16-12-2024, 07:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 16-12-2024, 07:31 PM by DrStrangelove.)
Odd, innit?
No progress on the original problem, so just to create more I powered up a rather more modern (10 year old) Win2k box.
Naturally enough as dead as the proverbial dodo.
Noticed the rather dubious looking capacitors next to the processor, so glued some 1000uF 25V 85 deg caps under the MB.
And lo! it sprang back to life again.
Which was good.
The Really Ancient (bits are from about 1990 IIRC, other bits are later) 586 Win3.1 box that sits next to it came back to life without much fuss.
I had thought this was the box that originally drove the scanner, but it appears not.
It does drive the equally ancient Needham electronics eprom programmer.
At least I can now have a look at the NTFS drive that's giving trouble, though whether or not that's an advantage is currently moot.
No progress on the original problem, so just to create more I powered up a rather more modern (10 year old) Win2k box.
Naturally enough as dead as the proverbial dodo.
Noticed the rather dubious looking capacitors next to the processor, so glued some 1000uF 25V 85 deg caps under the MB.
And lo! it sprang back to life again.
Which was good.
The Really Ancient (bits are from about 1990 IIRC, other bits are later) 586 Win3.1 box that sits next to it came back to life without much fuss.
I had thought this was the box that originally drove the scanner, but it appears not.
It does drive the equally ancient Needham electronics eprom programmer.
At least I can now have a look at the NTFS drive that's giving trouble, though whether or not that's an advantage is currently moot.
