I am waiting for my ez clear chips to arrive so I went ahead and changed the mpu battery. The one in it was dead, completely.
When the machine is powered on, there is nothing on the readouts. I would think whether or not a board is in or if the u43&u28 chips are not installed I would still get some kind of error.
I have checked the power supply and it is good per the voltages printed next to the "check areas" of the backplane board. Also, non of the breaker/fuses are bad/popped.
So my question is, should I be getting an error on the displays without the mpu installed or with mpu installed and no u43&u28 chips. I would hate to waste a set of ez clears if there is other issues.