Re: Compaq hard drives.
Posted on Yesterday, 16:20
They were no different from hard drives without that sticker. Cheers,
Re: NEC Powermate 386/33i running slow
Posted on Yesterday, 16:13
Post detailed photos of motherboard if you can. Cheers,
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-10-25, 22:46
Finally decommissioned the mother's friend's C2D E6500 (2.93GHz) with low end chipset motherboard with not activated win 7 (boggles!) which luckily begun to die but I got the data moved to far more newer computer with SSD, much faster and with windows 10 activated. Means I can recycle the case which …
Re: Socket 5 pentium on socket 7 motherboard.
Posted on 2020-10-25, 02:40
Try running 120 at 133Mhz on 66 fsb. Should work. Cheers,
Re: Neet help finding a PB COAST module for 430FX
Posted on 2020-10-24, 23:56
Top left, Dell cache module asnyc. Top right, Apple cache module. Cheers,
Re: Korg NS5R Service Manual
Posted on 2020-10-24, 19:02
Use 50V SMD capacitor around 20nF or so they are not for smoothing, is for suppressing noise hence value is small. Cheers,
Re: Planning to install SSD in my Windows 98 machine. Help, advice, suggestions, etc.?
Posted on 2020-10-23, 18:27
While on this topic, I know that windows 98se has issues with larger than 127MB capacity. But what about one 127MB FAT32 partition on let say, 256MB SSD? Cheers,
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2020-10-22, 15:14
Decent monitor there. .28 pitch I had one but wore the CRT out from long hours years ago. Cheers,
Re: A way to limit how much VRAM windows sees
Posted on 2020-10-22, 01:41
Too old for GTA 5 with HD4890 cards, and GTA 5 is demanding game. Think about more newer video cards in CF or SLI. Try Directx 10.1 if you must. Needs ram to be more than 16GB, CPU should be Ivy bridge or Haswell or later. Recommanded is HD7870 or slimilar age of Nvidia like GTX 680 or later. Cheers …
Re: Request for information about old computer hard disk data
Posted on 2020-10-20, 03:31
First: unplug the IDE cable from that docking drive and carefully inspect pins that not spread apart and also make sure the cable connector is lined up correctly, do this first before powering on again. Cheers,
Re: A few newbie questions about a Tandy 1000SX
Posted on 2020-10-20, 03:27
Much similar issue with Hyperion portable. I know this as I tried standard microsoft DOS on it, almost works but not perfect. Drives in it is not standard either. Same issue but not as bad with Zenith's Eazy PC which I had as well, was a poorly understood gift that I didn't appreciate. https://en. …
Re: Anyone went nuclear and replaced all AT PSUs with ATXs?
Posted on 2020-10-20, 02:26
Prosignia 200 with wirings installed in detail with motherboard visible: https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-7519 … age-antiguo-_JM
Re: Anyone went nuclear and replaced all AT PSUs with ATXs?
Posted on 2020-10-20, 02:04
What is not pictured is the front panel of power button and LED, please take pictures so I can help you set it up so you can switch it on or off. Standard AT 2 connectors are standard on this and PSU came from both Proliant 800 (Pentium Pro dual socket using LPX motherboard, basically cheap server) …
Re: Compaq QV2000 question
Posted on 2020-10-19, 23:24
Oh that, okay, also please post a clear picture of your card. PS: Compaq is famous for doing many revisions to same part number including firmware. Anything in quotes of a part number (spare part) that ends in yyyyyy"-xxx" where xxx is revision. Compaq starts from first revision "-001". Here's this …
Re: VGA Capture Thread
Posted on 2020-10-19, 20:20
This is not ghosting, this is reflection issue (reflecting easily on liberally wires), I see this frequently with cheap VGA extension cables that does not use three coax cables for the RGB that is impedance of 75Ohms. The true quality VGA cables is thick cable and has ferrite bead on each end. …
Re: Compaq QV2000 question
Posted on 2020-10-19, 18:47
QVision 2000 are compaq-manufactured video cards using Matrox GPU chipset and RAMDAC by Cirrus Logic. PCB design is uniquely to Compaq's. I know as I have compaq boards that were made by compaq's. Not same as Matrox's due to RAMDAC but GPU is same but don't forget firmware is also different so you …
Re: Ageing plastic on PC hardware - safe way to take care of it?
Posted on 2020-10-18, 23:54
Sharp gone down hill on TVs. Any I see I have problems with them. Some had very strange power supply regulators. Cheers,
Re: Dumping KM23C1010 mask ROM
Posted on 2020-10-18, 22:09
Hi there, what kind of this rare system? Cheers,
Re: PCIe floppy controller card? or PCIe -> PCI -> floppy controller card?
Posted on 2020-10-18, 21:54
I keep at least 2 computers, which are notebooks, both XP with floppy drive installed. Also quality USB floppy drive please. Not the one that cost 20, that thing had a plug was not USB dimensions spec was loose and making intermittent connections and eventually killed the little chip when got …
Re: Ageing plastic on PC hardware - safe way to take care of it?
Posted on 2020-10-18, 21:37
Any conditioners that based on silicone oils damages the plastics and feel terrible feel at a touch. Like armorall etc. Plastic breaking apart and degrading is a big big issue with archivists that preserves the old artifacts that is made of plastic like for example very early barbie arms and neck …
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