Stupid Crystal Questions

[DiskChris]

Im having trouble installing the oscillator crystal...I think I have the orientation right (dot on crystal aligned with marking on board) but the crystal isnt going all the way way into the socket and I get a black screen on startup.

[DiskChris]

The old one fell out of the socket and broke once when I was messing around

[DiskChris]

appears to be in the right way.

ah, how does a crystal "fall out" and more to the point, how does it then break? you could throw one at a wall and probably not break it...

I must have caught it against the side of something....Somehow the crystal came out, and a pin broke .   Now I'm getting a white screen with a flickering power led....The only thing I can think of is the original crystal was 28.322 mhz and this one is 16 and maybe that's why its not working??  Its a gvp a3001 accelerator.

[DiskChris]

@stefcep2
It was off when it fell out (I had removed the board to get to something inside the case)

[DiskChris]

The notch on the crystal was lined up with the notch on the board...