Maintenance Guides
| RetroTechCollection Maintenance Guides |
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| Preserving yesterday's technology for tomorrow |
This index covers the general procedures that apply to any machine and the routes into the machine-specific maintenance, troubleshooting and capacitor guides.
Read these first
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| Guide | What it covers |
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| CRT Discharge Procedure | Anode charge, the earth return point, discharge tools and the implosion hazard. Read it before opening any machine with a picture tube |
| Battery Explosion, Capacitor or Corrosion Damage | Cell chemistries, which residue needs which treatment, and board repair after corrosion |
| Capacitor Failure Symptoms | Symptoms, testing, and what the capacitor manufacturers say |
| Recommended Tools | Bench equipment, with static and electrical safety |
General procedures
[edit | edit source]- Battery Refurbishment: replacing and rebuilding battery packs
- Floppy Drive Repair: cleaning, alignment and common faults, by drive maker
- Hard Drive Maintenance and Repair: stiction, head bumpers, controller boards, and what can be repaired
- Retrobrite: the hydrogen peroxide process and its hazards
Diagnostics
[edit | edit source]- Sad Mac Error Codes and the Sad Mac Decoder: compact Macintosh start-up failure codes
- Diagnostic Serial Console: the Macintosh diagnostic serial port
- Commodore 64 Diagnostic Instruction and Troubleshooting Manual (326070-01): Commodore's own diagnostic procedure
By manufacturer
[edit | edit source]| Family | Maintenance | Troubleshooting | Capacitor guides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple | Apple maintenance guides | Apple troubleshooting guides | All capacitor replacement guides |
| Atari | Atari maintenance guides | Atari troubleshooting guides | Atari capacitor guides |
| All other manufacturers | All maintenance guides | All troubleshooting guides | All capacitor replacement guides |
Starting points
[edit | edit source]Storage devices
[edit | edit source]- Storage Devices: the drives themselves
- Floppy Drive Repair and Hard Drive Maintenance and Repair
- Disk II, Tandon TM100-1 and Tandon TM100-2, with manufacturer figures
- Macintosh Floppy Drive Maintenance and Macintosh HDD Maintenance
Manufacturer documentation without a guide yet
[edit | edit source]Some manufacturer documentation on the wiki covers equipment that has no maintenance, troubleshooting or capacitor guide yet. Each document page says what the manual contains.
- Sega Game Gear: Sega Game Gear Maintenance Manual (1992), Sega Game Gear VA1 Service Manual and Sega Game Gear TV Tuner PAL Service Manual
- Commodore 1541: Commodore 1541 Troubleshooting & Repair Guide (Sams, 1986)
- Apple printers: StyleWriter Service Source, StyleWriter II Service Source, StyleWriter 1500 Service Source, Portable StyleWriter Service Source, Color StyleWriter Pro Service Source, Color StyleWriter 2200 Service Source, Color StyleWriter 2400 Service Source, Color StyleWriter 2500 Service Source, Color StyleWriter 4100 and 4500 Service Source (the 4100 and 4500), Color StyleWriter 6500 Service Source, ImageWriter II Service Source, ImageWriter LQ Service Source and Envelope Feeder Service Source
- Apple displays: Studio Display (17" CRT, 16" viewable image size) Service Source, Studio Display (21" CRT, 19.8" viewable image size) Service Source, 17" ColorSync Displays Service Source, 20" ColorSync Displays Service Source, Macintosh Portrait Display Service Source, Studio Display (15" flat panel) Service Source and Studio Display DVI Service Source. Read CRT Discharge Procedure before opening any of the CRT models
- Apple computers: Macintosh Portable Service Source, Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh Service Source, Power Macintosh 7100 Series Service Source, Power Macintosh 8100/ WS 8150 Service Source, Power Macintosh 7200 Series/WS 7250 Service Source, Power Macintosh 4400 Service Source, Power Macintosh 7300/ 7500/7600 & WS 7350 Service Source, Power Macintosh 8200 and 8500 Series/WS 8550 Service Source, Power Macintosh 9500 Series Service Source, Power Macintosh 8600/ 9600 & WS 9650 Service Source, Power Macintosh/Performa 5200 and 5300 Service Source and Macintosh Processor Upgrade Service Source
- Schneider printers: Schneider DMP3000 Service Manual, Schneider DMP4000 Service Manual and Schneider NLQ-401 Service Manual, the German-market manuals for the Amstrad DMP3000, DMP4000 and NLQ 401
Documentation categories
[edit | edit source]- Service Manuals: manufacturer service manuals and schematics
- Documentation: datasheets, application notes and technical literature
- Apple Documentation and Macintosh Repair Resources: Apple's general publications and third-party Macintosh books, with the repair-relevant ones picked out
- Apple Programming Documentation (151 pages): programming books and compiler manuals. A few contain hardware information: Motorola's MC68030 User's Manual (pinout, supply pins and maximum ratings), Apple's MacsBug Reference and Debugging Guide (Apple's Sad Mac code tables) and Creative Programming in Microsoft BASIC for Optimal Macintosh Performance 1985 (the Macintosh serial port pinout)
- Commodore Books (69 pages)
- OS 8.1 Emergency Handbook 1998: Apple's owner-level start-up troubleshooting booklet
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