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From: elg@usl.UUCP (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: Help with broken C-64
Message-ID: <908@usl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 14:09:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 11 14:09:10 1986
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Reply-To: elg@usl.UUCP (Eric Lee Green)
Organization: USL, Lafayette, La.
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Keywords: I can't see anything

In article <3569@brl-smoke.ARPA> jerryd@brl-smoke.UUCP writes:
>I am posting this for a friend who does not have net access, so please
>respond directly to me.  
>
>My friend has a C-64 with 1541 diskdrive and 1702 monitor.  All pieces
>are less than 2 years old.  Today, when he turned on the power to the
>C-64 and then the monitor everything worked okay for a while then the
>monitor blacked out.  After turning the C-64 off, waiting 10 minutes
>or so, the everything worked fine for 30 minutes or so.  Then things
>got worse.  Recycling power did not cause the monitor to come up.  It
>took many continuous flicks of the C-64 power switch to get the
>monitor to come alive.  Now all that happens is that one can see a
>momentary power line travel down the screen when the initial power is
>applied.  After that nothing happens.  The screen remains blank.
>
>My guess is that the monitor is bad.  Is it fatal?  Can it be fixed?

Why do you guess THAT? Why not just take that long TV cable that comes
with the C-64, connect it to the back of his television, and SEE?
Geez, elementary problem-solving... if you think a component is bad,
replace it with another serviceable component to SEE if it's bad (in
this case, connecting it to a TV).

Actually, I think it's probably the power supply. Sounds like what
happened when the power supply on my 64 went out. Whatever you do,
DON'T run the computer when it's doing stunts like that. I blew 5 RAM
chips, the color RAM, one of the Kernel ROMs, and the SID chip.

For a competent repair person near you, 
a) look in the yellow pages,
b) if nobody there, call Commodore tech support (don't have the number
  handy) for a repairperson near you,
c) look on Quantum Link, they have a list of repairpeople in there,
d) scream, yell, and shout, and mail it off to one of those places in
  Compute! or RUN.
-- 

      Eric Green {akgua,ut-sally}!usl!elg
        (Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509)

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