HOT TAKE: if you design a laptop with a power supply that looks like this, you should go to jail.
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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
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@puppygirlhornypost2 nah I fixed it by resetting the bios again, apparently. that got it to reset to the correct values
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@foone may have you covered:
https://archive.org/details/ftp.epson.com_199706filename is AN500C.EXE
suspect it's the utilities disk, but unsure if the vga utility is on it
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@vga256 ooh, good catch