I used to edit the autoexec.bat on the school computers with shit like @echo off echo Y | format C: Obviously, the systems would be working when I was using them, and continued to work the entire day, but I knew they were ticking time bombs. The next day there would be an "Out of order" sign on them …

So I recently just came across this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5REM-3nWHg I found it very interesting that George R. R. Martin writes his A Song Of Ice And Fire on DOS. There's something beautiful about someone just making due with that they have and know and using it to make them tons …

TELVM wrote: fyy wrote: Completely fake ... AMD Athlon 1GHz explosion *pop* awwww.. so cute! Haha. That's alot different than blowing a hole into the table. The first video is from guys who made alot of fake vids just for shits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggh2Mu4Qkgk

Yeah the problem with AMD CPUs before Athlon 64 was they had no internal thermal protection and the BIOS's thermal protection (if even enabled) was far too slow at reacting to a situation where the die has no cooling at all. The die can actually detach from the CPU package. It gets extremely hot …

So I've been working on this Toshiba 4600 laptop that I got the other day for gaming. Formatted-it and reinstalled windows 98se. Thanks to some of these programs and utilities is working quite well: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/105936-last-versions-of-software-for-windows-98se/ I downloaded the …

Check out the early versions of Firefox, I think 1.5 might support Windows 95.

Bend slot pins? cracked solder joint? did you fiddle around with the ram before it started doing this? It's been a while but it used to work fine. I'm actually wondering if it's something more mechanical to the issue, because on the Inspiron 500m the little memory cover on the bottom of the laptop …

No sales / trading allowed on VOGONS! Have a look on eBay, craigslist or other places. That's a shame! Check on Amibay.com Perfect. Thanks for the tip Try to clean the slot and the memory with alcohol. Did you try running a single module in the "bad" slot. Try with both modules to be sure that it …

My poor little Inspiron 500m with a 1.3 Ghz Pentium M normally has 2 x 512's but the first SODIMM slot has gone bad and throws out all kinds of errors whenever something is put in the slot now. Running on a single slot of 512 megs of ram is *OK* for most things and old school games but with 8+ …

Super Socket 7 doesn't take a Pentium 2 :) It takes CPUs such as the Pentium 166, Pentium MMX 233, AMD K6-2 or AMD K6-3+. You are invited to do your own tests and arrive at the same conclusions I did :lol: I must be confusing things, lol. I been reading up tons the last week or so and watching your …

L1, as referred in the BIOS, is CPU or on-die cache. L2 is external, depending on the CPU sometimes L3 cache. If you disable L1 cache, ALL the CPU or on-die cache is disabled and that's it. There is no external cache to speed it up a little like on the Pentium platform. On a PIII 500 MHz you get a …

Slot 1 systems are not suitable for Time-machine projects because they lack the motherboard L2 cache. The cache is all on the CPU. So if you turn it on the CPU is very slow, on the level of a slow 386SX. You can't go any faster because there is no motherboard cache. The older Pentium platform (up …

Hi, first post Mau1wurf1977, you should build this as a retro machine! If you get the 1.06 version of the Asus P2B-DS you can go as low as a Pentium II 233 (which you can underclock, this board goes as low as 2 x 50 mhz according to the manual's settings) and you can go all the way up to a dual CPU …