Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-06-21, 01:27

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by Horun

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A few quick pet peeves of mine (Ebay): 3. Sellers that cancel your order with the reason "buyer requested to cancel order" when zero messages have been exchanged. They then go on to relist the same item for a much higher price 🤦‍♂️ ^^^ yes have had that happen ! Relisted as a Buy now for higher …

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Re: Would a dying CMOS battery cause keyboard errors?

Posted on 2020-06-21, 01:13

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by Horun

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I was testing some stuff on my 486 and it started acting strangely. First, it intermittently stopped registering key presses from one keyboard. I then replaced the keyboard and booted it up, and it spat out a Keyboard error at post, no power to the keyboard. I replaced it with yet another, this …

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

Posted on 2020-06-21, 01:05

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by Horun

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that's just how they look though :D tantalum caps are very durable, as in they don't leak and they last very long... but if they fail, they fail spectacularly ^^ Are more recently produced ones as likely to fail after 30 or so years as those from the 80s (and as spectacularly), or have …

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Re: 386 Systems and Memory Instability With 4mb SIMMs? (Errors)

Posted on 2020-06-21, 00:48

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by Horun

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The 9 chip simms did you enable parity on the motherboard? Opti and Sarc (pcchips) are not the greatest chipsets. I had best success with SiS mostly, but not yet on VLSI or VIA. Cheers, You can enable parity with 9 chip but is not required to be enabled if your board supports non-parity simms. Most …

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

Posted on 2020-06-20, 22:13

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by Horun

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Got my VLB 486 setup on the test bench and running. Feels really awsome to get it up and running again as this board was previously in storage. Anyone get freaked out by these balloon caps though? I sware everytime I see one looking bulgy I imagine it erupting right as a game is getting good. It …

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Re: Dell recovery CD from vintage laptop how to run it from HDD

Posted on 2020-06-20, 19:27

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by Horun

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There is a Dell 98se restore cd on archive org. Type Dell 98 in the search box, should be right on the top row. You may still need some drivers as Dell used to include a Drivers CD along with the OS CD (My old Vostro has two CD's). Will grab it and take a look to see what is all on it. added: it is …

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Re: Turbo XT Dumpster Find

Posted on 2020-06-20, 18:56

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by Horun

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Yes that would be a good start ! A small soft toothbrush to help scrub the vinegar in worst areas helps. Just make sure to keep the card very wet or immersed in vinegar where you are scrubbing.

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Re: I need some joystick purchase advice

Posted on 2020-06-20, 17:16

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by Horun

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Yes the MS Siderwinder 3D Pro's are very good, some of the Logitech joysticks are good too.

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Re: Dell recovery CD from vintage laptop how to run it from HDD

Posted on 2020-06-20, 17:08

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by Horun

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Hmm I have one Dell XP restore CD and it does have a Setup.exe in the root, and looks like a regular XP cd except for the $OEM$ folder. It is for my Dimension E521. I looked at my Dell Win7 restore DVD and it has similar layout to regular Win 7 DVD except in the sources folder has a $OEM$ folder …

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Re: 386 Systems and Memory Instability With 4mb SIMMs? (Errors)

Posted on 2020-06-20, 03:31

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by Horun

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I didn't get a shot, but it looked something like this: https://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2015-08/1440457032.th.22699.png Except it was right after the "preparing setup wizard" loading bar. This time, I'm having a different problem altogether. I'm not even sure if it has to do with the memory …

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Re: When do you throw in the towel on an old piece of hw?

Posted on 2020-06-20, 02:18

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by Horun

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Only ever had two total losses on old motherboards. One was an FX-3000 I received yesterday, which was a shame since it had 486, 386, and 387 sockets. It would not post, and wouldn't even give any beep codes. The other was a no-name 386 board that could not initialize the keyboard controller. I …

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Re: 386 Systems and Memory Instability With 4mb SIMMs? (Errors)

Posted on 2020-06-20, 02:05

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by Horun

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Those are pictures of your exact boards ? The PCChips board you cannot get 33Mhz to run has an issue, it should run at 33mhz. Also the chip near X2 does not look right on that board. Why is it silver ? Should be a black 8 pin clock DIP afaik. The Shuttle board is in a computer, you should remove it …

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Re: Dell recovery CD from vintage laptop how to run it from HDD

Posted on 2020-06-20, 01:36

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by Horun

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Greetings to everyone, yesterday I got on my hands a Dell Inspiron 7000 A366LT (PII) laptop and I have a Dell recovery CD with Windows 98 SE. The recovery procedure stops at a specified percent, so I want to know if it's possible to run the recovery procedure from the hdd. The CD doesn't have an . …

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Re: 386 Systems and Memory Instability With 4mb SIMMs? (Errors)

Posted on 2020-06-20, 01:23

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by Horun

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Correct, that is generic memory even it used TI memory chips at 70ns. But no label on any of these but even that, seems decent quality and not your problem, could be your generic boards are the issue? What kind of chipset are you using on these 2 386DX motherboards? Even that, your motherboards is …

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

Posted on 2020-06-20, 01:00

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by Horun

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While looking for some manuals stumbled on this Catalog from Walnut Creek CDROM from late 1995. Maybe someone will find it interesting. http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/walnutCreekCDROM/1995%20Fall_Winter%20Catalog.pdf We now return you to your regularly scheduled program - talking …

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

Posted on 2020-06-19, 04:23

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by Horun

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Humans are 95% the cause of the problem. Those that disagree, are mentally deficient and should go fuck themselves with a cactus. And just to preempt the usual rhetoric that follows, math and science don't care about your "feelings" or your "beliefs". I mean honestly, what is the downside of "going …

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What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-06-19, 02:20

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by Horun

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Retro activity: went thru all my old DOS and Windows books, found a bunch from DOS 2.1 thru 6.22 plus many Window 3, 3.11 and WFW books.

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What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-06-19, 02:20

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by Horun

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I live about 40 miles from Mt.St. Helens. When it was erupting (1980-81) it spewed CO2, H2S and many other things into the air. Our local DEQ monitored the output and claimed it sent the equal of both states total per year into the air every week of the erupting. A few years ago we had bad wildfires …

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Re: Dos floppy installation problem

Posted on 2020-06-19, 01:57

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by Horun

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I have a fair collection of various old DOS manuals in paper and also PDF. Unfortunately most are copyrighted or would upload to the library here. One thing about DOS, it really does not install quite like Windows. It just preps the HD and copy+expands the files off the floppies to the \DOS folder. …

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Re: Unable to start any DOS applications after restarting in MS-DOS mode.

Posted on 2020-06-18, 04:34

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by Horun

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Other than Doom you do not mention the DOS apps/games you are trying to launch. Do not think Doom "the original" will play nice off a P3 700 and run from Win98.

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