I'm fresh to these forums, so hello ![:)]()
Recently picked up an very sad 1040STFM, which amazingly booted up.
But it's got problems... hoping to get some help troubleshooting the following:
- Keyboard doesn't appear to work at all.
- Right Shift key stays stuck down - suspect a busted spring?
- printer hdrive & modem ports are pretty badly corroded.
- Not sure of the state of the disk drive yet (no disks to test just yet) - but the drive was sloshing about inside the case as half of the screws are missing!
The good:
- It boots!
- Controller port appears to work (tested with a C64 joystick) - moves the cursor around.
- RF has been replaced with a composite video RCA.
I have opened it up, and checked out connections etc, and visually all appears OK.
Would especially like some pointers on troubleshooting the keyboard.
Thanks in advance![:)]()
(n)
Recently picked up an very sad 1040STFM, which amazingly booted up.
But it's got problems... hoping to get some help troubleshooting the following:
- Keyboard doesn't appear to work at all.
- Right Shift key stays stuck down - suspect a busted spring?
- printer hdrive & modem ports are pretty badly corroded.
- Not sure of the state of the disk drive yet (no disks to test just yet) - but the drive was sloshing about inside the case as half of the screws are missing!
The good:
- It boots!
- Controller port appears to work (tested with a C64 joystick) - moves the cursor around.
- RF has been replaced with a composite video RCA.
I have opened it up, and checked out connections etc, and visually all appears OK.
Would especially like some pointers on troubleshooting the keyboard.
Thanks in advance
(n)