...we can hear you now. VF3
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This 1995 VF3 has a video problem (see pic below). We tried a new monitor and the same problem. We are thinking the video card is the problem. Anybody seen this particular problem? We were able to get it to work for about a week by nothing more than touching around the cables to sort of make sure they were seated good, but it's back to this. Also, I notice 2 types of video cards on ebay. It looks like you can get ones with floppy, and ones without. Can someone confirm they are interchangeable? I don't think we need the floppy. Except it will probably be nice if we ever have to reload parameters (by the way, how bad is reloading parameters, if it comes to that--just using the keyboard to enter them?).
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...we can hear you now. VF3
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Display itself is correct. Video module looks correct as well. Check the video memory. Are there any signs showing operating system status?
Since the initial check of cables fixed it, look there again: connectors and line consistency.
How can you tell?
How can you tell that?
Visually? I did take stuff apart and inspected all the connections and found them to be solid. I think it is possible the problem is intermittent and it was just a coincidence that someone else was in there poking around right before it came up ok. But I can't be sure.
You mean like jogging the axis to see if the control is actually up? I didn't try that. I'm not a HAAS guy. First time I've ever worked on one actually. I could explore that once I get back there. Could you suggest a quick way to do that?
Is that you Major Tom? --ground control.
Raster is correct, frames are correct. Screen full of symbols. So there is path up to symbol generator. Part of screen contains "white noise" which is indication of video memory problem - addressing, refresh or hardware fault.
Sure, no. Software tests - write read sequence. It's possible, that video memory is not readable by Operating System. Only the display reflects status of video memory in that case. For instance, the first and simpliest - write to video memory full zerroes. The display should be blank.
risky, but yes. There are other signs of OS up: sounds, keyboard illumination, reaction to interlock switches, blinnking of some panel LED's . . .
It's the processor board.
I've seen it several times when I was a haas tech years ago.