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Re: GA-5AA rev1.1 Manual Available?

Posted on 2019-12-31, 14:33

by gca

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Okay I'll give Camscanner a try when I get a chance. Then import the images into LibreOffice and dump to PDF. Like I said when I get a chance, it won't be for a few days at the earliest. As for the video issue, not seen that on my board. Even with the BIOS set to PCI video I got output from a AGP …

Re: Squirrels, squirrels, let's go nutz for squirrels and whatever other backyard wildlife you have.

Posted on 2019-12-29, 22:45

by gca

in Milliways

in Milliways

Here is one of our wee visitors, one of many that live in the small wooded area opposite the house:

Re: GA-5AA rev1.1 Manual Available?

Posted on 2019-12-29, 18:05

by gca

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

On a side note, mine is running with a AMD K6/2 at 500MHz with 768MB memory (dual boot MS-DOS 6.22 & XP Pro), from what I can tell it maxes out at 550MHz. So far it has been very stable. I updated the BIOS on mine many years ago (attached), not sure is this is last revision ever issued but its the …

Re: GA-5AA rev1.1 Manual Available?

Posted on 2019-12-29, 14:55

by gca

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Found it, scanned (most of) it and here it is attached. I didn't bother scanning the BIOS section, didn't see much point in doing so. Besides near the end I was loosing the will to live (scanning things bores the hell out of me). Quality isn't amazing (book vs. flatbed scanner, you know how it is) …

Re: GA-5AA rev1.1 Manual Available?

Posted on 2019-12-28, 21:33

by gca

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think my GA-5AA is a rev 1.1, had it since new and I still have the manual. Looking for anything specific, I can dig it out and look it up.

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2019-12-28, 18:11

by gca

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just found this strange 386 at local "thrashman's" yard. He gave it to me for free :) Dirty as hell and without PSU, but i like idea of 386 with onboard VGA, IDE, I/O and 72-pin SIMM. That case reminds me a lot of the Elonex boxes I used in college back in the early/mid 90's. Esp the power switch …

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2019-12-18, 15:01

by gca

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

To be fair those EliteBooks are 7-8 years old now Still, they could have been resold or given to charity. It runs W10 fine. Maybe they were thinking of the potential liability they would face if the laptop had a battery catch fire or something like that. That is the reason many companies around …

Re: can't get full screen in dos games

Posted on 2019-12-15, 01:45

by gca

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Why exactly are you showing us a picture of the Windows 95 splash screen when the problem is with a DOS title? Wouldn't it make more sense to show a picture of the problematic program in question running?

Re: Old software you miss the most

Posted on 2019-12-08, 21:25

by gca

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I wouldn't say that I miss these the most but they are packages I used in college back in the 90s that I've never seen since and would be interested to revisit. Integrated 7 Advanced (we just called it I7), a DOS based integrated package similar to MS Works. Even searching for it today yields little …

Re: Bring out your swag

Posted on 2019-11-23, 12:17

by gca

in Milliways

in Milliways

Coffee anyone?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-16, 23:47

by gca

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was browsing on eBay and something caught my eye, something that I've never really had a lot of interest in seeking before, but decided on a whim to go ahead and bid for and win - a Sinclair ZX81! http://i.imgur.com/mBosXEil.jpg The seller's picture was a little blurry, but it looks practically …

Re: Idea for optical scanner paper floppy disk format/linux

Posted on 2019-11-13, 20:31

by gca

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ah ... what? Are you thinking about something akin to a QR code or something?

Re: HELP! Windows XP cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile

Posted on 2019-11-13, 15:50

by gca

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Took a look through eventid.net for those event id, they have a couple of suggestions, not sure how helpful they will be but here you go: http://eventid.net/display-eventid-1511-sourc … 555-phase-1.htm http://eventid.net/display-eventid-1502-sourc … 503-phase-1.htm

Re: HELP! Windows XP cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile

Posted on 2019-11-10, 21:19

by gca

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Had a similar problem with a Windows 7 box a while back. Turns out it was a bad registry entry that was causing the problem. Editing/deleting the offending entry fixed the issue: https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-rep … in-the-registry

Re: Clone of Amstrad's Adlib clone

Posted on 2019-11-05, 21:05

by gca

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Yeah I guess just uploading them won't cause any harm. Here you go.

Re: Clone of Amstrad's Adlib clone

Posted on 2019-11-04, 23:53

by gca

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

If anyone is interested I have reasonable photos of the board in question (both sides of the board).

Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-11-02, 14:19

by gca

in Milliways

in Milliways

Maybe not buy but renting is a real possibility 😀

Re: Serial & parallel port opening covers

Posted on 2019-10-11, 23:07

by gca

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My case has something similar but the manufacturer soldered metal plates roughly the same shape (possibly the actual bit of metal that was cut out of the case) in place to keep them covered if you didn't need them. Like those annoying plates you find welded across drive bays on occasion.

Re: Help repair my 486 DELL 433/L motherboard

Posted on 2019-10-11, 23:02

by gca

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Board looks identical to my 466L (I think its was used in several models differentiated by different model numbers based on CPU). Sadly mine is also dead(ish) but I did manage to coax it into running an on board diagnostic which provided pointers towards my problem. Not sure what the correct …

Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2019-10-05, 13:37

by gca

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I have a couple of PASCAL books if your interested. No TP specific but cover the basics: Software engineering the development life cycle (second edition) Fiona Stewart Kirkman Publishing - 1993 ISBN - 1-874107-02-5 PASCAL (third edition) William Findlay and David A Watt UCL Press - 1994 ISBN - 1- …

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