20 Mar
2014
20 Mar
'14
2:11 p.m.
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, supervinx wrote:
Continuous beep on reboot, screen filled with random
chars.
I powered off, waited some minutes: no changes, no boot.
Beep and screen junk, the floppy drives lights dance rhythmically :p
I'll able to open it only the next week (the work table is full), but
I'd like to figure out what's happened.
My O1 had a sandwiched pair of boards inside that plugged together with
dip pins and headers. All of them were oxidized. I pulled off and
reseated the daughterboard and reseated all chips and any other connectors
I could get to. That did the trick.
If the unit has been in storage in a humid area, you may want to open up
the drives and give them a good cleaning.
Steve
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