Re: Omega Race

Hi Mike,

Personally, I'd do the acid repair first as that at least eliminates it as
the cause of the CPU watch dogging.
Ciao,

Paul

owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org wrote on 16/10/2008 07:53:10 AM:

> While on the subject of Omega Race (nice work Bill, btw).... I
> decided to take a crack at my pile-o-omega race boards. For the
> longest time, I've tended to specialize in a specific board set
> repair. First williams, then Pac's, so I'm going to try another, Omega
Race.
>
> Leaving the acid damage issue aside for now, what do you all figure
> is the best way to bench test these things? I have my OR mini
> beside my bench, and a little power cable to extend the power
> harness to my bench (thanks Paul). My OR min works, btw, these are
> spare boards.
>
> Can I, or should I be testing the main board with the sound/io board
> off? I'm only starting to study the schematics and have not delved
> into the interconnect of the two boards.
>
> I'm starting with a boardset that is watchdoggin'
>
> Fluke 9010a says I can read and write all ram (I'm a novice at the
fluke btw)
>
> Haven't bothered hooking the scope to the xy outputs yet, want to
> get the cpu happy first.
>
> So any general methods anybody uses to start looking at these things?
>
> Mike
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Received on Thu Oct 16 09:28:11 2008