Re: Why The Internet Archive Is In Danger Right Now...
Posted on 2024-05-04, 19:15
Re: No POST or picture from Asus TX97-XE
Posted on 2024-05-01, 04:09
At that angle, it looks like one lead is ripped out. That might not be the only problem with this board, though.
Re: No POST or picture from Asus TX97-XE
Posted on 2024-04-29, 04:17
I see a broken cap next to the CPU socket. Using these pictures as reference: http://hw-museum.cz/mb/101/asus-tx97-xe Q8 might be a 3.3V regulator (with Q9 used to connect 3.3V to the CPU core supply if an old single-rail CPU is installed), but it's hard to tell with only some pictures. However, …
Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards
Posted on 2024-04-29, 00:09
I have one motherboard with a VIA KN133 chipset (S3 TwisterK, which is some kind of ProSavage variant). Its drivers don't support the Metal API, but they might support S3TC (I don't remember if I tried it). They won't perform as well as a discrete Savage card because they're sharing RAM with the CPU …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-27, 16:22
Windows replaced my graphics driver with a broken one again, so I found another method to prevent Windows Update from installing driver updates (although it's a massive downgrade, even if you only look at the release date and not the bugs). The problem with the severe lack of information about …
Re: Thoughts on this Channel Well PSU
Posted on 2024-04-21, 01:03
It looks good to me. The only thing I don't like is the fan controller with the thermistor (the green thing on that daughterboard) hanging out in the air. I'm surprised that the caps didn't blow up, but maybe Fuhjyyu didn't suck until the late '90s or early 2000s when Antec power supplies (also made …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-21, 00:40
If I remember right, those Evercool fans had chrome-colored plastic blades. I don't remember fans with metal blades. Papst (not to be confused with Pabst Blue Ribbon) has some metal fans, but they aren't shiny PC fans with home-friendly noise levels. Even the overclockers used the plastic Papst fans …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-21, 00:29
I loaded Linux Mint onto a flash drive, and I've been running the live version for most of the day. I still think it's stupid that Linux needs hacks to turn Num Lock on at boot (Lubuntu 22.04 has the option in its settings, but the other distros I've tried didn't), but I guess someone had a reason …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-18, 03:46
Wow I can't believe that MS really changed your background to tell you, in a sloppy way, that win10 will be simply unsupported a year later. I really can't, I'd do some more checks and googling to verify that this is legit. https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-begins- …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-17, 14:55
I woke up to my desktop wallpaper being replaced with a badly-scaled (blurry) and badly-cropped (the bottom was cut off under the taskbar) message about Windows 10's end of support (in a year and a half). It really didn't look like anything Microsoft themselves would do, but it had functioning …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-14, 23:44
Does ripping music CDs onto my computer count as a retro activity? Now I decided to start ripping some more CDs and DVDs today. I guess it partially counts as retro because I'm using a laptop running Windows 7 and a USB optical drive because the internal drive failed. I can rip non-copy-protected …
Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?
Posted on 2024-04-13, 17:53
No offense, but something is wrong with your PC or your network somewhere. This is not the normal experience. YT should work fine on anything Core2Duo or higher. Are you using WiFi? What kind of router? Have you done a site survey? Yeah, I've realized that it's only one computer (and only one …
Re: What Capacitor Value is this? (Ceramic Capacitor on 386 motherboard)
Posted on 2024-04-08, 02:16
It's 51pF. A 2-digit number on ceramic caps is the actual value in picofarads instead of some kind of code. The K probably means 5% tolerance.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-07, 22:56
I went back to the HP laptop, and I fixed the audio by changing the graphics driver. I don't know how the graphics driver can make the Microsoft MIDI soft synth clip so hard that it sounds like a Metallica meme (and only through integrated audio), but it did. I used ChroMetal 4.5, and I haven't had …
Re: Fascinating Article about cooling fan bearings, with teardown pictures...
Posted on 2024-04-07, 19:28
I was wondering what the Sunon vapo bearing was. It doesn't look any different from the standard sleeve bearing Sunon fan, but the writer didn't go too in-depth (looking for oil reservoirs or circulation channels). CUI fans looked like they were made by Sunon, but their construction is slightly …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-07, 18:16
They take a while to install as well, but when you're still on 15Mbps DSL (which was 9Mbps last year), downloading anything is a problem.
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-07, 16:28
Why Win10 takes forever even on NVMEs? With my Internet connection, downloading the updates is what takes the most time, and it still takes much more time than updating Linux. I noticed that the progress indicator on cumulative updates goes to 100% when it's really about 50% complete, and the …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-03-31, 23:41
I finally figured out what was wrong with the shitty HP laptop. I have a modern SSD in an IDE converter, and the converter uses a through-hole header for the IDE connector instead of a surface mount header like every 2.5" hard drive ever made. The through-hole pins scraped through the insulator …
Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?
Posted on 2024-03-30, 21:53
If anyone still cares, refreshing Firefox seemed to help with my YouTube playback problems for about two days. Then the problem of videos randomly skipping forward came back, and it's even worse than ever. I didn't find anything online besides people complaining of the same thing on their phones, …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-03-25, 02:07
Obligatory M747 chipset register twiddling thread: PCChips M747 / SiS 600 Tuning: The Anti Thesis Thread. NOT the bane of MY existence. I still don't know how stable it will be (probably terrible, but at least it will crash faster). That VRM looks sketchy (insert "MC34063, not even once" meme).
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