Quantum GoDrive Failure and prevention THEtechknight 2026-09-21 | Quantum GoDrive Failure and prevention
Apple PowerBook 5300 restoration shenanigans THEtechknight 2024-10-18 | #vintagecomputing #macintosh #retrocomputing Getting a Macintosh Powerbook 5300c up and going again, but it fights me every step of the way!
MoHAA:S Clan Match and Teamspeak from 2004. VHS Recording. THEtechknight 2024-10-14 | #retrogaming #vintagegaming #medalofhonoralliedassault I found some old archived footage as a teenager from back when I was in the *007* Gaming clan for Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead. Back then i had to loop out from the GPU to VHS, and back in again so... Sorry for the quality but this was 2004 standards (for me).
Fluke 6060A/AN Multiple faults and repair THEtechknight 2024-10-11 | #testequipment #fluke #vintageelectronics I picked up a cheap signal generator for use on my bench with certain products, but why was it so cheap? Well.... lets find out!
Surviving Helene in WNC THEtechknight 2024-10-02 | #hurricanehelene This is my own collage/blog of my time surviving through Hurricane Helene here in Western North Carolina. I am from Franklin NC and we didn't get it nearly as bad as Asheville, so I was fortunate.
turning on weatherstar rack ahead of tropical storm #weather #weatherstar #theweatherchannel THEtechknight 2024-09-25 | ...
Product Review: WarpSE Accelerator for Macintosh SE THEtechknight 2024-09-20 | #vintagemacintosh #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing I was sent a Warp16 Accelerator for the Macintosh SE to beta test from Garrett's Workshop! We test this accelerator for functionality, but also, how does it stand up against Radius Accelerator 16 which is an MC68020 powerhouse? Lets find out! WarpSE Project:tinkerdifferent.com/threads/warpse-25-mhz-68hc000-based-accelerator-for-mac-se.253WarpSE GitHub: github.com/garrettsworkshop/Warp-SEChapters:00:00 - Intro05:10 - Mac SE Stock Benchmark12:40 - Install WarpSE14:00 - WarpSE Benchmark19:25 - WarpSE Sound Issues20:48 - Floppy Drive Issues24:16 - Install Radius Accelerator 1626:45 - Radius Accelerator 16 Benchmark29:49 - Conclusion
More laptops than I know what to do with #shorts #vintagecomputing #retro THEtechknight 2024-09-15 | ...
Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 2024 Walkthrough THEtechknight 2024-09-14 | #vcf #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing We visit the VCF Midwest convention again this year for 2024! This venue was massive, it was overwhelming and there is a whole lot of area to cover! So i just did a simple walkthrough of the event
Akai Hi-Fi 1985 Component Stereo Repair THEtechknight 2024-09-06 | #vintageaudio #vintagehifi #electronicsrepair Up for repair today is an Akai component stereo! Surprisingly this thing still has all of its manuals and was kept in really good condition. However, we soon uncover an STK ridden nightmare. Lets fix it! Components:Turntable AP-A201Tuner AT-A301Amplifier AM-A401Equalizer EA-A1
Pair of Macintosh SE/30 machines restoration part 2 THEtechknight 2024-08-30 | #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #macintosh I picked up a pair of Macintosh SE/30 machines at VCF East 2024! Both of these are in serious disrepair and need lots of love. This spans into two videos as the amount of work needed was tremendous. Lets fix them!
Pair of Macintosh SE/30 machines restoration part 1 THEtechknight 2024-08-23 | #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #macintosh I picked up a pair of Macintosh SE/30 machines at VCF East 2024! Both of these are in serious disrepair and need lots of love. This spans into two videos as the amount of work needed was tremendous. Lets fix them!
VCF Southeast 2024 Southern Fried Gaming Expo THEtechknight 2024-08-16 | #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vcf #vcfse #sfgeI went to the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast which is ran by the AHCS otherwise known as the Atlanta Historical Computer Society, paired with Southern Fried Gaming Expo convention, this is a collage of footage basically unedited for the real effect.
eMachines eOne Analog Board Monitor Troubleshooting THEtechknight 2024-08-09 | #vintagecomputing #electronicsrepair #retro With the power supply repaired, everything should be fixed, right? Nope! It could never be that easy! This time, we have to dive into the monitor circuitry to fix another fault. Also, we perform a CRT test jig modification! We used a Power Macintosh 5200 CRT to test the eMachine eOne analog board!
Mental health is important! I am struggling... THEtechknight 2024-08-02 | #autism #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealth This video serves as a reminder that mental health is incredibly important and awareness is key. Currently in my day to day life, I am struggling. This video is unusual for my channel, but it is also important. In this video i summarize my life story to keep things short, and then go into my current struggles. Here is my story...I am always in a hyper-vigilant state as well, This video sums it up perfectly: youtube.com/watch?v=87qAAAQg0dY
eMachines eOne Dead No Power Repair Troubleshooting THEtechknight 2024-07-26 | #vintagecomputing #electronicsrepair #retro This power supply was sent to me for repair because it did not power up. Can we fix it? In this video we go through my step-by-step process on how to troubleshoot malfunctioning power supplies! Also, this is not the end of the story and there will be a Part 2!
