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From: Excalibur on 11 Aug 2006 10:01
I came in this morning and my 1581 drive had a steady amber light. I
reset everything but when it powers on it makes no noise and the amber
light stays steady. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to
which component has most likely failed?


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From: David Murray on 11 Aug 2006 10:30

Excalibur wrote:
> I came in this morning and my 1581 drive had a steady amber light. I
> reset everything but when it powers on it makes no noise and the amber
> light stays steady. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to
> which component has most likely failed?
>

I had this problem and it was the power supply. I'd check it with a
volt meter, it should be outputting exactly 5V and 12V, or darned near.
I think when this happened to me the power supply was outputting 12V
fine, but the other line was putting out like 3.8V.

From: ramswell on 11 Aug 2006 18:34

Excalibur wrote:
> I came in this morning and my 1581 drive had a steady amber light. I
> reset everything but when it powers on it makes no noise and the amber
> light stays steady. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to
> which component has most likely failed?
>
>
> Excalibur's Stone BBS
> DMBBS HeadQuarters
> bbs.excalibursstone.com 6400
> Running DMBBS v5

I agree with the respondant! Sounds like a %VDC Problem to me as well.
I've had that happen to me a few different times as well and fixing the
power supply usually fixed it. If not, then it's your controller chip
and that might find a bit difficult to find out there these days.

Good luck nevertheless,


Charles> 8-Bit Designs

From: Leif Bloomquist on 11 Aug 2006 19:29
If it turns out to be the power supply, I have about a dozen left over. I
can sell you one real cheap (need to purge the living room of C= stuff ;-)

-Leif


From: Excalibur on 12 Aug 2006 06:32

Leif Bloomquist wrote:
> If it turns out to be the power supply, I have about a dozen left over. I
> can sell you one real cheap (need to purge the living room of C= stuff ;-)
>
> -Leif


Thanks for the replies. I'll test things out later today. Hold one of
those supplies for me Leif and I'll let you know by the end of the
weekend if that's it and I need one.



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