Re: vp2130b cap help

Just a quick note - replaced the fuses on my VP201 and the caps in a VP2030b and they're both working great. Many thanks to all - these were thrown out at work and will be a great help at home!

Re: Anyone reccomend a place to get schematics

I've had good luck with notebookschematic.com. There I got the schematics for my dead Toshiba M35X Satellite, found a dead FET in the CPU supply, replaced it (thanks, DigiKey!) and it works fine.

Also got the schematic for my two dead Dell D400 Latitudes - they're next to be repaired.

Good luck!

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hello all!

Electrical engineer for 35 years. Built first 6502 computer as an S-100 KIM-1 with hand-wired 32kB DRAM, 320x200 bit mapped video, etc. Sold it to buy an Apple ][+ with 16k; moved the above DRAM to it to get 48k. How things have changed!

More recently my Toshiba M35X Satellite laptop died. Got the schematics, found the dead FET in the CPU switching supply and replaced it - and it now works fine. Boosted 100MHz CPU clock input to 133MHz to replace Celeron 1.3GHz with Dothan 1.6GHz but instability...