hey all
about to inherit a toshiba 8710 s from a good friend of mine-only trouble is he says it doesnt power up.
im obviously keen to get her going again, but have you guys got any ideas to what might be wrong?
ive never done an electrical repair before myself, so would probably get a pro to look at it.but would prefer to know if it might be something simple before i take it and get ripped off!!!!!!!!!
ideas please

ye don,t take it, it,s one ugly box

well its not as ugly as me mate so theres a good start
no but seriously mate i like the styling-almost like a mini,poor mans toshiba wx1-its got that unusualness feel for me and thats what i like.....dont worry ill get the jump leads out and it will fire on 8 cylinders again i promise ya
its same as if si had still had your busted d8444,az-id have took that too!

well that,s up to you, but i don,t see the point in taking busted boxes if you don,t know how to fix them, unless of course it,s a big showy one like the c100f, give me that as dead as you want

ive tried it on ac power, and batteries,pretty much as si said he had-and nothing-does this thing have internal fuse-if so where, and is it easy to change?

andy...take the back off, look at the trany and rewire it...red to red.....black to black.....and blue to bitz ...sorry mate couldnt resist

dont worry about it mate
but seriosly, anyone have a schematic for this baby or something?
heres a representative pic as the same model as mine:
rt 8710s

Could be bad capacitors that dry up and shorted out, could have taken out the voltage regulator, could be simple as a bad switch were the plug goes in, no way to tell without looking at it.

thanks for the advice, drmr-i really love the look of this unit so i am keen to get it fixed!