Re: Help with case corrosion

Posted on 2018-04-15, 07:39

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Please return to topic now before you start comparing length of body parts and the topic would need to be closed. If you are addressing me then i have not gotten off topic. WTF, do we need another topic Nazi jumping on peoples posts? Feel free to butt out of the conversation if you dont like it, …

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Re: Help with case corrosion

Posted on 2018-04-15, 06:44

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You're the one who decided to make things personal when you didn't like my suggestion. Unless you store your computers outside under a tarp or in 70% humidity, it's not going to get worse. What makes you think that I am attacking you personally? The OP wanted OPINIONS about painting and that is …

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Re: Help with case corrosion

Posted on 2018-04-15, 06:36

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You're the one who decided to make things personal when you didn't like my suggestion. Unless you store your computers outside under a tarp or in 70% humidity, it's not going to get worse. What makes you think that I am attacking you personally? The OP wanted OPINIONS about painting and that is …

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Re: Help with case corrosion

Posted on 2018-04-15, 06:28

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I have actually used the stuff hot shot. The different brands have different looks. No that the OP's photos have shown up so I can see the finish. One of them is a dead match. I have actually used it on several cases with that finish for the same thing. It's a WAY closer match to that than any of …

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Re: Help with case corrosion

Posted on 2018-04-15, 06:22

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Just leave it...the bottom of the case is not gonna show. It will look better with the factory zinc and a few very minor rust spots than covered with spray paint. You must have been turned down for a job at Earl Scheib at onetime. You must be blind if you think spray paint can match the look of …

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Re: FAT16 partitions are not visible from DOS

Posted on 2018-04-15, 06:11

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nevermind

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Re: Speeding up formatting FAT32

Posted on 2018-04-15, 06:09

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I have an old Pentium III machine with a ~128 GB IDE HDD (7,200 RPM). Up until now, I had been using fdisk+Windows 98SE installer to format a FAT32 partition which has worked fine and will continue to do so even thought the actual formatting process is quite long (just under 1 hour)... But I'm …

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Re: Help with case corrosion

Posted on 2018-04-15, 06:00

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Plasma wrote: Just leave it...the bottom of the case is not gonna show. It will look better with the factory zinc and a few very minor rust spots than covered with spray paint. You must have been turned down for a job at Earl Scheib at onetime.

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Re: Help with case corrosion

Posted on 2018-04-15, 05:14

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I was planing on using a toothbrush style wire brush and then painting it with anti rust spray paint, using chemicals isnt really a option due to my poor skills handling it The problem with using rust conversion paints is that most contain some form of fish oil. The oil does the chemical conversion …

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Re: Help with case corrosion

Posted on 2018-04-14, 20:07

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That white stuff you see is mostly zinc oxide and rust. Zinc is the plating over the steel base metal. The acids in your skin and moisture in the air are the main culprits in its destruction. If you want to paint over it you should use a paint that has a rust inhibitor in its ingredients.

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Re: Retro Hardware Prices... are NUTS!

Posted on 2018-04-08, 02:53

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The price of Voodoo 5500s have gone completely mental in the past couple of years, I always felt $100-150 was a good price but those days are long gone, could be the popularity of youtubers like Phil's computer lab that are helping to drive up the cost of these parts. I was lucky enough to pick up …

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

Posted on 2018-04-06, 21:41

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Also just traded a guy local to me a Commodore 1702 monitor I pulled from the trash for these three pristine Packard Bell machines! :D https://img00.deviantart.net/229c/i/2018/093/c/8/untitled_by_mad_king_corduroy-dc7uh50.jpg https://img00.deviantart.net/844e/i/2018/095/8/1/untitled_by_mad_king_ …

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Re: Slot A Athlon machine takes several attempts to boot.

Posted on 2018-04-01, 10:07

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IMG_20180401_014709131.jpg IMG_20180401_015118623.jpg IMG_20180401_035134389.jpg IMG_20180401_035609428.jpg Remember how I said that the PC was stable once it finally booted (Did I?)? Well, I think screwed up my W98 installation, either that or I damaged another component (Maybe the PSU?), the CPU …

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo5 9000 optained!

Posted on 2018-04-01, 10:04

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But can it run Crysis?

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Re: Slot A Athlon machine takes several attempts to boot.

Posted on 2018-04-01, 08:16

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You said that you had Windows 2000 installed and it ran stable. Did you wipe the HDD before installing 98 or did you just install 98 on top of W2K? I wiped the HDD, used it on another computer and wiped it again (twice since apparently the Windows ME boot disk dislikes Fat32 partitions created with …

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Re: Slot A Athlon machine takes several attempts to boot.

Posted on 2018-04-01, 06:44

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You said that you had Windows 2000 installed and it ran stable. Did you wipe the HDD before installing 98 or did you just install 98 on top of W2K?

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Re: Slot A Athlon machine takes several attempts to boot.

Posted on 2018-04-01, 06:35

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Lots of photos of the motherboard and other hardware would be of some help here. Power supplies from that era are always suspect because of bad caps. 250 watts seems marginal anyway. That PSU could handle PIII ok but Athlon K7 could be too much for it.

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Re: What is this...THING?! o_o ("BitchinFast 3D 2000")

Posted on 2018-04-01, 00:44

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leileilol wrote: TOBOR wrote: I could have a Voodoo7 pci-e quad sli to sell you. pm sent Sorry sold the last one to Jade Falcon. You are a day late and 2 dollars short. 😜

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Re: What is this...THING?! o_o ("BitchinFast 3D 2000")

Posted on 2018-03-31, 23:48

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I just randomly saw THIS come across my Twitter timeline (Not my pictures): DYrjVYPWAAAPv1z.jpg DYrjVYMW4AA8gIo.jpg DYruRmKX0AIoYuA.jpg At first I was absolutely convinced this had to have been a joke, something someone put together as an elaborate hoax as a means of poking fun at the GPU wars of …

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Re: Can TR1 GOG run in real DOS?

Posted on 2018-03-31, 20:53

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Why not just buy a genuine CD of Tomb Raider? Not that costly on ebay are they? GOG seems like a convoluted way to install games IMO.

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