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  • Can ULA kill other componentsIn my search for a problem I used a ULA6C001E-7 on a board that had a ULA6C00IE-6 chip. Q1) Should this have worked? Q2) After this experiment both …

    ... down with the same problem. White border, Black screen with verticle thin whit stripes ...
    hedge hedge January 2010 Hardware
  • 48K Speccy not workingHey, A few months ago (hope it&#180;s not to late) I was loading a game into my speccy and from one moment to another it stopped working! I unplugge…

    ... message as being the "black paper and white border" black screen. Forget everything I said ... set the attributes all to black paper/red ink and then ... freeze with just a black paper and white border. The memory actually passes ...
    Winston Winston May 2007 Hardware
  • Can ULA kill other componentsIn my search for a problem I used a ULA6C001E-7 on a board that had a ULA6C00IE-6 chip. Q1) Should this have worked? Q2) After this experiment both …

    ... down with the same problem. White border, Black screen with verticle thin whit stripes ...
    roko roko January 2010 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…

    ... regulator. There is a white border, black screen with vertical white lines running down. The ...
    kenwonders kenwonders January 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 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 through ... test cart brings up the screen and reports bad address line ...
    Macc Macc August 2013 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…

    ... time), all I get is black paper, white border, it "nearly" boots, with ...
    Macc Macc July 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…

    ... would get a white border with various output to the screen every time ... . either coloured garbage or back screen with thin red lines.
    white border with an almost completely black screen. You could almost ...
    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…

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

    Anyone ...
    BruceNorton BruceNorton September 2016 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. …

    ... to get a total black screen, no border etc. Just black all over.
    jamiejoe jamiejoe May 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 computer has ... and then kaboom.
    The black screen does not go away until ...
    Sam Cruise Sam Cruise November 2017 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…

    ... longer works. I get a white border, black paper, and changing vertical patterns ... is a pic of the screen output at:

    [url ...
    gcallard gcallard July 2007 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
  • My 48K Speccy has died.Hi fellow WoSer's! Wondering if you could help me with my rubber key 48k Spectrum, which died on me this afternoon. It is one I prevoiusly fixed up j…

    ... game Trap Door, the loading screen came up but after a ... to appear on the loading screen and thought as you would ... up, then the screen changed to a white border and black paper area with ... 's still showing the screen of white border, black paper with the vertical ...
    Your Spec-chum Your Spec-chum November 2012 Hardware
  • 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
  • TV Modulator. Can it be repaired?Is it possible, to repair tha TV modulator (after removing it) if it gives wavy picture? I replaced both transistors (tr1/2) and both electrolytic ca…

    ... the machine it had a white border, black paper with thin red horizontal ... try.

    Describe your screen to me.

    ps ...
    gtsamour gtsamour March 2007 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…

    Do you mean it's working as it should, only you get a non-colour image from the RF?
    Sorry for asking again, but when you said "black and white display" I thought you meant the typical white border - black paper screen of a non-working Spectrum.
    skagon skagon October 2013 Hardware
  • Issues with 48k spectrum and divIDEI heard you can have all kinds of issues with 48k spectrum and certain DivIDE models. Is this true and if so what should I look out for ? Only aski…

    ... the Spectrum stopped at the white border, black paper state. I had the ... any idea what caused that black screen?
    jimre jimre July 2014 Hardware
  • Issues with 48k spectrum and divIDEI heard you can have all kinds of issues with 48k spectrum and certain DivIDE models. Is this true and if so what should I look out for ? Only aski…

    ... the Spectrum stopped at the white border, black paper state. I had the ... any idea what caused that black screen?[/QUOTE]

    The DivIDE ...
    Dan Antohi Dan Antohi July 2014 Hardware
  • Seriously weird Issue 2 issue... (RAM-related)Hi guys; I have been trying to fix up my Issue 2 and have run across a bizarre issue that I haven't seen elsewhere in the forums. Hopefully one of …

    ... />
    On startup, the screen is briefly white border, black paper. There are five ... cascading red stripes on a black border) at which point it will ... of 10 to a black paper and white border, sometimes black paper with yellow ...
    Trafferth Trafferth August 2014 Hardware
  • Spectrum 48k Power On ProcessI have a 48k Spectrum here that maybe does something strange on power on. Could somebody confirm what is meant to happen when power is applied? On …

    ... white border, black paper - red bars up and down the screen, flash of black, then white ... paper, white border and a (c ...
    DEATH DEATH October 2014 Hardware
  • Spectrum 48k Power On ProcessI have a 48k Spectrum here that maybe does something strange on power on. Could somebody confirm what is meant to happen when power is applied? On …

    ... white border, black paper - red bars up and down the screen, flash of black, then white ... paper, white border and a (c ...
    Basher Basher October 2014 Hardware
  • New ZX-ULA2An upgraded / replacement ULA for the Sinclair ZX81 is now available. The ZX-ULA2 is a direct replacement for the standard ULA used in the Sinclair …

    ... of the ZX81, including the screen. Early ULAs were dogged by ... porch signal, which results in black text on a dark background ... Canada
    ? Switch between black no white or white on black screen output
    ? Enable ...
    rwap rwap December 2011 Sales
  • 48k issue 4B display problem etchi,, i have a zx spectrum 48k issue 4B with a display issue it has wavy lines in both the border and paper,some colours seem worse than others ie red…

    ... wavy lines in both the border and paper,some colours seem ... first boot will fail with white border/black paper with a few red ...
    mark8bit mark8bit June 2020 Hardware
  • On a 48K issue 6A......how can i isolate the 32K block? I want to test if there is any fault on the 4116's , leaving the 4532's out of the equation. Will removing the …

    ... be booting normally, showing a white border, black paper, thin red vertical lines ...
    odious odious March 2007 Hardware
  • faulty zxspectrum +hi all i just bought a speccy 48k+ off ebay it worked for like 15 mins now it is stuck on the reset screen. I fear this is something major maybe fau…

    ... i'm getting is a white border, black paper with some red lines ...
    rustyredline rustyredline December 2009 Hardware
  • Repairing a torn trace on an Issue 2 PCBI've found what I think could be the reason for my Issue 2 board not working properly... There is a torn PCB trace beneath one end of where a new ULA…

    ... first of all got a white border (=good?) and a paper comprising ... offset) pattern of black, light blue and white colour blocks. A bit ... and now I get a white border, black paper, with what looks to ...
    Simon_Carr Simon_Carr August 2013 Hardware
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