Re: Please share your most recent brain fart?
Posted on 2024-04-09, 19:04
Just noticed it could have been a funnily adequate 500th post. Will be this one instead xD
Please share your most recent brain fart?
Posted on 2024-04-09, 18:59
I'm sure we've all been there..work life, home life, being busy all the time with duties and responsibilities and trying to escape reality with our old games and computers with some quality time. I just lost a good hour of that precious time for something so utterly stupid...and I was PRETTY CLOSE …
Re: Floppy disk problem
Posted on 2024-04-09, 12:10
yeah, I guess I kinda skipped that part :D you're using a proper twisted floppy cable? only a single drive after the twist? apart from that, a physical problem with a ribbon cable should be pretty obvious from visual inspection, they're pretty dumb. but if you have another one at hand, doesn't cost …
Re: Floppy disk problem
Posted on 2024-04-09, 11:13
Disk change signalling issue (pin 34), I can't really help you finding the root cause except trying different drives and IO controllers to see if you find a culprit. In the meantime, some quick workarounds: - press ctrl+C on your keyboard, then DIR again (should refresh content) - add this to your …
Re: Voodoo 2 4444SX
Posted on 2024-03-28, 16:47
now that is a whole new dimension of hardware porn 😁 incredible!
Re: ISA Riser problems
Posted on 2024-03-07, 20:17
Bottommost one should have best performance, with worse in higher slots but the difference is probably small if visible at all. How does direct connection to mobo compare ? Yeah, I also figured out that what I should do...but at this stage I definitely can't bother taking it all out again. lol No …
Re: ISA Riser problems
Posted on 2024-03-06, 22:08
The why part is a big rabbithole, and I don't really have any good suggestions that are gentle enough. Lot of materials go far too deep and are hard to comprehend and in my case they did not come from internet but from books and not ones in english or other widely spoken languages lol As far as the …
Re: ISA Riser problems
Posted on 2024-03-06, 20:21
Thanks Tiido, better safe than sorry :) It's a success! I wouldn't call it perfect, I have a still visible somewhat "higher frequency" VGA noise if that makes sense, but it's still substantially less visible! Is it something that could still be improved by choosing different caps? Or is it the best …
Re: ISA Riser problems
Posted on 2024-03-06, 16:36
They definitely are not. Not sure what pic you are looking at. Those are clearly bypass caps for 2.0/2.5mm leg spacing caps. With one leg in the ground flood fill. Probably bypassing +5,-5,+12 if I had to guess. So I received the caps, and took the card out for some multimeter work. There are only …
Re: best version of Office to learn
Posted on 2024-03-04, 18:58
BitWrangler wrote on 2024-03-04, 18:52: It is particularly impotent to have a grandma chequer to be shore that you are using the correctly word rather than having the spill checker just assume what worm you meant to typo. my smellchecker pikes this lessage!
Re: Connecting a Win ME box to a NAS
Posted on 2024-03-02, 16:03
right of course, I'm only speaking for the old boxes in this context 😀
Re: Connecting a Win ME box to a NAS
Posted on 2024-03-02, 15:49
after all kind of issues with samba and NAS access in general, I ended up setting up a local FTP server on the NAS and accessing it from my Windows boxes with WinSCP 4.40. Way easier and more convenient imo.
Re: best version of Office to learn
Posted on 2024-03-01, 21:47
Then learn whatever floats your boat, you do sound like you made up your mind. And being quite rude about advice given in answer to your obscure question. The main point that you still didn't properly explain: what's the purpose? Your end goal? Being an office guru over a 20 years release span for …
Re: ISA Riser problems
Posted on 2024-02-28, 18:39
thanks again. How I can make sure those spots are actually well connected and suitable spots for caps? What should I be looking for? Btw looks like there may be another set of 2 or 3 above the middle ISA connector.
Re: ISA Riser problems
Posted on 2024-02-28, 17:19
ok, thanks for the good tip. Mine as 0 capacitors right now :D but it has what looks like some cap potential locations. Do you think it could help trying to install some caps on these spots? I will need to take it out to probe for continuity, but maybe you already know what I should look for? Thanks …
Re: ISA Riser problems
Posted on 2024-02-28, 12:52
Here's some closure - I've received and installed the 386, and it has 0 problem with the existing ISA riser so that's good news! I can notice a little noise on the VGA signal that I assume is because of the lack of proper grounding and/or capacitors. I may try to improve it down the road (or keep an …
Re: 386 memory (?) issues
Posted on 2024-02-28, 10:21
OK, so the computer is now rock stable even with the 4x1MB sticks. Even the RAM refresh BIOS setting back to "Concurrent" instead of "Standard" works fine. I can only assume this setting makes the RAM interact in a different way with the cache? All in all it's a happy ending :) it will stay at 128KB …
Re: 386 memory (?) issues
Posted on 2024-02-26, 20:11
what do you know, came back from work to close to 5 successful passes with no errors in memtest :D looks like that little cache chip bastard really was after it all in the end. thanks Paar for putting me on the right track, I really overlooked cache, doh. I may try to get back to the original 4x1MB …
Re: 386 memory (?) issues
Posted on 2024-02-26, 10:47
Indeed. But if it works I'll probably keep it running with 128KB. Not a build I'm trying to max out or anything, actually quite the opposite 😀 I have enough other machines if I need more performance!
Re: 386 memory (?) issues
Posted on 2024-02-26, 07:16
Yep, that does look like a culprit indeed but I can't 100% guarantee that the leg was already broken and it did not happen during the extraction process..they were quite stuck, I used a chip extractor and had to apply non-trivial force to get them out but did it as cleanly as possible, but you never …
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