Arabian Magic woes.

Kid Panda · Sep 22, 2015

So I got an Arabian Magic board today, go to boot it up and it's a white screen. Resets like 5 times and then nothing. I flip the board over and am greeted with this.

Obviously this was not told to me before I bought it. What options do I have? Can I run a jumper wire perhaps? It's coming off the main 68x CPU. Any help is appreciated.

Kid Panda · Sep 22, 2015

Update: this board has had mucho work done to it. Looks like I'm going to take a wash on this one. Maybe I can move to chips to another F3 pcb, anyone know the cheapest F3 game?

Fritz · Sep 22, 2015

That sucks, who did you buy it from?

Kid Panda · Sep 22, 2015

gum_drops said:
That sucks, who did you buy it from?

From a member here. Said it was working, I guess in the shipping what work was done came loose.

Pasky · Sep 23, 2015

Looks like a really easy fix as it was a poor trace repair. Get some 30AWG wire and wire it to that pin on the 68K the trace is going to all the way back to it's origin (might be a via hole).

ebinsugewa · Sep 23, 2015

I was expecting much worse. Just clean that area up and run a jumper off to the side a bit and hold it down with hot glue. That's not to say that there aren't further issues beyond the fix.

PunkicCyborg · Sep 23, 2015

That trace repair might not even be the issue. Do continuity checks between the two vias from that trace and check the other traces as well around the area of that scratch. Since it shipped it could have flexed a bit so also try reseating the bigger socketed chips.

Arabian Magic woes.

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