Thanks, this one was a simple fix but sometimes it nice to get a straight forward problem.

Thanks. Where possible I like to try to think out the issue before jumping in to replace things and the spectrum is simple enough that we can logically work it where the problem is.

Thanks, kind of you to say so. Sometimes a repair can lead you down a path but this one just worked out nice and simple.

Thanks Fred, I did consider removing the socket to just repair the trace in situ but just handier to just install the wire.

Not so sunny here in NI either but was worth testing to be sure.

Deep in thought

Yep, even compared to the next iteration of 16 bit machines, the spectrum here is very simple.

Thanks Snorkers, always satisfying to bring a spectrum back from the dead, even if it seems it was me who killed it in the first place.

@@CRG I blame your evil alter-ego!

Thanks

Possibly, I never thought of that but I guess you're correct. Maybe just need to be a little more careful in the future. Although I could have swore I tested it after fitting the new CPU but maybe not.

Yeah that's the one, just a slip on my part.

a.k.a. "solder mask".

@@AttilaAsztalos yup, that’s the common name for it.

I have a mod done to the Spectrum to use the eeprom and the bar you see linking pins 28 and pin 1 is feeding 5v into pin 1 to select that particular bank in the rom. Not essential since I have the same rom image in all 4 banks but better than leaving it floating. You could actually fit a switch and change between the different banks to select different rom images. I might look at doing that.

My precious...

@@CRG indeed

Well spotted, it should be to R12 as you say.

@@CRG Thank you for clearing that up. I am not very experienced, and that was confusing me.

Posing a question to the potential audience drives interest, why is it faulty?, click on the video to find out. Could be called clickbait of a sorts but its a flooded market and us creators need to do all we can to get people in the door. It certainly seems to have brought you here.

@@CRG called clickbait? Nah its just clickbait. So the answer to a flooded market is to add more clickbait? I wonder when the pendulum will swing the other way and actual informative titles will take over again instead of this dumb shit.

But is it dumb... I'm posing a question, the same question I posed myself when I discovered it was faulty. I suppose I could have went with the title "I fixed my Spectrum" or "I fixed a broken trace" which ultimately is the result of this 15 minute video. In that case I could have made this a 30 second video and just showed the repair but then there is no story, no process of discovery to understand the fault and maybe help someone diagnose their own faulty machine. The true definition of clickbait is a title or thumbnail that promises something but does not deliver. That's not the case with my video or at least I hope not. I posed the question, then answered it. It could be argued it's clickbait but then again, isn't everything. Your comments are obviously written in a tone to try and drive interaction from me. Some might call that a troll but I wouldn't go that far . Ultimately no one is forcing you to watch the video, yet you clicked on the thumbnail and title as is. From your comments I can only assume you were disappointed with the content?

@@CRG its mild mockery of the recent (hah, been going on for years) trend of using useless red arrows pointing at obvious things, mind numbing titles, posing stupid or yes/no questions (law of headlines) - like come on man - show some finesse? How about 'A curious case of a broken trace inside my ZX Spectrum'?

I actually really like that title and if we'd have had his conversation before it went live then I absolutely would have went with it. The overarching problem you describe is very evident through KZfaq and lots of folk take it to the extreme with AI artwork, anime girl poses and other obviously fake nonsense in their thumbnails and I don't like the use of that as it does nothing to draw my interest but that's what its all about drawing interest. You get but only a few seconds of a person attention span to them to see the thumbnail read the title and make a decision on if to watch or not and in our group of KZfaqrs posing a question is certainly one way of getting the people interested. I'll have a deeper think for a title for my next video which features the backplane you may have seen at the end of this video.

He certainly does.