Re: IBM Aptiva 2137 - IBM theme files found!

Posted on 2020-06-17, 11:27

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This looks nice. Thanks. Does anyone know if the old Thinkpads with Win95 used to come with these images/screensavers? I have to restore one, and maybe I could use this files in mine.

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2020-06-16, 10:42

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Last saturday I found at the flea market 2x GF3 Ti200 128MB cards for 1 EURO each. A pure case of NO BRAINER! One looks like a Palit Daytona and one is a Chaintech A-G320. That's a great price :o Some of my last cards were bought from the national OLX site so I'm still spending here and there. :D I …

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2020-06-12, 10:44

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https://i.postimg.cc/5HK9qLMT/PRW-FM20-72.jpg Oh I've never seen a nvidia the size of the left one BTW. Are flea markets open in your country right now? In mine, due to COVID, some are still closed. In my city there is no flea market right now (I'm saving a lot of money that I used to spent).

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2020-06-09, 15:09

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Very nice cleaning. Well done 😀

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Re: Compaq SLT 286

Posted on 2020-02-04, 14:22

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No, it is not! Compaq was very generous, and used all tantalum capacitors on the motherboard. And the axial caps in the internal power supply are of very high quality, and I have yet to have any issues with them. I’ve got 5 SLTs, and they all work fine. Thank you very much. I've never opened it, so …

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Re: Compaq SLT 286

Posted on 2020-02-03, 12:59

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Great to see one of these computers working :) I also have a SLT 286, but I don't have a PSU, so I don't know if it works or not. I'm thinking of building a custom PSU to connect to the battery connectors, it seems to be much simpler than to build a custom PSU to connect to the power connector. Is …

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2019-05-20, 16:39

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Cleaning keyboards it's hard hard work, and very time consuming. Hope you manage to completely fix that voodoo 5 in the future 😀

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Re: Compaq LTE/286 - capacitor plague?

Posted on 2019-04-11, 11:05

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Well done. It's really good to see people spending so much time to preserve this nice computers. I hope some day I will get the time required to restore my SLT and my LTE's to former glory, but until then it's always good to see the success of other people.

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2018-11-29, 14:24

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The negociation was interesting. The seller didnt know what it was and he said that he wont lower the price no matter what, as the card has a lot of electronic components on it, hence the fixed price. Interesting. I guess that this is another way to set the price for a part with an unknwon value. I …

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Re: DUDE, show me your Dell!

Posted on 2018-11-14, 10:43

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oeuvre wrote: Spray paint came out quite nice! Much better than before!

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2018-11-12, 10:44

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It is really hard to arrive at work after the weekend, but your success stories always help to cheer the day.

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Re: Toshiba T4900CT

Posted on 2018-10-10, 16:52

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I see. I think it's probably the connector on the old power supply board that needs to be re-soldered or replaced. Let's wait for the new power supply board to arrive and see what happens.

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Re: Toshiba T4900CT

Posted on 2018-10-10, 15:39

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That issue was the result of not enough ram to complete an OS bootup. The previous owner installed win98 on it. Which required more then the 8mb of ram on the board. Once i added the 32MB CC ram card, that message was gone. I get it now. So that problem is solved. Can you give me more details about …

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Re: Toshiba T4900CT

Posted on 2018-10-10, 09:53

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Just to make sure I'm getting it. After the boot screen, the computer shows a new screen with the "While initializing device IOS: ERROR: An I/O subsystem driver failed to load. Either a file in the .\iosubsys subdirectory is corrupt, or the system is low on memory." message? --- About the damage on …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-09, 16:38

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Ariakos wrote: Three new laptops arrived: […] Show full quote Three new laptops arrived: Toshiba 440CDT (Pentium 133 MMX) Compaq Armada V300 (Celeron 466) IBM Thinkpad 365XD (Pentium 133) Very nice lot. Don't forget to check the bios batteries for leaking stuff.

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Re: Toshiba T4900CT

Posted on 2018-10-09, 10:17

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You could also try to fix the floppy drive and the cable connecting the floppy drive, then try to boot DOS from a diskette and see if that works. If it boots DOS from a diskette, than I don't think that you have a power issue.

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Re: Toshiba T4900CT

Posted on 2018-10-09, 10:12

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Hi. Have you tested the hard drive on another PC? Or have you replaced the hard drive with something you have absolutely sure it's working? The problem could be a faulty hard drive.

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Re: Toshiba T4900CT

Posted on 2018-10-03, 15:44

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Hi. That's a nice laptop. Hope you can completely restore it. About the CMOS battery, Toshibas of that era usually have bad batteries ( https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=60613 ). I store my Toshibas without any batteries, to prevent further damage. Unusual bubbling or heat damage. Picture …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-09-21, 15:44

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Went by an estate sale store in my local area. Picked up a stack of CDs. As usual, I am a sucker for old demo disks and weird shareware releases. Found an Amiga CD chock full of music mod files which I am very pleased with. Love mod files, brings a flood of memories of the Amiga amazing me in the …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-09-18, 16:32

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Partly repaired my Xbox today by swapping the DVD drive. The old one was completely dead, this one now works but the tray can only be opened manually. I my experience, xboxs DVD drives are not very good. I have several xboxs and only one has a 100% working DVD drive. Since you've been working on …

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