Final update: Inpected the solider joints of the IDE connector on the main board and found one crack (see photo attached). The whole thing looked dirty - someone had already fixed this place already from the looks of it. Anyway, I have reflowed all the legs of the IDE connector and put the laptop …

Progress update: It turns out there is a loose contact somewhere between the HDD caddy and the motherboard. I can consistenly get the laptop to boot from HDD if I put it on the side and push the caddy in towards the motherboard connector and hold it that way. I worked it out after fully …

I have a Campaq Armada 1750 that was switching on ok, booting from CDROM ok but showing "1782 Disk Controller Failure" during POST. It would not boot from HDDs. I tried changing HDD - same "1782 Disk Controller Failure". I also tried inserting using a CF card with a CF2IDE adapter - no error message …

A while back, there have been a number of posts about a great tool for getting full screen (that is a "stretched" 4:3 aspect ratio on 320x200 DOS games) on laptops with a C&T 65550 & 65554 video chip called "VEXP", here on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/vexp13 This is targeted at a bunch …

Just following up on how you went with this issue - did you manage to fix it? Sorry for replaying after such a long time, but I wasn't active here and I didn't have much time to work on my retro hardware. Yes, I did manage to fix it. I just soldered a wire between the 2 connectors and it worked. I …

The result looks really good! Much better colours and nice to have it usable again, right? :) Could you share a picture or link for an example of the contact film? That was one you have to stick down I guess ? The air bubbles don't look too bad. I really don't like doing full stuck-on polariser …

Wanted to share what I ended u going with for my Toshiba T1950CS. After some trial and error with different sticky tapes and polarizers I used contact film (you know the one we use to protect our kids school books) and this polarizer: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B09WZSFG6P?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_ …

Just a follow up on my own previous post. I have ordered the Aliexpress front polarizer to try it. Not recieved yet. However, I also experimented with the following much cheaper polarizer (https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B09WZSFG6P) and had great results in conjunction with packing tape. Will post …

Just confirming... do you mean that just getting this (https://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005006357535916.html) is enough if I am changing only front polarizer on an Tooshiba T1950cs. Rught now I am using a generic polarizer and the image is very dull and not bright and not right contrast.

Just following up on how you went with this issue - did you manage to fix it? ksiumaxx wrote on 2023-04-27, 19:39: So I searched, and I wasn't able to find any motherboard that had a keyboard fuse. Even the older AT ones. What should I do?

Thanks for that link, I will be going through those . I think I saw one very similar already. Do you still need help with this one? I have just gone through setting mine up (same as yours) and worked things out. Red/Black wire is power (Red is positive / Black is negative). The three wire plug is …

I am in the same boat with Tecra 780 and screen stretch/scale issue. Would be so good if you could look into this - I would definitely owe you one! This is an old thread and probably not the right place to ask this, but thus far, this is the only custom S3 TSR I've found on the internet, so here …

Hey, I didnt have photos - sorry about that. I took some photos now - please see them below. After I assembled the PC back I thought: "Hmm what if I load just bare DOS 6.22 without anything in autoexec.bat and config.sys. So I did that and P100 returned much better results. My autoexec.bat and …

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Hi all, I have two systems out of which the 486 system outperforms the P100 system in 3dBenchmark. So I wanted to check with the community if it is how it is supposed to be or something is wrong. - 486dx4-100 , 16MB RAM, 256KB Cache, S3 Trio 64 V+ https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/D/ …