Re: Anyone refurbish TransWarp GS's?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

mystix1210@my-deja.com wrote:

>Well is there anyone out there who can refurbish
>TransWarps? Mine has had it, though I'm not sure
>exactly which action I took that damaged it. I've got
>two possibilites.
>
>First, I had made another cable. Only problem is that
>the connector I got wasn't the right one therefore
>the pins were all reversed! Thanks very much to
>Active Components. Well I should have gotten a
>continuity tester to check pinouts.
>
>Second thing I did to it was de-solder the LED, and
>soldered on a connector for a Molex type connector.
>
>In anycase, my GS almost never completes booting and
>crashes consistently. A lesson to you all, don't go
>by advice of your local electronic component store.
>Research all possibilities before commiting any
>action.
>
>Man am I bummed out.

Ouch!

That's really sad.  I felt the same way when I wired
a cable to plug a PC power supply into my IIGS and
reversed the leads!  Boy did that hurt.  I was damn
lucky that I hadn't put any cards in the IIGS before
I powered up.

Today I have another IIGS motherboard in there and
the fried one is in my closet, for parts and as a
reminder to myself.

Good luck on fixing your card, Herbert.  Not to make
it worse or anything, but have you tried plugging in
the original CPU to make sure the IIGS motherboard
itself is ok?  Just a thought.

Good luck again.  I hope things work out.