My X68 Compact will not boot floppies anymore, and the SCSI connection is gone (it can not find any external units). Anyone here who can repair it?
Most likely caps. Are you handy with a soldering iron?
No, I need some help this, as I am no good at soldering. The reason why it is broke is probably this: http://nfggames.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5604.0 (http://nfggames.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5604.0)
I will of course pay some good money for the person who will do this ;)
From your username I can guess that you are akdo bed in dk?
I've recapped my Compact in the past. I could take a stab at recapping your floppy drives but from my experience those drives are very fragile and once they stop reading disk they are a lost cause.
Quote from: kamiboy on December 13, 2015, 12:29:11 AM
From your username I can guess that you are akdo bed in dk?
Say what? :)
Quote from: kamiboy on December 13, 2015, 12:29:11 AM
I've recapped my Compact in the past. I could take a stab at recapping your floppy drives but from my experience those drives are very fragile and once they stop reading disk they are a lost cause.
Well, maybe they only stopped working because I messed with the settings with the Switch.x tool, but now I can't get accesss to that anymore. I guess that I can not reset settings without having access to the Switch.x tool?
What I really want to have fixed is the external SCSI, so I don't have to rely on floppies anymore. But both goals are important.
I think with a keyboard on a SCSI based system you can reset the SRAM with a key hold on boot (CLR i think) At default SRAM settings the compact should boot from an external hard drive, then you could run switch from that to reset ram size etc. Bottom line you shouldn't need working floppies in a Compact unit.
Where are you located?
Aha ha ha! Wow, how did I miss that typo. I meant also based in dk.
Quote from: BlueBMW on December 13, 2015, 03:41:43 AM
Where are you located?
I live in Denmark. Could you help me?
Quote from: kamiboy on December 13, 2015, 06:30:27 PM
Aha ha ha! Wow, how did I miss that typo. I meant also based in dk.
Yes, I am based in Denmark. You also?
I'm in North America, but I believe kamiboy is over there somewhere. Hopefully he can assist!
Actually it seems we do not live too far apart, it is a small world after all. I wonder whether I still have those slim caps that you need for a Compact flopy refresh. I may have to source some more. Each unit takes four caps if I remember right.
You should also recap the entire machine at some point, especially the power supply. But that is a lot of work, and would require a ton of capacitors of the right size and rating that would need to be sourced from somewhere.
I remember I went with premium brands and models for my own Compact, and it ended up costing me a fortune. But lucky for me I lived in Canada then, and there were good websites to buy any cap I desired for okay prices.
Here in Europe though, as always exotic things are always harder to come by and cost a sultan's sum.