Mon
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Hello everyone,
I was reading quite a bit in the forum before posting and I think if there is a place where someone can help me it's here ;-)
I'm living in Germany and was always a bit fascinated with "older" Hard- and Software. I have quite a few old (mechanical) keyboards, but until a few month ago no more complete hardware.
Browsing the classical computer section on the well known auction site I saw an old laptop and remembered the one my father had when I was a child and which I remembered for the incredible price tag. My first own PC was a 286, so I thought I can buy the laptop and play some games from the past bringing back some memories.
I bought it just to realize that it was a near miss - it was a Toshiba T5100 and after I got it and did some reading I realized I really wanted a T5200 (mainly for the lock mechanism and the extra"power" and because it's the one my father had).
While waiting for one to appear I "accidentally" bought a T3200 and a T1200 because they looked so good... All of them need some care (bad CMOS Battery on all, bad HDD in the T5100, bad Floppy in the T3200 and probably a bad capacitor in the T1200...) and while I wondered which to fix first a T5200/100 showed up.
It arrived a few days ago - and unfortunately the display got cracked in the transport. Its not only the Glass cover, but also the display itself, so I didn't dare to put power on it. After removing the display (really great feature) it boots really good. The least noise of all newly bought Toshibas and the HDD light is flickering after pressing F1 (so another bad CMOS battery?). It also starts reading a floppy if I enter one before F1.
Here it stops. I am not getting a picture via the external VGA connector.
Reading the maintenance manual, It might be possible that I have to enable the external signal in the setup section of diagnostics disk. There are quite a few files I can find via google, but not the one which I'm supposed to start from the disk ("testce52") and also there are some files to switch other models (e.g. The T3100) to CRT mode, there is none for the T5200.
Is it possible to enable the external signal with a different method? Does one of the "Test.exe"s work? Can I do it without seeing anything, or are there too many steps to dare it?
I would be glad if someone can help me, otherwise I have to wait some time more and buy yet another T5200 (even if my wife thinks about 100kg of old laptops piling up in my room is more than enough).
Greetings, Simon
I was reading quite a bit in the forum before posting and I think if there is a place where someone can help me it's here ;-)
I'm living in Germany and was always a bit fascinated with "older" Hard- and Software. I have quite a few old (mechanical) keyboards, but until a few month ago no more complete hardware.
Browsing the classical computer section on the well known auction site I saw an old laptop and remembered the one my father had when I was a child and which I remembered for the incredible price tag. My first own PC was a 286, so I thought I can buy the laptop and play some games from the past bringing back some memories.
I bought it just to realize that it was a near miss - it was a Toshiba T5100 and after I got it and did some reading I realized I really wanted a T5200 (mainly for the lock mechanism and the extra"power" and because it's the one my father had).
While waiting for one to appear I "accidentally" bought a T3200 and a T1200 because they looked so good... All of them need some care (bad CMOS Battery on all, bad HDD in the T5100, bad Floppy in the T3200 and probably a bad capacitor in the T1200...) and while I wondered which to fix first a T5200/100 showed up.
It arrived a few days ago - and unfortunately the display got cracked in the transport. Its not only the Glass cover, but also the display itself, so I didn't dare to put power on it. After removing the display (really great feature) it boots really good. The least noise of all newly bought Toshibas and the HDD light is flickering after pressing F1 (so another bad CMOS battery?). It also starts reading a floppy if I enter one before F1.
Here it stops. I am not getting a picture via the external VGA connector.
Reading the maintenance manual, It might be possible that I have to enable the external signal in the setup section of diagnostics disk. There are quite a few files I can find via google, but not the one which I'm supposed to start from the disk ("testce52") and also there are some files to switch other models (e.g. The T3100) to CRT mode, there is none for the T5200.
Is it possible to enable the external signal with a different method? Does one of the "Test.exe"s work? Can I do it without seeing anything, or are there too many steps to dare it?
I would be glad if someone can help me, otherwise I have to wait some time more and buy yet another T5200 (even if my wife thinks about 100kg of old laptops piling up in my room is more than enough).
Greetings, Simon