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SpeedyTT, black screen of death !!!! HELP

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Re: SpeedyTT, black screen of death !!!! HELP

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here is the results of my testing, the red X are the continuity fail (red number are the test #, not the pin #)
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Anyone know where is R950 is on the board ? I cannot find it.
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Re: SpeedyTT, black screen of death !!!! HELP

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Ouch, that's pretty bad...

:(

Now you have to bodge wire all the missing connections.
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You need a professional electric vacuum desoldering pump and experience for this kind of work. It's a multilayer circuit board and therefore quite delicate. If in doubt, clip off the IC pins and desolder them individually using tweezers.

A manual desoldering pump is completely unsuitable.
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zfrenchy wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 2:58 am Anyone know where is R950 is on the board ? I cannot find it.
You have a later revision TT that never had the schematics published by Atari. The only schematics available are for the PGA revision so there is bound to be minor differences.
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frank.lukas wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 6:42 am You need a professional electric vacuum desoldering pump and experience for this kind of work. It's a multilayer circuit board and therefore quite delicate. If in doubt, clip off the IC pins and desolder them individually using tweezers.

A manual desoldering pump is completely unsuitable.
I have a Hakko 470
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Re: SpeedyTT, black screen of death !!!! HELP

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Atarian Computing wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 6:47 am
zfrenchy wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 2:58 am Anyone know where is R950 is on the board ? I cannot find it.
You have a later revision TT that never had the schematics published by Atari. The only schematics available are for the PGA revision so there is bound to be minor differences.
Ok. Thx
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zfrenchy wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 2:58 am here is the results of my testing, the red X are the continuity fail (red number are the test #, not the pin #)
Hi zfrenchy,
it is best to re-solder all pins of the GALs and the 74LS74.
Anyone know where is R950 is on the board ? I cannot find it.
Yes, indeed. Look at the attached picture.
In some boards, R950 has a value of 33 ohms.

Best regards
Robert

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12-MHz wrote: Fri Jan 09, 2026 12:49 pm
zfrenchy wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 2:58 am here is the results of my testing, the red X are the continuity fail (red number are the test #, not the pin #)
Hi zfrenchy,
it is best to re-solder all pins of the GALs and the 74LS74.
Anyone know where is R950 is on the board ? I cannot find it.
Yes, indeed. Look at the attached picture.
In some boards, R950 has a value of 33 ohms.

Best regards
Robert


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Can you shot to me another photo of you board top silkscreen including the region of the CPU ?
It will be handy to see the traces whitout the component.
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Re: SpeedyTT, black screen of death !!!! HELP

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ALL FIXED, hoping not coming back here when I will install the SpeedyTT, Storm and LighningVME.

At the end, it was only some point to resolder, and a new budge wire between U11 pin 17 and U112 pin 2, no component damaged so far, will see after a while.
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Glad you got it working again. Always a nervous time when we do work on these old systems and they stop working.

Let us know how you get on with the SpeedyTT, Storm and LightningVME.
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