Re: Quick question about good troubleshooting steps for windows 95 hardware issues

Posted on 2024-12-09, 23:38

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by Ryccardo

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I am unable to get any files onto it or off of it due to the floppy drive not working in Windows Could always plug the HDD into another PC - but it better be one with a real IDE interface (and older than the Sandybridge Gigabyte C847N - something from the 90s or early 2000s with proper manual …

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Re: Still using XP and dont want to change

Posted on 2024-12-09, 22:20

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by Ryccardo

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Sometimes I think about whether it even makes sense to have a computer at home. Why not just get by with a smartphone? To do stuff, of course... - Computer science calls them a real world approximation of a Turing machine, so they could do everything if given enough time and memory (and well, …

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Re: Future nostalgia?

Posted on 2024-12-09, 21:30

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by Ryccardo

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as public telephones are now free in Australia. Ha! Our payphones are, where they still exist*, the last vestiges of tick-based billing (ie not exact call time), ISDN, and truly anonymous communications :) :( * I found 50 cents in the change slot of one in Milan barely 6 months ago - some habits …

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Re: Xircom Creditcard Ethernet 10/100 - missing dongle

Posted on 2024-12-09, 15:13

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by Ryccardo

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kotel wrote on 2024-12-09, 12:50: 6 total pins for LAN... 2 pairs (all you need for 10 and 100baseTX) and... I don't know, shielding? Maybe a 3rd led if the speed one is multicolor? 😀

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Re: Compact Mac Contact Paper

Posted on 2024-12-06, 20:25

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by Ryccardo

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Further, what if you swapped the CRT for amber? Has anyone done this before? Not me, but… Option 1 - swap the whole screen with another compatible one (size, curvature, neck diameter, pinout, voltages - it's probably easier than it looks like as 12 V filaments have been common in mono tubes until …

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Re: What is that one computer habit that you got rid of?

Posted on 2024-12-05, 20:00

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by Ryccardo

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Closing everything except Explorer and Systray before burning a CD :) Tabbed browsing IE6 style (= open 6 pages - a good amount for 32 MB when they have lots of tiny pictures -, wait for them to load, disconnect from dialup and repeat once you've read everything and printed the most interesting ones …

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Re: IBM Think Centre 02R4087 Motherboard

Posted on 2024-11-16, 16:13

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by Ryccardo

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Manual - https://ftpmirror.infania.net/sites/pccbbs/netvista_pdf/24p2969.pdf Drivers (if you want the official ones for some reason, then again you wish modern manufacturers had websites this convenient to use) - https://download.lenovo.com/eol/index.html select Desktop then Netvista If the EEPROM …

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Re: Is the interest in retro PC hardware decreasing?

Posted on 2024-11-13, 07:56

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by Ryccardo

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Depending on how we look at it, wasn't it also kind of being "period correct" for the 90s for their users being "non-period correct" when they assembled PCs ? 😉 Yep, the desktop if not full tower PC has always been about modularity, if anything it's been more common in this millennium, between …

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Re: I never thought the hardest bit about building a 486 would be...

Posted on 2024-11-12, 19:56

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by Ryccardo

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Hadn't seen them in quite a while but I've found quite a bit in my garage :) However I'm always short on the imperial (motherboard/3.5 HDD) screws that no mainstream hardware store (as in hammers and paints) carries :| and of course I CBA to buy a five or 50 pack online, got some free (!) from my …

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Re: Booting Windows 2000 from NTFS logical partition

Posted on 2024-11-12, 18:41

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by Ryccardo

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http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/ has literally your case :) In short - clone a known working installation to the logical partition (copying individual bootloader files may be possible for 2000 but is asking for trouble in DOS-based stuff), edit the NTFS header so that it has the correct "hidden …

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Re: DOSBox and MIDI with real hardware. Best approach?

Posted on 2024-11-12, 14:13

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by Ryccardo

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Does it work right with a native MIDI (centric) player for your host platform, like Anvil Studio or MuseScore?

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Re: what is the greatest old hardware find/deal you have ever come across when looking for retro computer parts?

Posted on 2024-11-11, 18:34

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by Ryccardo

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A DDS5 tape drive for 12 €… though it's still not clear if it works (apparently tapes must have the factory LLF in place, and most ones I have are DDS2 so read only, only one DDS4) Free, a working IBM 8503 monitor though none of those are as interesting to me as my first own PC (80 € in 2005) or the …

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Re: WinXP Updates

Posted on 2024-11-09, 11:31

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by Ryccardo

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I'm coming in late, but I noticed a number of people recommending SP3 It matters as they're (also) kernel updates and, as SP3 was current for more than any other major version of XP as well as being "tolerated" in the 7/8 age, the one required by many later programs :) I've been running SP1 on my …

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Re: Is OTT content picture quality lower than the TV picture quality at the same resolution?

Posted on 2024-11-09, 10:22

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by Ryccardo

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It depends - you can always come to Italy, pay a 100+ € yearly tax for merely owning a TV receiver, and see the absymal bitrates for most small commercial channels to allow them to cram more spam channels often copying each others' lotto and mediums infomercials complete with the channels' …

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Re: What is your personal mouse choice? PS/2 or USB?

Posted on 2024-11-04, 16:10

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by Ryccardo

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the best for Windows 98 PS/2 of course - no getting stuck on hardware installation with no keyboard or mouse installed yet :) Even with much newer PCs and OSes, it's one or two more free USB ports, which are a much rarer commodity in the 2010s than in the 2000s (see my Asrock DeskMini, modern HP …

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Re: Erratic behaviour booting from CF card

Posted on 2024-10-26, 22:16

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by Ryccardo

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After a reboot, the pc starts booting of off the "hard disk" but there's a blinking cursor and nothing happens. This would be a classic case of "reinstall the MBR as Fdisk won't do it by default on a disk it considers used", BUT the next sentence implies this cannot be the case as to get to config. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-10-26, 21:55

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by Ryccardo

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A pair of $ony SRS-P3 passive speakers - the kind that only have a 3.5mm jack, something which I have to spell out since searching for "passive speakers" nowadays only finds the ones you plug into a proper sound system and "3.5 speaker" is a fair of generic but power-requiring tat (OK, there are …

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Re: Three Dead Aptivas - where do I start?

Posted on 2024-10-24, 18:58

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by Ryccardo

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Chuck them in the dishwasher without soap. Dry thoroughly. [...] I'm worried about the salt? Just FYI, the salty water in the small tank in the bottom is not used (in any significant quantity) for washing - only to wash balls or cubes of this stuff: https://www.duboischemicals.com/water-treatment/ …

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Re: Turning a Single Board Computer On and Off - Manual and Connector Photo in the Post

Posted on 2024-10-22, 17:42

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by Ryccardo

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You probably can't, at least inside the Amiga… What the board can do, is to control an ATX power supply (example: AT backplane, ATX power supply with AT adapter, you connect a regular power button + the green and purple wires to the right pins of the JP3 connector, and you get it to work like a …

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Re: New Speaker for Monotech NuXT

Posted on 2024-10-20, 16:55

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by Ryccardo

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Yes, on the typical full size PC Speaker, the coil is disconnected from the metal frame on either side (in fact, if it wasn't, it would be a problem for the "normal" motherboards!) A "modern" speaker (generally used for actual integrated audio and possibly requiring power depending on exact design, …

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