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Reply 20 of 21, by PD2JK

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tomcattech wrote on Yesterday, 21:20:
PD2JK wrote on Yesterday, 19:24:

I had this issue once when the RTC XTAL was dead.

Yours is being protected/surrounded by some black plastic.

Yep, I see it...
Is there any easy way to test it without an oscope?

Maybe you have a multimeter with a frequency counter? But it must at least be able to read the 32.768 kHz frequency. I'm not sure if the cheaper ones go this high. And it's still a long shot.
Maybe you can solder one off from a donor board.

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Reply 21 of 21, by tomcattech

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The power supply comes up fine on the PSU tester and I've tried two other PSUs, so it isn't that.

Honestly once we caught the oops of the RD-RAM (Let's me know how long its been since I've dealt with it) and we correctly ID'd the board\CPU I thought we were there...

I feel comfortable that we are down to a component issue so I'll add it to the "mess with later" stack.

It is disappointing because I like the board.

On a side note it continues to amaze me the amount of old-school knowledge available (back before you just replaced everything) and the willingness to assist on this board.

Thanks to everyone!

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