HOT TAKE: if you design a laptop with a power supply that looks like this, you should go to jail.
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@FluidEscence I agree! Unfortunately it didn't exist back in 1993 or whenever they made this laptop
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Jocelynephiliac :reclaimer: on last edited by
@twipped yep. They match the 44pin connector used by laptop IDE
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to hazelnot :yell: on last edited by
@hazelnot I really don't know, and I can't get it off
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@foone
IIRC it's the same connector as their PoS (Point of Sale) thermal printers (which Epson was a world leader and a defacto standard), which had been unchanged for lile 30+ years.It's a PITA tho and I agree 100% with your remarks.
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@magnetic_tape that'd make sense. They already had a billion of these as spare parts in the factory, so why not stick it in the laptop too?
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It'll be here around September 7th, I think.
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It's an ugly mess (my inspection camera is not working) but it's soldered in.
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IT LIVES!
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Misha Van Mollusq 🏳️⚧️ ♀replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@foone so do we call you Madam Frankenstein now ?
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Misha Van Mollusq 🏳️⚧️ ♀ last edited by
@MishaVanMollusq you weren't already?!
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@foone Eh, not awful. A bit of flux would make it "perfect" but if it works and isn't shorted out, it's a fine repair.
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@foone It looks hopeful. It still wants to replace CMOS Battery.
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Vojtěch Dubskýreplied to Vojtěch Dubský last edited by
@foone Find "Replacement for Dallas DS1287 real time clock".
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@xdub a replacement is already on the way
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This thing has a fun BIOS problem: It won't let you adjust your floppy drives. This makes sense, because it's a LAPTOP. it's not like you're gonna change those!
except when the CMOS battery dies, it resets them to stupid and wrong defaults. Because the BIOS doesn't let you change the floppy drive, but internally will let them be set to other things. It just won't let YOU the user change them.
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also I read through the manual to figure out how to change the LCD vs external VGA option. The answer? run a program off a utility disk. Where is that disk now? uhh... nowhere
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come on guys, stick it in the firmware as a keyboard command. function-f9 or something
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annoyingly Epson is still hosting the manual for the VGA Utilities floppy disk. Just the manual, apparently
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because storing a PDF from 1993 is fine, but a floppy image? nonsense
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@[email protected] i mean there's a difference between "it doesn't let you" and "it doesn't let you". is the plan of action to flash the bios with the right values or