Recent content by solidpro

Ending today, if anyone is interested!

Hi Everyone I'm in Milton Keynes, UK and i've listed a variety of boxed, fairly complete, great condition G3 iMac machines from my collection, which are on ebay auctions, ending next sunday (15th June). If you can collect (these are too fragile to post), please take a look as I'm sure boxed...

I've just bought myself two PS/2 Note N33 machines which are remarkably similar to the Note 425 / Thinkpad 350 - but possibly with a different hinge design - not necessarily how they're mounted to the chassis but the hinges themselves apparently instead of getting progressively stiffer to the...

Any chance of stating where or what the connector comes from and did you make any notes of the pinout? I am in the exact same situation with the monitor and no cable! Thanks

I appreciate your worry. I drilled a huge circular hole in the top of the case and put the machine outside the 5th floor window to ensure it's got a breeze. I also installed water cooling using sugarwater.

I got a small ATX power supply with it's newer 24-pin ATX adaptor and bought an adaptor to downsize it's power connector to the older 20-pin ATX standard, which has exactly the same keying on the pins as the 16-pin FM-Towns HR (just with 2 pairs chopped off one end). It was £9.45 here. Using...

Hi I definitely got the polarity the right way around on all the caps. I checked before and after and it's clearly marked on the PCB itself. When I wrote backwards, I mean C58 and C52 are 1000uf and 2200uf caps and as I noted them all down I may have mixed them up in my notes. I did replace...

Hey Everyone I bought an FM Towns II-HR which was powering up fine and then just decided not to do anything. I disassembled the machine and completely recapped the power supply with new RS-Components caps and it still doesn't power on. There is about a 10% chance that on the PSU, I got...

Sorry for trying to warn everyone that at least one of those caps is known to be poorly manufactured and very close to a bunch of tiny tracks that will destroy your board. I mean why bother taking anyone's advice ever? Why not learn that the motorway isn't suitable for yoga practice without...

Cool. Why bother to diffuse a time bomb that hasn't gone off?

Hi everyone. I'm still trying to source a replacement 'graphyc-1' daughterboard - is this board found in the MZ-80A or any other of the MZ machines? Thanks!

You're looking at the wrong caps. You have to completely remove the video card from the system (which means removing the ISA cards and riser) to see the most dangerous through-hole caps. There aren't very many but if you look at my earlier pics, you'll see one right in the centre of the board...

Caps on the video board: C1 10uf 50v C3 47uf 25v C4 10uf 25v C6 22uf 25v All standard, through-hole electrolytics.

Sorry, I was in a stress because time was passing and I only meant to do the floppy and then was in a hurry going by a few ideas given to me at the time that the video board was the issue. The video board most of the way across the top and has the external SVGA connector on it. You have to pull...

Ok so word of warning to anyone with a P70. I originally only had a fault with my floppy drive, which was fixed by replacing the 5 capacitors with ceramic sm ones, lubricating the corkscrew thing and cleaning the head with IPA. All 5 surface mounted caps on my floppy were leaking and crusty. I...