I have a 600XL that I bought at a garage sale back in the late 80's ($6, still in the box!). I had someone upgrade it to 64K and used it for several years. In the mid 90's I boxed it up and it has been in storage since then.
It worked fine when I put it in storage. Yesterday I pull it out and it does not work. When turned on the "power" LED lights up, but that's about it. The TV goes from snow (when the XL is off) to a blank screen (black, reddish tinge after a while) when the XL is turned on. Tried both channel 2 and 3 and tried running it through a VCR's tuner (set to 2 and 3) and the result is the same. Attached a 1050 drive that appears to still work (lights up and goes through the "spin up" when inserting a disk) and tried to to boot a disk. The 600XL does not appear to communicate with the drive as the drive does not do anything when the XL is turned on.
Do these old 8-bit Ataris die of old age if they are not used? Any ideas what could be the problem?
Thanks!
Dean
It worked fine when I put it in storage. Yesterday I pull it out and it does not work. When turned on the "power" LED lights up, but that's about it. The TV goes from snow (when the XL is off) to a blank screen (black, reddish tinge after a while) when the XL is turned on. Tried both channel 2 and 3 and tried running it through a VCR's tuner (set to 2 and 3) and the result is the same. Attached a 1050 drive that appears to still work (lights up and goes through the "spin up" when inserting a disk) and tried to to boot a disk. The 600XL does not appear to communicate with the drive as the drive does not do anything when the XL is turned on.
Do these old 8-bit Ataris die of old age if they are not used? Any ideas what could be the problem?
Thanks!
Dean