Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2023-06-23, 17:03

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Does anyone else have problems when doing new posts? I have gotten an error 500 the last two or three times I made a reply. The reply did show up fine when I went back in the browser, but on this post it set the file licenses wrong (from public domain to CC-by-4.0). (Editing the post and setting the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-23, 16:58

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Rest easy :) https://www.supermicro.com/support/faqs/faq.cfm?faq=9206 Nice! I looked for other FAQ entries on that page and found hints to later beta BIOS releases for the X7QC3. So I just asked the Supermicro support and they sent me the last one they made. It's from June 2016, while revision 1.0 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-22, 14:48

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I can only see information that this board supports up to quad cores? But that may be not updated info? Yes, that information is outdated. The X7460 CPUs are supported by the Intel 7300 "Clarksboro" chipset, which this board has. Clarksboro is a requirement for using these CPUs and the only chipset …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-22, 13:29

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it would be interesting to see if 24 cores could make modern app run tho, im guessing those cores have HT. so 48? youll probably need at least 1000w power supply to run that and if you try any modern GPU in it more. I have a 1200W power supply and I'm planning to test a GTX1060 and an RTX3060 in it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-21, 15:28

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Got a quad-socket 604 board that can take 192GB of RAM. (Supermicro X7QC3) Four six-core Xeons are already on their way. It will be fun to fully deck this out. Filename BURST20230621124250465_COVER.jpg File size 1.98 MiB Views 1086 views

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Re: are you rocking an E-ATX mobo?

Posted on 2023-06-18, 11:32

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I have a Supermicro X10DRi-T with two Xeons inside an old Inwin Q500 case. 24 cores of pure power (and I don't need a heater in winter 😁 ). I needed to drill a few more holes for the motherboard standoffs, otherwise, it's perfectly fine.

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2023-06-12, 17:34

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Well we have Lynx, Links, eLinks and w3m. And to an extent, Netsurf - which only supports CSS2.

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Re: Windows 11 CPU requirement removed?

Posted on 2023-06-10, 00:19

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Cosmic wrote on 2023-06-09, 23:53: I'm slowly warming up to 11... but I still don't like the taskbar and start menu changes. https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher

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Re: What Headphones do you use when listening to Music recordings ?

Posted on 2023-06-09, 23:46

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Sony WH1000XM3 and WH1000XM5. The XM3 sound a bit better and are a little more comfortable to wear. The XM5 have some of the best noise-cancelling features on the market, but lack a little bit of the clarity of their predecessors. Still, both of these are really good headphones. I live in a pretty …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2023-06-06, 19:19

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GigAHerZ wrote on 2023-06-06, 18:26: No. This forum uses custom bitmap for cursor that does not scale based on operating system's settings. That is not true, the custom cursor does scale with the global scaling options on Windows 11, for example. 100% scaling: Filename Clipboard02.png File size 3. …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2023-06-05, 17:36

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And it's only gotten worse, on 4k displays I can barely even see the cursor. Which is definitely a scaling problem with your operating system, because I can see it just fine on my 4K monitor (Chrome, Windows 11). Although I do agree that not having an option to use the regular system cursor is a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-06-03, 16:11

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Today I equipped my ThinkPad A22p with the best docking station there is - the IBM Thinkpad Dock II (Type 2877). The dock has one PCI slot for expanding the capabilities of this great machine. I put a Radeon 9250SE in it. Windows XP recognized it without a problem and it's a massive upgrade to the …

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Re: FAT16 to FAT32 conversion: Is it possible?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 23:13

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I recently did that on Windows 95C. Microsoft made a conversion tool (cvt.exe) that supposedly comes with Windows 98, and can also be used to convert Win 95 partitions. Instructions are here: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jeacocke/fat16to.htm

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Re: Less popular Youtube channels

Posted on 2023-05-28, 16:09

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Mr. Carlson's Lab - he is doing extreme deep-dives into old technology. You can learn a lot here, if you take the time. The Post Apocalyptic Inventor - while I don't neccessarily agree with his bleak world views, the repair videos are top-notch. BitBastelei - nice variety of technology-related …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-27, 11:15

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QDI P5I430VX-250 (Explorer) for 10€ in a broken state. Seller states every CPU only runs with 66MHz. This will be interesting to debug. The board works just fine. It has a really old BIOS from 1996 on it, though - so I guess it detects a lot of CPUs as a 66MHz 486 and that just confused the seller. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-26, 10:56

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QDI P5I430VX-250 (Explorer) for 10€ in a broken state. Seller states every CPU only runs with 66MHz. This will be interesting to debug. It can't be worse than my experience with the ASUS P/I-P55SP4, can it? 🤣 Filename s-l1600.jpg File size 520.14 KiB Views 627 views

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Re: Win 98 build drivers

Posted on 2023-05-18, 11:31

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Babasha wrote on 2023-05-18, 10:35: You can limit your RAM to 512MB with BURNMEM On my systems with more than 512MB it seemed like they got more and more unstable with every driver I installed. I now just use PATCHMEM from R.Loew, which makes 98SE rock-solid. https://archive.org/details/PATCHMEM

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Re: ASUS P/I-P55SP4 - GPU compatibility is atrocious

Posted on 2023-05-17, 19:26

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I've now received an old ball mouse that works fine on all my computers with PS/2 ports. On this Asus board, the machine still hangs when I move it around. I guess I need to give up at this point. Something on this board must be broken, maybe it's the AMIKEY chip or something else. If I ever get …

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Re: ASUS P/I-P55SP4 - GPU compatibility is atrocious

Posted on 2023-05-12, 23:46

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It is very important to get the ps2 config correct. I have fried that port before getting it wrong. I think I haven't fried the port, but fried my mouse instead. Because when I plug the mouse into my working VH6T board, it also hangs the system when I move it around. Interestingly, the mouse still …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-05-12, 15:24

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I was finally able to create an SMB network share that works with Windows 98. When I upgraded my router I had to switch from Samba3 to Samba4 and couldn't get it to work anymore. So I tinkered around a bit today and tried various smb.conf options but they all didn't work - until I finally stumbled …

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