oerk wrote:

I recently got 66,-€ for a Batman with CPU, they sell quite well.

It worked perfectly aside from the dead RTC, I just found it very bland and boring.

Yeah, they aren't easy to find now so I'm near enough guaranteed to be able to shift it. Though it isn't unlikely that it will be traded instead. I actually find the Batman interesting because of how batshit insane it behaves, even with a non FDIV bugged CPU it is prone to randomly going nuts to a point where it can't even do things wrong in a consistent manner. The novelty wears off quickly though because I like to legitimately put my systems to use which is hard when the system throws random "DIVIDE BY ZERO" errors at you because you decided to enter commands on the DOS prompt.

brostenen wrote:

That would never ever be alowed in Denmark. Formaldehyde can if the dose are too high, potentially result in cancer. Mice and rats that have inhaled a high dosage, in form of formaldehyde gas. Did all devellop cancer. By danish law, a home are only allowed to be rented out if it is in live-able condition.
There are only two sollutions to this. Eighter the owner of the house have to find something that are equally as expensive. Or the owner relocates the ones who rented it untill it s all fixed to live-able standards. All expenses for the moving, are placed onto the owner who rents out the apartment or home.

I don't think it's really allowed in the UK either, but nobody really seems to give a damn. When I moved in here the place was fine, in fact it was perfect, but they insisted on wrecking everything decent. I have had no hot water since 2009 thanks to their incompetent gas men leaving me with six leaks too many, ruining my original varnished floor and keeping a set of my keys.

I actually get disturbance money because I am being forced to move for "regeneration" (Read; the construction of very small, very crappy houses) but I don't get the money until I have already moved. The house is smaller than this one. Given that i have trouble actually fitting in this house, that will make it impossible to do any work past that point because there won't be space to do so. The vast majority of that money will be spent on removing the shitty insulation (Unless I can get them to do it on warranty, given my sensitivity to the material and the dust/gasses it produces - they don't give a damn about the damp) and the rest is likely to go on other required bodges. I expect replacing wires is going to get expensive, especially as I am lacking on tools. Removing the broken central heating will suck ass too, made worse by the apparent lack of any drain valve. In my state I shouldn't really be doing physical stuff like this, I'm four stone underweight, can hardly eat more than complan and have yet to find out why my legs went black and prevented me walking, they still hurt.

Interestingly, the council will pay to fit the carpet or laminate (but not for the carpet or laminate itself) - but I hate carpets and I despise laminate.

I will be documenting the move on video anyway, so as of tomorrow, anyone interested can catch up on that by seeing what I upload.

Torn down over 50 machines for computer recycling today. I don't have much love for XP boxes, so I don't feel too bad tearing down that crap.

The nice part is that I was able to "save" a socket 370 e139761 motherboard (Hopefully I can put my 1gz PIII in it) and a Diamond Micronics C300 motherboard with a Celeron CPU in it. (I'm betting that it is no more than 300+ mhz). The Micronics C300 is a decent board, but is limited to 66mhz clock speeds with a max of 7x multiplier. Might make a fun little dos box.

I also managed to score a couple more ZIP100 IDE drives. I love to put them in almost build. It's sort of a personal trademark. 😉

I put labels on 100 floppy disks I kid you not. They almost never come with the labels on or the right size 😵

saturn wrote:

I put labels on 100 floppy disks I kid you not. They almost never come with the labels on or the right size 😵

what would you need 100 floppies for???

Creating an ARJ muli-volume backup of a 200MB folder? xD

Gonna need 300 floppies for that. Some floppies will fail. That's also usually the chunk that fails twice.

You don't need that many. One time I used one floppy to copy an entire Win98SE setup folder to a laptop.

Just repaired an Asus P5K64WS LGA775/Intel P35/DDR3 mainboard. I was gathering dead stuff to give to a friend who runs a recycling center, and almost added this one when I tough I should give it another once-over. So I slapped it on my test bench and tried to power it on - nothing. LED on the board would light up, but ti would not power on unless I disconnected the 12V CPU power supply.

