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Diagnosing problems with retro systems not working as designed. See tag wiki for guidance on troubleshooting questions.

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I have my Amiga 2000 system set up with about 3 SCSI drives and a SCSI scanner. The system was having trouble booting. I disconnected the scanner and the system now boots, but one HD is showing bad ...
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I've recently bought a Amiga 500 (A6 board). This Amiga works perfectly and starts as it should, except for the fact that when I hover on a icon and click my left mouse button to open it, it doesn't ...
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I’m now trying to clone a 50 pin SCSI drive on XW8000 machine. The cable is 68 pin SCSI and has a terminator at the end, my dd command is able to copy the drive to USB, but whenever I try to restore ...
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My family still runs their business with an accounting package from 1984. The computer running it is old enough to drink. I’m trying to move it to a virtual machine. I’ve purchased a System 76 ...
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I had networking working on Windows 3.11 previously, now I am getting the error "Your network adapter MS$NE2CLONE is not working properly". I tried reinstalling all the files, changing ...
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I have a Windows 98 Pentium II computer which behaves strangely. Although the CD-ROM opens and closes, I can't see it in Device Manager or play music. I get message that there is no CD-ROM device ...
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I recently acquired an iMac G3 (slot loader) and I am trying to install Mac OS 9.2.1 on it. OS installer seems to boot to Mac OS just fine. The problem is when I try to run the installer, it doesn't ...
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First off, this is something that has been troubling me for quite a while because I am dealing with a pretty rare machine. I looked up this specific model but the computers I found were either from ...
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I have a Toshiba laptop and I am not sure what is going on with it. Thinking that maybe the computer was corrupted 20 plus years ago. Trying to fix it up. When the laptop boots, I can see this on ...
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I come from superuser.com where I asked this, but was told to post here for further help https://superuser.com/questions/1772907/mac-mini-g4-powerpc-wont-boot-how-can-i-reset-it-to-factory-defaults?...
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I have an IBM Thinkpad 600E that won't boot up. I used ctrl + alt + ins to boot into a screen with some diagnostic tools. Memory test passes HD test passes SystemBoard test FAILS with Dev = 1 ERR = ...
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I’m trying to breathe life into an old IBM ThinkPad Pentium II. I think it runs Windows NT or Windows 98 or whatever came after that It turns on fine and asks me to enter the year and date which I do. ...
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I have a NES, it is working normally, but one of the game colors appears as black. In the game Mario Bros 3, the name is in black, some blocks are black and the goombas too. What can it be?
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In the mid-1990s, a friend of mine had one of those Compaq Presario desktop PCs that had an integrated CRT SVGA display built in the same cabinet as the CPU, in a similar fashion as the early iMacs. ...
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I have decided to take on this project to help another company that has been using a Windows NT system to run some of their critical field equipment. Unfortunately there is now an error which appears ...
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