Re: Troubleshooting HP 2116B

2018-07-30 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Sat, 28 Jul 2018, GerardCJAT wrote: Christian, I absolutly agree with David s post. Back in the ' '70 when I was maintaining 3 x HP 2116 B running 24/24 7/7 FOR around 10 YEARS, the ONLY memory related problem that I got was traced to a faulty transistor !! Then I have a new fault ;-) Afte

Troubleshooting HP 2116B

2018-07-28 Thread GerardCJAT via cctalk
Christian, I absolutly agree with David s post. Back in the ' '70 when I was maintaining 3 x HP 2116 B running 24/24 7/7 FOR around 10 YEARS, the ONLY memory related problem that I got was traced to a faulty transistor !! ( But I do not recall exactly, may be it was on a Driver Inhbit Card ) An

Re: Troubleshooting HP 2116B

2018-07-27 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
I have other 2116 cpu manuals, getting time to do anything to find them or look for differences is a problem. On 7/27/18 4:14 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: > Ok, so I've got the computer almost running now. I now need to fix both sense > amplifier cards. One (0..4k) sometimes > reads a o

RE: Troubleshooting HP 2116B

2018-07-27 Thread David Collins via cctalk
ou're prepared to swap components around on your boards to troubleshoot, you might by lucky and find that the ICs are OK. David Collins -Original Message- From: cctalk On Behalf Of Christian Corti via cctalk Sent: Friday, 27 July 2018 9:14 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Troubles

Troubleshooting HP 2116B

2018-07-27 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
Ok, so I've got the computer almost running now. I now need to fix both sense amplifier cards. One (0..4k) sometimes reads a one for bit 3 after the machine has warmed up. The other (4..8k) has a stuck one for bit 7. Swapping these cards make the errors move to the other core bank respectively.