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Old 02-24-2007, 03:05 AM   #1
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So, I traded my Brother a 1.2 ghz tuatlin (SP?) based PC I put together for a Sega Dreamcast with a million games.

20 minutes into Gauntlet Legends it stopped reading the CD's.

so I went online & found some repair guides, took it apart, turned a potentiometer on the Laser housing to adjust it's speed & now I'm back to classic gaming glory.
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Old 02-24-2007, 04:07 AM   #2
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So THAT'S what it sounds like to others when I start talking about NASCAR and race/qualifying setups. I see...
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Old 02-24-2007, 04:10 AM   #3
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So THAT'S what it sounds like to others when I start talking about NASCAR and race/qualifying setups. I see...
Yessir!
Psst, wanna help me with my picks?
I'll meet you in sports. ----->
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Old 02-24-2007, 04:14 AM   #4
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Yessir!
Psst, wanna help me with my picks?
I'll meet you in sports. ----->
Roger. Can do.
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Old 02-24-2007, 04:42 AM   #5
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No habla Geek. Good to see you back Vendetta.
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Old 02-24-2007, 06:28 AM   #6
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So, I traded my Brother a 1.2 ghz tuatlin (SP?) based PC I put together for a Sega Dreamcast with a million games.

20 minutes into Gauntlet Legends it stopped reading the CD's.

so I went online & found some repair guides, took it apart, turned a potentiometer on the Laser housing to adjust it's speed & now I'm back to classic gaming glory.
DAMN!
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Old 02-24-2007, 06:29 AM   #7
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I'm impressed. I can do that stuff but I generally don't have the time to waste on that level of work anymore.
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Old 02-24-2007, 04:02 PM   #8
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So, I traded my Brother a 1.2 ghz tuatlin (SP?) based PC I put together for a Sega Dreamcast with a million games.

20 minutes into Gauntlet Legends it stopped reading the CD's.

so I went online & found some repair guides, took it apart, turned a potentiometer on the Laser housing to adjust it's speed & now I'm back to classic gaming glory.
Nice! Great work getting it back in working order...about a year ago I had to do surgury to a 25 year old PDP-11 hard disk pack. The platters stopped spinning and our customers were DESPERATE to get it working again (the systems modern replacement was still in the design/pretesting phase.) I get to the clients site head into their "computer room" its well into the upper 100F in there are the data storage cabinent has about an inch of dust caked in it... long story short after about an hour or two of head scratching and exploring. I replaced two resistors and a capacitor and the disk pack came back to life.
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Old 02-24-2007, 10:23 PM   #9
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I'm as far from a geek as you can get, but shouldn't that room be air conditioned, Ponderous? WOW 100F
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Old 02-24-2007, 11:45 PM   #10
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I'm impressed. I can do that stuff but I generally don't have the time to waste on that level of work anymore.
I hear ya.
Back when I was just out of college & things like DVD players still cost $300 I took a lot of things apart to fix.
I'd say about 75% made it back together.

These days though, surface mount tech makes it almost impossible to work on things.

You just order a new board.

But, it was actually a very simple fix.
Simpler then I expected.
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Old 02-24-2007, 11:47 PM   #11
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PDP-11 hard disk pack I had to look that up.
That is from a time long before I had a notion what a soldering iron was. LOL!
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