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I am terrible at troubleshooting power supplies. I purchased a 6100 and it was dead, I was hoping it would be a simple recap but after that it was still dead.
I tested some voltages, nothing on the DC side. I pulled the heat syncs and tested the transistors and such, nothing. After looking...
I got this machine years ago but never pulled it off the shelf to work on it. After working through some others I finally put it on the bench.
The floppy drive was super frozen, finally got all the old grease out of it and made it work smoothly again. The pressure pad had come off and not only...
I recapped this classic board, it was just flupping when powered on when I got it. After the recap it had the checkerboard with wavy pinched video. The 12V rail was 11.1V but it would slowly rise until it was high enough to power on properly. I ran the board through the dishwasher and dried it...