Re: Check temperature and fan control on IBM 300pl 6862 windows 98?

Posted on 2020-07-24, 21:40

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by darry

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The fan spins up on boot but then stops. It's the pentium II 450 cartridge build. Any idea what software I can use? Have you checked the BIOS setup for a hardware monitor/control page/section ? It is not uncommon for some systems to rev fans to full speed at boot just to test them, though …

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Re: 486 Acer Acros questions.

Posted on 2020-07-24, 18:54

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I'm mostly wanting to get the cpu as fast as I can, Isa is fine with me. I'm actually not able to really think of anything I'd want in PCI for a 486. Even a 66MHz 486 will be bottlenecked rather severely by an ISA video card, AFAICR . Maybe you are lucky and that onboard Cirrus Logic chip is …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-24, 18:47

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Spending some time taking the guy to small claims court (assuming sufficient paper/electronic), might be worth it, just to teach him a lesson . Even if you don't win, you will probably make him think twice about pulling a stunt like that again . yeah, unfortunately my time and nerves are worth more …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-24, 18:33

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Lesson learned, only buy the lot, never the single card! speaking about lessons... never trust that someone hasn't asked before and the cards you want are actually still in the lot. happened to me, price for the lot was ok, so instead of asking for a few single cards I just said "I'll take it all" …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-24, 15:06

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I had a very strange incident that happened just this morning, I made an offer on an item only to see an hour later that it had somehow sold for over twice the BIN price(???) without my offer being declined or anything. Guess I should have just hit the BIN... A strange attempt at shill bidding …

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Re: Is there any way to use all the space on a hard drive larger than 2gb on MS-DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2020-07-24, 00:17

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I've been using the CDU distro of DOS 7.1 for years. It works great In an ideal world, rather than distributing copyrighted files, somebody would have written a batch file to generate a DOS 7.x installation from a Windows 9x CD . That would solve all legal and file integrity issues/doubts . No …

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Re: Great collectors of Vogons! What's missing in your collections? :P

Posted on 2020-07-23, 22:33

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by darry

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A Biostar MB1325-P . The mainboard in our first family PC . EDIT: This should probably go into rants, but there is one for sale as a "working" 486 board (it's a386 board) with no BIOS or keyboard controller or even a battery. Seller must have a special definition of "working" .

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Re: Any way to wipe a FATX partition from a Western Digital Protege HDD?

Posted on 2020-07-23, 22:30

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Surface testing a drive that old before using it is not a bad idea anyway. Filling it with zeros will accomplish that .

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Re: Is there any way to use all the space on a hard drive larger than 2gb on MS-DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2020-07-23, 22:26

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maxtherabbit wrote on 2020-07-23, 21:51: I've been using the CDU distro of DOS 7.1 for years. It works great In an ideal world, rather than distributing copyrighted files, somebody would have written a batch file to generate a DOS 7.x installation from a Windows 9x CD . That would solve all legal …

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Re: 486 Acer Acros questions.

Posted on 2020-07-23, 22:21

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Are riser cards specific to brand? Like could I get a Dell riser with 2 PCI 2 Isa? EDIT: The board seems to use an ALI M1429G chipset, which according to unofficial Internet sources, is PCI and VLB capable (apparently one of the first PCI capable ones). So though a VLB or PCI riser for the board …

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Re: Is there any way to use all the space on a hard drive larger than 2gb on MS-DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2020-07-23, 20:13

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That's good to know. Thank you! I own both, as it happens. Is the version I linked to legit? Define legit. It definitely isn't legal on its own. As to whether the files have been tampered with, your guess is as good as mine. If I wanted DOS 7.1 only, I would install Windows 98 SE somewhere (like a …

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Re: Intel SE440BX-2 / Issues

Posted on 2020-07-23, 20:07

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I'm wondering if that would make sense to buy this card ( or this kind of ) https://i.ibb.co/n6d3xpK/t-l-chargement.jpg To have DMA133 instead of DMA33 with this mobo. At this point, I would go SATA instead. It makes sourcing drives easier . Promise SATA150 TX2 and SIL3114 based cards are options . …

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Re: Is there any way to use all the space on a hard drive larger than 2gb on MS-DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2020-07-23, 20:02

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Don't listen to the naysayers. "MS-DOS 7.1" is just Windows 98SE DOS with the Win9x branding and GUI integration stuff removed... i.e. it doesn't try to start Windows when you boot. I use it for all my 386+ DOS machines. Works perfectly. There are no compatibility concerns between it and DOS 6.22. …

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Re: 486 Acer Acros questions.

Posted on 2020-07-23, 19:40

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by darry

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Are riser cards specific to brand? Like could I get a Dell riser with 2 PCI 2 Isa? ISA ones are rather generic. PCI or PCI/ISA ones are not, AFAIK . Again, knowing the chipset is definitely the first step . EDIT: The board seems to use an ALI M1429G chipset, which according to unofficial Internet …

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Re: Is there any way to use all the space on a hard drive larger than 2gb on MS-DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2020-07-23, 19:17

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tomexplodes wrote on 2020-07-23, 19:05: Oh. That's not what I want, then. EDIT: What about this, here? https://[REDACTED] There is a) the legal aspect (maybe OK if you already have corresponding Windows license, but I am not a lawyer) b) Do you trust whoever put it together ?

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Re: Is there any way to use all the space on a hard drive larger than 2gb on MS-DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2020-07-23, 19:04

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tomexplodes wrote on 2020-07-23, 18:56: Then it looks like I'll upgrade to 7.1! Will this screw anything up? It will install Windows 98, because that is what is required to get MS-DOS 7.1 .

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Re: 486 Acer Acros questions.

Posted on 2020-07-23, 18:58

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Without knowing what the chipset is and whether it supports PCI, that question can't be answered . That said, a machine of that vintage almost certainly has no PCI capability . EDIT: And without PCI or VLB, a faster CPU would be seriously bottlenecked . Also, even if the chipset supports PCI, that …

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Re: Technological critique

Posted on 2020-07-23, 18:20

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SACD is a different focal length, so there are no commercially available disc drives that can even read them. It doesn't mean they don't make them for some people. Also, for broadcast, you would need to resample it down to CD quality. I have heard about modified players being used to extract the …

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Re: Technological critique

Posted on 2020-07-23, 16:15

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From what I have seen of some mass market, modern and inexpensive turntables, they tend to have an integrated pre-amp, uneven platters and are bundled with extremely crappy cartridges that require something like 9g of VTF . I'm heavily into vinyl and there are literally no decent new turntables …

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Re: Technological critique

Posted on 2020-07-23, 15:57

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not a good idea ideas: removal of phono input on home theater receivers For generations phono inputs on home stereo amps and receivers provided the RIAA playback curve. This was eliminated, now turntables have to get outboard preamps and connect to AUX, destroying the vinyl revival. To be fair, …

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