Re: System that REFUSES to boot to a valid/working disk
Posted on 2023-10-26, 00:12
Are you sure your Hard Drive is healthy ? Can you post a SMART LOG.
Re: [Win98SE] Drives are in MS-DOS compatibility mode, but why?
Posted on 2023-07-28, 23:55
MBR Virus ?
Re: Need to identify a missed capacitor on BEK-P407 aka LS-486E Rev D
Posted on 2023-07-04, 23:54
I see a "4" on the top of the cap and, by the size, should be a 470uF. 16 Volt would be fine.
Re: HELP NEEDED - Varta Damage to 386 Motherboard. References for repair needed.
Posted on 2023-06-07, 00:38
Same chipset but lot of chips are smd in your board. I didn't notice at first glance.
Re: HELP NEEDED - Varta Damage to 386 Motherboard. References for repair needed.
Posted on 2023-06-06, 01:20
Got the same board some years ago from a friend, with the same VARTA killer. Removed the battery and forgot about it for months until I eventually decided to try to clean and check it. Lot of people use vinegar or citric acid, but I usually use a gel containing hydrochloric acid (the stuff used to …
Re: Troubleshooting two Slot 1 Asus motherboards
Posted on 2023-06-04, 00:27
When the MB is cold, try heating the caps with a hair dryer and see if it boots up.
Re: Troubleshooting two Slot 1 Asus motherboards
Posted on 2023-06-03, 00:41
Try replacing the tiny smd cap near the clock generator. Bigger caps seem to be Rubycon and Sanyo and they age usually well if not thermal stressed.
Re: Mario and Luigi Ms-Dos clone by Mike Wiering and ATI RADEON
Posted on 2023-04-18, 00:19
leileilol wrote on 2023-04-17, 21:09: alexclaudiu2003 wrote on 2023-04-17, 20:07: I tried with ChatGPT The hype of AI doesn't mean you can summon Michael Abrash on demand. 😁😁😁
Re: How can I remove all the contents under a certain directory in an easy way in MS-DOS 5.0?
Posted on 2023-04-03, 23:57
DELTREE came with MSDOS 6.0. But it works fine in lower version, MS removed the annoying DOS version check. Another very useful command I moved from DOS 6 to my MS-DOS 5.0 PC is MOVE (pun intended!).
Re: Check WD Hard Drives with “Data Lifeguard Diagnostics” suggestions…
Posted on 2023-03-17, 01:49
Seagate Hardware ECC on SEAGATE http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t= … ware+ECC#p13969
Re: Check WD Hard Drives with “Data Lifeguard Diagnostics” suggestions…
Posted on 2023-03-14, 01:09
Weedeewee is right, Official tools are just to check if drive is for RMA. With Victoria and MHDD you can get lot of info on the health of the drive, but if you want to get really inside it, download WDMARVEl demo from the link below and take a look at the internal defect lists of the drive. Since …
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2023-01-26, 01:26
On the QDI all caps are gone!
Re: Can all the tantalum capacitors on a motherboard be shorted?
Posted on 2023-01-24, 01:38
What would really help here would be a - milliohmeter - , since it's quite common to have multiple caps in the same power rail in most electronic devices. With such device would be very easy to tell tiny fractions of ohms and finding the capacitor with the lowest resistance. Must build one one of …
Re: Windows 98 SE stuck in MS-DOS Filesystem/Virtual memory compatibility mode.
Posted on 2023-01-18, 01:30
You may try unistalling the chipset drivers and see if it makes any difference.
Re: Windows 98 SE stuck in MS-DOS Filesystem/Virtual memory compatibility mode.
Posted on 2023-01-17, 01:45
To clean the MBR just boot from a clean floppy and type FDISK /MBR, assuming you have just one HD. But reading that the problem occurred after installing the chipset drivers I suppose that a virus it's not the cause of the issue. You may try restoring an old registry configuration booting in DOS …
Re: Windows 98 SE stuck in MS-DOS Filesystem/Virtual memory compatibility mode.
Posted on 2023-01-16, 02:23
MBR virus may cause this.
Re: 230W PSU - keep it or kick it?
Posted on 2022-12-03, 01:04
I will populate the missing components of the filter on the primary side, and replace those "Y" caps with proper ones too.
Re: Repairing shorted turbo display?
Posted on 2022-11-03, 01:33
Most likely some power line shorted to ground. I would check for copper trace melted or broken. A clearer picture would help.
Re: Think its bad caps?
Posted on 2022-09-18, 00:17
I don't think those purple caps are polymers .
Re: Got HDD, "format c trying to recover allocation unit" issues, ran ScanDisk and WDigital Diagnostic, no issues found?
Posted on 2022-08-21, 00:32
Attribute 199: Ultra ATA CRC Error Count is not 0, so check your IDE cables and the connection to the drive and to the motherboard. Loose cable and bad connections were pretty common with IDE drives, altough even with serial drive they are not rare! Other attributes indicates an healty drive, but I …
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