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puzzled cst qdisk interface

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Is a cst qdisk interface indicating its presence at start up in the upperlines of the screen ??

does anyone have the possibility to sent me a screenprint .

since my interface is NOT displaying anything , defective or ........

i verified with a rom module , and that one displays in the top line .


it is a cst qdisk ver 4 1986 with 1.19 and 1.16 firmware ( as i suspected 1.19 )


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techy wrote:Is a cst qdisk interface indicating its presence at start up in the upperlines of the screen ??
does anyone have the possibility to sent me a screenprint .
since my interface is NOT displaying anything , defective or ........
i verified with a rom module , and that one displays in the top line .
it is a cst qdisk ver 4 1986 with 1.19 and 1.16 firmware ( as i suspected 1.19 )
I think there should be a message at the top.
Tested on a BBQL with only the interface added, it says: "CST QDisc Controller v 1.13 © 1984"

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If it doesn't show - the interface may not be properly pushed into the QL edge connector, but before you check that, look to see if you have bent any pins in the edge connector!!


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Thanks for all replies ,

something is wrong for sure .


first to start with is ;

anyone got 1.19 version firmware as .bin file ??


i verified my rom and that one is gone ............


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tested the board with 1.16 fresh eprom , verified !!

and no welcoming line on 2 ql's

so the eprom is not communicating with the bus , so out with the multimeter to verify..................

anyone got the schematic ??


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As your original EPROM is dead, Is there any chance that the 5 volt regulator may have been bypassed at some time. And then 9 volts got plugged in and blew things up?


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Martin_Head wrote:As your original EPROM is dead, Is there any chance that the 5 volt regulator may have been bypassed at some time. And then 9 volts got plugged in and blew things up?
7805 looks okay , steady 5v output even after an hour .

eprom 1.16 is tested and okay ( works ok in an eprom board ) .

So my assumption is the eprom is not "attached " to the bus .

so any insight in the circuitry might be handy.


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There's a pretty nice description in the QL Technical guide on how expansion cards need to handle requests (Chapter 11.3, "Adding peripheral cards"). That involves address decoding logic and a fast switching transistor - This is the circuitry you should look into.


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tofro ,

more reading to do , thanks !!


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