I have a couple of vintage Apricot Pc's that I have got to work after rebuilding their PSU's which as usual blew the Rifa filter caps etc. One of them was working great and the display output on its tiny dedicated green screen monitor nice and sharp. After a while I noticed that it had got some interference on the display which is not the fault of the monitor as it tests fine on the other Apricot that's working and swapping PSU's over makes no differnce. So it must be a component failing on the motherboard. The other Apricot has a good display output but wont read properly from any of the known good disk drives. I have not yet recapped the motherboards and this will be my next job now I know its not a monitor or faulty disk drive.
Is there anything in particular other than the caps, I should be paying attention to re the video & disk drive issue on these motherboards?
Pictures attached.
Is there anything in particular other than the caps, I should be paying attention to re the video & disk drive issue on these motherboards?
Pictures attached.
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