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  • 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. …

    ... to get a total black screen, no border etc. Just black all over.
    jamiejoe jamiejoe May 2016 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…

    ... get a white border with various output to the screen every time ... coloured garbage or back screen with thin red lines.
    Using information ... again a white border with an almost completely black screen. You could almost ... forums, so thanks for that :D
    whoremoan whoremoan November 2014 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…

    ... a magenta border and black screen with the odd bit of red garbage appearing ... don't get any red garbage on screen at all.

    BruceNorton BruceNorton September 2016 Hardware
  • 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
  • Issue 2 black paper white borderGot an issue 2 here that has a 6c001e ULA, no cockroach, no transistor mod (although you can clearly see on the top of the z80 and on some legs, some…

    ... black paper, white border, it "nearly" boots, with ROM tester I get red ...
    Macc Macc July 2013 Hardware
  • Issue 4A black paper, white borderJust had one of these through, nice yellow pcb! Everything but the ULA soldered in. On power up I get black paper, white border and some intermitten…

    ... power up I get black paper, white border and some intermittent buzzing ... test cart brings up the screen and reports bad address line ...
    Macc Macc August 2013 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
  • AMS X 4 memory chip for a +2BHey Chaps, While I had my Spectrum +2B opened up to work on the tape deck (replace belt and clean heads), I decided to try reseating some of the chi…

    ... a black screen + grey border when I switched it on (with some occasional red ... garbage on the black). Assuming that I ...
    joe joe February 2013 Wanted
  • 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…

    ... flash down the screen and it stops at the black screen....:(

    OttO OttO December 2013 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
  • Dead Spectrum diagnosis and desolderingI have two dead Spectrums - one I'm pretty sure is caused by bad memory, and the other - well, perhaps a bad ROM, perhaps a bad CPU (it gets halfway …

    ... the screen
    - black screen and flash of red vertical lines, then black screen AND border (rare ... )
    - Occasionally, after the black screen ...
    Winston Winston December 2006 Hardware
  • Dead Spectrum diagnosis and desolderingI have two dead Spectrums - one I'm pretty sure is caused by bad memory, and the other - well, perhaps a bad ROM, perhaps a bad CPU (it gets halfway …

    ... the screen
    - black screen and flash of red vertical lines, then black screen AND border (rare ... )
    - Occasionally, after the black screen ...
    DEATH DEATH December 2006 Hardware
  • New Spectrum GameAs some of you may be aware I've been busy working on a Shoot-Em-Up Designer utility for the past few weeks. As the program is pretty much there now…

    ... a small "a" on-screen or the tilde sign. This ... a white border and black screen or before I got blue screen red border. And nothing ... supposed to input the loading screen next but for whatever reason ... able to insert a loading screen also??[/strike] My brain ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman February 2008 Games
  • Opus Discovery 1 problem insideHi folks, when I opened my Opus Discovery 1 I have probably wrecked a regulator that is connected to the mainboard by three cables. Regulator 2 is wi…

    ... three calbes in order white red yellow fomr left to right ... work, it shows only black screen, white border and vertical thick lines on ... screen...

    can this be ...
    Skydiver Skydiver October 2010 Hardware
  • AMS X 4 memory chip for a +2BHey Chaps, While I had my Spectrum +2B opened up to work on the tape deck (replace belt and clean heads), I decided to try reseating some of the chi…

    ... a black screen + grey border when I switched it on (with some occasional red ... garbage on the black). Assuming that I ...
    LCD LCD February 2013 Wanted
  • Machine code/Assembly language back in the dayHello. Back in the 80s when I was a kid, I didn't learn Z-80 machine code, but I was always curious about it. Just recently I decided to explore Z-…

    ... />
    Pre-code-execution adrenaline.. :D

    OK, it all ... />
    [EXECUTE]

    Black screen.. red lines.. white screen..

    ?1982 Sinclair ...

    DARN!

    :D
    memrah memrah September 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Toasted +3Oops.. I shorted one of my +3 (being clumsy with multimeter, doh) when measuring PSU connector pins :D Any immediate guesses what exactly died on thi…

    ... of the board) is it red hot? (careful you don't ... it, it displays a black screen(paper & border) for a second or ... so...then on to the copyright screen ...
    thomas3120 thomas3120 December 2013 Hardware
  • sound input causing dead ula in +2 ?I have a dead +2a (it shows static black screen, no border see: [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=9619&forum=4)"]http:/…

    ... dead +2a (it shows static black screen, no border see: [url="http://www ... TEA2000 chips, but no, screen is still black, it makes sense that ...
    Timppa Timppa November 2005 Hardware
  • Spin problems/issuesI am running Spin 0.666 and have noticed a few issues (some are bugs, some might be just me). I am using Vista sp1 (yeah I know!), and I've seen Dunn…

    Can't get any 16k games to load whilst in 16k mode

    file decompress' to greater than 16384, the whole emulator the crashes with black screen, white border.

    v0.666
    chop983 chop983 April 2009 Emulators
  • Toasted +3Oops.. I shorted one of my +3 (being clumsy with multimeter, doh) when measuring PSU connector pins :D Any immediate guesses what exactly died on thi…

    ... it, it displays a black screen(paper & border) for a second or ... so...then on to the copyright screen ... random blocks on the screen though. The screen is only blank while ...
    guesser guesser December 2013 Hardware
  • Harlequin clone...PCB manufactured!Using Chris Smith's detailed schematics and project notes from the Harlequin... a Speccy fan in the United States by the name of Don (Superfo) has de…

    ... of a scare when the screen filled with coloured blocks the ... powered it up, and a black screen/white border the second time. It ...
    szeliga szeliga April 2014 Hardware
  • FREL Comcon Programmable Joystick Interface not working on 128k but on 48kAnother day, another problem :-) My FREL Comcon Programmable Joystick Interface [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=1000070[/url]…

    ... /> (Only boots up to Black Screen, White Border - Same on a +2 Grey ... boots up to Random Coloured Screen, however, Gamma-Interface runs on ...
    Luzie Luzie September 2015 Hardware
  • Any adventure game frameworks written BASIC ?I remember INPUT published a simple adventure game, with about ten locations. It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program framework one co…

    ... Inputs to CAPS, and a Black Screen and Border.

    Other things ...
    dmsmith dmsmith April 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... displaying a black screen with a flashing "K" to drawing vertical red lines ... on an otherwise blank screen. The border's OK ... previous power supply was KO'd that could have fried stuff ...
    CaptainHayashi CaptainHayashi May 2013 Hardware
  • Poorly Spectrum + Fault diagnosis help needed!Hi, I've got a Spectrum+. Sometime in the past I broke it and sent it off to be fixed. It came back working good as new, but with an issue 2 board i…

    ... issue mentioned above, I'd like to ask (out ... from the messed up screen of a borked spectrum? ... it go black paper/white border, and dark red vertical lines ... you see the black paper and white border, it's ... br />
    Vertical black and white stripes (narrowish ...
    Winston Winston July 2007 Hardware
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... cont'd

    [I](changes have ... are "SP1_DRAW_OR1" and "SP1_DRAW_OR1RB" (right border) -- all three draw functions we ... on a white screen and red on black on a black screen.

    And ... the original.

    cont'd
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
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