Reply 20 of 25, by Deksor
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Allright ! I received the missing 8255AC chip for this XT board :
It's in good shape, but it's also quite nasty. I've attempted to fired it up, but it does nothing ... 🙁
Also the chip I received looks fake (it feels different on the top vs the bottom and scrubbing it with a q-tip with alcohol made the q-tip to turn black a little), but I'm sure it would work anyways.
Now the board still didn't work, but I noticed something when I inserted my POST card (yeah I know they don't work in XT, but the codes are not important here) : the reset line is constantly set to high. So it can't work if it's always set to high! which makes me think something somewhere must be wrong on the reset line ... Now I have to find it ...
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