Re: Toshiba Satellite 200CDS 810 - troubleshooting and general info

Posted on Today, 09:59

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by Nexxen

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I've got one of the floppy drives with the external caddy. I could check pinouts potentially? The drives they use are often not working these days since many of the drives at that time were belt driven, which have all stretched out now. One thing I would recommend is that instead of relying on …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 200CDS 810 - troubleshooting and general info

Posted on 2021-02-25, 17:28

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by Nexxen

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Lacking a FDD makes it less interesting, requiring to remove the SD card a lot or burning cds. Having a floppy drive would help somewhat or at least trying a Gotek might save the day. FDDs aren't eternal. Ext FDD pinout ---- regular FDD interface pinout 001 VCC 002 IFINDX;000 I ---- Index 003 VCC …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 200CDS 810 - troubleshooting and general info

Posted on 2021-02-25, 16:33

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by Nexxen

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Update: - ram expansion is only a bunch of ram chips soldered and there's nothing more than that; adding ram is actually soldering more chips and more capacitors; - floppy disk drive: I'm trying to figure out the pinout of the ext FDD, maybe there's a way to connect an ordinary FDD to it; I'm still …

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Re: QDI P5I430VX 230 LC S1.2 Socket 7 MB - QDI Explorer IV ver 1.0

Posted on 2021-02-24, 15:46

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by Nexxen

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PC100 SDRAM should theoretically be backwards compatible but there was a lot of variation in quality in the early days. Maybe it is a BIOS issue ? I used to have this exact board in the past and as far as I remember (not 100% sure though) it worked with both pc66 and pc100 sticks.QDI.JPG This w/e …

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Re: QDI P5I430VX 230 LC S1.2 Socket 7 MB - QDI Explorer IV ver 1.0

Posted on 2021-02-24, 05:46

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by Nexxen

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The manual even shows the setting for 83MHz FSB. The chipset only officially supports up to 66MHz FSB and does not offer dividers for higher speeds so maybe that's why the avaliable FSB settings aren't listed as supported on win3x.org even though they're listed in the manual? According to this …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 200CDS 810 - troubleshooting and general info

Posted on 2021-02-23, 02:10

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by Nexxen

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Drivers for SB Pro ver 2 work. Zak McKracken has sound. Monkey Island has sound. Those are games that I like and they work. Castles 2 doesn't have sound, but I think I need some tinkering to make it work. Will look into it. Phil's starter pack for ms-dos is handy and the only adjustment is last …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 200CDS 810 - troubleshooting and general info

Posted on 2021-02-21, 16:07

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RAM 16MB looks low to me. There's an expansion card with 8MB, but can hold as much as 32MB. Model is KTT 610/32, or ktt 610-32... Maybe I can solder some chips and pimp it up. Has D4218160LG5-A60-7JF 2MB . Now I have to find them at a decent price or an equivalent chip. I believe they are 60ns, …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 200CDS 810 - troubleshooting and general info

Posted on 2021-02-21, 14:32

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Screen: "11.3-inch, Thin Film Transistor (TFT) color LCD with 800 x 600 pixels. The 200CDS has an 11.3-inch Dual-scan Supertwist Nematic (DSTN) color LCD with 800 x 600 pixels. The built-in display controller supports 800 x 600 resolution with 16M colors capability and up to 1280 x 1024 resolution …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 200CDS - troubleshooting and general info

Posted on 2021-02-20, 02:13

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Now cd-rom is working. Model is XM-1402B, 6x reading speed :) I loaded mscdex and used oak technology generic driver, but gives error cdr101. Maybe I should use a specific Toshiba driver? When I put a cd in it actually spins a bit and then stops. Trying to read anything results in a reading error. …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 200CDS - troubleshooting and general info

Posted on 2021-02-19, 18:05

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Battery replacement: 1) RTC 2)Sub-battery I found several 3.6v but 20mAh instead of 30, is that ok? To me it's just going to last less. Same for sub battery. Really need help on this. Thanks

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 200CDS - troubleshooting and general info

Posted on 2021-02-19, 15:43

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 200CDS - troubleshooting and general info

Posted on 2021-02-19, 15:07

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by Nexxen

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The RTC battery plug on the m/b is corroded, leak travelled down through the cables to the plug. The plastic plug can't be removed, but it came out shiny after vinegar.

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 200CDS - troubleshooting and general info

Posted on 2021-02-19, 14:57

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I removed the sub-battery as it was already dead and bulging. The plastic wrapping saved the system from bad leaking. Sub-battery, 7.2V 110mAh 6/V110H Ni-MH RTC battery is dead and I need to replace it, 3.6V 30mAh Ni-MH 3/V30H Being Ni-MH batteries there's no battery hack possible and there are no …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 200CDS - troubleshooting and general info

Posted on 2021-02-16, 16:22

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 200CDS - troubleshooting and general info

Posted on 2021-02-16, 16:14

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 200CDS - troubleshooting and general info

Posted on 2021-02-16, 16:14

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Toshiba Satellite 200CDS 810 - troubleshooting and general info

Posted on 2021-02-16, 16:09

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by Nexxen

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Hello lovely people! I recently acquired this "dead" laptop for close to nothing, which turned out to be perfectly in shape. Seller didn't have the required power adapter, when the psu is internal... Doh! The HD it came with is clicky, had Ms-dos 6.2 + Win95 but wasn't booting. I'm reinstalling Ms- …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-02-15, 22:40

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by Nexxen

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Replaced a LAN ic, but it was an unyielding effort as the issue still esxists. Some other component is not working properly as voltage supplied is 30% lower than it should but I can't locate which it is. Still have plenty of 10/100 LAN cards, no biggie but 3 hours wasted for nothing.

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Re: Please help me get my 486 DX4 100 running

Posted on 2021-02-05, 20:20

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by Nexxen

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You can cap the HD to 3.2GB as on the label. If you want to upgrade to a bigger HD you can always make an image and restore it on the new HD. You'll have your 486 running in the meanwhile. Yes, buy a CF to IDE adapter and a flash card.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-02-04, 01:49

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by Nexxen

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Replaced 27 caps. Even my soldering iron hurts. 😀 Than played Doom. I deserved it.

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