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  • Birthday 09/06/1979

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    Wisconsin
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  1. Well, new power supply showed up, and it doesn't work either. There is a rattling noise inside the power supply. So still stuck on this one until I can find another power supply...
  2. Hi all! While I enjoy these forums, I've never really had anything meaningful to add to them, so I've never joined joined until today. I've been at these retro video games since they were brand new, so I'm fairly familiar with them, and 8-bit era computers (the PET, TRS-80, etc). So the other day, I saw a huge Adam box in good shape, and managed to haggle the price down to where I couldn't resist, because the unit wouldn't power up. They even threw in one of those old wooden cassette holders full of programs. Nice! Got it home, and I've been doing all the normal things, clean it well, power switches, power adapter, clean and reseat chips, the usual. But I cannot get this one figured out, so I am hopeful someone here can help, or at least give me a new direction to go. Note, this is the add-on Adam (Expansion #3), not the Adam with the built-in CV. Symptoms: Power up the CV and Adam plugged in, the printer goes to home, indexes the daisy wheel, sets ok. Video is black, kind of a high pitch squeal from the TV. Unplug the tape drives and modem, no change. Press the reset button on the Adam - no change. Press it on the CV, and I get the Colecovision rainbow screen (do not insert expansion module, etc). Ok, so I test the Expansion #1 adapter on the side port of the Adam, and hit the CV reset, it plays the Atari game well, but I already have a 2600 for that... Unplugged the Atari adapter, and put in Slither, pressed reset on the CV, and got 12 wide vertical bars. Changed to Smurfs & Omega Race, same deal. Took out the cartridge, still get the black screen on the Adam, but now when I press reset on the CV, no rainbow screen, just the same 12 bars. There is currently no way to test the CV without the Adam, as the power brick it came with had 5v, until I turned on the power, then it went to 1.38v. With the Adam power supply, it measures 5v at the switch. I have a new Power Supply in transit, but it's a few days out, and won't help the Adam anyways. So I'm really out of ideas, and I'm not sure what else to try. Quite frankly, I'm not even sure where to look next, so any suggestions will be tried. Thanks, ~Allison
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