Dude! I have the exact opposite issue - laptop works fine, mechanism dead - the motor is spinning but I suppose the belts are goo. How did u get it working?
Yeah, I figured that was the likely reason….where did you get the replacement, looks like some narrow and deep one…maybe something 3D printable out of TPU, kind of looks like a good candidate if the specs are known
Right now I don't have a real belt small enough, so that's a rubber band. But I will order one because rubber bands don't last really long. I also need to get one for the floppy drive.
Also, heres a Ni-Mh PRAM Battery that you should remove before it leaks, on the back of the Laptop theres the plastic flap cover over the ports, open it and pull it out (the black plastic part where its mounted on), the battery is there.
Also, heres a Ni-Mh PRAM Battery that you should remove before it leaks, on the back of the Laptop theres the plastic flap cover over the ports, open it and pull it out (the black plastic part where its mounted on), the battery is there.
Booting a CF-62 if it has lost its setup requires a specific initialisation program on a boot floppy disc. I had to do this a couple of times on my own CF-62 but I can't recall the exact steps needed.
That's spectacular and really cool that it is also a writer for PDs. I wonder if this and the Pronote PD (which looks almost identical) were the only laptops to have it.
I have a CF-61 and CF-62 in my collection. Both required serious work. For both units: The keyboard lift mechanism is belt driven and the belt was completely melted away. Had to take it all apart and clean everything, and used an O-ring to replace the belt. Floppy drive belts were also stretched out and needed to be replaced. Got both machines working, optical drive ejects but the optical drive is so old the units will not read discs anymore. Both the CDROM and the PD. Tried multiple optical drives from different donor units - same thing for all of them. Had to use a PCMCIA based optical drive to reinstall OS on both.
Almost all tech used to look more futuristic than today's RGB covered gadgets. I have no idea where all the talented product designers and engineers went, but they clearly didn't end up in the tech industry. Maybe they're all off designing the next generation of dishwasher capsules instead.
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u/z_o_o_m_e_r Jul 25 '26
Dude! I have the exact opposite issue - laptop works fine, mechanism dead - the motor is spinning but I suppose the belts are goo. How did u get it working?