Theoryman

and I've ordered a power supply and a few odds and ends from Best... Looking for a battery cover as well... It does show signs of life but the keyboard is dead and it seems that a few lines of pixels in the display are as well... I get the copyright message and sometimes a choose a language screen and sometimes an enter a date screen... Often, those things can be fixed by cleaning the connectors... I'm looking to figure out how to take it apart and clean it... Anybody happen to have any drawings or directions they can share? Theory --

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v3.0.2 downloaded a couple days ago. Yes, I found that very odd myself. As far as I can tell, no one else is using a PCI-Express multi IO card for a serial port But my new motherboard does not have onboard serial or parallel ports so I needed some RS232/RS485 ports for accessing embedded controllers and a parallel port for my eprom burner. I've extensively tested the ports on this card under windows 7 and I've not found any issues other than APE. --

v3.0.2 Downloaded 3 days ago. --

RS232 SIO2PC purchased from AtariMAX a few years ago. Windows 7 Ultimate x64 bit Drivers seem to be for USB. I am not using USB for this, I have a PCI-E multi-IO card that has 2x serial and 1x parallel ports on it No. Not until it works... --

Well... This must be an APE issue... Because AspeQt works fine... One bleeding edge hardware and Windows 7. --

I am getting this error when I try to run APE: [Device Manager] RS232 Driver Failed to Initialize! (USB ONLY Mode Enabled) The APE setup detected the SIO2PC (serial) attached to COM2: in DTR mode and established communications. Windows 7 Ultimate AX99100 PCI-E 2x serial 1x parallel multi IO card Multi-IO card is able to connect serial and parallel to other devices. I bought my SIO2PC from AtariMax several years ago and it worked fine on my older system. Thanks for any help... --

Thanks for all the advice! Sorry it took me so long to get back... My big PC workstation died the next day after I posted that and I've had to build a new x86 system... Since my old one was bleeding edge when I built it in 2006 and I was able to keep upgrading it until 2019, I decided to build a new bleeding edge system and it has taken a bit of time to get it done... Rybages -- Thanks for that detail... I'm going to go dig out my 1701 monitor to test that. Nezgar -- Since I plan to upgrade this system anyway, socketing the OS and testing it makes sense. 1050 -- Thanks for the links to schematics... pulling them all down... About my TV and its reports of scan rates... Yes, that is correct. I bought this TV about 5 years ago because it would do LOTS of different resolutions. Via the component inputs, I have had it display all the modes below: 320x 200Px70 MCGA 256color 720x 240Px60 NTSC non-interlaced 720x 288Px50 PAL/SECAM non-interlaced 640x 480Px60 VGA 720x 480Ix60 NTSC interlaced 720x 480Px60 NTSC Progressive (DVD) 720x 576Ix50 PAL/SECAM Interlaced 720x 576Px50 PAL/SECAM Progressive 1280x 720Px60 Middle level HD 16x9 1024x 768Px60 XGA 1280x 800Px60 WXGA 1366x 768Px60 XVGA 1440x 900Px60 WSXGA 1680x1050Px60 WSXGA+ 1920x1080Ix60 HD Interlaced 16x9 1920x1080Px60 HD Progressive 16x9 I use a CP-VSRGB (EA0057) off Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EK7YJJG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 to convert composite or S-Video to YPbPr for component input. It does no scan rate conversions... Just decodes most ANY analog color format down to RGB or YPbPr. I've done weird video trans-coding for a long time... I also have 19" 4x3 tube unit that can display almost any NTSC / PAL / or SECAM video that I've thrown at it... As well as MCGA, CGA and EGA through the SCART. Thanks again and I'll be back as I discover more about this broken XEGS. --

Dug out my XEGS as my wife likes its appearance and is ok with it sitting in the living room. When I put it up about 15 years ago, it worked fine... Now... Black screen. Power supply is steady on 5.03VDC and works on my 800XL. Green light comes on when you push the power button. Black screen in 720x240x60P is reported by my TV... With it turned off the TV reports no connection. Same as my 800XL. No chips get hot after 15 min run time. Memory is NOT the MT chips. Star Raider does not start... All tests have been done with the keyboard disconnected. Board is not corroded. All chips are soldered... No sockets. I have a DVM, 5MHz analog oscilloscope and a rework station. I also have an EPROM/EEPROM burner on a Windows system I really need a schematic and some suggestions where to start... --

So, just a physical issue... It should work electrically? --

Then, I am eagerly awaiting the public release! September? --

That is good news! So, no more changes needed? --

Well, better right than quick... I'll keep collecting parts... --

Good to be sure for the PAL guys... Hate the additional wait, though. --

Well, eagerly awaiting the final... Thanks