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Another post in a very long time… I don’t have time for new projects and this blog anymore. So posting here is an occasional thing now.
\nThis time I’ll post about my antique laptops. I came back to them and for the most part fixed both of them to a fully working state! awesome, I know. Here I’ll write about both laptops and how I did it, including photos and videos at the end.
\nHalikan is finished, just needs a battery pack for a fully working computer, and Compaq also needs a new battery pack, but it has one with dead batteries, so I’ll need to rip it apart and see how could I replace them.
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\nI’ll start with the Halikan, as it was less work. I wrote about Halikan laptop here<\/a>, originally. Read that blogpost for specs and more pictures.
\nSo, in the beginning, I didn’t fiddle a lot with halikan laptop because I couldn’t do much without a hard drive. The one that was in when I bought that machine is completely dead.
\nI proceeded to hunt for a new hard drive and had to dig around for almost a year until I found a HDD that was OK. However I found a 4GB drive. I had to take it, because it’s VERY hard to find anything with less space. I thought that Halikan might not support 4GB drives and could possibly shit itself with such specs, so I swapped the drives. I took the one from Compaq which was 350MB and put it in Halikan, had to do some fiddling around the BIOS until I got the right settings for a hard drive to get detected and so it worked.
\nI have wrote about fixing the Compaq by installing FreeDOS on it in this blogpost<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today I went on to the electronics store and bought a CMOS battery for Halikan. The one that was in there had “exploded” somehow. Well by exploded I mean the acid came out and the battery became dead. I have noticed that those batteries are rechargeable. So I am wondering, why don’t manufacturers put rechargeable batteries to the mobo nowadays? it’d be for ever! I smell conspiracy :P
\nBy replacing the CMOS battery, settings wouldn’t get reset. Because to run Halikan properly you have to set few settings in the BIOS, and it takes some messing around to get it right… I’m not sure for how long that battery can hold a charge, but hopefully it won’t discharge in a week or two… meh.<\/p>\n

Now, it is fixed for the most part. Only thing left is the battery pack, which will be a hard thing to accomplish, because when I bought the thing it had no battery pack in it… I’ll see if I can find one to buy somewhere, but I doubt I will…<\/p>\n

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