pod would simply not work if
that was the case. The "little" book for the Z80 pod explains some of the
error messages and how to cure them. Download it from Spies.com/arcade
-tech section.

John :-#)#

At 08:52 AM 9/06/01, you wrote:

>Hi John,
>
>Thanks for the info. I disabled everything in the setup program but still
>no luck. I also tried to get the pod to test itself by using an extra
>socket with pin 29 cut off and that didn't work either. I have the
>feeling something is defective with the pod itself.
>
>Has anyone done an EPROM dump for the pod's EPROM? I could start by
>replacing that and the other socketed chips.
>
>-Werner
>
>At 08:40 AM 9/6/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>>Pod time out usually means you are either not getting the clock or a poor
>>connection to the CPU socket. "Forcing Lines" etc refers to control lines
>>like RESET, HALT, etc, and these need to be either floating or disabled
>>by setting control lines to NO, to disable them you go into SETUP, and
>>press MORE to cycle through them, then press NO to disable the ones you
>>want the pod to ignore. I then scroll past (MORE) and then press STOP and
>>go back to the tests. Works for me...
>>
>>John :-#)#
>>
>>At 07:02 AM 9/06/01, you wrote:
>>
>>>I'm trying out my 9010 and z80 pod for the first time and having some
>>>troubles. The main unit and pod pass self test fine but don't work when
>>>I plug the pod into a z80 socket on a game board. I'm getting a "POD
>>>TIMEOUT - ATTEMPTING RESET" error when attempting any tests. I'm trying
>>>to troubleshoot the pod itself and the z80 pod manual says to "disable
>>>all forcing line and interrupt inputs and set all forcing line and
>>>interrupt traps to NO during Setup Editing". I can change the setup
>>>options fine but I don't see anything in the manuals about disabling
>>>forcing line and interrupt inputs. Does anyone know what that
>>>means? Any other advice about getting this going?
>>>
>>>Thanks for your help.
>>>
>>>-Werner
>>>
>>>
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Received on Thu Sep 06 10:08:01 2001