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Exactly, actually.

Might you please be so kind and tell me a time and a more exact area? I do not think I burnt anything - I did, however, resolder the cable holder places. (The menu would still work, so I doubt I did anything wrong with the soldering.) Basically, the beginning of the video "is the end". (Originally, I had planned to show you as a beginning a fully functional, repaired machine - instead, things went just downhill.) So you can see from about the middle on, after the intro, how the chaos unfolded, also prior to soldering: a mess that merely blurts "No Signal".

​@@ninoivanovSure. I can see it at 5:37 for example. It is the big chip right below the connector. It might just be some glue stuck on the IC, but could also be a burn hole.

​​@@PvdDrieschAh, THAT... Thank you for pointing that out - the surface is slightly scratched. What you see as "blacker" is the real IC body, under some sort of "varnish". It is totally superficial, and in all fairness, I would rather attribute this to my own handling of the innards rather than the machine's production.

Clarence, in my eyes, you have always carried yourself in the comments as an intelligent man, and I doubt you did "who knows what bad thing to it". I, too, treated mine like a raw egg. This is the THIRD total death of such a machine over here: first, the Book 8088, then the graphics card (tried it again now, positively dead), now that thing with the cable. How INEPT can that hardware design be? My channel is tiny, the people owning that machine type are few - how likely is it that with your case, we have FOUR? Yeah, the reviewers may praise it - but guess what, I say, use it 50 times, and let us see, will they praise it STILL. You are about to see some "last adventures with it" in the future, as I did not yet publish all I did with it, but I also have to say, this is, by now, just disappointing.

The machine finally died while I was preparing my answer to you… 😆

@@ninoivanov Sorry to hear that. I did watch your video about the machine's failure. Thank you for your effort, nevertheless.

@djsbriscoe The GOOD news, though: as you hated Qemu, I tried to do it in 86Box - which turned out impossible due to a bug; in other words, your comment caused a bug-report (and likely fix) in a relatively important piece of software… 😉 (I am on Linux - if you are not, possibly you are not even affected, but still!)

Never had one, this is my first experience in these systems - I was just curious as a kid, but we never could afford a computer then.

Thank you, I shall look into it!

Did look into it - doesn‘t work with the old one. However, with the new one it also runs considerably cooler - with the old one, it was hot to the touch before it went out. Now it is merely "warm".

@@ninoivanov Possible ram fault or short in one of the IC's. What casued it would be more a concern though as I'd hate to think it was flaw in the design or poor cooling of the chip.

@arnolduk123 I think indeed cooling is likely not the issue, as the new chip simply does not get that hot. HOWEVER, your hunch with the monitor cable seems to have had some effect, too: it, too, can cause "no signal", tried it yesterday!

Never heard of it before, but I am exploring it and I will try it - very kindly thank you for that amazing suggestion!!

@@ninoivanov Many things in ST-DOS work quite differenly from MS-DOS and its 100% clones. You can come to its IRC channel if you have questions!

@tikkasen_urakointi I actually do have a question: any chance to tell it the correct CHS during setup? It "miss-guesses", and the result is unbootable.

@@ninoivanov It depends on the disk. The USB stick image can boot from any geometry, but the BIOS needs to support LBA indexing, which is probably not available in your 386's BIOS. Try using a virtual machine to install ST-DOS from a floppy image to the CF card? Then the geometry in the boot sector should automatically become correct.

Thank you! - The graphics card, indeed, had died. I don't know why or how. They sent me a new one - and that worked (subject of my preceding video, should you ever need to change it). To prevent thermal issues, that little hand-ventilator behind, with the two covers open, seemed to really suffice.

Following your notion, I think you just likely pointed us all in the right direction: maybe they used it to extract files from images, e.g. of the Windows installation disks, Turbo C, Turbo BASIC, etc?

Blizzard's "Warcraft: Orcs & Humans", just had a look for you - and thank you kindly for these hints above! :)

@@ninoivanov Ahh, thanks for checking. I don't think the original Ancient Art of War would work on a 386 anyway ... only knows about 8088/86 and so runs too fast. But there is a VGA version apparently.

@Brfff There used to be something called "moslo.com" to slow down the CPU…

You are right, of course…

Look, in all fairness, I … forgot. 😆 But certainly you may try something like (parameters really being DOUBLE dashes): picocom -baud 9600 -parity n -databits 7 -stopbits 1 -flow n -omap lfcrlf -emap delbs -imap delbs,crcrlf /dev/ttyUSB0 (or ttyACM0)

Hey, I wish you to live long and happily! ;)

NO, Clarence! 😁 I WANT to see YOUR video. Do it! There is no reason not to! (Because all the reasons you consider "against" will dissolve once you imagine yourself as being 70 and telling of cool things in the past, including doing the video!) I actually wish RUclips had more "normal people doing videos" rather than some ultra-polished trash! If you wonder "what software to use", there are a lot of options; personally, I use YouCut, available both for iOS and Android, and I am very happy with it. 😉 Good luck, and looking forward to it!!

