Jump to content

iamdarkyoshi

Retired Staff
  • Posts

    12,696
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by iamdarkyoshi

  1. I know I've been gone a hot minute but I'm back! A lot has changed in my life while I was gone from the forums, but that's a topic for another day. For today, we've got a commodore 64 with matching monitor and disk drive , even have a joystick to go with it, But they're not in the best of shape at the moment... I figured I'd make this a bit of a repair log, and post updates here as I make progress. Here's what we're working with currently: The cats seem to be quite amused by the lot: This is all well within my realm of insanity to get working again. I've even got a fully working C64 I can test chips in. Stay tuned for updates! I go back to work wednesday night so progress will be halted until sunday evening rolls around, but I'll try to make some progress on the lot tonight, starting with the monitor. Update 1: Monitor works outstandingly well! Next up is the C64!
  2. iamdarkyoshi

    please come back. the other moderators need help.

    I just got busy lol
  3. *notices ur new year*

     

    also jesus christ 698 unread notifications

     

    How long was I gone? O.o

     

  4. iamdarkyoshi

    I thought uncorrectable sector count and other…

    Were they by chance pending sectors? Those are clearable if the drive confirms later that if can read/write to them IIRC
  5. I'm at about 20-30 desktops, 10-15 laptops, several phones, 8 xboxes, 5 xbox 360's, and other assorted junk
    1.   Show previous replies  2 more
    2. captain_to_fire

      captain_to_fire

      Does the Russian dude accidentally discovered the app "Grindr" from the App Store or is it one of those things Alex Jones can rant about turning the friggin frogs gay. :D ?‍?

      tenor.gif.662c5af4fc7b1f917670fb4a71c58836.gif

    3. PlayStation 2

      PlayStation 2

      He probably looked at women and realized how repulsive they are. /s

      maybe not /s, I'm gay for a reason

    4. orbitalbuzzsaw

      orbitalbuzzsaw

      ok, what the cinnamon toast fuck?

  6. iamdarkyoshi

    Did you ever end up replacing or removing that…

    I replaced it and it burned it up instantly. Scrapped it, not much point in fixing a budget PSU at this point
  7. Sadly those are likely gone forever, unless you can get ahold of lenovo tools that aren't supposed to leave the factory, and you can get the BIOS into a mode that accepts being programmed...
  8. Ehh I'd just run regular enterprise. It feels like what pro was supposed to be Stuff is broken in LTSC with the removal of basically all uwp applications
  9. They likely found a bios dump from another machine online and flashed it using an SPI programmer. The BIOS chip holds all that info, and I suppose they found a dump of another machine which had those values stripped from it. I've had to do repairs like this at the store I work at (on the same model laptop too). Sadly all I was able to do was make the machine have the IDs from another machine, since that's what the dump of the BIOS chip contained. Best bet for activation would probably be to use the windows 7 key off a machine you no longer use anymore, since the key stored in your BIOS is gone.
  10. Step down (buck) converters generally need a volt or two higher than their output, and 6V to 5V is barely enough for even the higher end buck converters. Not to mention, the batteries will drain below 6V and cause more issues. I'd go for a buck/boost converter, since it accepts above and below the desired output voltage, so as the batteries drain down to like 4V or lower, it'll still be kicking out 5V. One thing I'd look into though is to see if you can find one with a fixed 5V output instead of a variable one. I'd expect them to run a bit more stable.
  11. iamdarkyoshi

    hey geuss what! another test.

    I'm not folding this year, too many machines are down and I can't afford to get them online
  12. In theory, I'd need a BIOS dump from the same series machine, and it'd work again. Never really bothered with it
  13. Update: It turns out I have a ripoff HDD. Inside was a recertified WD black... Spent about 5 hours getting my stupid ass computer to write the backwards compatibility partition onto it. But it works now!
  14. iamdarkyoshi

    It just works:

    I'm talking about consoles in general
  15. I've tried 10 different ones from the list, including halo. All games play fine on my OG unit, but it only has component video
    1. Evolution.

      Evolution.

      You got apple confused with Microsoft. "It just works" yes while I get a windows update in the middle of a fucking PowerPoint presentation 

    2. iamdarkyoshi

      iamdarkyoshi

      I'm talking about consoles in general

  16. Haven't been able to find a definitive answer to this yet. I've got a trinity xbox 360 slim. It was a virgin when I got it, tamper seal intact. I'm trying to use it to play original xbox games on the projector in my bedroom, but I'm just getting the following message: Everyone seems to be saying that I need an OEM HDD with that special partition on it. Is mine OEM? Removing the HDD gives this error: Not being a console gamer, I'm kinda at a loss. What's going on here? The main menu shows the title of the disc fine.
  17. I suppose its possible, but I've never seen it happen, and I've been doing laptop repair for years now. Most DDR3L only systems will actually still work with DDR3, though some don't I've got the same NUC here and mine had a corrupt BIOS chip...
  18. It should not be running that low, unless it only sometimes goes to 500mhz. If its stuck on 500mhz, try updating your BIOS. Download the bios update from their website, extract the contents to a freshly fat32 formatted USB drive, and then open the easyflash utiliy in the BIOS. Point it to the bios update file you downloaded and you should be good to go. If it still doesn't fix it, try downloading chipset and power management related drivers from the same page you got the BIOS update from.
  19. Yeah, just source 12V off the disk drive header, it'll be able to power the fans you want to power I would suggest trying to get the original fans working though, and get the ductwork in place to move air through the heatsinks horizontally. I believe the middle pin is ground and the two outer pins are the fan positives, but don't quote me on that
  20. Just noise The console would probably last longer since it'll be well cooled
  21. Something must have gone up in smoke, look for small black components with a hole in the top. Which board revision? My two consoles are Jasper and Trinity. If you're unable to find any, you may need to wire the fans to a voltage rail inside but they'll run at a set speed.
×