LCD vinegar syndrome. not all displays are equal! #shorts #retro #vintagecomputing #laptop THEtechknight 2024-07-25 | ...
MTX Audio RT2600 Repair THEtechknight 2024-07-19 | #caraudio #electronics #repair These came in as a pair, both need similar repairs. Lets see if we can get these old school beasts going!
Toshiba T4600c Floppy Drive issues Part 2 THEtechknight 2024-07-12 | Time to re-visit the Toshiba T4600c in my collection. Can we fix it FOR REAL this time? For good? We shall see!#vintagecomputing #vintagecomputers #retrocomputing #toshiba
Visual Basic on Windows 3.1 attempting to give a damn meme #shorts #retro #vintagecomputing THEtechknight 2024-07-06 | ...
July 4th Special: WeatherSTAR 4000 no power repair. Lightning? THEtechknight 2024-07-04 | #twc #weatherstar #repair Looks like mother-nature's fireworks got involved with this one! This is yet another WeatherSTAR 4000 that had dropped dead during operation. This time, it happened after a thunderstorm so potentially lightning damage? Not sure... Lets see if we can fix it!
Sony Walkman WM-D6 No Sound THEtechknight 2024-06-28 | #sony #vintageaudio #walkman This one was sent to me to repair, and it has no sound. This one had many interesting twists and turns, but can we fix it?
iMac G4 20 Power Supply dead, repair THEtechknight 2024-06-14 | #macintosh #vintagecomputing #retro This one was shipped to me for repair, it was such a simple repair that I did not intend on making a video, so this is just a collage of a few clips in what i found and replaced to make this guy work again
Macintosh Powerbook 180c restoration madness THEtechknight 2024-06-07 | #macintosh #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing I have a pair of these machines that are in pretty rough shape with lots of issues such as LCD problems and cracked plastic. The biggest question always is, can I get them working?
Sony CD Discman D-5 No Power. Lets Fix it THEtechknight 2024-06-01 | #vintageaudio #vintageelectronics #cdplayer This was Sony's first portable CD player so she is an oldie! This one was sent to me and none of the servos will activate, rendering the CD Player completely inoperable. Can we fix it? Lets find out!
JTS SecureBook 5: Adding Wi-Fi 6 Support! THEtechknight 2024-05-24 | #prisonbook #securebook #wifi6 Here, I add Wi-Fi 6 support to a Prison Issue Justice Tech Solutions SecureBook 5 which never had WiFi originally. Does it actually work? Well... Lets find out!
Sony Watchman TV FDL 3500 Repair THEtechknight 2024-05-17 | #vintageelectronics #retro #vintagetv This one was shipped into me for repair. Quick check and its completely dead to the world, no power. no signs of life at all! Considering when it was manufactured, any guesses as to what it is?@MasterCWelch - Sent in the TV to be repaired!
Macintosh Portable M5126 Botched repairs! Can we fix it? THEtechknight 2024-05-10 | #vintagemacintosh #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing This one was sent in to me for repair, it was previously recapped but not working, and well... It turned out to be a mess! Can we fix it?
Apple Macintosh M0110a keyboard repairs THEtechknight 2024-05-03 | #vintagemacintosh #retrocomputing #vintagemacintosh Going through my stash of Macintosh 128/512/Plus keyboards, and I have a pair of them with broken keys. One is a Platinum while the other is the standard one. I bought one to fix the other for parts, but, since they don't match, lets do something a bit different... Can we fix them? Well, lets find out!
Pyramid PS-52KX Power Supply repair THEtechknight 2024-04-26 | #electronicsrepair #caraudio This one was brought to me with a bunch of other car audio gear, except this belonged to a specific person. I believe this one was used with car audio bench testing, but I am not quite certain! However, this one has failed in a rather strange way, so lets fix it!
Streaming video to a Pentium 1 computer #retrocomputing #retro #vintagecomputing #shorts #retrotech THEtechknight 2024-04-21 | ...
VCF East 2024 Walkthrough and TV Descrambler! THEtechknight 2024-04-19 | #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #vcf I return to VCF once again! VCF East 2024, and the show keeps getting better and better! I tried not to bring as much stuff home this time, but as always, I failed... :-D. Enjoy!
Toshiba T1200xe Repair Nightmare! Part 1 THEtechknight 2024-04-12 | #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #electronicsrepair This one was sent in to me for repair, and what a nightmare this was! Of course, this one has the typical power supply fault from the Toshiba laptops of the era, but the situation only devolves from there. Can we even fix it? Honestly? Not sure...
