Nice work. Good detective work narrowing down the fault. I'm just starting out and have a dead drive myself but to begin with I'm building a new power supply for the C64. Good times! ;)
Hurray, a successful repair. It looks like I’ve to also replace UA1 on my 1541. Different fault though, mine is holding Pin 1 low which eventually routes through to Pin 40 on the 6502 CPU, it’s reset line. So it’s keeping the reset line low there and I just have a perpetual Red LED and motor active on power up. Want to practice my soldering skills more before attacking it though.
I have the same issue. My drive loads the game and my wife and I play the game. At the end of the game it attempts to access the drive to save the score and it hangs the computer because the drive stops responding.
It's no big deal. I really now begin to admire your past videos. I still have a spare 1541 in my cellar to which I think it having similar issues and maybe even being a device from 1984 as yours. Unfortunately no time as for now but set me a bookmark to here to eventually try replacing data connection 74xxxx chips as well. Thank you very much for being my guide!
Nice work. Good detective work narrowing down the fault. I'm just starting out and have a dead drive myself but to begin with I'm building a new power supply for the C64. Good times! ;)
Thanks! It´s great fun :-)
Same here. Never soldered anything before. The community is great though and have been responsive to newbie questions.
Hurray, a successful repair. It looks like I’ve to also replace UA1 on my 1541. Different fault though, mine is holding Pin 1 low which eventually routes through to Pin 40 on the 6502 CPU, it’s reset line. So it’s keeping the reset line low there and I just have a perpetual Red LED and motor active on power up. Want to practice my soldering skills more before attacking it though.
i have a similar issue with my drive. Although it works for maybe a few minutes when powered on. Then i guess when the chips get warm this happens.
I have the same issue. My drive loads the game and my wife and I play the game. At the end of the game it attempts to access the drive to save the score and it hangs the computer because the drive stops responding.
Ah! "Untested" as always (wink wink).
Music too loaud compared to voice
Old video. I have improved :)
It's no big deal. I really now begin to admire your past videos. I still have a spare 1541 in my cellar to which I think it having similar issues and maybe even being a device from 1984 as yours. Unfortunately no time as for now but set me a bookmark to here to eventually try replacing data connection 74xxxx chips as well. Thank you very much for being my guide!