Chr$'s latest activity

I see. Yes, there are some characters there who can seem curt and sometimes rub people up the wrong way. I don't think they mean it and...

You should probably post this on the QL forum, it's a lot more active for QL related things (and Peter, plus a lot of other QL hardware...

Thank you for your response, it was pin 16 - PADS#. I've been lucky with fixes lately and I think my slightly-better than noob skills...

Yes, if there is a jumper on modern drives it's often a couple of solder pads to bridge. 1.44mb drives are normally fine on QL...

All modern PC 3.5" floppy drives are normally factory set to DS1 and the twist in the cable differentiates when 2 drives are connected...

Have you got a known-working more modern 3.5" drive you can try with it, e.g. one from a PC? It will work fine but by default a PC drive...

Fixed it! That was a very rewarding repair. I remembered there had been some minor corrosion signs around some of the pins of one of...

Today I checked to see if I could find any activity anywhere, e.g. on either side of the LS245 buffer chips, around the chipset chips...

1. Correct, the levels go up and stay there. No activity. Actually, looking at my notes, A19 goes to 4v, not 3.6v. And the 3 that are...

Hello. I have a Gigabyte GA486-US motherboard, which looks exactly like this...

I also have a 286 or 2 but they aren't setup at the moment.

Tried on my original XT just now. It didn't work. I copied it from floppy to HDD (XT-IDE CF card) and when run it makes a slight quiet...

XT Clone System - 300 Euros. Unusual and very large "Megaboard" motherboard from 1985 made by Display Telecomminications Company (or a...