I took off the heatsinks on the NB and mosfets, and tested all the mosfets with a continuity meter by trying to open / close the gates and noticed one was shorting between all pins. I proceeded to remove it from the board, but it was so badly damaged it actually came off in pieces... It's a NIKO-SEM P0903BDG VNP12038. I replaced it with a similar one also marked NIKO-SEM P0903BDG GNP13438 from a newer dead AM2+ motherboard, and the P5K fired right up.

Thing is, the board shows an incorrect VID of 0.1V. Inividual cores run at 1.35v (using a Core 2 Duo E6550 to test) and the machine is stable in benchmarks. Should I be worried?

UPDATE - just ran a bunch of 3dmark01 and 03 runs with a geforce 6600 - all runs completed w/o issues. CPU temp and VID voltages are normal, but it still reports VCORE at 0.1 volts...

brassicGamer wrote:

saturn wrote:

I put labels on 100 floppy disks I kid you not. They almost never come with the labels on or the right size 😵

what would you need 100 floppies for???

Well I don't I could just buy a flash drive. But I always lose those and the clear lockbox it came in looks cool on the desk next to the old computer the uses them. That aside I'll probably use them to backup save/config files and all the apps I use on my PC.

kanecvr wrote:

Thing is, the board shows an incorrect VID of 0.1V. Inividual cores run at 1.35v (using a Core 2 Duo E6550 to test) and the machine is stable in benchmarks. Should I be worried?

depends, what are you using the read the VID. Also it would have been a grate time to upgrade the mosfets.But not everyone like to overclock CPUs like I did.

I read the voltages from BIOS and HWinfo. I can't find the actual test points for VCORE and VID on this board...

kanecvr wrote:

I read the voltages from BIOS and HWinfo. I can't find the actual test points for VCORE and VID on this board...

It could just be a bad software reading, I seen it a lot with 775 systems.
Heck the 775 system I'm on right now has bad readings.

Tested the last "new" to me socket 7 CPU I have received in my DFi board, another Winchip C6 200mhz,all works fine, also tried out my recently purchased ISA PINE Western Digital Paradise WD 90c30 512k VGA card(1991) in the same system and posted results on Phil's ultimate VGA Benchmark https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lvF9n … wpNU/edit#gid=0, Also found the right Windows 3.11 drivers for the card, so that is how the system will stay for a bit. Bit of oddity but thats OK, after all it works fine.
Setup a ancient Conner CP 3501 from 1991 with my IBM 386 SX25, intalled DOS 6.2, a load of games and had some fun playing, it does very well with the old CHAMP games I reallt love.

alexanrs wrote:

Creating an ARJ muli-volume backup of a 200MB folder? xD

gdjacobs wrote:

Gonna need 300 floppies for that. Some floppies will fail. That's also usually the chunk that fails twice.

leileilol wrote:

You don't need that many. One time I used one floppy to copy an entire Win98SE setup folder to a laptop.

kanecvr wrote:

Just repaired an Asus P5K64WS LGA775/Intel P35/DDR3 mainboard. I was gathering dead stuff to give to a friend who runs a recycli […]
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Just repaired an Asus P5K64WS LGA775/Intel P35/DDR3 mainboard. I was gathering dead stuff to give to a friend who runs a recycling center, and almost added this one when I tough I should give it another once-over. So I slapped it on my test bench and tried to power it on - nothing. LED on the board would light up, but ti would not power on unless I disconnected the 12V CPU power supply.

I took off the heatsinks on the NB and mosfets, and tested all the mosfets with a continuity meter by trying to open / close the gates and noticed one was shorting between all pins. I proceeded to remove it from the board, but it was so badly damaged it actually came off in pieces... It's a NIKO-SEM P0903BDG VNP12038. I replaced it with a similar one also marked NIKO-SEM P0903BDG GNP13438 from a newer dead AM2+ motherboard, and the P5K fired right up.

