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Troubleshooting An IBM PC 5150 - Down The Rabbit Hole We Go!
About a week of fault finding goes into an IBM PC 5150 motherboard pulled from e-waste, and the maker admits to almost giving up along the way.
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Playlists and videos that are one part of a longer run.
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Amiga 1200 from where Forrest Gump lives.
Amiga 1200 recap, floppy repair, ROM swap and hard drive build all happen on one untouched machine. The maker also builds a disk image in WinUAE and cleans a floppy drive.
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An Ebay Amiga 600, Single malt Scotch and FOOD!
An Amiga 600 from eBay is repaired and recapped, and a socketed crystal leads to the discovery of a damaged wire.
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A NewJoisey Amiga 1200 and FNIRSI LCR ESD Tweezers
A leaking Amiga 1200 gets new capacitors, and the maker also tries out a pair of FNIRSI LCR meter tweezers for measuring components.
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Commodore SX-64 Restoration Finale | Trash to Treasure (pt3)
Power supply faults in a Commodore SX-64 are the last hurdle in part three, after which the machine is put back together.
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Amiga 3000 "Flicker Fixer" repair strategies
The Amiga 3000's Flicker Fixer circuitry was damaged by a leaking NiCd battery, and this finale sets out how the maker plans to repair it, citing a linked article.
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Commodore SX-64 Restoration - Keys and CRTs | Trash to Treasure (pt2)
The Commodore SX-64's built-in CRT and its keyboard are tackled in part two of The Retro Collective's Trash to Treasure restoration series, with part three still to come.
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Amiga 3000T Restoration Part 7: Repairing the Audio Issues
Part seven of an Amiga 3000T restoration goes after the audio filter fault. Earlier parts cover teardown, battery corrosion removal, board repairs, and recapping.
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Fixing up the classic 1999 Hewlett-Packard Pavilion PC
What is broken or missing inside a 1999 HP Pavilion 6535? LGR opens the 466MHz Celeron desktop and works through what needs repair and cleaning.
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Scrap Sega Game Gear Recap: Why Is It Still Dead? (Part 1)
Still dead after someone else recapped it, this scrap Game Gear (dual ASIC VA0 board) is stripped, cleaned of leftover electrolyte and recapped again, though part 1 ends unresolved.
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The CRT from Hell - Commodore Amiga 3000 (Pt 3)
Fault finding on both an Amiga 3000 and its CRT monitor grows into a tangle of checks in part three of the series.
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Amiga 3000T Restoration Part 2: Removing Battery Corrosion
Neutralising and washing away battery leakage from the Amiga 3000T board and its expansion cards is the job in part 2 of a restoration series, with timestamps for each stage.
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Australian Varta Death Amiga 3000 repair 336 P1
Part 1 of a two part series follows an Australian Amiga 3000 that arrives for a small job and turns into a long repair of corrosion and electrolytic damage.
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A1200 Repairs / Upgrade / Timing Fix & More - Part 1
Why does an Amiga 1200 board misbehave on its floppy interface? Part 1 of a series looks at one strange fault, with capacitors, an FPU socket and a timing fix left for the next part.
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Nintendo Vs. System Part 1 The MDS Board
Nintendo Vs. boards are toured area by area in the opening of a repair series, from RAM and ROM to CPU, PPU, video, audio and control circuits, to help narrow down faults.
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SNK MVS MV4F No Boot Fix
Neo Geo MV4 no boot repair begins here, with board cleaning, soldering a surface mount RAM chip and fault finding, plus talk of the custom chips, boot process and test methods.
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We Found a Rare Nintendo M82 Kiosk System Covered in ***** | Trash to Treasure Part 1
Heavy grime covers a Nintendo M82 kiosk unit that nearly ended up as scrap, and part one of the restoration starts bringing it back.
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Restoring an extremely rare, Belgian DAI PC (Part 1)
A Belgian DAI Personal Computer, a late 1970s 8-bit machine later used by TV stations for early digital graphics, is the subject of the first part of this restoration series.
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Panasonic FS-A1F MSX2 Home Computer Game Console Repair
A dead Panasonic FS-A1F MSX2 comes back to life as the maker checks V9938 outputs, clock signals and RGB and sync, then replaces the main board capacitors and the hybrid audio and video chip.
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Williams Joust Controller PCB Repair Pat1 of 2
Williams Joust controller interface board has faulty player 2 controls, and the video goes through fault-finding steps plus the soldering and desoldering used for the repair, as part 1 of 2.
