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From: ghfeil@white.toronto.edu (Georg Feil)
Subject: My C64 is dead
Message-ID: <1990Sep10.144605.16326@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 10 Sep 90 18:46:05 GMT
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After 7 years of service, my C64 died last saturday. I'm wondering if anyone
has seen the following symptoms, so I might have a clue what's wrong:

In its last moments of life, the machine started randomly accessing the
early portions of screen memory, and the foreground colors were alternating
rapidly. There were most likely other affected memory areas, but these were
obviously not visible. After about 5 seconds of this, the machine crashed.
I cycled the power, and it rebooted (made it to startup screen) but the 
foreground colors were still going wild. It crashed again almost immediately. 
Future attempts to restart were not successful (screen stayed black).

At first I suspected the power supply, since it had died before. However the
voltages check out.

Any ideas out there?

Thanks,

Georg.
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Georg Feil                                 Internet: ghfeil@white.toronto.edu
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