Apple Ii won’t read ROMS

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Apple Ii won’t read ROMS

It's so strange . My Apple II can't boot with roms at the main board but can do with those roms installed on a romcard at slot #0 .I've checked socket connections and they look 

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possibilities

Could be broken or dirty ROM sockets, or the 74LS138 at F12, or the 74LS08 at H1

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What exactly do you mean by "can"t boot?" Does it beep, print Apple ][, or just leave a scrambled screen? Only  really need the F8 ROM to boot so concentrate there. What happens when you remove the ROM card? You can also try swapping the F8 ROM from the ROM card.

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All sockets are continuity

robespierre wrote:

Could be broken or dirty ROM sockets, or the 74LS138 at F12, or the 74LS08 at H1

All sockets are continuity checked ok, those ICs are fine, I installed them at other machine and it worked.

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Scrambled ascii code

jeffmazur wrote:

What exactly do you mean by "can"t boot?" Does it beep, print Apple ][, or just leave a scrambled screen? Only  really need the F8 ROM to boot so concentrate there. What happens when you remove the ROM card? You can also try swapping the F8 ROM from the ROM card.

Scrambled ascii code sometimes beep when I press reset but not monitor prompt and of course no typing characters. Roms are Integer

 

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