The random screen jumping in Obsession was driving me nuts. I started noticing it would do it within a minute of the machine being booted.
This made me think it wasn't over heating.
So, I swapped chips from one Mega STe to the other and the jumping went away. However the Mega STe that received the CPU from the one I thought was over heating would locked when ever the "General" control panel app was loaded. (Took forever to figure that out).
This must be what kicks the CPU up to 16Mhz (if you have it saved at that speed). Swapped the old CPU back and it works fine.
So the cpu is shot. I searched ebay for the cpu, MC68HC000FN16 and ordered two from here:
eBay Auction -- Item Number: 380153987482
They are calling it a CMOS MPU?? Question is, did I order the right thing? Pretty cheap at $11 a piece.
The CPU that is currently working is a TS68000CFN16 I could not find any of those on ebay.
The MC68HC000FN16 that went bad is from my reconditioned Mega STe I purchased from Best Electronics less than a year ago.













