I don't know about this specific switch but a lot of recent-ish Procurve got firmware updates as they are part of the Aruba lineup now.

It's only an 8 years old, non managed switch. It has no firmware updates that i'm aware of.

weedeewee wrote on 2023-06-10, 14:16:

It's only an 8 years old, non managed switch. It has no firmware updates that i'm aware of.

Come to think of it I need to resoft my routers , got a
Dlink that seems broken but needs a update maybe , Dlink that thinks of itself as a server , and a ZTE F608 GPON converter tha I cannot access ,to resoft, and a ZTE F618 that cannot configure...

so much to do... yet so little info(WWW) on how to do it.

Found this in the recycling dumpster. I saw Winbond writing on the chip and took it. It will need some repair when the time s right.

Nice a 10Mbit pci ethernet chip and an eprom. Can come in handy for bios expansions.

Turbo -> wrote on 2023-06-11, 10:53:

Found this in the recycling dumpster. I saw Winbond writing on the chip and took it. It will need some repair when the time s right.

What's the use-case for such a thing? It seems old and new at the same time.

Huh, looking at the part code on the PCB it should be a Radix Protector SLP.

That Ethernet chip is being used as a PCI > ROM interface and the ROM runs the Radix software, which is used in schools and places where the PC shouldn't be easily broken. Essentially locks the state of the hard drive.
Looks like normally it'd save recovery states on the computer and you can go back to different states? That's cool, could be nice for testing stuff out.

Ok, never heard of such devices!

Have a few of those, courtesy of the local library. It was an easy way for the admin to manage and restore a bunch of computers messed up by visitors who thought it's a good idea to download warez or watch porn in a public library.

Minutemanqvs wrote on 2023-06-11, 14:06:

Ok, never heard of such devices!

We've worked with the Lenten Reborn cards at some time. I didn't do the actual setting up (or if I did then I forgotten about it now) but I did use its restore function a couple times. This was years ago.
At some point I inherited a number of these cards including a paper manual iirc, which is nice.

It's the same basic thing, it's used for PCs in public places for to quickly reset the system's software so it was kinda (as we call it in Dutch) hufterproof, which translated means vandal-proof.

Mandrew wrote on 2023-06-11, 15:00:

Have a few of those, courtesy of the local library. It was an easy way for the admin to manage and restore a bunch of computers messed up by visitors who thought it's a good idea to download warez or watch porn in a public library.

Yeah, we used these cards alot. They were excellent for DOS and Win9x but became unusable once we started using WinXP as they had serious compatibility issues. Microsoft offered a software solution for WinXP which worked although it was slower than these cards.

If they would be ISA - they would be perfect as XT-IDE Universal BIOS carriers for all sorts of 286-486 machines.

Just a short walk from my place, I picked this stuff up today after seeing the ad in the free section of Craigslist. IDE hard and optical drives, a pack of CDRs, a NIB serial mouse. The Seagate is a thirty gig, the WD is a 9.4 gig and both seem to work fine - there were photos on the thirty gig drive, and one from 2006 shows the pack of CDRs on a table in the background, down to pretty close to the level it's at now. The DVDRW is dated from 2006, so I guess from that point on everything was getting burned to those.

Congrats, I also have one of those Seagates with the vinyl bondage wear 🤣

We used to call them the Bra Seagates herearounds.

Got the opportunity to “rescue” a Lenovo ThinkPad W510 from a trip to eWaste today. Seems a relatively OP laptop for early to mid XP gaming, so going to get it set up with XP asap.

Might have to take out some RAM though as this thing has 24GB at present, and the Quadro FX 880M should perform somewhere around GeForce 8800 speeds I think.

Holy crap they take a lot of RAM for the time. Is 4GB 2x2 the lowest you can go and keep dual channel? I dunno if 1GB DDR3 SODIMM is gettable, only seen 2GBs as smallest.

It would appear that 1GB modules are available at both 1066MHz and 1333MHz at least. Means I could go 4x1GB, no idea if that's a better idea than 2x2GB?

Edit:

Well it seems to perform ok even with too much RAM (currently 4x4GB). 3DMark03 seems to return just shy of 19,000 marks, and at the other end of the spectrum, Crysis (DX9, Medium, 1280x768) averages 33fps.

Should give a good broad range of performance for XP era gaming.

No issues doing this with excess memory on 32 bit XP. Just sees as about 3.3 to 3.5GB.

Cheers,

W510's with I7's have 4 RAM slots, I5 models have 2. So you can put 32GB of RAM into that unit. I have two of that model and its funny how slow the 4C/8T CPU is compared to the next couple generations of I5's.

The performance of the Nehalem microarchitecture processors are slightly faster than Core 2 Duo. For this reason I didn't go crazy with notebooks, had two, now down to one, nor build a PC based on one.

Reason I got sandy bridge is they were bought new (mom's Lenovo fully upgraded) and I got donated couple optiplex 990 both are i7-2600 (SFF and tower). I already have ivy bridge based two computers now.

Cheers,