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Commodore 64 showing a black screen, can I fix it?

CRG 7,673 1 year ago
Video Not Working? Fix It Now

I was recently lucky to pick up this Commodore 64 from Woz who had offered it on RMCs discord for the low price of postage only. What's the catch? Well it doesn't work, its displaying a black screen only so lets try and figure out why? Will it just be the PLA (a common failure point for a black screen) or will it be something else? CRG Twitter - https://twitter.com/YT_CRG CRG Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/user?u=13919007 CRG Discord - https://discord.gg/3hEzUxTxWV Music - Cathode Ray Gun by @Momentvm Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:20 Looking around the system 02:39 What's the symptoms 08:47 It has to be the PLA 10:42 Testing the VIC 11:32 Anything getting hot 12:45 Probing the MOS logic 15:23 Why is U15 not being enabled? 20:15 Replacing U15 21:06 Diagnostics 22:32 More problems? 23:07 Refinishing the edge connectors 24:44 Testing again 25:25 4066 26:22 Keyboard test 27:19 Loading a game 29:08 Conclusion and credits

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