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STe service blog / CA300779-001 Rev 5.1
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 2:34 pm
by Steve
Hi guys,
Just doing some servicing on a customers STe, here is my work on it...
Board images here
* Clean disk drive
* Apply motherboard bus resistor fixes
* Replace a few important capacitors, like reset circuit
* Add STe ghosting fix capacitor
* Replace mouse/joystick port
* clean/resolder video port
* General machine clean
The beginning...
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What do we have missing here?
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Bit rusty on the shield
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Floppy needs a good clean and service!
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Time for a thorough clean
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Let's replace the drive lube
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Let's also re-cap the floppy
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Shame, after all that the floppy is still having issues!
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The floppy heads are physically touching/scratching the disk, you can see the black mark worn on the head. The floppy drive is TOAST. So we are going to go for a FlashFloppy instead!
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Re: STe service blog / CA300779-001 Rev 5.1
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 2:34 pm
by Steve
Time to re-cap the PSU! It is a DSP-508a
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After the recap, looking good!
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Time to test the voltage output under load!
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Re: STe service blog / CA300779-001 Rev 5.1
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 2:37 pm
by Steve
Time to do some work on the motherboard, first the reset circuit and 470uf capacitor
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New 4700uf capacitor
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Now time to swap out the 10k SILs for 2.2k
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Let's add the video ghosting fix while we're here
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Re: STe service blog / CA300779-001 Rev 5.1
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 2:37 pm
by Steve
Re: STe service blog / CA300779-001 Rev 5.1
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 2:40 pm
by Steve
New HC type CPU
New Hotel drive
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Re: STe service blog / CA300779-001 Rev 5.1
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:08 pm
by PhilC
@Steve what are you using for replacement feet?
repair looks good btw.
Re: STe service blog / CA300779-001 Rev 5.1
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:23 pm
by rubber_jonnie
What's going on with that FDD? I've never seen one with all the motor coils exposed like that, looks like it's missing the rotor or something.
Re: STe service blog / CA300779-001 Rev 5.1
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:24 pm
by Steve
rubber_jonnie wrote: ↑Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:23 pm
What's going on with that FDD? I've never seen one with all the motor coils exposed like that, looks like it's missing the rotor or something.
They're not normally exposed, I was just replacing the capacitor which needed the cover taking off.
Re: STe service blog / CA300779-001 Rev 5.1
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:34 pm
by rubber_jonnie
Steve wrote: ↑Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:24 pm
rubber_jonnie wrote: ↑Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:23 pm
What's going on with that FDD? I've never seen one with all the motor coils exposed like that, looks like it's missing the rotor or something.
They're not normally exposed, I was just replacing the capacitor which needed the cover taking off.
I get that, I'm used to seeing this:
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With the coils under the rotor (Silver disc) so that looks really strange to me. How is the spindle driven?
By cover did you mean the FDD case or the silver disk?
I'm just curious is all
Re: STe service blog / CA300779-001 Rev 5.1
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:39 pm
by Steve