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kiwa

@kiwa@bitbang.social

computing cat

feel free to message me, I'm very slow to reply though.

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i think it's time i learn how to use kicad

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So I'm slowly working on documenting every single old computer related thing I have, I want to have tested drivers and everything, I'm starting with the single board computers

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rammy fursuit when

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Never considered it but cf card plastics it's also becoming very brittle on some cards lol, it's not even that old

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Beat up kiwa

kiwa,
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maybe you will need to remove the mobo and check the lcd connection, i think it's probably under this metal piece. maybe some capacitor goo leaked there or maybe it's just dirty

kiwa,
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@paulrickards let me check i still have mine disassembled

kiwa,
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@paulrickards

What I did was remove all the screws, then move these tabs that hold the battery springs, just carefully lift from there and from the PCMCIA eject button side, the board should lift easily

As you can see it separates the "core" from the top case so if you need you can remove the screen

The screen is connected with a ribbon cable, check there.

There is also a small 3.3 35v cap, on mine looks fine but I would replace it at some point

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kiwa,
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@paulrickards ouch, but it still looks connected, can you check if they are shorted to each other, maybe it's ok? Otherwise I know everything is very small and fragile but I would try to bend them back with a very sharp thin tool

kiwa,
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@paulrickards ah that's disappointing, but it's good that they are not shorted, at least in the photo it looks like they are properly connected so that's good.

i'm still wondering were the issue could be then, maybe there is a trace damaged somewhere

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@paulrickards ah but seeing it like that, yeah it looks like it was the screen, I was suspecting some sort of contrast regulation issue but maybe the panel itself seems to be damaged, but it's a really weird failure pattern

kiwa,
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@paulrickards yeah but it's software, there is a small potentiometer I think on the motherboard but I'm not sure what it does

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Tag yourself

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How to make a fursuit with a fax machine

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someone is selling a mac quadra 605, i love the quadra 605

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Mine is sleeping 😴

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Repairing this SBC, it has a ton of cold solder joints, but it looks like it's finally booting, now I need to fix the rest of the issues like why is not detecting the hard disk

The bios status page displaying the hardware info

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That's better

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I'm still having data corruption sometimes but I noticed a damaged resistor network I'll try to replace that

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modern operating systems require at least 128mb system memory for optimum performance

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new computer

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😴 running doom on random hardware

😺 running windows 95 solitaire on random hardware

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looks like i don't have to work this weekend, good, i mean i like the extra money but i also don't want to do it lol

kiwa,
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@Legion495 we do it once a year, it's maintenance to our systems, i don't mind because it's good extra money

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