Re: Asus Commando LCD repair guide

Posted on 2022-08-20, 21:24

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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Nice work. I'm gonna hand my two Commandos over to you, when you're here next time. 😜 May I suggest to rename the thread? "Asus Commando/Striker LCD repair guide" The Asus Striker has the same display and tends to fail just as often, from what I've heard.

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Re: Has anyone else tested hardware that seems defective but comes back to life on it's own?

Posted on 2022-07-01, 23:58

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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You need to pray for The Machine Spirit. If you please it enough - the hardware will work. Yes and don't forget to pray to the God Emperor (the real one, not that wannabe with orange skin) as well. If the Machine Spirit is pleased and the Emperor wants it to happen, the hardware will come back to …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-06-30, 18:50

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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Repo Man11 wrote on 2022-06-30, 01:51: My Craigslist Score for the week; Antec 900 case with an i5 4590, Gigabyte motherboard, 16 gigs of DDR3, Corsair power supply. Oddly, this case has the PSU on the bottom, but there's no air vent on the bottom of the case. Someone gave this away for free?

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-06-30, 18:47

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/185471988030 DFI K6XV3+ sold for $150. Saw it this morning. Few hours later it was already gone. I'm glad I already got two of these. Three, if Hirsch can fix the broken one. Another: https://www.ebay.com/itm/384957875437 ASRock AliveDual-eSATA2 auctioned off for 144€. For …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-06-12, 00:29

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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Hmmm the switches on this mouse work great. Either this is a later version that doesn't have this issue or it wasn't used very much. Probably not used much. If excessively used they last about 2-3 years until the mouse buttons (usually the left one, if you're right handed) get stuck. I had three …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-06-10, 18:06

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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This is one of the first gaming mice right? From around 1999 or 2000? It's not ONE of the first gaming mice. It's THE first gaming mouse! Except for needing to clean the ball now and again (mine was a ball mouse and not the much more recent optical version), the main problem of this mouse is that …

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

Posted on 2022-06-06, 23:13

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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Radical Vision wrote on 2022-06-06, 19:21: Well yes these scrappers are fu**ing idiots and savages and neanderthals... All they know is how to get an hammer and just smash these parts, and then to melt them with acids and repeat... How I imagine the average scrapper:

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Re: So, like, does the K6 3+ 550mhz really exist?

Posted on 2022-06-06, 22:58

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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I have a 500 ANZ and 400 ACR. The 500 ANZ runs flawlessly (prime stable) with 550 MHz/1.8V and 600 MHz/1.95V. The 400 ACR needs 2.2V for 550 MHz (2.1V is not 100% stable), so yes, the yield quality for the low voltage chips should be much better. Just like expected. My buddy Hirsch and I ordered 9 …

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Re: So, like, does the K6 3+ 550mhz really exist?

Posted on 2022-06-06, 14:00

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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Basically this. A lot of the times overclocking can get you to the effective limit of the last processor stepping of the architecture. Not if you use the bottom of the barrel variants. The low voltage variants (400ATZ/400ITZ@1.6V + 450APZ@1.7V + 500ANZ@1.8V) are of high binning quality, just like …

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

Posted on 2022-06-04, 18:20

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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appiah4 wrote on 2022-06-03, 12:02: I just notices. How barbaric. Why? For gold? The card would sell for more than its gold scrap value.. Most scrappers don't think that far. When they see gold, their brain kinda shuts down. Would have taken a minute to research the value of this piece. 100 bucks …

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Re: What was the most surprising/odd thing you've found on an old computer?

Posted on 2022-05-25, 15:19

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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libby wrote on 2022-05-20, 22:23: two identical GUS MAX 2.1 cards in it. GUS in SLI?

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Re: What was the most surprising/odd thing you've found on an old computer?

Posted on 2022-05-19, 13:53

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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I recently bought untested HDDs on Ebay for very cheap. I was curious what's still on there, so I had a look and also scanned for deleted data. One HDD was from a charity organisation. Another was from a Counterstrike streamer. Others were not really remarkable, until I tested an old IDE drive. …

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 question

Posted on 2022-05-06, 21:29

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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A bit more infos about YMF262: The predecessor YM3812 (OPL2) was used in the original Adlib card. The first Adlib card couldn't play digitized sounds. So it would just play music, while the PC speaker was used for sound effects (like shooting). Creative countered the Adlib card with their Sound …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-06, 17:52

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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Also got another Athlon range crappy old power supply, for change money. Good stats on paper, clean, sealed, silent, with SATA plugs. Do I really need to care about the difference between active and passive PFC?!? Just not sure whether a brand named "XILENCE" should inspire confidence or the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-06, 15:38

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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For 1€ I would haven taken it as well! I remember a thread were people were experimenting with upgrading Vortex 1 cards to Vortex 2. Not sure if it was successful.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-05, 18:00

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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Just won a MMX233 and three MMX200 for 13,11€ shipped. I don't care about the 200MHz ones. The 233 is intended to replace my MMX200 in my ISA test machine. Gonna sell the 200's and basically got a MMX233 for free. However, the CPUs have bend pins, so a bit of work is involved.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-03, 13:45

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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H3nrik V! wrote on 2022-05-03, 11:16: For the Celerons, I am only missing 900 and 1500 MHz Tualatin versions. Wait, what? There is a 1500MHz Tualatin? Probably gonna cost you 2 kidneys and your firstborn, right?

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Re: GPU Suggestions?

Posted on 2022-05-02, 11:47

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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1.1GHz Athlon XP 3200+? Do you mean 2.1GHz? Are you sure that your board can use 3dfx cards? Does it have an universal AGP slot?

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

Posted on 2022-05-02, 10:04

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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Tested a "crappy" Mendocino CPU I had laying around for some time. Turns out, it's not as worthless as I thought. It's the king of the Mendocinos. 8x66MHz. Is it a good overclocker or why pay people up to 20 bucks for this?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-02, 07:53

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by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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despite quite the habit during CS heydays, I never bought a dedicated gaming mouse. And I probably had a gaming mouse before anyone else here: Razer Boomslang But they were shitty. The left mouse button (or right, if you're lefthander or StarCraft fanatic) breaks quite fast. Had three of them, …

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