Re: help with the dell 14z please

Just incase someone is searching and this thread pops up... Currently seeking boardview, not schem....

Greetings, forgive me in advance for this is my first post here. I'm hoping I can return the favour many times over, so with that, thank you in advance!

I have a board here that (according to someone else's description) "had a quick 'zzzt' sound, and then smelt bad." Sounds like the magic genie smoke has left the cap to me!

DellBoardwPop'edCaps.jpg is the board that I have, I can't even see what was there.. It almost looks like a grounding pad on the left side.. For the life of me, I can't find the component that the traces go to (or the rating of...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Greetings, my name's Mike, and I'm from Wakefield, QC. I got my first computer about 33 years ago. It was a Commodore 64C. Eventually, I got pretty sick of leaving it on and programming in BASIC for a few weeks, only to have the power trip, and loose half a month of typing, so I got a 1541 (5.25" disk drive.) Eventually, it started to act up, and I popped the case, reseated every chip that I could, and it worked! From there, it was my love of AMiGA's, dissection of piles of devices / neighbours computers (only to have them...