Re: Silicon Valley Mountains on FIRE.

Posted on 2020-09-18, 23:54

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It's bit late in the year for California though isn't it? We quite often leese your equipment (helecopters ,etc) during the Australain fire season as yours is over Our peak fire risk is probably August to September. The weather has cooled recently so maybe that helps a bit but it's still very much …

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Re: CPU boxes and foam

Posted on 2020-09-18, 21:31

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Like this? https://www.jameco.com/z/HDBC-1224-25-Conductive-Anti-Static-Foam-24-x12-_13864.html I would be interested perhaps in replacing the pink stuff with the conductive or dissapative type if it seems to work and fit better. Yeah, that was the stuff I bought. I used it in some small component …

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Re: CPU boxes and foam

Posted on 2020-09-18, 05:11

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The dense black foam is conductive to dissipate static charge. If you stick a multimeter in it I think it will read a few thousand ohms. The pink stuff might be "antistatic" meaning that it's not prone to generate static on it's own, but I'm guessing it's not conductive and won't dissipate any …

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Re: Tell us about your 3DFX collection

Posted on 2020-09-18, 04:46

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1x Voodoo1 (Diamond 3D Monster) - doesn't work 2x Voodoo2 8MB - don't work 2x Voodoo3 3000 AGP - don't work 1x Voodoo3 3500TV - I think it works I never did test it with drivers or 3D but it doesn't artifact, doesn't lock up, and it came from a lot of ~24 AGP cards where almost all that I did test …

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Re: Drivers doing stuff on their own and other horror stories

Posted on 2020-09-16, 03:16

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I'll add one that's maybe different from the question. Not a driver that artificially does stupid things that it shouldn't, but a driver that has an artificial stupid limitation. My memory is a bit vague on the specifics here because it's been a couple years since I was digging into this. As I …

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Re: Old CD-ROM drives and CD-Rs - try Taiyo media

Posted on 2020-09-15, 16:51

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Try Memorex CD-R, they compatible with any old drives as well as with Sega Saturn. Verbatim CD-R is bad choice. I'm not sure if Memorex ever made CDRs, they just pay somebody to print their name on stuff. :) The retail branding is usually meaningless, especially with commodity priced discs that …

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Re: Old CD-ROM drives and CD-Rs - try Taiyo media

Posted on 2020-09-15, 05:11

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by shamino

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Yes, media quality is a big deal with older drives. I think that as newer drives became more tolerant, the quality of discs that were commonly sold in stores declined. Good CDs became a "premium" niche and most people didn't seek those out. People generally don't notice the difference because they …

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Re: Drivers doing stuff on their own and other horror stories

Posted on 2020-09-15, 04:28

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There was some HP "all in one" printer/scanner/fax that a relative bought for her computer which at the time was a mostly outdated, 2nd hand Cyrix M2 machine she bought on a budget. It was running Windows 98 and was just used for basic Office and web browsing type stuff. It did those things fine, as …

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Re: Drivers doing stuff on their own and other horror stories

Posted on 2020-09-13, 07:06

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I scanned an old style (normal size heads) $20 bill on a late 90s scanner without issue. I guess posting it would be against the law. :) I've never tried it on my current scanner (which isn't really that much newer). Not quite the same as the topic, but I had a Windows 95 game that would …

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Re: Silicon Valley Mountains on FIRE.

Posted on 2020-09-12, 07:09

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PSA: If you have a drone, please do not use it to look at forest fires. That was a recurring problem during a fire that threatened us a few years ago. Drones are a threat to low flying aircraft. Once a drone is sighted, airdrops have to be called off until it leaves. Residents at the fire meeting …

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Re: Silicon Valley Mountains on FIRE.

Posted on 2020-09-12, 07:01

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I live in the foothills but forest fires in our vicinity have become an almost annual tradition over the last 10 years or so. I'm getting used to the smoke, that's how I know it's late summer. It used to be less frequent. I feel like there must be an arson fad going around, or maybe some of the …

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Re: Are MMX chips marked at all to indicate speed?

Posted on 2020-09-11, 01:02

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Inconvenient decision Intel made with this packaging style. It's the same on PPGA Celerons. It's a little more confusing on the MMX chips because they do have some writing on the top to tell you it's a Pentium MMX, but the rest is on the other side. Maybe the rationale was that you can check the …

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Re: Why do card manufacturers use each other's model numbers?

Posted on 2020-09-11, 00:45

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NVidia and ATI both had the same problem and for better or worse ended up using the same solution. ATI was first with the scheme and NVidia copied it not long after. Thankfully they started at totally different places in the "generation number" but they've wrapped around and overlapped. I wonder if …

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Re: Why do card manufacturers use each other's model numbers?

Posted on 2020-09-11, 00:20

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I haven't seen too many SB boxes, but did creative actually tell you which card you would get if you bought an "AWE32" for example? ^^ I don't think so. I bought an AWE32 at Best Buy back then which turned out to be a CT3990 but I don't think that was marked on the box anywhere. I certainly didn't …

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Re: Gaming headset/chair recommendations

Posted on 2020-09-10, 06:08

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I have a HyperX Cloud Alpha. Some audiophile type site did a review saying the Alpha has really flat response. That confuses me because mine seem quite bass heavy and maybe muffled or distorted or muddy or something (I'm not an audio guy). Maybe it can be fixed with equalization but I haven't been …

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Re: Offline websites on CD (ISP offline try-out discs from 95-97)

Posted on 2020-09-10, 04:35

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Not from an ISP, but I have a couple sets of Intel CDs like that from the late 90s. It was presented as a source of technical info (not marketing) but I don't remember precisely what was on it. Maybe some chipset datasheets, maybe some x86 programming info, not sure. It was basically a copy of some …

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Re: Athlon XP 2400+ Misidentified by BIOS and Windows 98

Posted on 2020-09-09, 04:08

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by shamino

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It's probably a jumper on the motherboard. Many Athlon boards have both a jumper and also some bus overclocking options in the BIOS. On such boards typically the jumper will implicitly set the bus dividers, so on those kinds of boards it's important to make sure the jumper is set correctly and not …

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Re: Pentium 3 550Mhz Win98SE Battlestation

Posted on 2020-09-09, 03:47

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Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-09-08, 15:18: I thought the AWE32 only supports 8mb ram ( 2 x 4mb ) Or at least will NOT benefit from more than 8mb. It accepts up to 32MB using a matched pair of 30pin SIMMs, which yields 28MB of usable space for a soundfont.

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Re: FIC PA-2013 and K6-2/500 no longer POSTs

Posted on 2020-09-09, 00:23

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by shamino

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With the 500W PSU attached, check voltages. Maybe one of the rails isn't holding up.

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Re: Abit BX133-RAID BIOS issue, bad caps or something else?

Posted on 2020-09-07, 18:04

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Panasonic FR, Nichicon HV, and Rubycon ZLH are all pretty much the same specs, at least in that 1500uF 6.3V 8x20mm size. What's the difference between the Nichicon HV and UHV series? Tried looking through the spec sheets, maybe I'm missing something? The "U" is in front of the part number but it's …

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