Leaking capacitor?

[JoeG]

Thank you!

I removed the old floppy drive from the laptap, and installed a replacement. Notice I said "replacement" and not "new". The floppy is a Epson SMD-1000 3.5" drive. The replacement doesn't do anything different than the first one did, which is not read or write to a floppy.

I found this on the web, which describes the symptoms my floppy drives are having:
http://asknotes.com/2021/03/15/fixing-ep...isk-drive/

So I opened up the floppy drive I removed, and sure enough the same capacitor leaked. And yes Jeff, heating it up to remove it did smell like fish. I ordered some replacements. I didn't remove the smaller capacitor because even under binocular type of glasses it looks nice and clean. And, it's really tough to access. But if the drive doesn't work after replacing the capacitor, I can replace the other one as well. Even then, the problem might be more than just the capacitor.

If I can get this laptop to work with a floppy drive, I can load Windows 3.1 on it like it originally had from the factory. I'll still need to find a reasonably priced 9 pin serial mouse for it as well.

Joe