Packard Bell Statesman laptop power board repair:

Posted on 2020-04-27, 21:35

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by radiounix

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Okay. I have two Packard Bell Statesman 486 laptops, both made in 1995. Both have messed up power boards with caps that are leaking electrolyte on their PCBs. One completely died in use, and reeks of dead fish when given power and just makes the laptop power indicator blink, the other smells less …

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Re: Windows 3.1 drivers for Cyrix MediaGX?

Posted on 2020-04-22, 21:10

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by radiounix

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Even a DX4 or Pentium 75 should have the performance to run Windows 95 with the kind of responsivity we are used to on modern machines. It's pretty usable on much less, basically anything 486-class. Maybe you need more RAM? An OSR1 install is okay in 8MB if you keep it lean, but OSR2 breathes better …

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Re: USB 1.0 (1996) vs. USB 1.1 (1998)

Posted on 2020-04-22, 21:00

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by radiounix

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just wanted to chime in that I had a Pentium 200 Vaio from late '96 that had USB ports and an Intel chipset. Not sure what chipset, not sure what USB Rev., but this was a high end consumer PC released in 1996. I definitely had USB working with third-party drivers under Windows 95 OSR2. I never …

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Re: Panasonic CF-62 PCMCIA woes - need drivers

Posted on 2020-04-22, 20:57

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by radiounix

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The drivers i put the link to is the one from the Panasonic ftp for your model, not sure why you you won't try it... I did try that driver in Windows 95A, the factory-installed OS. Tried the alternate Phoenix one too. It's irrational, but I've decided I don't like that machine. No emotional …

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Re: Adapter for old CHS ("small") IDE drives

Posted on 2020-04-21, 15:01

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by radiounix

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just curious - does anyone know a laptop solution? What is the likelyhood that a Pentium III or 4 could handle a legacy CHS drive on the internal controller? Can you be more specific ? I suppose you're talking about connecting 3.5" hard drives to a laptop, to read them, but I'm not sure. Sorry. I …

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Re: USB 1.0 (1996) vs. USB 1.1 (1998)

Posted on 2020-04-21, 14:57

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by radiounix

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just wanted to chime in that I had a Pentium 200 Vaio from late '96 that had USB ports and an Intel chipset. Not sure what chipset, not sure what USB Rev., but this was a high end consumer PC released in 1996. I definitely had USB working with third-party drivers under Windows 95 OSR2. I never tried …

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Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?

Posted on 2020-04-21, 14:51

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by radiounix

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

We still had our original 486 clone: Windows 95 486 DX/2 66 Genoa Cirrus Logic video Soundblaster 16 8MB of RAM upgraded to 32 MB to run AOL 4.3 and 811 MB hard disks, the 340MB Maxtor died The original 14.4 modem 15" CTX monitor Don't ask, I wasn't responsible for the upgrades.

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Re: Adapter for old CHS ("small") IDE drives

Posted on 2020-04-21, 14:47

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by radiounix

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just curious - does anyone know a laptop solution? What is the likelyhood that a Pentium III or 4 could handle a legacy CHS drive on the internal controller?

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Re: Just look at all those new-in-box PAS-16s

Posted on 2020-04-21, 14:36

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by radiounix

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Pro Audio Spectrum and WSS is more like 93-94. This shop actually closed on 2002 IIRC. Wonder what other deadstock and old pulls they have in the back - maybe an Adlib Gold, Pcmcia joystick cards, Xircom parallel port Ethernet adapters, old laptop credit card RAM and weird PS/2 parts?

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Re: Panasonic CF-62 PCMCIA woes - need drivers

Posted on 2020-04-21, 14:23

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by radiounix

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Did you try that specific version of Cardsoft for Windows 95? Is 32bit pcmcia support active in Windows 9x? Alternatively, you can find a trial version of Cardware for Win98 at http://tssc.de I've given up. I think the ports probably do work, and I just need either a factory restore CD or long lost …

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Re: Compaq LTE screen swaps:

Posted on 2020-04-21, 14:17

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by radiounix

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had no idea there were jumpers :o I might have to check mine out...whenever this quarantine ends... Pretty sure I just have the 486 on me right now...not even sure where I put the extra parts for it. This service manual is only for the Pentium LTEs, 5100 through 5400. I don't doubt the older LTE …

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Re: Using -new- printer with -old- PC running Windows 98?

Posted on 2020-04-21, 14:06

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by radiounix

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hmm. I used to have a Brother laser printer with PCL and Epson impact emulation, along with a parallel port. Think it was made around '07, so old but not ancient. That's the kind of printer you want - a printer that does not rely on drivers, Winprinters as we used to call them, but that talks bare …

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Re: Compaq LTE screen swaps:

Posted on 2020-04-20, 22:51

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by radiounix

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks folks. I went ahead and read through the service manual, and I think I probably can but can't find anything definitive as Compaq makes no reference to upgrading LCDs and indicates to use the exact FRU display as shipped. However, the displays are all physically the same housing and the …

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Re: Panasonic CF-62 PCMCIA woes - need drivers

Posted on 2020-04-20, 22:39

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by radiounix

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Drivers for Dos/Windows 3.x/Win95 and OS/2 are available at ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/pub/Panasonic/Drivers/notebooks/CF62/aam/ 62m1w5p1.exe is SystemSoft Cardworks for Windows 95, is this what is installed on your laptop or the generic Windows cardbus drivers? I'm running the standard Windows PCMCIA …

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Compaq LTE screen swaps:

Posted on 2020-04-20, 18:23

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by radiounix

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm looking into buying a Compaq LTE 5000 series. Does anyone know if screens are interchangeable throughout the range. More particularly, can I buy a 5100, 5200 .etc with an SVGA or XGA panel and put a 640x480 TFT from an LTE 5000 in its place? They're different sizes, but I see the smaller VGA …

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Panasonic CF-62 PCMCIA woes - need drivers

Posted on 2020-04-20, 18:14

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by radiounix

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a Panssonic CF-62 Toughbook. P-133, XGA screen and a crazy PDROM burner under the keyboard, plus DOS ESS1688 FM. Anyway, I can't get the PCMCIA to work. I've tried Windows 95A, Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98SE. I've loaded the RI_2_365.EXE as a device in config.sys. Both versions of Windows …

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Re: Toshiba TECRA 730CDT for DOS gaming using VEXP ?

Posted on 2020-03-28, 01:06

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by radiounix

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've seen a few threads about this issue, and other people using that utility on XGA panels experienced the same. I just bought a CT65554 machine with an XGA panel, so I guess my Panasonic CF-62 will probably do the same.

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Re: Panasonic CF-62 / CF-61 drive options

Posted on 2020-03-27, 15:12

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by radiounix

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Update: I found two period Usenet posts where people indicated both the CF-62 and CF-61 would not work with a larger but still small spinning disk. I'm not quite sure what didn't work, or if a drive overlay solves anything.

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Panasonic CF-62 / CF-61 drive options

Posted on 2020-03-27, 14:19

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by radiounix

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just won a minty Toughbook CF-62 on EBay. Pentium 133, real L2 cache, CT65550 video and ESS1688 audio - not sure why nobody seems to talk about these. Anyway, It still has the original 1.3GB hard disk, which is worrisome agewise and too small to stash ISOs on and mount locally. I'm looking ideally …

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