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SOL-20 museum restoration, PART I
The power supply of a Processor Technology SOL-20 is restored by replacing only the original parts that need it, including reforming bulk capacitors, in the first part of a museum series.
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Repairathon 2022: Trying to repair a Super Socket 7 mainboard.
Necroware continues a repairathon with an MSI MS-5169 Super Socket 7 board made for AMD K6-2 and K6-3 CPUs, aiming to bring it back to life.
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Repairathon 2022: A resurrection of the legendary Asus P2B
Asus P2B, a Slot 1 mainboard for Pentium II and Pentium III processors, gets a repair attempt as one episode of Necroware's 2022 repairathon series.
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Part 1 of 3 - CinemaTronics Vector Monitor Repair
A CinemaTronics vector monitor comes in for repair in the first of three parts, with a high voltage probe and an oscilloscope among the kit listed.
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Sharp MZ-80K museum-quality restoration, PART 1
Previous owner modifications turn up as the maker investigates and strips down a 1978 Sharp MZ-80K, noting each change before restoring the motherboard in part 1.
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COMMODORE 64 repair video - Part 1
A Commodore 64 bought locally in an unknown state is the subject of part one, with the maker asking whether it will work at all.
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Apple IIe (1983) Trash to Treasure | 'The Most Personal Computer' | Part 1
An Apple IIe that needs repair gets its first look in part one of a restoration, with background on the machine ahead of the repair.
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Restoring a 1976 Wang 2200F mini-computer, Part 1
Without a microprocessor, this 1976 Wang 2200F mini-computer runs on 113 discrete TTL chips. Episode 1 gives an overview, then takes the machine apart to look at its digital and analogue cards.
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Tandy 102 Turmoil Pt.1 - Battery corrosion repair, hidden damage, LCD corruption fix
Why did a Tandy 102 stop working after storage? Hidden battery corrosion damage is tracked down until it boots, and an LCD corruption problem comes next.
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Launch Day Nintendo Restoration - Part 1!
Launch day NES restoration begins here with a breakdown, cleaning, parts pulled from a donor console, reassembly and a test, all in part one.
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Perfect restoration of a 1977 Commodore PET 2001, Part 1
Case, built-in monitor and microelectronics all get attention as the maker restores a 1977 Commodore PET 2001, one of the earliest home microcomputers, in part 1 of a series.
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Casio VX-4 Repair 2 - Extreme PCB repair of battery leak damage. Can we save this Pokécon?
A second Casio VX-4 Pokécon has a keyboard circuit board badly eaten by leaked battery residue, and the video works through a Pace Cir-Kit repair and a new battery contact spring.
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Atari 65XE restoration - summary of previous repairs and my retrobright method
An Atari 65XE finishes a run of repairs with a clean-up and a retrobright, and the video recaps the earlier parts along the way.
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I Found A 1987 PC Clone! Will it work?
A 1987 PC XT clone with a RAM problem goes on the bench, and the maker makes a new BIOS ROM from the Super PC/XT Turbo BIOS and tests it.
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HDMI For The Commodore 64 --OR-- Add HDMI To Your Vintage Computers! Part 6
Commodore 64 HDMI output comes from a component board by C0pperdragon feeding an RGBtoHDMI adaptor, after the maker rules out composite and compares other options.
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Disgusting Commodore 64 Restoration. Will It Work? (Part 1)
Will a badly weathered Commodore 64 work again? Part 1 opens it up, inspects and washes it, then moves on to the keyboard, retrobright treatment, springs and chip testing.
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Commodore 64 troubleshooting part 1 the basics - multimeters and alcohol
Armed with a multimeter, a toothbrush and alcohol, TheRetroChannel compares a healthy Commodore 64 board with a sick one and applies the same checks. It is part one of three.
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IPS Kit Ribbon Repair (Part 1 of 2)
A torn funnyplaying GBA IPS kit ribbon has two repair routes, scraping back the solder mask to reach the traces or soldering onto the components instead.
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Colecovision Console Lot - Tear-down and Repair Part 1
A lot of Colecovision consoles is torn down and repaired over a series, and this first part opens them up and makes a start on their faults.
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BBC Micro - Part Two: Full Refurbishment
A BBC Micro is refurbished and detailed back towards factory condition in part two of a series, which also reaches the machine's Ashtray and finds problems in its power supply.
