[rescue] Further tries with the Axil

[Alan Perry]

I hope it is that. My Axil 220 started off with a dead PSU. I recapped 
it and got it working and found there was also a problem with the system 
board.

If anyone has a spare Axil 220 or 245 system board they want to sell, 
let me know.

alan

On 2/27/25 5:01 PM, William Barnett-Lewis via rescue wrote:
> Looks around. Asks son. He borrowed my multimeter when he lived at his
> mothers. He did not bring it along when he moved here for college...
>
> So it will be a couple of days before I can check the PS but I'd bet
> that is the culprit.
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM Alan Perry via rescue
> <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>> On my 320, I see this on the serial console at power-on, even with no
>> memory:
>>
>> MMU Context Table Reg Test
>> MMU Context Register Test
>> MMU TLB/CAM MAT Pattern Test
>> MMU TLB Hit, Index 1-3 Test
>>
>> With no memory, it shows an error after that.
>>
>> Have you checked the output of the PSU, even if only at a drive
>> connector (blue is +12V and red is +5V)?
>>
>> alan
>>
>> On 2/27/25 2:13 PM, William Barnett-Lewis via rescue wrote:
>>> With a brand new null modem cable - 25 pin to 9 pin - and a 9 pin to
>>> USB I hooked up the serial port to my primary machine running Linux
>>> Mint. I installed PuTTY to use for this on /dev/ttyUSB0
>>>
>>> I left no drive installed and pulled all but one stick of memory, and
>>> have the 90mhz 256 cache cpu it came with installed.
>>>
>>> Connected the cables - the 9 pin end of the USB has a light to show
>>> that there is a signal present. Set 9N1, 9600, /dev/ttyUSB0 in PuTTY,
>>> turn on the power on the 320 and nothing. Hit break, nothing.
>>>
>>> Change ram sticks. Power on. Nothing. look at light on front that came
>>> on the other day? Nothing. One of the PSU fans that was working? Not
>>> any more.
>>>
>>> This is not looking good.
>>>
>>> Le Sigh... Thoughts and suggestions?
>>>
>>> William
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