taunusand wrote:
spirantho wrote:
What's wrong with your A600? Some of them have the same problem and are very easy to fix if you know which end of a soldering iron to hold..
I've fixed 2 A600s that just stayed on a black screen with the Caps Lock light glaring at me...
I have one of theese.. What did you do to fix it?? :-)
It's a problem with the power regulation, caused by old capacitors - usually one under the floppy drive. When they get old they leak and/or go furry. I just found the furry culprit (note: not
very furry, just "extra hair" around the bottom), ripped it off 'carefully', and soldered a bog standard 2p-from-Maplin electrolytic with the same rating back in its place.
Of course it doesn't look quite as neat as the caps on the motherboard are surface mount, and electrolytics aren't, but it works much better now!
