My intention to post weekly updates about the T1000LE PSU debugging hasn’t really worked out as “real life” got in the way a bit. Nevertheless, here is another, hopefully last update about the PSU as I’ve managed to repair all three machines. As I mentioned in my last post about these machine I started debugging, …
IDE drives, also known as PATA drives are a dying breed.Being superseded by SATA and M.2 this long-standing standard for hard drive interfaces has been discontinued for years now. This poses a problem for vintage computer enthusiasts like myself as these drives are no longer being manufactured and the existing ones are starting to show …
As anyone familiar with these older battery-powered Toshiba laptops knows, these things are finicky at best when it comes to their power supplies. Especially electrolytic capacitors and, apparently, MOSFETS are a problem. The good A year-and-a-half ago I posted about my T1000LE and that it was back to life.That, as it turns out, was a …