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by Bobrane
Tue Apr 24, 2018 8:59 am
Forum: MEMBER BLOGS
Topic: My little retr0bright experience [SUCCESS]
Replies: 6
Views: 5412

Re: My little retr0bright experience [SUCCESS]

yeah, i know the st keyboard is really easy to dismount compared to the TT.
you are right to take care of it.
by Bobrane
Mon Apr 23, 2018 9:07 pm
Forum: MEMBER BLOGS
Topic: My little retr0bright experience [SUCCESS]
Replies: 6
Views: 5412

Re: My little retr0bright experience [SUCCESS]

Yesterday, being a sunny day I did my first attempt at "retrobright" on my TT keyboard case. In this case I used the peroxide solution in the "BBlonde" hair bleaching kit from Superdrug. It took the colour from "edam cheese" to "light clotted cream", so I'm g...
by Bobrane
Mon Apr 23, 2018 8:58 pm
Forum: MEMBER BLOGS
Topic: My little retr0bright experience [SUCCESS]
Replies: 6
Views: 5412

Re: My little retr0bright experience [SUCCESS]

Atarian Computing wrote: Mon Apr 23, 2018 10:25 am Good job! Yeah, the keycaps are safe to Retrobrite due to them not being dark-colored. Darker parts have the risk of blooming.
Thanks ! That's right, and that's also the reason why i haven't had the faith to do the whole body and prefered the paint.
by Bobrane
Mon Apr 23, 2018 9:10 am
Forum: MEMBER BLOGS
Topic: My little retr0bright experience [SUCCESS]
Replies: 6
Views: 5412

My little retr0bright experience [SUCCESS]

Hi everyone, As I am restoring one of my STE in a custom way, i decided to do a paint job on the body. However, the keyboard looked really yellow. Huge aesthetic problem. In a DIY store the other day, i found some hydrogen peroxide (12%) and decided to try the Retr0bright Experience on two of my key...
by Bobrane
Wed Apr 11, 2018 2:07 pm
Forum: STE V1 SERIES 32MHz BOOSTER
Topic: STE V1.5 32MHz BOOSTER - STATUS
Replies: 433
Views: 202054

Re: STE V1.5 32MHz BOOSTER - STATUS

Hi Exxos, you are doing an amazing job.
I'm not able to help you in any way, but you can be sure that i'm following this thread with a huge interest.
Keep up your magic!
by Bobrane
Thu Mar 29, 2018 10:44 pm
Forum: HARDWARE ISSUES
Topic: DualTOS assembly accident
Replies: 23
Views: 12773

Re: DualTOS assembly accident

OK : 2 x GM71C4400AJ70 + 1 x GM71C1000J70
So i need to get rid of the GM71C1000J70.
Alright, thanks!
by Bobrane
Thu Mar 29, 2018 10:21 pm
Forum: HARDWARE ISSUES
Topic: DualTOS assembly accident
Replies: 23
Views: 12773

Re: DualTOS assembly accident

The parity chip? One of the three chips on the modules?
Note that yesterday i did test with the stocks 8 chips siemens modules from factory (4x256Mb) and the result was the same.
by Bobrane
Thu Mar 29, 2018 10:07 pm
Forum: HARDWARE ISSUES
Topic: DualTOS assembly accident
Replies: 23
Views: 12773

Re: DualTOS assembly accident

No, i have 3 chips 1Mb Goldstar Modules.
Ref : GMM791000NS70.
by Bobrane
Thu Mar 29, 2018 9:55 pm
Forum: HARDWARE ISSUES
Topic: DualTOS assembly accident
Replies: 23
Views: 12773

Re: DualTOS assembly accident

Hi again, Exxos, and hi all readers of my adventures :D

It seems my motherboard don't like running outside of its metal shield.
I've put it back inside the shield, closed carefully every locks and she booted fine, currently running GEMBENCH.
Weird, isn't it ?
by Bobrane
Thu Mar 29, 2018 11:30 am
Forum: HARDWARE ISSUES
Topic: DualTOS assembly accident
Replies: 23
Views: 12773

Re: DualTOS assembly accident

Thank you Exxos, I made some little "progress". I've put back my stock TOS 1.62 chips and the board still throws 4 or 11 bombs I've changed the memory to the stock 4x256Mo >> no change I've put back the factory power supply >> no change I've cleaned again the cpu contacts >> no change I've...

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