Ahhhh! Finally may be able to give advice on this list without taking, taking, taking...
My Asteroids board did this (no diagonal line just blank). Self test was fine.
After much searching, replacing the rom sockets did the trick. Sockets tested
good, but obviously were not.
Cheers
Paul
Mike Mnemonic wrote:
>
> Hello All,
> I hope that somebody may be able to help me with a problem that I have
> with an Atari Asteroids board. The PCB passes selftest OK, and I have
> verified that ROM, RAM and all I/O is working correctly. However, the PCB
> when switched into game mode, displays a diagonal line on the monitor and
> then resets? Anybody seen this before? Is there any hardware that the game
> uses but the self test doesn't i.e. all levels of the vector jump stack ?
>
> Regards
>
> Mike Mnemonic
>
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