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More fixer-up acquisitions from the past couple of weeks: Power Mac G5 (Dual 2.0GHz) (Was non-operational) Because having a working G5 wasn't interesting enough. In all seriousness it was bought for being more suited to DAW usage than my dual 1.8GHz, as this has PCI-X slots and twice the max...

No luck with rejoining traces, unfortunately. I'll have to check the vias a lot more thoroughly than I did at first, then probably get the bodge wire out. I've also got a Tecra 740CDT that was saved from being dissolved by battery juice, but I still want to try and resurrect this one. EDIT...

Well look what just got listed for sale near me 😅

Brilliant! Many thanks for this. Although I did update the boot ROM to 4.4.8f2, thinking it might fix the odd CPU speed reporting: It did :D

It's almost definitely the trackpoint stick. Can it be disabled in Windows device manager or the BIOS? Nice G-Shock, by the way 😀

This thread has some really useful info in it, thanks for sharing! The table that was linked, showing the resistor configs on the CPU board that set the multiplier, is useful in particular: It turns out that the multiplier config for 417MHz and 1.42GHz is the same!!! Further proof that...

Last weekend I got a chance to go down to the e-waste recycler with my MDD. No, not to drop it off (though that was tempting), but to experiment with another MDD that they had. This other MDD had a dual 867MHz CPU board, which I chucked into my MDD to see if it would reproduce the sleep issue...

Well this is embarrassing. It's a good thing that I thought to run a benchmark before messing with the CPU board. Here's the machine's Geekbench 2.20 result: Benchmark Summary Integer Score 1579 |||||||||||||||||||| Floating Point Score 1368 |||||||||||||||||| Memory...

This is a new one: This dual 1.42GHz CPU board has suddenly turned into a dual 417MHz board. My immediate thought is that something has happened to the resistors that set the FSB multiplier, which has caused it to go from 8.5x to 2.5x. The resistors are still present, on the correct pads...

Considering the sheer frequency of me acquiring retro gear, I may as well document it all in one thread: The latest - AlBook 12" This one is a bottom-of-the-range 867MHz with mini-VGA. Despite the photo, it's not in great shape. The exterior of the chassis is particularly beaten up, down to...

You're absolutely right, I missed the "6/V110H" on the battery 😁 Thankfully 90s Toshibas usually have their RTC and suspend batteries a reasonable distance away from anything vital. There's a good chance that this laptop can be saved.

Currently have one Palm and three interlopers. Family photo: Left to right: 3Com Palm V, Sony Clie NR70V, HP iPAQ 211, Psion Revo. The Clie and the iPAQ are operational. The Palm V needs its battery replaced - the thing is glued together like a smartphone so I haven't been motivated enough...

This week I picked up a 1998 Toshiba Satellite 480CDT with a docking station included. I got it for next to nothing, surprising considering that anything with a Yamaha OPL3 chip seems to be popular with buyers. The seller stated "screen does not turn on" and posted a photo of the laptop...

Fair enough, I know from experience that it isn't a simple swap..... No chime and the CPU fan going into Lamborghini mode seem to be new issues. A few things you could try: - re-seating the video card (AGP is really finicky, issues could be caused by the card being on a fraction-of-an-inch...

Are you able to try the new video card with the original MDD power supply?