ACORN A5000 inbound

[HigashiJun]

Some little progress:

On of the 74HCT245T buffers is now fitted.

HCT.JPG

The other one has to wait, due to 2 or 3 tracks not having continuity.

The RTC is also soldered and has one track fixed (blurry pic):

RTC.JPG

And to finish today's post, some new tracks repaired:

Tracks.JPG

That's all for today.

[rubber_jonnie]

Lovely work I have to say, well done.

[HigashiJun]

@rubber_jonnie

Thanks, but it's not over yet.

I keep my fingers crossed and I hope the machine will live again.

:crossed1:

[rubber_jonnie]

@rubber_jonnie

Thanks, but it's not over yet.

I keep my fingers crossed and I hope the machine will live again.

:crossed1:

With you in spirit :)

[HigashiJun]

:cheers:

[HigashiJun]

Small update today.

Battery.JPG

Via repaired with an eyelet and pins fitted for future battery connection.

Holder.JPG

The battery will be placed in this holder.

Monitor.JPG

And for fun, I powered on the A5000 (without battery, and track repairs still pending) and was greeted by this nice screen, with a cursor only.

At least, there's a sign of life...

:D

[rubber_jonnie]

Did you try booting with Del held down? Should reset the cmos and boot up to Risc OS from ROM.

[HigashiJun]

Yes, but nothing happened.

The cursor appeared after another key was pressed ('R' or 'T')...

It was just a try and I didn't care too much... Some jumpers may be incorrectly set, and some tracks are still left for repair.

[stephen_usher]

To reset the CMOS it's hold down R and power-on on most Archs.

[rubber_jonnie]

To reset the CMOS it's hold down R and power-on on most Archs.

From what I can see, R or Del should do the reset, and it 'should' work, but I think the next step would be to get the floppy drive connected up to see what, if any, the blink codes are.