Re: Bad movies and horrible films

Posted on 2018-10-16, 02:18

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well I enjoyed it, first time I saw it was late night tv so usually the very very bad movies don't make it late night tv but also you can't expect too much. I enjoy C grade 80s movies especially post apocalyptic so I suspect my 5/10 is a 2-3/10 of a average punter

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Re: Bad movies and horrible films

Posted on 2018-10-16, 01:38

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Battlefield Earth Critics Consensus: Ugly, campy, and poorly acted, Battlefield Earth is a stunningly misguided, aggressively bad sci-fi folly. Made by the same studio that gave us Ballistic. Plus, it comes with a bonus serving of fraud. Following the financial failure of Battlefield Earth and …

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Re: Bad movies and horrible films

Posted on 2018-10-15, 10:01

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haha basket case wasn't so bad its pretty average bad, I didn't struggle to finish it. I recently started watching "slime city" this one I attempted twice and failed within 10 or 20 minutes

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Re: Bad movies and horrible films

Posted on 2018-10-14, 22:51

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I got excited reading the plot of rubber going to check it out sometime and I would like to make my contribution with street trash 1987

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Re: Fried my turbo button

Posted on 2018-10-12, 21:14

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yessss tpowell.ca that is the exact same button! thank you! I didn't think it would be so easy! On my mobo the first 2 pins are not labelled then next 3 pins say turbo switch so naturally I assumed turbo switch is the first 2 pins and thr writing is slightly shifted to the right... wrong checking …

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Fried my turbo button

Posted on 2018-10-12, 03:48

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So I was changing motherboards like 10 times because can't make up my mind what I want in my latest Case and wired it wrong to the 12v and saw smoke form behind turbo button, I immediately turned off the pc. Everything works, display and button was still working and confirmed turbo working too but …

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Re: ISA 486SV2 will not post

Posted on 2018-10-09, 22:30

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those resistors next to power connector look pretty corroded on their pads and pins, unless its the picture your 14mhz crystal looks corroded too (right of the picture) all the visible traces in the picture don't look healthy either. If the rest of the board is in this shape im surprised it was even …

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Re: ISA 486SV2 will not post

Posted on 2018-10-09, 10:35

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I thought it was just light reflection inside the isa slot, definitely need better pics, and good close-ups where the battery acid was

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Re: using 2 isa hard drive controllers on a 486

Posted on 2018-10-09, 08:16

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I solved the problem, thank you for pointing me to the right way. So for anybody interested I found a old sb16/vibra install txt file. I had to download ctload.com and sbide.sys (already have mscdex) Simply add these lines to a batch file or autoexec.bat C:\ \CTPNP C:\ \CTLOAD C:\ \DRV\SBIDE.SYS /D: …

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Re: No Mouse in "pure" DOS Mode (Win98SE)

Posted on 2018-10-09, 07:37

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if its a ps2 mouse get the drivers and install info here https://www.bootdisk.com/readme.htm (about half way down the page) if its usb prob won't work in dos, I tried a usb mouse with a ps2 converter in dos using cutemouse which is supposed to support that but didn't work. Ended up getting a ps2 …

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Re: No Mouse in "pure" DOS Mode (Win98SE)

Posted on 2018-10-09, 05:32

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by treeman

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usb or ps2?

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Re: ISA 486SV2 will not post

Posted on 2018-10-09, 01:33

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does the cpu get warm at all after leaving it on for about a minute? getting the keyboard lights to flash and cpu warm but no picture is usually a good thing. Your pictures are not very clear when zooming in but I guess you already did a close visual inspection

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Re: using 2 isa hard drive controllers on a 486

Posted on 2018-10-08, 14:28

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yes I do have that, think its some Samsung.sys or similar, it is a working cdrom setup that detects the cdrom when I have it connected direct to ide controller

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Re: using 2 isa hard drive controllers on a 486

Posted on 2018-10-08, 14:23

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the adapter I have is a pci version so it has a master/slave pin but I made a floppy drive bay for it so can insert the cf from the front of the pc. There is no way the ide cable can reach from floppy bay to cdrom drive, especially when the adapter is near the front of the bracket. But the sound …

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using 2 isa hard drive controllers on a 486

Posted on 2018-10-08, 05:48

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So like the topic says I am trying to connect 2 ide hard drive controllers on my 486. A the situation is my cf card adapter no way can reach the cdrom drive using the same ide cable which must be a common issue? all my isa hard drive controllers have 1x ide 1x floppy port so in order to use a cdrom …

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Re: picked up a cheap faulty 486 vlb motherboard today

Posted on 2018-10-07, 04:56

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thanx for the suggestion I took the top of the socket off and retightened all the pins which looked fine, unfortunately no fix :( I also found a few same value smd resistors on a broken video card so I transplanted a few onto the ones in my first post where the suspected coke was. The bios no longer …

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Re: Planning for the future - when to let it all go?

Posted on 2018-10-05, 06:11

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haha I was actually thinking like 2 days ago that probably most of this stuff will stop working in another 20-30 years alot of this stuff always getting broken solder or capacitors without maintenance it will be slowly turning to dust anyway. So way I see it enjoy it for 20-30 years then as I get …

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Re: What SMD soldering irons you use ?

Posted on 2018-10-04, 00:53

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dont buy chinese crap, too dangerous. I use a hakko 888, but weller also has good stuff on the low price side too. What danger are you talking about like blowing up or just danger to the project? I have been using a cheap Chinese station with a small tip and it's been ok, tip is crap now solder …

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Re: picked up a cheap faulty 486 vlb motherboard today

Posted on 2018-10-04, 00:43

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I am thinking it's a bigger problem like w cracked via somwhere or yes one of those smd resistor or capacitor. I reflowed the big umc chip and manually reflowed each pin on cpu socket with soldering iron. Also I reflowed the solder on most the small resistors and capacitors around the umc chips and …

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Re: picked up a cheap faulty 486 vlb motherboard today

Posted on 2018-10-02, 04:25

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I think its definitely this chip, I did the solder reflow like in the video, as long I had enough flux it stuck exact to the right pads. Had to do it 2 or 3 times before the system actually booted! However it is still shaky, I tried doing horizontal and vertical and keep the iron tip for 2-3 seconds …

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