Re: 1991 Laptop: Veridata Execulite 386S

Posted on 2023-07-04, 23:38

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PS/2 model 55SX and 70 in 1987 was first use of 72pin SIMMs. Rest of them used 30pin including model 60. All 80 towers used proprietary memory cards. Second generation PS/2's 50Z, later Models 70 including A (25MHz), tower 65 (SX) started to use 72 pins SIMMs more. Some fewer models kept using 30 …

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Re: Accidentally damaged FIC 3486-VC HD Motherboard

Posted on 2023-07-04, 23:29

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Usually the one that comes out first was 16 bit part when card is pulled first is the free end, This means back 8 bit part with bracket pushes at the back panel, causing card to pivot forward in the ISA slot (sliding forward slightly) Causing B7 to juice -12V into next B8 pin. Also any ground pin …

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Re: Win98SE: disabling DriveSpace in DOS mode sometimes?

Posted on 2023-07-04, 23:20

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How huge hard drive do you mean for *windows 98SE*? The maximum capacity for windows 98SE is 120GB. No more than that and this is the *actual* hard drive size. You can safely run windows 98SE on hard drive 120GB or less, like 100GB, 80GB. Not partition size. Win 98SE corrupts data if hard drive *is …

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Re: which specs would you recommend for a gaming rig that can cover the whole DOS area

Posted on 2023-07-04, 22:49

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Is there someone did combinations of settings to slow down plain pentium 75, 90, 100, 133, 166 and 200 and publish 3DBENCH2 (Version 1.0c) results? Cheers,

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Re: Best Configuration PCEM

Posted on 2023-07-02, 20:03

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eddman wrote on 2023-06-27, 10:26: That 11% is meaningless because it shows the overall load across 6 cores. PCem's CPU emulation is single threaded, since it's emulating single core processors. A 2600 is not powerful enough to emulate a pentium 2. Okay, what other processors that has most powerful …

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Re: Did I just broke it ???? GeForce 2 GTS

Posted on 2023-07-01, 17:46

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Very cool! Now I know how large the silicon die looks like on GTS! Cheers,

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Re: AST Advantage! board says use 120ns access time DRAMs for an 8mhz 286. What should I use for a 386sx?

Posted on 2023-07-01, 17:44

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clownwolf wrote on 2023-07-01, 17:30: Ok that makes sense, thanks. I guess I have no choice but to actually buy SIMMs larger than 256k for my motherboard instead. My spiraling expenses is getting out of hand! Very true. Thanks to the post COVID financial conditions. Cheers,

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

Posted on 2023-07-01, 17:41

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Examining the Second Generation gaming storage drives... SteamGames drive - Western Digital Blue Slim 1TB - WD10SPCX * deleted the SteamGames drive partition * created a new NTFS partition on the former SteamGames drive (forgot to zero-fill the drive...) OS drive - Western Digital Blue 1TB - …

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Re: serial mouse not detected on a 386 motherboard

Posted on 2023-07-01, 16:15

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Success ! It was the -12V line. A rail somewhere flaking on and off frequently from even gentle touches of the components. So, apparently when i measure the -12V is mostly ok. So even for a moment it shows 0V i assume it is me not holding the probes right and pushing/tweaking them which brings the …

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Re: Everything DDR3 related.

Posted on 2023-06-30, 17:23

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With in mind, there are grades of silicon electronic parts being graded at manufacture. Top grade goes to military and for example memory chips is graded too. A grade is used internally to manufacture their own memory modules, and also A grade goes to long lead orders by thousands. Anything of B …

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Re: Which Chips for Tandy 1000 TL/2 Memory Upgrade?

Posted on 2023-06-30, 00:58

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four 4 bit x 256K and four 4 bit x 64K chips. Any you can get them will do, just four matched set each.

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2023-06-29, 23:16

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So car still works and well enough. Tranny started thumping about a year ago. I don't go far, once every 5 - 6 weeks I take a ~50 mile round trip spin. Hit stores I used to frequent every 2 weeks.or so. It's weird. It used ro have trouble shiftimg from 2nd to 3rd. Someone told me to drive it in "3" …

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Re: HP Z240 sff

Posted on 2023-06-29, 22:59

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HP Z240 SFF is low profile PC, and will only accept skylake (gen 6) pentium dual core, i3, i5 and i7. E3-series V6 xeons only. Up to DDR4-2400 Unbuffered ram modules for pentium, i3, i5 or i7. and unbuffered ECC if using i3 or Xeon. Cheers,

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Re: Apple M1 computer SSD

Posted on 2023-06-29, 22:42

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How's the Kingston NVME SSD failure rate? Ran into this, windows installer does not see, even blanked, also this PC's UEFI bios wouldn't recognize the SSD or appear in the boot even the bios detects the SSD correctly as model number but none else, and I can access it via USB adapter on another PC. …

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Re: Supermicro X7QC3 - Quad-socket 604 build thread

Posted on 2023-06-28, 17:39

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Didn't realize how hot the FBDIMM can go. Good thing I didn't have any that needs FBDIMMs. I reused heat spreaders from these to other registered dimms as this was cheaper and easier to get. Cheers,

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Re: Everything DDR3 related.

Posted on 2023-06-28, 17:34

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The next kit up for testing is this (#3) single ranked Kingston kit with Elpida memory ICs. Internet suggests that this model of Elpida memory chips often are seen on 1866MHz kits with 9-9-9 timings so it can't be that bad... can it? Kinston 2x2GB single rank 10600U Elpida 2Gbit BCSE kit #3.jpg . …

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Re: Apple M1 computer SSD

Posted on 2023-06-28, 16:57

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We, customers prefer replaceable new SSD and easy system software re-installation for any computers and consoles including Sony I think you'll be disappointed to know that the majority of people do not think or act in their own best interests, at least when it comes to tech. Specifically computers, …

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Re: Ok Phil ridlle me this ;-)

Posted on 2023-06-28, 16:23

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Geforce2 Ultra is expensive and difficult to find. If we don't mind not using 8 bit platted and fog table, ATi Radeons using older drivers that is stable and is compatible? The intent is finding out so we can have more options? All we can get more easily is good MX400 128bit and Geforce2 GTS and …

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Re: a new ebay blessing

Posted on 2023-06-28, 15:58

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Had seen few cases where seller simply didn't send and just refund me, keeping their ware as indicated in tracking status was still awaiting the parcel for pickup by carrier. Few times, mail went to wrong address too. And too often, when I purchased, which legally means I'm entitled to this correct …

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Re: Apple M1 computer SSD

Posted on 2023-06-28, 15:22

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No. It is like value of the computer went down sudden if I hear anything that is considered important that potentially fail and SSD *is* finite endurance. Endurance means finite use and finally fails, much like hard drive does. Therefore *MUST* be replaceable helps with value of the console or …

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