Re: Toshiba Satellite 200CDS 810 - troubleshooting and general info (KBC error - trying to solve, help needed)

Posted on 2024-05-22, 16:22

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by ediflorianUS

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what I miss? did you reflow stuff? bios did you ever found it? wasn't one on Archive org? I threw a temper tantrum caused by psychological fatigue. As of now I boxed the whole thing and stored it in the basement. In the future I'll try different things, in fact new ideas arose watching others …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 200CDS 810 - troubleshooting and general info (KBC error - trying to solve, help needed)

Posted on 2024-05-22, 15:14

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by ediflorianUS

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what I miss? did you reflow stuff? bios did you ever found it? wasn't one on Archive org?

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Re: Help / Advice repairing battery leak on Compaq Armada 7710MT

Posted on 2024-05-22, 14:44

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by ediflorianUS

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Did you clean it? Did contact cleaner or/& WD did the job? can you see if you pull KB cable+ screen cable if all 3 lights are up? can you use a V-meter on Ohm settings on a cap and see if it*s shorted? *That C542 Cap in 2nd image seems changed already.... that big chip next to the corrosion may be …

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Re: Problematic Pioneer CD-DVD drive. It's noisy and struggles to read discs.

Posted on 2024-05-22, 14:38

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by ediflorianUS

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I have a similar problem, but it occurs more sporadically, in general the drive slows down but is fully usable. In case the drive stops working, I have an idea. Maybe it is possible to transfer the head from a no-slot-in drive from the same period? For example, Pioneer DVD-114. These drives can be …

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Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades

Posted on 2024-05-22, 14:25

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by ediflorianUS

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For broken(leaky) Japanese screens - only YT video I found (with any relevance to a fix, it is for a mac but applies for old made in japan laptop screens).

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Re: Electronics Guessing game , can anyone identify missing components on this GeForce 4 MX 440? black pcb

Posted on 2024-05-22, 14:02

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by ediflorianUS

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There a re markings on the PCB for everything C=capacitor, R=resistor, L=inductor... Look for a list of these abbreviations. Do you have any specific component in mind? Also note that not everything was necessarily populated, for example the components near the missing connector (DVI?) were not …

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Re: Intel i945/GMA950 GPU

Posted on 2024-05-22, 11:17

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by ediflorianUS

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Thanks. I've got the last version of GMAbooster but it had a weird time limiter on it that was intended to force you to update by a certain date - doesn't actually do anything to the functionality but if the date is after some point in 2017 it refuses to start. I've just been switching the date …

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Electronics Guessing game , can anyone identify missing components on this GeForce 4 MX 440? black pcb

Posted on 2024-05-22, 11:08

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by ediflorianUS

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Electronics Guessing game , can anyone identify missing components on this Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 440-SE with black pcb? I think it is Sapphire.....

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Re: Intel i945/GMA950 GPU

Posted on 2024-01-10, 15:57

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by ediflorianUS

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I'm getting an old Dell D430 working for some projects, and I'd also like to know if anyone has a version of GMATweaker? The site was never archived and no longer exists. The GMABooster app is also date limited and it doesn't seem to be possible to get a serial anymore. I did all of that back 10 …

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Re: Minimum hardware specs to enjoy Doom and Doom2

Posted on 2023-11-14, 15:44

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by ediflorianUS

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wasn't CL settings of the MB and Write trough that made the DOOM slow on DX2? I use to play on the 486... seemed fine

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Re: PCChips M396F instable start

Posted on 2023-11-14, 15:24

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by ediflorianUS

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Does that happen when you have a battery in it? (did you properly clean the board? alcohol or contact/brake/multipurpuse cleaner ?) did you check with a magnifiyng glass for cracked solder spots/joints? Although I’m not so bad at cleaning leakage, broken tracks, etc and have a whole barrel of …

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Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades

Posted on 2023-11-14, 15:18

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by ediflorianUS

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oim37 wrote on 2023-11-08, 10:52: Or this must be work https://www.pccables.com/Products/6FT-NEC-MUL … 15-Male-Monitor ? I think it's fine , just recheck the pins and pin orders and evrything if it's not working you have to "edit" it. *EGA

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Re: Gona's PCI and AGP video card DOS compatibility chart

Posted on 2023-11-14, 15:10

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by ediflorianUS

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I never had issues in loading dos on any GPU , is this exclusevly for gaming(chart?)

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Re: PCChips M396F instable start

Posted on 2023-11-14, 15:04

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by ediflorianUS

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Does that happen when you have a battery in it? (did you properly clean the board? alcohol or contact/brake/multipurpuse cleaner ?) did you check with a magnifiyng glass for cracked solder spots/joints?

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2023-11-14, 14:30

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by ediflorianUS

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The yellow stuff you can make white (snow-white) with a UV lamp + watter&bleach/peroxid (let it sat for a few hours or overnight).

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Re: Any Asus P4VP-MX , VT8235+VIA VT8751 (P4M266) Experts around?

Posted on 2023-11-14, 14:17

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by ediflorianUS

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LE. someone suggested on the forum " On my MSI K8T Neo2 board the negative 5V rail provided by older ATX PSUs is mandatory. Using a newer ATX PSU without -5V results in no POST, no picture, dead as a stone. I've found on the net that the MSI K8N seems to have the same issue, maybe that's true for …

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Re: Asus A8n-sli premium won't post

Posted on 2023-11-14, 14:05

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by ediflorianUS

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On my MSI K8T Neo2 board the negative 5V rail provided by older ATX PSUs is mandatory. Using a newer ATX PSU without -5V results in no POST, no picture, dead as a stone. I've found on the net that the MSI K8N seems to have the same issue, maybe that's true for your board as well? Do you have an PSU …

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Any Asus P4VP-MX , VT8235+VIA VT8751 (P4M266) Experts around?

Posted on 2023-11-14, 13:48

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by ediflorianUS

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As subject title suggests , I have a Asus P4VP-MX ,mb /motherboard , with VT8235+VIA VT8751 (P4M266) Via Chipsets on it. The board is a salvage , trying to fix her, had a blown Realtek ALC655 chip , I disoldered the chip, Power led is on , fan spins , gpu slot get's power , new 3v battery. IT won't …

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Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades

Posted on 2023-11-03, 22:31

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by ediflorianUS

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Hi all. Recently I remembered about an old laptop and decided to start it up; for about 5 years it just sat there and before that it worked well, played Duke Nuke on it. But now when I turned it on I saw that the screen was flickering in a strange way. You can barely see what's written there at all …

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Re: GPU upgrade...or not... Legacy Nvidia G80 8800 GTX topic fix or not.... repair data in topic

Posted on 2023-11-02, 16:39

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by ediflorianUS

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shevalier wrote on 2023-11-02, 16:32: ediflorianUS wrote on 2023-11-02, 15:58: How do I check if it's a ram module? or the GPU ? https://github.com/ihaque/memtestCL Works great on Radeons. At nVidia - it should be too, besides there is a CUDA version. tnx I wil try-it

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