Comment on Picked this up for only $20
Olap@lemmy.world 5 days agoIt’ll be the caps. Best of luck! Even for the other parts it is worth a packet more
Comment on Picked this up for only $20
Olap@lemmy.world 5 days agoIt’ll be the caps. Best of luck! Even for the other parts it is worth a packet more
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Unfortunately it has a vintage aftermarket power supply in it. I found a bad transistor so far, the caps seem ok.
Olap@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Ooh, I’ve blown up some transistors in my time (crack!), but never seen one go bad. But it is quite old!
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 4 days ago
This one is on the high voltage side it’s an NPN transistor p/n C3679. It’s showing connectivity through the collector and Emitter in both directions meaning it’s bad. I ordered several in case I pop the first one since there could be more bad components. If I can’t fix this one then I really need to get ahold of some kind of PSU that has -5v so that I can test the computer itself before I go spending $50+ on a good factory PSU.
Olap@lemmy.world 4 days ago
$50 sounds a bargain for the amount of time this may take! Order today, you’ll be booting by the weekend