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From: David.Johnson@f171.n221.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: These Problems
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Date: 23 Jun 89 04:49:20 GMT
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 >   I have a similar problem with my computer, only one difference
 > is that
 > when it has been on for half an hour or so, it tends to
 > freeze up. The
 > characters on the screen start randomly changing colours.
 > Only a few at
 > first, but eventually all the characters on the screen
 > turn different
this is an indication of an impending power supply death.  This death 
could take out ram and rom in your computer.  Get a New Power Supply 
ASAP.
 
Later on if when you turn on the computer and the drive lights come 
on (normal reset sequence) and stay on and your screen stays black. 
 You have just lost 1 or more ram chips  ( lost 2 ram chips and blew 

up a fastload this way.
 
It is not a vic or 6526 chip problem but the computer cannot complete 
its initial power on ram check so it just crashes. 



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