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  • Black Screen Spectrum 48kWas working ok, it came to me in a Fuller FDS keyboard, I had a nose inside and found a floating power lead connected to the keyboard, I removed that…

    ... the lines flash down the screen and it stops at the black screen....:(
    OttO OttO December 2013 Hardware
  • Issue 2 Spectrum - Black screenHi I have an issue 2 spectrum which I'm having some issues with. I bought it on ebay so have no idea of the history or how it came to be broken. Whe…

    ... with various output to the screen every time I turned ... coloured garbage or back screen with thin red lines.
    Using ... border with an almost completely black screen. You could almost say though ... there are some thin vertical lines running through it.
    ...
    whoremoan whoremoan November 2014 Hardware
  • Black ScreenHi, Anyone know what would cause a 48k Spectrum to boot to a black screen? you can hear the internals buzzing at power up, but you just get a black…

    ... Spectrum to boot to a black screen?

    you can hear ... , but you just get a black screen. When the power or aerial ...
    Lunar_Jetman Lunar_Jetman September 2008 Hardware
  • Black screen of deathI recently aquired a zx spectrum (revision 3b) of the rubber key variety. it was all running smoothly(for about an hour after pluggin in), i left the…

    ... coffee and returned to a black screen.
    Restarting the device ... always left me with a black screen with some minor interferance.< ... problem , boot up to a black screen.
    ive done the ... no joy, still the same black screen with slight interferance (which ...
    nxgshadow nxgshadow June 2009 Hardware
  • Spectrum +2A -Black screen-When I turn on the power I get only black screen (full size) PSU is working (I even tried with my +3 PSU) RF-cable is working. What could be the pro…

    ... the power I get only black screen (full size)
    PSU is ... ?

    There is only black screen no more no less.
    Vipered80 Vipered80 January 2010 Hardware
  • Zx Spectrum 48k+ black screenHi A friend of mine gave me his 48k+ and when i tried to turn it on I just get a black screen of the TV. I don't have sound of the console. Where c…

    Hi

    A friend of mine gave me his 48k+ and when i tried to turn it on I just get a black screen of the TV.
    I don't have sound of the console.

    Where can I start searching for the problem?

    Thank you
    Trajano Trajano March 2011 Hardware
  • Black screen on 48k+Hello peeps Just bought a 48k+ was working fine then after leaving it off over night I turned back on to get a total black screen, no border etc. …

    ... get a total black screen, no border etc. Just black all over.
    jamiejoe jamiejoe May 2016 Hardware
  • Magenta border and black screenGot my hands on a issue 3 48k machine. Did the initial resistance checks and everything seemed in order buy when I switch the machine on all I get is…

    ... is a magenta border and black screen with the odd bit of ... get any red garbage on screen at all.

    Anyone ...
    BruceNorton BruceNorton September 2016 Hardware
  • Black screen on my 48k SpeccyHi! I have a problem with my 48k rubber key speccy. I keep getting this black screen with white stripes after the computer has been running for a w…

    ... .
    I keep getting this black screen with white stripes after the ... and then kaboom.
    The black screen does not go away until ...
    Sam Cruise Sam Cruise November 2017 Hardware
  • I need a circuit building for a Videopac SystemCan anyone help me out and build this circuit? [URL="http://www.ozyr.com/rene/Download/g7000-AV-mod.gif"]http://www.ozyr.com/rene/Download/g7000-AV-m…

    I did mate, all the way and back again, best I managed to get was some lines/black screen. I know it was that because turning it off gave snow, back on, black screen/lines etc. Damn funny looking things arent they?
    Macc Macc November 2011 Chit chat
  • Black screen on a Spectrum?I'm looking at a Spectrum+ on eBay right now and the guy says when he plugs it in and turns it on, the screen is black. He says it's because a casset…

    ... and turns it on, the screen is black. He says it's ...
    Tupin Tupin November 2009 Hardware
  • Spectrum 128K +2 (grey) faulty screenHi. Just got untested +2. Now I only get picture like this (Black screen, with two vertical very thin white lines): [url]http://aijaa.com/Nk93Ub[…

    ... like this (Black screen, with two vertical very thin white lines):

    Vipered80 Vipered80 February 2013 Hardware
  • Basic Screen Shadow QuestionHello, I've been porting a game to the Spectrum from another platform. So far so good and I have per pixel screen scrolling working really nicely …

    ... correctly fills the screen with vertical lines. This works ... /> ld c, 0 ; Screen Normal

    ... The following simply displays a black screen :( This is not correct. ... ld c, 8 ; Screen Shadow
    call change_bank ...
    pointblnk pointblnk August 2016 Development
  • Black paper, white border. Ram fault?We have a speccy that wont work properly. When we power it up, we get white border around a black screen. We swapped the rom and ula with a working o…

    We have a speccy that wont work properly. When we power it up, we get white border around a black screen. We swapped the rom and ula with a working one, and we got the same result.

    is this a ram fault? How can we check ram chips?
    Arda Arda December 2006 Hardware
  • RealSpectrum doesn't work in 48k mode.It doesn't. All that happens is a black screen with a few vertical red lines, which disappears after about 1/10 of a second. Then, it goes blank, w…