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Refurbishing a Nintendo Entertainment System - Part 1
A NES with a blinking red light and a grey or white screen gets a cart slot replacement and fresh electrolytic capacitors, once the RF and power housing is freed from the board.
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Atari 800XL Restoration - Trash to Treasure Part 2
Part two of an Atari 800XL restoration moves to the outside of the machine, a full cosmetic job that brings out gloves and peroxide.
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Rejuvenating a Macintosh CRT with equipment from 1969
Can a tired, dim picture tube be brought back? Adrian tries rejuvenation on the CRT from a Macintosh Classic II, in part 4.5 of the Macintosh Repairathon series.
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C128 Crystal Power - How to test crystals in circuit.
Crystals can be tested in circuit with an oscilloscope, and this C128 repair traces a missing clock to a dead one. The maker says the go/no-go test is done with the machine powered off.
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Turbografx-16 - Part 1 - Repairing bad controller plug - Fixing Ebay Junk
A TurboGrafx-16 gives no response from its controller, and the maker traces the fault to a faulty controller plug before getting the console working again.
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Troubleshooting Vintage Computers #1 - Evaluation
Troubleshooting vintage computers starts with an evaluation of the basic subsystems a machine needs to work. The findings then point to a direction for further tests in this first part of a series.
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SNK Neo Geo - 10 x Neo Geo MVS Board Repairs Part 1 (Z80, Watchdog, SFIX) - MV1A MV1AX Neo-Buf
Ten Neo Geo MVS boards from a friend are being repaired, and the first three come up here with Z80, watchdog and SFIX faults on MV1A boards.
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Fixing eBay Junk - Sega CD Model 1 - Part 1 Fixing Drive Belt
The first of about three parts on a Sega CD Model 1 sets the unit up, tests it and then replaces the drive belt.
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Fixing eBay Junk - Sega CD Model 1 - Part 2 Replacing Save Battery
The save battery in a Sega CD Model 1 is replaced in part 2 of a three-part series, a job the maker says needs soldering.
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Modding a TV for RGB - Part 2
Part two of an RGB input mod for a consumer CRT television continues the work on the set, with a forum thread linked under the video for the mod itself.
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Part 2: Apple Monitor IIc - Retrobrite and Tune Up
Restoring an Apple IIc monitor reaches its second part. The case is retrobrited, then the monochrome monitor gets a full tune up and alignment.
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Trash 80 to Treasure | TRS-80 Restoration | Ep3.
Episode three of RMC's Trash 80 to Treasure series carries on the TRS-80 restoration, picking up the work from the earlier parts of the series.
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0x001B.2 - Solid Polymer ReCap of Mac Classic II
The Macintosh Classic II board gets solid polymer capacitors in a follow-up to the earlier repair, and the maker regrets assuming tantalum parts for the 47uF positions could not be found.
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0x0029.1 - HP86 New 3D Printed Key Stems: Disassembly and Design
New 3D printed key stems are designed for an HP 86 keyboard. The maker strips the machine down and explains the stem design, with files and board photos linked.
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Fixing eBay Junk - Dreamcast Restoration - Part 1 - Smoke Damaged Sega Dreamcast
Smoke damage and stains cover the Dreamcast in part 1 of this restoration, which the maker warns runs long because of the amount of work involved.
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0x001B.1 - Macintosh Classic II Repair
After a Macintosh Classic II turned unreliable, Tech Tangents opens the case and cleans leaked electrolytic fluid off the board, calling it a stopgap until the capacitors are replaced.
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0x0010.2 - Resurrecting The 98 Machine
A Windows 98 machine has stopped working, and the maker links it to a capacitor missing from a card, weighing a weak solder joint against damage from earlier handling.
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GBS-8220 - Fixing Noise (Amiga to VGA)
Picture noise from a GBS-8220 upscaler is the problem the maker sets out to cure, continuing from an earlier review of the board with an Amiga.
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5 Nintendo Famicom Repairs - Part 1 (SRAM - Black Screen)
Two of five Famicoms under repair come first, one with an SRAM fault and one with a power switch problem, alongside a composite AV mod and controller clean-up.
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How to Clean/Refurbish GCN controller, Part 1.
Sticky buttons and drifting sticks on a GameCube controller are the problem here, with the pad taken apart for cleaning. The maker says other game controllers follow the same process.
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How to Clean/Refurbish GCN controller, Part 2.
Part two of the GameCube controller clean and refurbishment, aimed at sticky or unresponsive buttons and drifting, slow or worn analogue sticks.
