Retro Computing Grotto
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Sunday, 20 March 2022
IBM Lenovo X61s Faulty Laptop From eBay
Sunday, 6 February 2022
£3 Dell Latitude D620 Laptop Testing
I picked this up a while ago but only just gotten around to test it to see if it has any signs of life.
It's a bit grubby but what do you expect for £3? Initially the seller wanted £5 for the laptop but after I pointed out the 2 missing keys I got a couple of quid knocked off.
Now lets see if it has a Hard Disk Drive and some RAM...
Saturday, 8 May 2021
New Home - New Grotto! (Coming Soon)...
It's been a bit of a weird year the last 12 months with the Covid19 Coronavirus causing many of us to go in to periodic isolation. Despite these shenanigans I have managed to do one thing - I've moved house!
I now have a dedicated room that has now become the new Retro Computing Grotto. I've barely moved boxes in (let alone unbox and sort things out) so the short YouTube video below shows you the Grottos current state and is a sign of things to come...
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Symantec Norton Ghost Boot Disk Blank DOS Box Screen Ghost Wont Run
Monday, 30 November 2020
HP/Compaq Laptops - Spares and Repairs
Earlier on today I took a quick look through all the 'Car Boot Sale' laptops that I've got and I've found another 7 nx9000 series HP/Compaq laptops so I now have 9 in total that I need to fix/repair/refurbish!
First things first, I need to see what Spares and Repairs I might have as a few of these laptops have missing HDD Caddys and covers for the RAM etc so time to rummage through my Spares and Repairs box for HP/Compaq laptops...
Top 10 Posts Read From The Last 30 Days
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According to the Service Manual for the Compaq Armada 1700 series, you press F10 to enter the BIOS. Unlike modern computers, the BIOS pro...
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This came all the way from Israel today (vie eBay): I didnt realise but it has both Windows 95 and Windows 98 restore options/CDs. I...
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Way before the Covid19 Pandemic came to light I picked up a job-lot of laptops from a car boot sale and I'm slowly starting to refurbish...
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I picked this little beauty up on eBay the other week and I think I was the only bidder as not only does it need a jolly good clean, but it ...
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Are you getting the 162 System Options Not Set on an old vintage/retro laptop? Is it followed by a message telling you the Time and Dat...
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Have you got a Vintage or Retro Toshiba laptop that wont boot as it has a BIOS Password set? Then what you need is a KEY Disk!... When y...
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On the IBM ThinkPad 380D laptop the CMOS batter for the BIOS is located under the RAM cover on the bottom of the laptop so (after first rem...
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The first thing you need to do is remove the keyboard by pressing the 2 keyboard release catches as shown here: You then need to remo...
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Today I was gifted a great little work-horse of a laptop, namely a Toshiba Satellite 220CS with an Intel Pentium 133MHz CPU, 16MB of RAM and...
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Changing the CMOS/RTC battery on the Compaq Evo N410c involves removing the keyboard and the wrist wrest: To remove the keyboard, look for...