Rubycon YXG series is still in production, but they're probably only the "tall" version. You can measure their diameter and height to verify. Digikey lists a shorter version, but they're out of stock with a minimum quantity of 2000. I've also heard of those purple Sanyo OS-CON caps failing. It …

200W is more than enough for that. Lylat1an wrote on 2022-09-16, 13:09: If you're unsure, Athena Power still makes 400w AT PSUs today. 😜 The 300W is a "gutless wonder" (at least the one that was taken apart on Tech Tangents), so I wouldn't trust the 400W.

That Tripp-Lite converter looks nice, and there are a decent amount of US sellers (I don't know about the rest of the world). It seems a little expensive, but it isn't too far off from some of the hobby projects (like the one above that wastes a full Raspberry Pi just for the USB host functionality …

That's good. I forgot that it asks for a product key, and either the previous owner of my computer lost it or Compaq didn't provide it. Also, I'm now remembering that I had to restart one more time after Windows installation appeared to be complete, and then it went through the restore process a …

I mean that there isn't much DDR4 and DDR5 sold to consumers that doesn't rely on XMP to hit its advertised speed, and it has caused problems for people who wanted to upgrade pre-built non-gaming computers. People see that their Dell (for example) uses DDR4 3200 RAM, buy some random RAM advertised …

Maybe Asus was trying to discourage overclocking because it's a business motherboard with a relatively weak VRM. They do at least need to offer XMP/DOCP because it's so hard to find JEDEC standard RAM these days (and that probably bothers me more than it should). I didn't know that Asus started …

I got the impression that it was a matrix effect, but I don't have a Dolby matrix decoder to test with.

I had a laptop with an RTL8188CE that was unusually slow (around 14Mbps on 802.11n to a cheap "N150" router, while I could get around three times that with Intel cards), but I didn't have any other problems with it. I keep running into driver bugs on Intel cards, but they're the most consistent. …

I just have extremely weak central AC and an old Marvin remote-controlled fan with incredibly brittle plastic. I only saw that model of fan at Ace Hardware for one summer, and the website on the fan's box was already offline when the fan was new. I am thinking of getting One of these Noctua Floor …

Mine works with 128MB modules, including an oddball one with only four chips (and it detected the full 128MB). I did once have the full 256MB in it, but since the chipset only caches 128MB, performance drops by a huge amount until you actually exceed 128MB used. I don't remember if the CD requires a …

Compaq Desert Storm W148H (I didn't find a datasheet, but the jumper settings closely resemble the ICS 9148BF-04 above - I wonder if the 83.3MHz bus/41.65MHz PCI option exists, even though it probably won't POST) https://theretroweb.com/motherboard/manual/compaq-desert-storm-62ce803d37a52010720463. …

My question is, is 4.71V okay for Pin1 , or is it too low and should be closer to 5V? Same for Pin9, should it be closer to 0V? Mine measures 5.08V, but 4.71V should be high enough for Power Good. Did you mean the circled loops in the attachment below? What are these components? I'm not familiar …

That looks just like my Presario 2286, but it has a different motherboard (part number 337362-001 for the 2262 and 387610-001 for the 2286). The two motherboards look identical, so I don't know what the difference is between them. If it's the power supply shown in the Super User link (which is what …

I didn't know that these NEC controllers had five ports until I decided to look up the datasheets today. I thought these controllers only had four ports, so I was avoiding the 5-port cards. The VIA VT6212 card I have seemed to work on a socket 7 motherboard with an SiS 5598 chipset, but I didn't use …

I've been reading this forum for a while and decided to create an account because of something weird I remembered from a few years ago. I tried to temporarily swap a failed optical drive in a laptop (an HP Pavilion ze1210) with a known good drive from another laptop and discovered that the …