Apostrophe
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Hi,
I installed the FDD that Scott Baret sent me, put the other HDD back in, and turned it on...
It rejected my system disk every time.
3 possibilities of malfunction:
a) bad system disk (but it worked fine last week, so I doubt it)
B) bad floppy drive (but that thing looks new; besides, it did eject, so I can see that it works fine)
c) bad capacitors dealing with the FDD
I sincerely believe that I will need to re-cap that SE for it to work well again. I was planning it anyway; really soon I'll be re-capping all of my 15+ year old computers. I read in this forum that capacitor goop can corrode the traces, so I thought I'd replace all capacitors before that happens.
So I'll teach myself how to solder, take that SE apart piece by piece, replace every single capacitor on both the logic board and the analog board with new ones, put it all back together, and see what happens.
-Apostrophe
I installed the FDD that Scott Baret sent me, put the other HDD back in, and turned it on...
It rejected my system disk every time.
3 possibilities of malfunction:
a) bad system disk (but it worked fine last week, so I doubt it)
B) bad floppy drive (but that thing looks new; besides, it did eject, so I can see that it works fine)
c) bad capacitors dealing with the FDD
I sincerely believe that I will need to re-cap that SE for it to work well again. I was planning it anyway; really soon I'll be re-capping all of my 15+ year old computers. I read in this forum that capacitor goop can corrode the traces, so I thought I'd replace all capacitors before that happens.
So I'll teach myself how to solder, take that SE apart piece by piece, replace every single capacitor on both the logic board and the analog board with new ones, put it all back together, and see what happens.
-Apostrophe
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