Comments on: Toshiba T2000SX https://modelrail.otenko.com/retro/toshiba-t2000sx Trains, computers, vintage, retro, model railways... the lot... Sun, 21 Aug 2022 10:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: ITrash https://modelrail.otenko.com/retro/toshiba-t2000sx/comment-page-1#comment-53226 Sun, 21 Aug 2022 10:25:45 +0000 http://modelrail.otenko.com/?p=5276#comment-53226 In reply to PEtEr.

I tried to revive one of these machines, but without luck. Mine has a broken power supply port and no adapter so i resorted to a 15V DC supply directly connected to the battery. The laptop powers on but it’s stuck on a flashing cursor (no memtest or bios). I tried replacing many electrolythic capacitors that appeared to be leaking and the bios battery, but nothing changed…

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By: lks https://modelrail.otenko.com/retro/toshiba-t2000sx/comment-page-1#comment-51109 Tue, 04 Jan 2022 17:44:11 +0000 http://modelrail.otenko.com/?p=5276#comment-51109 I have the same laptop with a working floppy drive but broken HDD. I tried to install a 32 megabytes CF card with an adaptor. BIOS doesn’t detect the disk. I tried the same Virtualbox method to setup the card with anydrive, but the BIOS does not still recognize it. The laptop boots fine to DOS 3.30 from floppy, but of course fdisk or anydrive cannot see anything.

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By: Hexbus https://modelrail.otenko.com/retro/toshiba-t2000sx/comment-page-1#comment-51088 Sat, 01 Jan 2022 15:23:40 +0000 http://modelrail.otenko.com/?p=5276#comment-51088 This floppy cable? I’m making some new ones at PCBway… just contracted with a guy on Fiverr to help me. We’re going to make them 150mm long and fold them to make them fit. FYI, they are 1.25mm to 1.00mm FFC forward cables. Very hard to get unless you make them.

https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0Y5Uzl7VvJvAa

I also have a boatload of spare Toshiba drives… they all need new belts, but they’re NOS service parts. Still trying to inventory them all.

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By: stevenh https://modelrail.otenko.com/retro/toshiba-t2000sx/comment-page-1#comment-48398 Mon, 26 Apr 2021 03:57:13 +0000 http://modelrail.otenko.com/?p=5276#comment-48398 In reply to terryg.

terryg,
Glad you found the article helpful. I really hope you end up getting further than I did. I love these old Toshiba laptops and am still sad that I failed on this one.

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By: terryg https://modelrail.otenko.com/retro/toshiba-t2000sx/comment-page-1#comment-48378 Thu, 22 Apr 2021 23:20:22 +0000 http://modelrail.otenko.com/?p=5276#comment-48378 I tried the same rebuild with similar results. The drive belt on the FDD was broken and I was able to find a replacement part from a website that specialized in old belts. It wasn’t the exact belt but it was close enough to work. I can boot from the floppy drive but I could not get the HDD to work. I also tried the CF card but was unable to get as far as you did. I tried anydrive but my expertise was insufficient to patch it correctly. Congradulations for getting as far as you did. Your article has inspired me to take another stab at getting it to run. Great article and Thanks for sharing…

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By: stevenh https://modelrail.otenko.com/retro/toshiba-t2000sx/comment-page-1#comment-47659 Mon, 01 Feb 2021 02:38:15 +0000 http://modelrail.otenko.com/?p=5276#comment-47659 In reply to Hex.

It was such a beautiful screen.

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By: Hex https://modelrail.otenko.com/retro/toshiba-t2000sx/comment-page-1#comment-47639 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 20:15:57 +0000 http://modelrail.otenko.com/?p=5276#comment-47639 Damn… Now I will appreciate the ccfl invertor…. Damn

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By: stevenh https://modelrail.otenko.com/retro/toshiba-t2000sx/comment-page-1#comment-43516 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:02:33 +0000 http://modelrail.otenko.com/?p=5276#comment-43516 In reply to PEtEr.

Peter,

Unfortunately not. I vaguely remember it being a rectangular plug with 4 female pins? +18v at differing currents and a return feed.

You can find an image of it on google. Seems there’s even still adapters on eBay! But that may be throwing money away.

Steven.

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By: PEtEr https://modelrail.otenko.com/retro/toshiba-t2000sx/comment-page-1#comment-43512 Sun, 27 Oct 2019 18:30:11 +0000 http://modelrail.otenko.com/?p=5276#comment-43512 Do you still have the power adapter? I found an equal one and I have no way of knowing if it works

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