Hi, sorry for changing my whole comment once again. I finally managed to get the machine passing the post screen. Unfortunately, I've only gotten this far, because now I'm unable to boot into DOS. The floppy drive is doing its seek upon starting the laptop. However, when I insert a floppy disk, it makes some concerning grinding noises and won't read from any medium. I really don't want to take this laptop apart, because of the brittle plastic. Perhaps you can tell me the model number of this floppy drive, so I can buy a replacement and only have to take it apart once. That would be very helpful. Thanks in advance! Edit: Despite my concerns, I ended up taking it apart. Turns out that tearing it down is quite easy. Replacing the FDD was kinda also a piece of cake. However, I ended up spending way too much money on the replacement drive. That sucks. I also found the CMOS battery. It's a BR1225, which is located in the top right corner, beneath the sound board. Sadly, it's soldered directly to the motherboard. That also sucks. But surprisingly, there is a Yamaha OPL3 chip on the soundboard. This is really neat. If this thing had a TFT display, it would've been the perfect DOS gaming laptop.
I am so sorry I had not read your comment earlier! I tossed that thing in the trash last week ;( sometimes you have to let things go instead of put endless hours into repairing it. But stay tuned, may upload a video on a Pentium 2 build soon!
@@ahab22 First, thanks for replying. I really appreciate that. Yeah, I can relate why you threw that thing into the trash. Till last week, I had nothing but issues with it. That's a bummer. But besides the many failing points and the awful DSTN passive matrix display, I still like it. I even managed to install Windows 95 via diskettes. However, I eventually came to the conclusion that this laptop is anything but ideal for MS-DOS gaming. Since then, I have moved to an Olivetti Echos P100E with a TFT active matrix display. BTW, I'm really looking forward to your future videos. I really enjoy your content. I subscribed.
Unfortunately not. I hooked it up to a standard laptop psu via two loose wires. I cannot recommend this procedure as I shorted them out several times lmao
@@ahab22 Take an old computer case apart and cut the hard drive LED wire off that hooks to the motherboard and use that by plugging it into the back of the laptops connector it works perfectly and that’s how I’ve been doing it using the same model laptop you have
Hey, ich habe den gleichen Laptop zur Reparatur von meinen Großeltern bekommen. Ich habe die BIOS Batterie ausgelötet und getauscht. Nun fragt er mich beim Einschalten nach einem ROM Passwort wenn ich versuche ins BIOS zu kommen. Hast du zufällig eine Ahnung ob es auf dem Board einen Jumper zum zurücksetzen gibt? Oder gibt es ein Standardpasswort für dieses alte AMI BIOS? Liebe Grüße
Hallo! Soweit ich mich erinnern kann, habe ich damals im Internet eine Liste mit Standard Passwörtern gefunden und beim zweiten Versuch hatte es schon geklappt. Lg
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Hi there. Do you know how to reset bios password on this FMA7600 or what is the factory bios password?
Hi, sorry for changing my whole comment once again.
I finally managed to get the machine passing the post screen.
Unfortunately, I've only gotten this far, because now I'm unable to boot into DOS.
The floppy drive is doing its seek upon starting the laptop.
However, when I insert a floppy disk, it makes some concerning grinding noises and won't read from any medium.
I really don't want to take this laptop apart, because of the brittle plastic.
Perhaps you can tell me the model number of this floppy drive, so I can buy a replacement and only have to take it apart once.
That would be very helpful.
Thanks in advance!
Edit: Despite my concerns, I ended up taking it apart. Turns out that tearing it down is quite easy.
Replacing the FDD was kinda also a piece of cake. However, I ended up spending way too much money on the replacement drive. That sucks.
I also found the CMOS battery. It's a BR1225, which is located in the top right corner, beneath the sound board.
Sadly, it's soldered directly to the motherboard. That also sucks.
But surprisingly, there is a Yamaha OPL3 chip on the soundboard. This is really neat.
If this thing had a TFT display, it would've been the perfect DOS gaming laptop.
I am so sorry I had not read your comment earlier! I tossed that thing in the trash last week ;( sometimes you have to let things go instead of put endless hours into repairing it. But stay tuned, may upload a video on a Pentium 2 build soon!
@@ahab22 First, thanks for replying. I really appreciate that.
Yeah, I can relate why you threw that thing into the trash. Till last week, I had nothing but issues with it. That's a bummer. But besides the many failing points and the awful DSTN passive matrix display, I still like it. I even managed to install Windows 95 via diskettes. However, I eventually came to the conclusion that this laptop is anything but ideal for MS-DOS gaming. Since then, I have moved to an Olivetti Echos P100E with a TFT active matrix display.
BTW, I'm really looking forward to your future videos. I really enjoy your content.
I subscribed.
I see a laptop that has the FMA7600 FCC ID with the TFT Active and no PSU. Is there a diagram to follow to use the 20V line?
Unfortunately not. I hooked it up to a standard laptop psu via two loose wires. I cannot recommend this procedure as I shorted them out several times lmao
@@ahab22 Take an old computer case apart and cut the hard drive LED wire off that hooks to the motherboard and use that by plugging it into the back of the laptops connector it works perfectly and that’s how I’ve been doing it using the same model laptop you have
Hey, ich habe den gleichen Laptop zur Reparatur von meinen Großeltern bekommen. Ich habe die BIOS Batterie ausgelötet und getauscht. Nun fragt er mich beim Einschalten nach einem ROM Passwort wenn ich versuche ins BIOS zu kommen. Hast du zufällig eine Ahnung ob es auf dem Board einen Jumper zum zurücksetzen gibt? Oder gibt es ein Standardpasswort für dieses alte AMI BIOS?
Liebe Grüße
Hallo! Soweit ich mich erinnern kann, habe ich damals im Internet eine Liste mit Standard Passwörtern gefunden und beim zweiten Versuch hatte es schon geklappt.
Lg
@@ahab22 Super, danke! Nachdem ich im Kopf auf Englisches Keyboard Layout umgedacht hat "AMI_SW" funktioniert :).