Re: Nec/tokin oe128 testing

I am testing an oe128 in a Toshiba Equiuum A200. Now I know I have a bad un and a good un. the oe128 is essentially two capacitors with a common join in the middle. The good unit measures 13-14mf on my capacitance meter, which has a 20mf maximum scale. For each cap and is the same for both caps and both polarities. On my now confirmed baddie it is only 4mf (4000uf) but it was hard to see this by resistance alone. In fact it looks fine just using a resistance meter. Obviously not shorted! Note I was testing in circuit.

Re: Samsung NP3530EC BIOS

The Samsung NP3530EC has a "Bios crisis" and RTC reset next to the two memory slots. They are very tiny pairs of lands; use a screwdriver. FYI the battery is located on the wrong side of the motherboard so this tip is a real timesaver! It solved my boot problem.
My problem was that system restore was stuck in an infernal loop. Worked but could not reboot. I could not access the DVD or USB because I could not get into the bios with F2 or any other combo. That evil UEFI. If windows is broken how can one get to UEFI settings.
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