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Can This Broken Amstrad CPC464 Be Saved? Let's Find Out
An Amstrad CPC464 and its MP1 module go on the bench with a buzz, no power, a broken keyboard and a faulty cassette, to find out whether they can be saved.
Topic
Amstrad CPC
3 videos.
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Garbled Screen! Amstrad CPC 464 Video Failure
Why does an Amstrad CPC 464 show a garbled screen? Noel's first suspect, the CRT controller, turns out to be wrong, and the hunt moves through power, the gate array, ROM, Z80 and RAM.
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Overvoltage Repair and Prevention on an Amstrad CPC 6128
Noel diagnoses an Amstrad CPC 6128 that had 12V fed into its 5V connector, finds mostly RAM chips failed, then fits a P6KE 6.8A diode to guard against a repeat.
