Hi all. I've got a PCB here originally from a motorised robot car which according to the manufacturers has a blown sound chip. The cpu does seem to be working as the i/0 lines are being toggled and the crystal is running on frequency, but is not responding to the trigger pins even though they are being polled.
The CPU (whatever it is) has the crystal on two pins near the bottom left of the chip, and the sound chip is a 44 pin quad flat pack. It looks like the 5v regulator lost its ground pin and applied +8V to the logic for an indeterminate time :(
PCB is labeled ST003 v2 if this helps.
Anyone seen this fault before? I really do not want to change a =A3150+ board for a =A33 sound chip! (someone's sanded off ALL the markings grr)
The sound storage EPROM is a 24C002 (2 megabit) and that looks intact.
Thanks in advance,
-A