techknight

Yet another Sony Indextron in for repair. I've somewhat become known as the guy that can fix these 😂

I think I am starting to hit mid-life crisis. It didn't really start settling in until the passing of my parents last year. Knowing I am on my own, no family to call my own, no life partner, an upside-down mortgage, no retirement accounts and only barely scraping by. It's really starting to eat me.

Back in Feb, i tripped and fell on the hardwood floor, injured my back enough where I could not move. I wasn't near my phone. it took me a long time to get there and tell someone. In that moment? That's when I realized. I... am... alone... if I died from that, nobody would know 😭

I think I am starting to hit mid-life crisis. It didn't really start settling in until the passing of my parents last year. Knowing I am on my own, no family to call my own, no life partner, an upside-down mortgage, no retirement accounts and only barely scraping by. It's really starting to eat me.

Sorry I am having a crashout right now but this has been weighing on my mind for awhile, growing since the passing of Dad back in December. With the death of him, left me permanently alone in the blood sense. It's so hard.

I think I am starting to hit mid-life crisis. It didn't really start settling in until the passing of my parents last year. Knowing I am on my own, no family to call my own, no life partner, an upside-down mortgage, no retirement accounts and only barely scraping by. It's really starting to eat me.

But the reality? And this is what hits cold: If something happened to me tomorrow, or today, or whenever. A medical emergency. it might be days before someone finds out. Why? I am very much alone and live alone with no IRL friends to check on one another, or family. That makes me feel cold

I think I am starting to hit mid-life crisis. It didn't really start settling in until the passing of my parents last year. Knowing I am on my own, no family to call my own, no life partner, an upside-down mortgage, no retirement accounts and only barely scraping by. It's really starting to eat me.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy tinkering on projects, fixing stuff, etc. I have done that all my life. But i'm entering a life stage where my soul is SCREAMING at me that this is not the way, and life progress itself is forcing me to jump tracks. But perhaps? Maybe its noise.

Another one up on the bench. Macintosh LC II no sound. Looks like a bad DFAC

It's been one of those kind of days. Compaq presario 1247, Dead motherboard no power. Let's see if we can fix it

YAY. It Powers on again 😁

It's been one of those kind of days. Compaq presario 1247, Dead motherboard no power. Let's see if we can fix it

So the EC on these particular machines downloads its boot code from the BIOS chip, and since the firmware valid pc0 line doesn't raise, you know what we gotta do

Finally got the power back after yesterdays outages, although its still windy and it is still flickering. Anywho, I picked up this Thinkpad 560 yesterday off the free table at the monthly AHCS meeting! Sadly, has vinegar syndrome.

Well I threw Claude at the firmware, the beeping of the AC adapter is coming from the embedded controller and not the CPU. The CPU is dying off before it even initializes the RTC. I need to plug a serial cable in because Claude found an undocumented mode where you can reflash over serial

Finally got the power back after yesterdays outages, although its still windy and it is still flickering. Anywho, I picked up this Thinkpad 560 yesterday off the free table at the monthly AHCS meeting! Sadly, has vinegar syndrome.

Unfortunately, it wasn't the only problem. Now it powers up, but it does not POST. I think I narrowed it to a dead Dallas RTC/CMOS. /CS goes low and hangs, and there is bus activity. 32.768Khz is dead, with or without a battery.

Finally got the power back after yesterdays outages, although its still windy and it is still flickering. Anywho, I picked up this Thinkpad 560 yesterday off the free table at the monthly AHCS meeting! Sadly, has vinegar syndrome.

Oh, we are already off on a bad start. No signs of life, no power, no LEDs at all... Lets find out why

Paying attention to Isaias where I am at in the Appalachians. After Helene, I have PTSD.

nothing better than getting in your car and driving down the road then getting a nice wiff of strong gas. ugh. sprung a leak somewhere. Story of my life 😒