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I just got PowerBook G4 laptop with UJ-825C and it had disc stuck inside. Ejecting the disc was not possible, the drive tried but failed. Now I have taken the machine apart and removed the drive from it. I opened the drive and removed the disc and noticed that the drive will get confused...

I have Chaintech ES-675M motherboard with Celeron 2.2GHz which the board apparently cannot recognize properly since it claims that it is Pentium 4 and has no cache at all. I found some bios downloads but couple different "revisions" are mentioned and I don't know what revision my board is...

So I have MSI K7T PRO2 which had several bad capacitor mainly by Tayeh so I have replaced them and others except for the bigger caps around the CPU (Yageo ja Chemi-Con) since I don't have replacements yet, I have removed and tested them individually and they are apparently fine. The board does...

Got this drive and tested it, it kept very strange noise when trying to access disk so I opened it. I noticed that drive head was stuck so I cleaned the rod and now it is able to move, however after this the spindle motor no longer starts at any point. I don't know much about floppy drives...

Spare for parts from Toshiba T1200XE. Motherboard may or may not be working but power supply definitely is not and repairs to it have been attempted so it's not in original condition, I would say it is junk. PC speaker did make sound, led board light up and I also assume that the HDD cable...

Toshiba T1200XE 2MB ram expansion. This is from T1200XE I have which started to suffer from power supply problems. I have seen the machine to boot into MS-DOS with this stick, counting RAM accordingly but that's all, after the power supply problems the only thing I can say that having this...

So I have this floppy drive from Toshiba T1200XE, model: za0856p01 eme-263tl It has ribbon cable attached to it and I suppose this is 26-pin connector? I saw some adapters online which convert this to regular floppy connector, would they do the trick or is there different variations and...

I have Toshiba T1200XE which has bad power supply which is still able to power on the machine up to bios error complaining about bad cmos settings. It is also able to power on display and this hard drive in question. Today I finally returned to this machine after abadoning it for years and I...

I have Compaq LTE 5100 laptop with Windows 95 installed. I have all drivers except one which has questin mark, labeled "PCMCIA Card Services". I do have Cirrus Logic PCMCIA drivers installed and I am actually using Compact Flash card with PCMCIA adapter to transfer files to this machine because...

Got this machine today and it seemed to work fine except that the floppy drive had serious problems reading anything. Most of the time it just claimed that diskettes were not bootable, once it was able to display "Starting MS-DOS" but that was all. I have one diskette with my native language...

So, on eBay there are some new cheap Atari 2600 controllers from China, about 7-8€ including shipping costs. Are they compatible with C64? They have the same connector but is there something which may cause incompatibility? And how is the quality? They are cheap for sure, but if they are...

So I recently received SVI Quickshot QS-113 joystick, using Gameport. This is actually my first device which uses Gameport. I have old laptop running Windows 98 which happens to have Gameport so I tried to use this joystick with it. The computer does recognize the joystick but the calibrating...

Bought Toshiba T1200XE laptop a while ago. Today I finally got charger for it and tried powering it on. At first attempt it booted fine to DOS. I powered it down and then tried to take video about the whole process but this time it did not boot but instead shut down and haven't powered on since...