I'm trying out my 9010 and z80 pod for the first time and having some troubles. The main unit and pod pass self test fine but don't work when I plug the pod into a z80 socket on a game board. I'm getting a "POD TIMEOUT - ATTEMPTING RESET" error when attempting any tests. I'm trying to troubleshoot the pod itself and the z80 pod manual says to "disable all forcing line and interrupt inputs and set all forcing line and interrupt traps to NO during Setup Editing". I can change the setup options fine but I don't see anything in the manuals about disabling forcing line and interrupt inputs. Does anyone know what that means? Any other advice about getting this going? Thanks for your help. -Werner To UNSUBSCRIBE from techtoolslist, send a message with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the message body to: techtoolslist-request@flippers.com. Please direct other questions, comments, or problems to jrr@flippers.com.
Pod time out usually means you are either not getting the clock or a poor connection to the CPU socket. "Forcing Lines" etc refers to control lines like RESET, HALT, etc, and these need to be either floating or disabled by setting control lines to NO, to disable them you go into SETUP, and press MORE to cycle through them, then press NO to disable the ones you want the pod to ignore. I then scroll past (MORE) and then press STOP and go back to the tests. Works for me... John :-#)# At 07:02 AM 9/06/01, you wrote:
I'm trying out my 9010 and z80 pod for the first time and having some troubles. The main unit and pod pass self test fine but don't work when I plug the pod into a z80 socket on a game board. I'm getting a "POD TIMEOUT - ATTEMPTING RESET" error when attempting any tests. I'm trying to troubleshoot the pod itself and the z80 pod manual says to "disable all forcing line and interrupt inputs and set all forcing line and interrupt traps to NO during Setup Editing". I can change the setup options fine but I don't see anything in the manuals about disabling forcing line and interrupt inputs. Does anyone know what that means? Any other advice about getting this going?
Thanks for your help.
-Werner
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Hi John, Thanks for the info. I disabled everything in the setup program but still no luck. I also tried to get the pod to test itself by using an extra socket with pin 29 cut off and that didn't work either. I have the feeling something is defective with the pod itself. Has anyone done an EPROM dump for the pod's EPROM? I could start by replacing that and the other socketed chips. -Werner At 08:40 AM 9/6/2001 -0700, you wrote:
Pod time out usually means you are either not getting the clock or a poor connection to the CPU socket. "Forcing Lines" etc refers to control lines like RESET, HALT, etc, and these need to be either floating or disabled by setting control lines to NO, to disable them you go into SETUP, and press MORE to cycle through them, then press NO to disable the ones you want the pod to ignore. I then scroll past (MORE) and then press STOP and go back to the tests. Works for me...
John :-#)#
At 07:02 AM 9/06/01, you wrote:
I'm trying out my 9010 and z80 pod for the first time and having some troubles. The main unit and pod pass self test fine but don't work when I plug the pod into a z80 socket on a game board. I'm getting a "POD TIMEOUT - ATTEMPTING RESET" error when attempting any tests. I'm trying to troubleshoot the pod itself and the z80 pod manual says to "disable all forcing line and interrupt inputs and set all forcing line and interrupt traps to NO during Setup Editing". I can change the setup options fine but I don't see anything in the manuals about disabling forcing line and interrupt inputs. Does anyone know what that means? Any other advice about getting this going?
Thanks for your help.
-Werner
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Extremely unlikely that the Eprom is bad, the pod would simply not work if that was the case. The "little" book for the Z80 pod explains some of the error messages and how to cure them. Download it from Spies.com/arcade -tech section. John :-#)# At 08:52 AM 9/06/01, you wrote:
Hi John,
Thanks for the info. I disabled everything in the setup program but still no luck. I also tried to get the pod to test itself by using an extra socket with pin 29 cut off and that didn't work either. I have the feeling something is defective with the pod itself.
Has anyone done an EPROM dump for the pod's EPROM? I could start by replacing that and the other socketed chips.
-Werner
At 08:40 AM 9/6/2001 -0700, you wrote:
Pod time out usually means you are either not getting the clock or a poor connection to the CPU socket. "Forcing Lines" etc refers to control lines like RESET, HALT, etc, and these need to be either floating or disabled by setting control lines to NO, to disable them you go into SETUP, and press MORE to cycle through them, then press NO to disable the ones you want the pod to ignore. I then scroll past (MORE) and then press STOP and go back to the tests. Works for me...
John :-#)#
At 07:02 AM 9/06/01, you wrote:
I'm trying out my 9010 and z80 pod for the first time and having some troubles. The main unit and pod pass self test fine but don't work when I plug the pod into a z80 socket on a game board. I'm getting a "POD TIMEOUT - ATTEMPTING RESET" error when attempting any tests. I'm trying to troubleshoot the pod itself and the z80 pod manual says to "disable all forcing line and interrupt inputs and set all forcing line and interrupt traps to NO during Setup Editing". I can change the setup options fine but I don't see anything in the manuals about disabling forcing line and interrupt inputs. Does anyone know what that means? Any other advice about getting this going?
Thanks for your help.
-Werner
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I tried another Arkanoid board (that has problems) and got the same error. But then I tried a Dig Dug board and that one worked fine. So the pod is good, just something it doesn't like about the Arkanoid board. Maybe it's clock signal is really noisy? Thanks again for your help. -Werner To UNSUBSCRIBE from techtoolslist, send a message with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the message body to: techtoolslist-request@flippers.com. Please direct other questions, comments, or problems to jrr@flippers.com.
Perhaps the Arkanoid has an incorrect setup for the CPU. Check with the Z80 docs on what the CPU needs, and then check with the pod book to see what the Fluke requires. You might find that instead of using a pull-up that Taito just hardwired Halt to Vcc for example. John :-#)# At 11:35 AM 9/06/01, you wrote:
I tried another Arkanoid board (that has problems) and got the same error. But then I tried a Dig Dug board and that one worked fine. So the pod is good, just something it doesn't like about the Arkanoid board. Maybe it's clock signal is really noisy?
Thanks again for your help.
-Werner
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