The Sinclair QL Forum

Thank you all for suggestions. I ended up purchasing a replacement motherboard for my QL from Rich/RWAP (Thanks for the quick transaction Rich). Just installed it a while ago and it is all good now :) I might attempt recovering that modified motherboard later when I have gotten past the initial ...

I do think that it will be a steep curve to remove that memory upgrade, as all of the chips have been piggy backed - it is a lot of de-soldering.

It might just be easier to get another QL motherboard - I have several here which need testing!

I´ve sent you an e-mail inquiring about those QL ...

Take a look at the QL Service Manual (for example there is a link to the PDF on this page: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/documentation.html ), section 2.2 explains how to diagnose startup issues. The ZX8301 (or most of it anyways :) ) is likely working if you correctly see the inititial dot ...

Hello and greetings from Finland.

I recently got a hold of a Sinclair QL that unfortunatelly seems to have some issues starting up :( Not being familiar with the QL (used to have a Speccy in the 80s) I am not 100% sure how the normal QL start-up should look like. I am expecting to see the start-up ...