Thing is, the board shows an incorrect VID of 0.1V. Inividual cores run at 1.35v (using a Core 2 Duo E6550 to test) and the machine is stable in benchmarks. Should I be worried?

UPDATE - just ran a bunch of 3dmark01 and 03 runs with a geforce 6600 - all runs completed w/o issues. CPU temp and VID voltages are normal, but it still reports VCORE at 0.1 volts...

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I hope you don't really smoke sitting in front of your computers... that really, legitimately does kill components over time, ya know.

I do, but I believe the only thing smoking has a strong chance of killing is me. I actually never had a PC randomly fail on me. Ever. This board was a working board I used back in 2008? and sold when I got my first Nehalem Build (i7 920, Asus P6T Deluxe, 6GB Corsair XMS3 Platinum series, 2xRadeon HD 4850). The buyer contacted me the next day claiming the board is dead but the CPU (A Q9550) was working. I was sure he killed it somehow - considering the blown mosfet, I'm sure he killed it by trying some silly OC. I offered half a refund and he returned the board. It's been sitting in my parent's attic in a box labeled "dead parts" since then.

So adding the 122 key keyboard to my XT came with some...surprises.

The base kit consists of the keyboard, a Y-cable, a card to convert the keyboard to XT signalling, two boards that make up the underwhelming CGA card and a 3270 host card. Putting the lot into an XT with a hard drive and floppy drive turns the IBM 5160 into the IBM 5271 "3270 PC", but only leaves you with two ISA slots open though. 😒

Because there did exist 3270 terminal emulation under DOS using a regular network card and most later video cards had the special character sets in ROM I don't really need all those extra cards. Just the keyboard controller. The downside is that the BIOS ROM on controller looks for the host interface at boot and if it can't find it it will give an 8201 error. Adding to that if you remove the ROM the controller doesn't work entirely because the chip also holds its microcode

Other than that though the keyboard works fine. The machine interprets all the scancodes but only works with the known keys form the 101 key keyboard. You can however use the extra keys with a remapping utility and the scancodes are well documented.

Now I just gotta go out and buy the 5153 someone has been offering me for the last six months. 😀

Dealt with more crappy council workmanship. I am doing all I can to get out of this tenancy, I refuse to pay rent (excessive rent, given it costs more) for a place where I can't live.

Here's a small example of the crap I have been landed with;

The whole building is a write-off and I have reason to believe the structure is not sound. The whole terrace should be condemned.

Is that an outside wall? If so, why are all those wires exposed?!

kithylin wrote:

I hope you don't really smoke sitting in front of your computers... that really, legitimately does kill components over time, ya know.

I smoke too, yet outside these day's. Until 2003 and again between 2010 and 2013 i smoked inside.
I took up retro computing in 2014, so yeah... Anyway.

I have never had anything spontanious dying from smoking. Shure I had some shortening of circuits.
I had this CT-2760, bought online, wich died spontaniously within 2 weeks.
Though it was from a non-smoker home, it was perhaps just too old. Not cigarettes by any chance.

I think it is a myth being exaggerated. Shure it can kill, if you exhale 60 cigarettes a day straight into
a computer. Though it is more likely that laser-pickups need to be cleaned first before everything dies.
Static electricity, bad caps, exploding PSU's, bad ventilation and moist air. I thnk those are killing
more computer equipment than cigarette/pipe/cigar smoke.

Think I found the latest card that my VFX1's VIP card would work with.

It ran fine on an 8mb All in Wonder Pro with the Rage Pro Turbo AGP chipset but when I went the step higher using the 16mb Rage Fury 128 it wouldn't work. 🙁
In comparison the original was another Rage Pro Turbo chipset card but upgraded to 8mb and no other video I/O. Looks like I'm just going to have to expand out instead of upwards.