Powerbook G3 Lombard checkout and parts swap THEtechknight 2024-04-05 | #vintagemacintosh #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing Here are a pair of Powerbook Lombard G3 machines, just quickly checking them out and trying to make one good one out of two. Bought one as a parts machine and its basically in worse shape than the one I already had.
Macintosh IIci Restoration: Lots of faults with magic smoke! THEtechknight 2024-03-29 | #marchintosh #retrocomputing #vintagemacintosh For the finale of our Marchintosh series, we have a Macintosh IIci which has multiple issues! There will be a follow-up part 2 of this series, we had the magic smoke! and also some other faults. Come along for the ride!
Powerbook 100 Repair with LCD headaches THEtechknight 2024-03-28 | #marchintosh #retrocomputing #vintagemacintosh This one is a midweek special! Someone had sent in a PowerBook 100 for me to look at, Turns out the LCD is bad. However, this devolved into entropy which at least there was a relatively successful ending!
Macintosh SE/30 Reloaded troubleshooting multiple faults THEtechknight 2024-03-22 | #marchintosh #vintagemacintosh #retrocomputing This board was sent in by Colin at This Does Not Compute. This was part of a group purchase of SE/30 reloaded boards in which a comprehensive video will be based upon, but we've run into a little problem! Lets fix it! @ThisDoesNotCompute Thanks for sending in this board and providing me an opportunity to troubleshoot the faults!
PowerBook madness miscellaneous tops and bottoms THEtechknight 2024-03-16 | Random clip of the PowerBook insanity that I am dealing with, if anyone's interested. Not worthy of a regular YouTube video but more of a behind-the-scenes thing.
Macintosh Performa 475 Restoration THEtechknight 2024-03-15 | #marchintosh #vintagemacintosh #retrocomputing Picked up a Macintosh LC/Performa 475 and it was unfortunately, damaged in shipping. After playing the replacement case shuffle later, can we actually get this working? @GarthBeagle Donated the awesome case. Appreciate it!
Power Macintosh G3 Tower Overview and Troubleshooting THEtechknight 2024-03-08 | #MARCHintosh #vintagemacintosh #retrocomputing This was another aquisition at the VCF Southeast show, a Beige G3 Tower! I was planning on using it as a bridge machine, but well things didn't quite go according to plan for now.
Macintosh IIcx Overhaul and Testing THEtechknight 2024-03-01 | #MARCHintosh #vintagemacintosh #retrocomputing I picked this little guy up at VCF SE 2023. This one was a price I couldnt really refuse, when I really dont need this machine however it was still cool to tinker around with. This one had its logic board recapped, but I wanted to go through it anyways. Stay along for the ride!
Kenwood X502-1 Repair THEtechknight 2024-02-23 | #caraudio #electronicsrepair This one is a newer one that I have not worked on before, the parts are so small to work with, and the thermal transfer really isnt that great. This is the era that they are starting to get almost too cheap to repair. Can we fix it? Lets find out!
Memorex Pocketvision 26 LCD TV Repair THEtechknight 2024-02-22 | #vintagetv #electronicsrepair #pockettv This is a little Memorex Pocketvision 26 which is likely a Casio TV-400, TV-430, TV-480 etc series... This one was a Stone Mountain Hamfest find in 2022. I collecting these little things up to a certain point, and this one has issues! Lets fix it!
Apple Network Server 500 PSU Delta DPS-300EB Troubleshooting and Repair THEtechknight 2024-02-16 | #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintagemacintosh Someone shipped in a pair of the Apple Network Server ANS 500 Power Supplies in for repair, one does not power on, and the other short-cycles. Lets see if we can fix it!
Channel One News - Magnavox TV Troubleshooting THEtechknight 2024-02-11 | #vintageelectronics #vintagetv #crt I picked up a few Magnavox RX9019 GY02 19" CRT Sets, these were specifically used for Channel One News programming in schools back in the day. These sets have a few problems, lets fix them!
Macintosh Portable logic board troubleshooting sad mac THEtechknight 2024-02-02 | #vintagemacintosh #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing This was sent in for repair, all it does is a sad mac. Lets fix it!
Pair of General Instrument C8M Modulators Repair THEtechknight 2024-01-26 | I picked up a pair of these modulators on a cable TV headend cleanout, and neither one of them power up. Lets fix them!
Macintosh 40th Anniversary Special: 512K Restoration THEtechknight 2024-01-24 | #vintagemacintosh #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #40thanniversary In honor of the Macintosh's 40th birthday, I restore the Macintosh 512K I have had in my collection since 2007! This one was a wild ride, I also replaced the felt pads on the drives!@StephenArsenault - 3D Printing and manufacturing replacement 400K felt pads! ebay.com/itm/235329409437 - Purchase replacement pads
