Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!yale!sekora-jay
From: sekora-jay@CS.YALE.EDU (Jay Sekora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: HELP! My children are threating me with GUNs, KNIVES, ATTorn
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Date: 29 Mar 88 05:31:41 GMT
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In article <3234@fluke.COM> logden@tc.fluke.COM (Leonard Ogden) writes:
>I turn on my drive and monitor , then when I turn on the 64, the
>monitor is black (though I can hear the 'burp' from the speaker). After about
>[...]
>My thought is that the ROM is gone.
>[...]
>logden

I'd say it's almost certainly not the ROM, if the 'burp' you mention is
fairly normal-sounding.  The 'burp' would occur when the O/S initialises
the SID chip.  (You might still get _some_ kind of sound on turning the
thing on if the OS wasn't there, but I don't think it would sound the same.
My guess would be the video chip.  (Forgot the number at the moment.)  If
you have a friend you can borrow the C64 Programmer's Reference Guide from
you should; it's got the specs.  Good luck.  -jay
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