Does anyone have a luggable Commodore SX-64 for sale by chance? I am _really_
looking for one.
Thanks,
CORD COSLOR
Sam Ismail wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, George Rachor wrote:
>
> > By the way... I've got an old Commodore SX-64 that seems to have a raster
> > but no working CPU. Was there a common failure mode for these?
>
> Do you get a blue screen? This is usually caused by a bad chip.
>
> Fixing a C64 is fairly easy. Without going into a specific
> troubleshooting discussion, the easiest thing to do is to get a known good
> C-64 (a dime a dozen at thrift stores around here) that you don't care
> about sacrificing and begin replacing the socketed chips from the C64 into
> the SX64 (SX-64 = C-64 in a portable case...internals are the same). Nine
> times out of ten you'll end up fixing it within the first few swaps. I
> can't remember which chips to start with and not having a C64 in front of
> me, I can't tell you, but just start on one end and work your way to the
> other. I'm sure someone else here can provide more specific information.
> If this doesn't work then you might suspect a bad RAM chip which you'll
> usually have to resort to soldering in order to replace.
>
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