On TEACs the upper part is the sensor, lower is IR LED. Usually the sensor will present high impedance that drops low when it is illuminated by the LED. To create a write enabling bypass you'd short the sensor (preferably via a resistor and not just a wire, try 100 ohms first). EDIT: You want to …

Interesting idea ! The only disks I know without the notch are mostly from specific software groups which had mostly 360k DD w/o the notch so you did not mess with the original disks. But that brings up a diff question as to why you want to do it ? LOL I have a few original disks with bad sectors …

if you have a multimeter you can measure voltage on the components (sensor/led) on both sides and see which one changes when a write protected disc is inserted. Then it becomes a matter of overriding that change so the floppy hardware sees the disc as writeable. That's a great idea! Thank you very …

Hey there friends, I have seen and heard there are ways to bypass write protection on a 5.25" drive. I would rather not cut a notch into some of my disks and if I'm able to bypass on the hardware side that would be fantastic. I have a Teac FD-55GFR-570-U I've attached photos of both sides where the …

The launcher can crash for various reasons. If you don't want to use a different configuration program like notepad,Bethini or the like you can try installing the older ver of the visual c++ 2010 redist in the vcredist folder. Thank you again so much for the help, I am happy to just edit the ini …

For the original version of Skyrim: 1. Install the game on Steam on a OS supported by Steam 2. Run steamless on the Skyrim and Skyrim launcher executable to remove the steam requirement 3. Copy the game and executables to XP 4. Change the below location to where skyrim is and import the registry on …

You can probably use sisinstall to unpack the game from disc but it's likely more trouble than it's worth, do the following instead: Don't ask for where to find sisinstall or steamless here. For the original version of Skyrim: 1. Install the game on Steam on a OS supported by Steam 2. Run steamless …

The Serpent Rider wrote on 2022-05-15, 04:35: Steam and XP Trying to avoid steam if possible but if there is no way then I'll give this a try. Thank you!

The Serpent Rider wrote on 2022-05-15, 03:59: Why do you want to install it from disk exactly? Because I can't get steam working on XP to install it 🙁

Hiya! As the title mentions I'm looking to install a few of the games I used to play on XP but required steam at the time to install them. My main struggle at the moment is finding something that is safe to unpack .sis and .sid I have done countless searches to find trustable extractors and …

I was buying new Tuniq Tower 120 coolers up until 2020, specifically for fast skt 478 builds, but I can't find them for sale anymore. https://www.anandtech.com/show/2152/3 Still have one new in box somewhere. I just had a look into these, did you need to do anything specific to make them fit? From …

I was buying new Tuniq Tower 120 coolers up until 2020, specifically for fast skt 478 builds, but I can't find them for sale anymore. https://www.anandtech.com/show/2152/3 Still have one new in box somewhere. I just had a look into these, did you need to do anything specific to make them fit? From …

Thank you so much to everyone for your help this is an amazing start for me! Much love.

Hi there friends! I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on an aftermarket cooler to suit a socket 478. The motherboard is an Asus p4p800 and the CPU is a prescHOTT Pentium 4 3.4ghz. Unfortunately I'm unable to really find anything so I was wondering if anyone had any ideas or if any …