Philips PC info needed.

Posted on 2020-01-20, 22:33

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by Baoran

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Anyone has any information on old Philips PCs? Looking for information especially on 386 PCs even though information on other models might help with figuring this out. Most important things would be to know if the motherboard has standard connector and if the motherboard has some kind of integrated …

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Re: Floppy disk quality.

Posted on 2020-01-20, 20:41

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by Baoran

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Since the box wasn't wrapped in clear plastic I did test one of those ELW disks in scandisk surface scan in dos 6.22 and no errors, so at least they are not all dead. When I checked them out I was positively surprised. They are orange in color and look really nice in my eyes.

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Re: Floppy disk quality.

Posted on 2020-01-20, 00:34

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by Baoran

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I have no idea how they were stored, but if they are as new as 2009, wouldn't that make them those bad quality later floppies? I also got these 2 packs of unused 5.25" floppies recently. I didn't have any 5.25" floppies before that so I didn't think too much about the quality when I got them. At …

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Re: Floppy disk quality.

Posted on 2020-01-18, 23:25

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by Baoran

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Thanks. Back in late 80s and early 90s I was mostly buying 3M floppies. They were available where I lived and people were saying that they were decent, so I didn't really find out if other brands were good. Not that I know if these floppies are as old or if they are much newer ones.

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Floppy disk quality.

Posted on 2020-01-18, 20:38

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by Baoran

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Someone gave me yesterday 3 packs of unused 3.5" floppy disks and I have no idea how old or new they are. I have also saved some of my really old ones from around 1989-1993. I have heard that older floppies are much better quality than the newer ones and I probably would not want to mix bad quality …

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Re: Optical drives show up in BIOS but not in Windows 98

Posted on 2020-01-14, 17:29

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by Baoran

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I had similar problem and it ended up being that the optical drives simply didn't like each other (At least didn't like being in a same ide cable even if they were correctly configured to be master and slave). Both worked alone and when I switched the second drive with different optical drive both …

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Re: AMD AM486DX4-100SV8B. Interesting observation.

Posted on 2020-01-14, 16:44

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by Baoran

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2020-01-14, 10:35: Do you have the photo of that CPU? Here is one: Filename 486dx4.jpg File size 647.02 KiB Views 558 views

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Re: AMD AM486DX4-100SV8B. Interesting observation.

Posted on 2020-01-14, 02:19

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by Baoran

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I have one of those cpus too where it says it is suppose to have 8Kb cache but has 16Kb cache. I think I made a post in this forum about it long time ago. It also runs at 133Mhz well. Remember this? Re: 486 OC and cooling.

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Toshiba satellite pro 4600 cpu upgrade.

Posted on 2020-01-13, 19:19

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by Baoran

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Would it be ok to upgrade the cpu from 750Mhz mobile celeron to 1Ghz mobile pentium 3 and just replace the thermal pad with a decent thermal paste? Anyone knows if cooling would be able to keep up with the heat from increased clockspeed?

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Re: Windows 98SE: 64MB SDRAM fully cached or 256MB on 430tx

Posted on 2020-01-13, 17:01

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by Baoran

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Did win9x memory requirements increase much in later 90s? I built my pentium pc in 1995 with just 16Mb of ram and it was fine with that. I am sure 64Mb would probably be much faster but thinking about something needing 256Mb I can only think of winxp and games from around 2005 and later.

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Re: Retrobrighting

Posted on 2020-01-10, 14:21

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by Baoran

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I would like to know if there is a way make things less yellow without sun. I would like to make case face plate less yellow and not have to wait until summer to do so. Yes, you can use hydrogen peroxide mixed with water, submerge the parts and heat them to around 50C or so, if you have a …

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Re: Retrobrighting

Posted on 2020-01-09, 11:54

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by Baoran

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I would like to know if there is a way make things less yellow without sun. I would like to make case face plate less yellow and not have to wait until summer to do so.

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Re: How to Install Win98 on HDD 1 and WinXP on HDD 2?

Posted on 2020-01-08, 11:54

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by Baoran

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I also tried to install both win98 and winXP in similar fashion but could not get it to work. First I installed win98 on one hard drive and then I tried installing winxp on second hard drive but winxp installation froze in middle of installation and I couldn't get past that problem no matter how …

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Re: Power for LCD display?

Posted on 2020-01-06, 16:33

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by Baoran

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I didn't really look at the color of the wires, I just looked at the which side of the molex connector the 2 wires are in the adapter that you linked and it seemed to me that they were on the 12V side. I have never taken a molex connector apart myself. I have some molex connectors that have a fan …

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Re: Power for LCD display?

Posted on 2020-01-06, 11:36

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by Baoran

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Thank you for the help. The adapter you linked though seems to be 12V one if I understood correctly. Is there any place where I could buy a 5V one?

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Power for LCD display?

Posted on 2020-01-05, 20:34

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by Baoran

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front.jpg back.jpg I don't have much experience with lcd display, so I was wondering if someone could tell me how I can get power to the lcd display inside the case? I just took this lcd display out of a case that I was thinking of using for new build but I am not sure how to get power to it that I …

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Re: Got myself IBM 365XD... and I'm kinda disappointed :(

Posted on 2020-01-03, 23:28

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by Baoran

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Not sure if this is the right thread to ask this but is there any way to see from pictures of an ibm laptop if it has tft or frstn? I remember an old rule that if it had 2 sliders next to the screen it is suppose to be passive matrix and if it has only one slider it is suppose to be active matrix, …

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Re: Good brands/models of early 90's PCs to collect?

Posted on 2020-01-03, 14:41

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by Baoran

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386 in 1985 or 486 in 1989 would have cost more than any normal person could afford. In 1988 I bought a 286 which was my first pc and it cost more in today's money than a top new gaming pc costs nowadays. It felt like 386 or 486 PCs were priced that only a business could afford when they were first …

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Re: AT psu wires

Posted on 2019-12-30, 09:20

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by Baoran

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Yeah. it is like there is just small ring of color below the clear plastic that is suppose to indicate which is which and that clear plastic has yellowed which makes it impossible to see which one is suppose to be brown and which one is suppose to be black.

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Re: AT psu wires

Posted on 2019-12-29, 23:22

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by Baoran

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Thank you for the help. The reason I asked about the colors was that I could mark the colors on the wires that I would not have this kind of trouble in the future with this psu.

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