Hi all,
I've been troubleshooting a NS Color turbo that refused to boot. At first the HDD was not detected at all. Looking at the board it was clear that all the surface mount caps were bad. I replaced them and cleaned up the board only to be greeted with an exception #4. After troubleshooting every removable component, I decided to compare this board to my working one. I noticed that this board had 2 additional capacitors above the HDD power connector. Sure enough when I removed them everything started right up. Has anyone encountered this before? You can see the placement here:
http://www.asterontech.com/Asterontech/next/NSTurbo_caps.JPG
Your board photo looks identical to all TurboColor boards that I have. Did you originally (from the factory) have two capacitors soldered to the four pads immediately above the HD power connector?
Yes, the original configuration for this board had all 3 positions filled.
Very interesting... perhaps gtnicol or Rob Blessin have seen this type of configuration.
