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Experience recap Performa 475 ... no video
Posted by: franklyn on 2025-02-06 08:25:28
I soldered in/replaced new tantalum capacitors instead of the normal capacitors. Since then, the computer has booted normally from a floppy disk or from BlueSCSI, but there is no video. The monitor shows a frequency that is too high, but everything remains black. I don't think it's a capacitor replacement because I've had something like this before, but after a few keyboard resets, it worked again. I took out the VRAM and put it back in.

measured Hsync, Vsync, Sence0,1,2, they are between the monitor socket and the MEMCJR chip.

3.6V battery is new and good
Posted by: franklyn on 2025-02-06 08:32:11
I added the CUDA reset button S1.

The problem was my two new 512kB VRAM modules from the internet that I had just bought and were suddenly no longer working. With my two old 256kB VRAM modules everything was fine again.

Re-solder the 512kB modules and see if they are OK again or not...
Posted by: Andy on 2025-02-06 10:15:08
Do you have a battery installed? If you don't the 475 will not display video. You can try switching power off and then back on quickly to try and get around this sometimes.
Posted by: imactheknife on 2025-02-07 20:01:03
Would reflow the caps you did and clean board really well. Definitely needs good vram to display anything
Posted by: franklyn on 2025-02-08 12:47:08
... the two VRAM Simms are faulty.

I resolder the Simms and all works again.
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