First post, by duddingston
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Hi all - my first post here. Grateful for your wisdom!
I've got hold of an 5160. I spent a wee bit of time taking it all apart and cleaning up all the boards and the PSU. Checked all DIP settings and hooked up to my monochrome monitor. I've not yet got an XT keyboard, but it's on its way.
Pic of the cleaned up computer here:
https://imgur.com/a/E5S1KMH
It didn't run when I flicked the switch. I located and removed some problematic capacitors (C56 and C58) and sure enough the thing kicked in. I then added all the boards it came with and tried running it again. Pop! Something blew and a little tiny cloud of black smoke came rising up. I thought it was the floppy controller (no reason, other than the cloud seemed to come from that location) and so I took that one out. Since then, I've put it back in and tried firing it up and it seems to be OK. The POST error I'm getting is missing keyboard.
Does anyone know what the C56 and C58 capacitors do (i.e. whether it might be linked to the popping 'incident'), and whether I should replace them? Once I have the keyboard I'll be able to work out what exactly the 'pop' may have killed.
Thanks!