My XP era vintage Dell Dimension E520 upgrades, left it’s Zotac GT 730 with no PC slot bracket. Could my new Bambu Lab H2D and Autodesk Fusion have come to the rescue!? I’m going to model a precision replacement bracket in Fusion and print a high quality solution that will get that Zotac card securely locked into its slot.
Category: Repair
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Can we Resurrect this Dell Dimension E520?
This 20 year old Dell E520 Windows XP PC, was abandoned on a kerb side and does not work. Can it arise from the flames? Maybe, but we will have to fix its broken wings! We will repair it’s bulging and leaking caps, upgrade its PSU and fit a powerful nVidia graphics card (or two!). The mission is to restore this old PC and make it into an era busting vintage XP gaming power-house. But first we must get some kind of pulse from this vintage DELL.
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Amiga CD32 CH01: Can I fix this rare Commodore Treasure?
I’m reviving this rare Amiga CD32! Bulging, leaking caps scream “recap time,” so I’m tackling all 28+ SMD capacitors. Who knew replacing Retro gaming console caps could be this exciting? Hit play and enjoy this 2-part epic restoration journey — There is even a “guest star”, flown in at great expense!
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Can I fix my Macintosh LC475’s Video, Recap It AND then Overclock it? High stakes!
My vintage Macintosh LC475, an important machine in Apple Computer History, has poor video and on top of this it’s capacitors are ALL leaking, causing damage to its logic board! It really NEEDS restoration. So we need to get into this machine urgently, to get those caps replaced (ideally without pcb pad repair) and then do some troubleshooting and fault diagnosis to find a fix for its ailing video output! Oh, and for good measure, we’ll “overclock” it from 25MHz to 40MHz!
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Commodore 1541 Disk Drive: Make a ROM adapter and Install JiffyDOS ROM
Let’s make an adapter to install JiffyDOS in my recently repaired 1541. I’ll also show you how to burn the EPROM and of course assemble the adapter. The Commodore 1541 was notoriously slow. But it can certainly be faster! Installing JiffyDOS in a 1541 is an upgrade everyone can do, as JiffyDOS also gives you improved DOS commands, allowing for MUCH easier interactions with you drive.
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Badly battery damaged Amiga 3000: Can it be repaired?
I received an Amiga 3000, what many consider the pinnacle of the legendary Amiga range of computers. It has pretty bad battery damage. But just how bad is it?Just how much work will be required to get this machine back on its little rubber pads.
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Repairing my sadly ailing Commodore 1541 Disk Drive
I got this Commodore 1541 disk drive at ZZap! Live 2024, but it’s got a common failure: it spins constantly when powered on! That’s a sure sign the logic board is borked. Join me on the workbench as I dive into this vintage hardware! Using my oscilloscope to diagnose chips, tracing signals, and hunting down the exact component failure. Will I save this drive? Find out in Chapter 3 of my epic quest to finally play Wasteland on my C64/128!
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Repair & Refurb Two Broken External Amiga Floppy Drives
I have two broken Amiga external 3.5″ floppy drives and its about time I fixed them. These drives were received as part of my Amiga 4000 bundle, that proved to mainly contain broken retro kit. But that does not need to be a barrier to us, does it!
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Amiga 4000: Repairing Extremely Dim Video
My Amiga 4000 developed a VERY dim display during the recording of my recent video on the Fastlane Z3 SCSI/Memory card. A day after that video dropped, my Amiga 4000s display was down to maybe 5% of its normal brightness and HAD to be fixed.
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Fujitsu Ergo Pro x453 PC – CH05: The Reassembly
My Ergo Pro’s bit-rotted BIOS is good again, and the machine is now repaired. We explored Hard Disk replacement solutions in the previous chapter, so now we know what solutions we are going to use. In this chapter, we reassemble this Windows 98 gaming PC, allowing me to once more deep dive into MSDos and Windows games of the 80s and 90s.