Re: WhizPro BIOS password
Nope.
The dumps I did get were inconsistent so I don't trust my Willem with reading the FWH chip correctly. I was able to locate the CMOS clear jumper and while that did indeed clear the CMOS it immediately sets the password again, so that's a BIOS default parameter. I don't think I have ever seen something do that.
Because I couldn't crack the password I moved on from this board.
pentium
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Last Activity: 11-24-2023, 12:20 PM
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Location: Kamloops BC
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Re: ECU's, interfaces and baud rates
Yes, it will only work with versions before 1.0.
Two reasons for this. They had not yet added an adapter whitelist which locked you into buying their specific USB FTDI based adapter, essentially turning the adapter into a software protection dongle and starting with version 1.0 they rewrote a number of software components and replaced a lot of reverse engineered code with licensed Suzuki protocol code. This is why it went from free to use and build to you had to buy the dongle to use the software. Now they have to pay fees on the protocol....Leave a comment:
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Re: ECU's, interfaces and baud rates
Whoops. Almost missed this reply.
At this point the project is complete. The goal was to make the RhinoView software communicate with the Suzuki/Geo ECU using the base design of the RhinoPower adapter and that was done and my work was published, or at least as much as Rhinoman wanted to let me.
The vehicle was sold in 2020 after ten solid years of service alsong with the adapter I built and I'm now driving and reverse engineering the computer in a 40 year old AMC Eagle. The project files were packed up into storage but here's...Last edited by pentium; 01-01-2022, 02:35 PM.Leave a comment:
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Sony EXCD-2 component help
I'm having trouble verifying a part in an autochanger that's been giving me weird issues.
Initially when the changer was plugged into the head unit via the BUS cable the head unit would seemingly randomly crash and reset or turn itself off. Sometimes it would ignore the CD changer entirely until the unit the hard reset button was pressed. Through trial and error I determined it would actually fail when it was warm out, or hot in the car. If it was cool outside the changer would work and run flawlessly for hours, or until it started warming up outside/in the car, so ambient temperature was...Last edited by pentium; 09-13-2020, 10:23 PM. -
Re: I don't understand the minds of some recappers....
I am the ruiner of all dreams.
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I don't understand the minds of some recappers....
So I'm nowhere near as active here anymore as I used to be over a decade ago but that's mainly because I've been lost in a sea of subcontracting and NDA repair jobs. This one however really takes it.
My current workload is recapping a single model power supply. Nothing special, just a non-ATX form factor 150w thing with an extra 24v rail and no PWR-ON and PWR-OK pins. They are all about 20 years and sure enough, many still have their original OST blown out or out of spec but beyond a few common issues like an underrated resistor that BBQ's itself and a transistor that likes to roast... -
Re: Fat PS3 no display/crashing with no YLOD
I have not done a repaste yet. I only went far enough in to dust the machine out.Leave a comment:
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Canon L2 and A1 Recapping
I have two early 90's prosumer Hi8 camcorders that I want to use but both need to be recapped. I have not been able to locate service manuals for either and I don't have a capacitor BoM to work from.
Has anyone else had the honor of disassembling these units and have knowledge how the hell they come apart? -
Fat PS3 no display/crashing with no YLOD
I have an 80gig fat which years ago I overheated while folding for the Badcaps team. Initially it still ran great albeit with artifacting and speckling in PS3 games however it eventually got worse and on things like soft resets for updates and resolution switching the internal video would drop and I would have to connect with my PSP to continue whatever I was doing. Later it would just graphically lock once it got warm and now after about 15 seconds or so of warming up it just locks solid. Normally I would write it off as a fried video chip but it's never thrown a YLOD, so I can't tell if it's... -
Re: iMac 2008 (A1224) PSU Dead Primary (good fuses)
Entirely possible but I got no schematics and cannot find any schematics either so I got no idea where to investigate next.Leave a comment:
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iMac 2008 (A1224) PSU Dead Primary (good fuses)
JFC macs are not as reliable as I remember them. I bought my parents a used 2008 model last summer and it lasted four months before the video card packed in, so that was core exchanged for another refurbished unit that lasted until yesterday when my mother came into the room and it was stone dead.
Logic board LED's are all off and no DC voltages were found on the PSU output but AC was found being delivered to the input. F1 and F2 show continuity.
The large 150MFD 420v lytic had puked out from the positive cap leg. All other capacitors were visually okay and had good...Last edited by pentium; 10-11-2018, 08:21 PM. -
Re: NEC Plasma - Green Light; No Video
Having now written off two or three dozen identical model NEC panels for work, this problem seems to be EXTREMELY common as 95 to 98% or the panels taken out of the field earmarked "defective" suffered from the same problem. The rest had cracked panels or were mislabled and worked fine.
I still can't see what might be wrong....Leave a comment:
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Re: UPS Wiring
I understand [I]this IS a seven year old thread[/I], but in the end (jesus christ I never throw anything out) I got it running.
Lmao, in reality they were all 12V cells. Each battery tray has 10 cells (120v DC). Two trays run in series. Two sets of two in parallel. Roughly 240V DC with a [i]scary[/i] amount of amps.
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NEC Plasma - Green Light; No Video
About seven months ago I picked up a NEC PX-42VM5A panel from a recycler that had an excellent condition screen still. I immediately put it into use and it was trouble-free for months, then left it in standby (red light is on but power is still "off" from the remote) for two months while I was away doing other things.
The other day I went to sit down and watch a movie and turned it on from the remote. I get the usual relay clicks, the light went green, the panel went live, then the panel turned off and the light went out for three seconds, then the green light came back.... -
Re: WhizPro BIOS password
It's a 49LF004A. It's still quite new.
Also, I already dumped it. Poling through a hex editor however has not yet found anything.Leave a comment:
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Re: WhizPro BIOS password
It was out for two weeks minimum.
Where the board came from initially I regularly see them come with flat CMOS batteries anyways. This could of been missing a backup battery for years.Leave a comment:
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Re: WhizPro BIOS password
I have a Willem Ver 5.0 unit that can dump the chip but it is being very inconsistent with this chip so far unless my settings are wrong.
I can however dump the chip while it is in the machine. I got more than enough tools for that.Leave a comment:
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Re: WhizPro BIOS password
Nope. None of those match up. :/Leave a comment:
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Re: WhizPro BIOS password
The layout appears to be wildly different unfortunately.Leave a comment:
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WhizPro BIOS password
I have an OEM board here with the model SL-810 from BCM which again is some weird OEM company who barely supports this.
I say barely because while [url=http://www.bcmcom.com/tech/SL810/SL810.htm]a page for the motherboard exists[/url] all the links both now and according to the wayback machine which would remotely help me are all broken. Furthermore my board has a password set on the BIOS and it isn't clearing with the CMOS battery removed. It isn't totally locking the machine down however as I can still boot from an optical drive (but not the floppy
) but I've already gone through...
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