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How to run diagnostic on DE-10

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2020 3:27 pm
by lamp
Hello,

Having some issues with stability.

Occasionally the keyboard locks up, and I had an issue where after loading a core (with no system rom), loading other cores had seriously garbled video. Even the snow effect on the main menu was messed up after a soft reboot. Doing a hard reboot resolved the video corruption.

Wondering if I can do a diagnostic to work out if there is anything wrong with the unit.

I wonder if it might be the power supply. I added an IO board and a USB hub board, and wondering if there is enough power. I was plugging in a USB Wifi dongle, a keyboard dongle, a wired Buffalo pad. The fan of top was set to low speed, and I wasn't doing anything strenious during the crashes (running 8-bit computers at stock Mhz).

I see that the official PSU is rated at 2Amps but there are PSUs that go up to 4A.

Just want to be sure that my board isn't broken.

Thoughts?

Re: How to run diagnostic on DE-10

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2020 6:21 pm
by rhester72
The garbled video thing (that clears on hard reset) is 'normal'.

Re: How to run diagnostic on DE-10

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2020 11:08 am
by Newsdee
I believe it happens when cores switch too quickly. Not sure what else affects it, but a power cycle always fixes it.