@@ninoivanov thanks for the advice. I’m sure everyone can see how unimpressive my videos are without editing of any sort, so that tip is helpful.

That is a BRILLIANT rant! 😄 I … like them. BECAUSE they are crappy. 😆 You know what? In your honor, I will make a video on how to use a Fallout-like map on a modern iPhone, WITH crappy graphics!

@@ninoivanovI am honoured sir 😂

Pardon my ignorance: what is a DM 602? And - 386! That you must reopen this wound, *sigh* 😆 Happy you like it! And to be frank: no, no plan, totally in the dark. I was changing all capacitors on the board exactly behind the screen - and "most" others, judging that those at the end of CRT most likely control the ray, and the others "some other stuff". Of your "DM 602" is/has a screen, then maybe either the screen needs calibration / positioning of the image, or a cable is not fully attached (had that on a laptop: and if you press a specific place, the line appeared; my solution was to squeeze a matchstick under the bezel "to forever press that place"). I will now try to run it with a different machine…

@@ninoivanov dm 602 is mda/hercules green mono crt commodore, but produced by philips. Is very common, you can find it everywhere also for the c64 / apple II

@retronoobtech8551 Thank you!

Look for "ESP32 LoRa", for Long Range, and ESP32 is a very popular platform for wireless experiments. Do not look for "exactly my chips", as ever better and better ESP32 devices are entering the market. Good luck! And if you do not opt for LoRa, but "normal WiFi", then please be aware that you can connect retro gadgets with ease even to at least display internet content (if used as a terminal) - I have multiple videos, others even better ones. Good luck with your endeavors!

You future holidays destination… 😆

Thank you for mentioning that, that is, of course, interesting! - And what is annoying, as with the previous model, nobody seems to be selling replacement parts, either. You can get a Pocket 386 - but it does not seem you can get "just its graphics card".

Exactly its charme!

Thank you for the diagnosis!

I shall see to it, thank you!

Very likely you are correct.

@@ninoivanov Since you got it for nothing I's start hacking it with my hot air station!! As another viewer mentioned it's probably just ram.

@TradieTrev I got no hot air station but "helping the soldering" might have the same effect, right?

All soldered, but certainly a good advice!

Nope... No beep codes, unfortunately.

That’s the WORST part: the machine was sponsored… My FIRST sponsored video… So, imagine a Chinese gentlemen approaching me to do a neutral review on a product he intends to sell… where "little things here and there" he expects… And WHAT do I deliver? "Live video footage of his machine’s death"… Neither proud nor happy, but not my fault, either.

​@@ninoivanovBut you could report about the customer service and if the replacement is flawless. Would be positive for the creator if successful 😊

@@ninoivanov That's pretty funny when I think of it; I thought your review was pretty funny considering.

Definitely enough, and the battery is full, too. I see that on the Fn-F5 menu. Dead graphics card is my present guess.

Oh, that is, of course, very unfortunate, I understand your frustration.

It is not the CF card at all, but I suspect the graphics card. I have tried booting it with the card of my Book 8088, which it did boot in a brief try, but it changed nothing. The fact if the matter is, I cannot access the BIOS - yet I should be able to, even without any card.

Thank you! I think you totally made the right suggestion! I just took it apart. Re-fixing all cabling did not help at all. But interestingly, taking out thr graphics card and booting without it made no change in the situation - and one would expect that a working graphics card SHOULD make SOME change. So somewhere between the card and the monitor, or the card itself, there is the issue. Given I am getting no image even on an external monitor, I suspect the graphics card is dead. EDIT: plus, a second before it died, it actually displayed "the Windows desktop" as a squashed image in the upper right, all the more pointing to the graphics card…

@@ninoivanov On many BIOSes that type of beep code that it gives before those two short beeps (which indicate that an error happened) mean that there is no display adapter. Many computers still boot normally after that and they can be used headless.

@@tikkasen_urakointi I am check-mated because for a headless start, I would have had to enable the serial port in the … BIOS. Well, well, well. - Admittedly, then I could have done a MODE and a CTTY COM1: in AUTOEXEC.BAT and tried to use the machine headlessly…

… or if you accept the limitations, you could go for a HP 200LX… *whistle* ☺️

@@ninoivanov impossible to get on my country. I'd go with a libretto if possible, but even difficult to get here

This video shall be by no means stopping you, for the few hours I had it, it was great! 😆

Kindly thank you!

Read...? What does the head read? I thought it must be a print head?

@@josephlunderville3195 Yeah, it writes only. You caught me saying something incorrect. - (Subconsciously, I think I was distracted by the idea that it also "writes" when the terminal "reads", i.e. when you type things into the computer, not only upon the computer's reply.)