    ... happens is a black screen with a few vertical red lines, which disappears ...
    Lockett Lockett February 2008 Emulators
  • I blew up my +3I'm still not sure of what happened (most probably a wrongly inserted interface) but I blew up my +3. What happens when I turn on the power or press …

    ... with blue border. Sometimes, a black screen with a blinking border. Most ... screen looks like a maze, with a white background and thick black lines ...
    pdsleite pdsleite November 2008 Hardware
  • 128+ rgbI have two 128k speccys which I connect to a rgb scart lead. The one when I power it up shows the first screen ok. The second one rolls on the screen…

    ... it up shows the first screen ok. The second one rolls ... on the screen and needs to be put ... has very small flashing black lines going across the screen but there is ... ZTX651 added to fix the black screen which is ok now. Am ...
    Modge Modge October 2010 Hardware
  • 180 (loading screen)I've got an original version of 180 from BITD that I used to play to death ( on 48 and 128 ) but it never showed the loading screen when loading (bla…

    ... never showed the loading screen when loading (black screen until loaded).

    screen after all these years and ... that the 'no loading screen' version is not available for ...
    Nonsense in BASIC Nonsense in BASIC May 2011 Games
  • Just Got Spectrum +2 grey model off ebay a few problemsFinally decided to get a real Spectrum after catching up on a load of games on emulators I missed in my earlier years due to having a C64 and Atari 8…

    ... changed to a screen of large horizontal black & white lines seemed to ...
    barnieg barnieg June 2011 Hardware
  • Find-Fill-Copy functions for BASICThere's not much going on here, so here's three m/code routines to provide some data manipulation functions which are otherwise slow to do from BASIC…

    ... set the top four screen lines to green on black.

    If ... by the BASIC program; see lines 15 & 20.
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Difficult to find upper RAM fault.I've recently repaired an issue 3B 48K Spectrum that had a tricky to diagnose upper RAM fault, so I thought I'd post a report of what I found here. …

    ... time it produced a mainly black screen with various coloured squares and ... what causes the black display with thin red vertical lines.

    Zorn Zorn April 2012 Hardware
  • No video in Spectrum 128k +2A Grey[B][COLOR="red"]EDIT: 26-05-2012 = Thread topic edited[/COLOR][/B] Hi everyone, Recently i won a Spectrum 128k +2A Grey at ebay UK. The Spectrum …

    ... ) but i have only a black image at TV.

    lines but not very perfect. The ... Mhz frequency i have a black screen only and it is not ...
    g40rocket g40rocket May 2012 Hardware
  • What's going on during a reset?Always wanted to know this. Why does the screen fill with garbage then white lines on black then just a totally black screen? What is happening?

    Always wanted to know this. Why does the screen fill with garbage then white lines on black then just a totally black screen? What is happening?
    torot torot May 2012 Hardware
  • ZX81 with black screen and some white dots.Was gearing up to do a composite video mod on my ZX81, and today was going to be it. Unfortunate when started my ZX81 seems faulty. I get a back scre…

    ... faulty. I get a back screen with a couple dots where ...
    pmsr pmsr July 2012 Hardware
  • Faulty 48K Issue 3 motherboardHi I have a faulty Issue 3 motherboard and would appreciate it if somebody can steer me in the right direction of where to begin with the fault find…

    ... whole screen is black with switch-on. There are no other lines, etc ... , just a completely uniform black screen. I removed ...
    Pierre Pierre April 2013 Hardware
  • Yet another glitchy graphics 48kHeyo, I'm new both to the forums (sorry if this is the wrong forum) and to Spectra I'm afraid, picked up a 48k from a steam fair sale thingy (not th…

    ... a black screen with a flashing "K" to drawing vertical red lines on ... an otherwise blank screen. The border's ... try looking at the data lines with an oscilloscope yet but ...
    CaptainHayashi CaptainHayashi May 2013 Hardware
  • Pentagon 1024SL 2.2 woesHey there,<br>I'm currently trying to get my Pentagon 1024SL 2.2 up and running for the second time.<br>Right now it's showing me the screen one woul…

    ... it's showing me the screen one would expect if no ... into the machine (blue, white, black screen pattern, blue border)

    lines
    - reflowed any solder joint ...
    Shockwav3 Shockwav3 May 2015 Hardware
  • How to tell if I have a Spectrum ZX 16K or 48K?Hi all, I'm a total newbie to the good old Spectrum and I got three spectrums in one box together with som other old computers. The spectrums seem…

    ... (less time on a black screen after the red lines bit).
    * PRINT ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • WOLFENSTEIN 2004 DEMOHello! I managed to find this in the Chaos Construction 2004 bundle and so far have tried mutiple emulators to get the thing working. Have any of you…

    ... results in a black screen with a couple of lines filled with 'SGN ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan September 2004 Games
  • Help with dead Spectrum +2aHello. My Spectrum +2a died some time ago. It was powered on, I looked away and next time I looked at it, screen was black. I have replaced the 4 r…

    ... again!).
    Check your power lines +5V and ground - I don ... recall you needing the other lines on a +2A. Are you ... leech the CS and OE lines correctly.. they're in a ... />
    Either way, a completely black screen from a composite video source ...
    Spirantho Spirantho July 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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