Glad to hear you got it sorted. 

 

Jeff

 

From: M100 <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rune Devik
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2025 3:46 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [M100] SPAM-LOW: Re: My Model 100 works, then dies

 

So, just wanted to follow up on this and it's a happy story as my model 100 is 
working flawlessly now. 

 

After Jeff responded I viewed all his great Youtube videos about TRS-80 model 
100's. I was left with two interesting things. If the machine behaves strangely 
it might be because:

1) left over flux that has become slightly conductive  

2) or missing battery 

 

So I addressed both of these. There was a lot of left over flux in certain 
areas of the mother board that needed to be cleaned of and I replaced the 
battery. And behold: The machine now works perfectly :).

 

Thanks for all the great videos Jeff, and happy holidays to you all :) 

 

Now, I will go and write some TEXT files on my Norwegian Model 100!.

 

 

 

On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

Have you measured the power supply rails to see if you are losing one?

 

Jeff Birt

 

From: M100 <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Rune Devik
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2025 12:48 AM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: SPAM-LOW: Re: [M100] My Model 100 works, then dies

 

Happens with both. First time using the adapter and after that I changed to 
batteries. Same behaviour. 

 

 

On Sun, May 11, 2025, 01:30 Tom Cronin <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

Is this using the power adapter or using AA batteries?

 

On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM Rune Devik <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

Hi 

 

I have a Model 100 that works perfectly for 2 - 5 minutes then makes a small 
crackling sound (speaker) then seems to just power off. When I try to restart 
it (power on/off switch) it does not work. When I try it the next day it works 
again for some time before it powers off.  

 

I have removed the internal battery and changed all caps on the right hand side 
of the motherboard (as I believe I read somewhere that these where the power 
side of things). But the behavior is exactly the same. Still have a few caps on 
the left hand side that I haven't changed but I'm starting to loose faith in my 
capacitor theory. 

 

Any ideas would be appreciated. If anyone has experienced the same and know the 
fix that would be even better :) 

 

/Warshi




 

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mvh,

Rune Devik

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