With horizontal lines and no bong, i think you can rule out the video-circuit. Vertical lines or bars would indicate VRAM or V-adress problems.
Did you replace the RAM?
Well, an interesting night to be sure!
I confirmed that the second batch of RAM was bad, because it caused a Simasi-mac installed alone or with the other RAM:
Without it i got the question-mark
After pulling out the HDD, i noticed it wasn't spinning up, so i opened it and helped it a bit...
A is populated, B is empty
Question mark after i pushed a button, i checked and it was the interrupt button indeed, good call. When i reset after the sad-mac, i still get the sad mac.
Trying to boot from SCSI hdd, no floppy here.
Today new video-RAM arrived (brand new), i soldered it in and got a ...
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Classic simasi-mac... Crap... (although it's a great improvement and tells me i was right in my diagnostic
Well, then i removed half of the RAM and booted it again.
I got this!
That is cool!
When i push the...
I've ordered a usb-serial gizmo, will try the diagnostics as soon as it arrives (well, not exactly, i still have to wait for the VRAM...)
But something seems a bit strange, the diagnostic-mode is triggered internally, on the PA0 line of VIA1. But what triggers the whole Techstep diagnostic...
I'm not knowledgeable about IIe's, but my reasoning is that if a lot of chips seem to fail, it's probably a fault in the adress-mux, the Row adress strobe or the Column adress strobe.
Without videoram the inputs are floating and give lots of 'static' lines etc. The SE30's videocircuit is to be blunt quite dumb. It just starts reading the videoram and puts it on screen.
Dank je wel ;)
Recently i acquired an SE30 from a colleague:
After a brief inspection of the board for battery damage (no damage!) I hooked up the power and switched it on:
Uh-Oh...
Nice pattern for my wallpaper, but for a system a bit unpractical. Also i could very faintly hear the 'chime of death'...