It's 527 ohms? That's definitely a problem if the resistance is truly that high. I'd verify pin 8 of UJ6 has a good connection and then verify pin 4 of UE7 is good as well from underneath. If they look good, remove UE7 from the socket and inspect the IC itself along with the socket. if...
I just fixed a similar issue with the simasimac and happy chime. UJ6 ended up being the culprit, but you definitely have a problem in the video circuit. It's hard to tell what's exactly going on without a logic probe or oscilloscope. Check the continuity between the address lines and UJ6 then...
Just got a setup exactly like yours. When starting the computer it flashes bright immediately like yours does but after that I can see it flash but it’s extremely faint. So faint that it’s not even lighting up the bulb part and you can just barely see the diode glow.
The PAL chips and VROM as they’re the ones that’s socketed.
Yes at this point I am leaning towards a bad IC rather than something wrong in the circuitry.
I’m getting continuity to all pins on the VRAM. I’ll definitely get a boot disk made and try that. Sounds like a good idea. Will probably pick up an IC tester as I‘m leaning towards that being the issue.
Thank you. That explains a lot. I’ve got 5 volts and good ground at both vram chips. I can’t say they’re 100% good but I know they’re putting out some sort of signal. I’ve been checking all the traces like crazy and to my surprise have yet to find a single one that’s open. Do the PAL chips run...