Multi-color text on startup

Naveed · Post by **Naveed** » Mon May 09, 2016 9:18 pm

Working on a VIC-20 and need some help. I get multi colored text on startup. Please see pictures for more info. If any parts need to be swapped I can do that. I will have no issues de-soldering, just need to know where to start. Any help would be highly appreciated.

srowe · Post by **srowe** » Tue May 10, 2016 12:30 am

Naveed wrote:Working on a VIC-20 and need some help. I get multi colored text on startup. Please see pictures for more info. If any parts need to be swapped I can do that. I will have no issues de-soldering, just need to know where to start. Any help would be highly appreciated.

Welcome. Sounds very similar to the failure mrr19121970 reported recently.

http://www.sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web ... =11&t=7957

It's likely to be be either the 2114 RAM chip used for the colour memory (UE1) or the 4066 that gates it into the VIC (UD1).

mrr19121970 · Post by **mrr19121970** » Tue May 10, 2016 12:55 am

Personally I'd go for the 4066 1st, as it's cheaper to buy. Please be careful desoldering this one, I managed to rip 2 traces which annoyed me no end. Better snip this one rather than trying to extract whole.

I also updated the WIKI article for the pictorial troubleshooting guide

Naveed · Post by **Naveed** » Tue May 10, 2016 6:48 am

Thanks guys, I will give it a shot tonight and update the post.

Naveed · Post by **Naveed** » Tue May 10, 2016 6:14 pm

Thank you srowe and mrr. It was infact the color ram UE1. Works great now!

srowe · Post by **srowe** » Wed May 11, 2016 12:24 am

Good job, glad to know another VIC is back up and running.

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