Re: Duty cycle for long term health

Posted on 2020-06-10, 01:58

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by will1384

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have seen a lot of different ideas about this, but I have seen examples that contradict all sides. Not using a computer can kill or protect it: Hard Drives can die from sitting unused, and can die from use. The motherboard can die from use, or if it has bad capacitors the motherboard can die just …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-06-09, 21:16

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by will1384

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I forgot a big one actually: sellers who show pictures of a vintage laptop running but refuse to sell you the power adapter. It's not necessarily against the rules but it rubs me the wrong way. The odd thing is that I see that a lot, and I always think they are going to sell the power adapters …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-06-09, 20:44

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by will1384

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have had "somewhat OK" luck with eBay, I often have to take a gamble, and unfortunately I have very little to spend on stuff like this, I "might" have a $100 extra a month to spend on what what ever I want, and when I find a good deal, and I have the money, I tend to buy more than one if I can, …

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Re: Sd to ide windows 98 problem

Posted on 2020-06-04, 20:17

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by will1384

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Something to watch out for when using SD to IDE adaptors is that the computers BIOS will sometimes "auto detect" or see the wrong settings for your SD card, and then the SD card will seem to work for a short time but you will start having problems, losing files and getting corrupted data, a lot of …

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Re: MS-DOS DoubleSpace and DriveSpace, anyone use it?

Posted on 2020-06-03, 01:33

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by will1384

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Anyone ever use DoubleSpace or DriveSpace back in the day? Back then they were near godsends. Realtime disk compression seemed to work well and provided tangible benefits. Both then and now I was impressed with how transparent it all was despite the amount of convoluted shenanigans that went on " …

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Re: Your oldest favorite computer game?

Posted on 2020-06-01, 04:43

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by will1384

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I can't pick just one, so here is a list with the year each game came out. 1982 - Parsec -- I had this game on my TI-99/4A home computer, had an arcade game feel to it from what I remember. 1986 - Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter -- I played this on an Apple IIe computer at school, unfortunately I …

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Re: Floppy disks: emulator or not?

Posted on 2020-05-31, 23:02

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by will1384

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have lived were I do now for over 30 years, and unfortunately I live down a dusty gravel road that has a fair amount of traffic on it, floppies don't live very long were I live, the very fine silt like dust gets into them and causes scratches and that kills the floppies, I "might" get 5 or 10 …

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Re: Which PCI card is better for DOS games in real mode Aztech ASC338A (Aureal Vortex 8820B2) or Sound Blaster Live! 5.1

Posted on 2020-05-31, 18:43

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by will1384

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

huh? ESS-Solo cards rare? it's one of the most ubiquitous and cheap cards out there imho ^^ It would be nice to know were they are, eBay and Amazon seem to have basically none of them, right now eBay has three of them, one auction, and 2 for $85 plus $14 shipping, and I don't count that "red" …

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Re: Which PCI card is better for DOS games in real mode Aztech ASC338A (Aureal Vortex 8820B2) or Sound Blaster Live! 5.1

Posted on 2020-05-31, 17:16

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by will1384

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in Marvin \ Sound

The ESS Solo cards seem to be the best PCI cards for DOS but they are very hard to find, also it seems that the red ESS Solo PCI cards from China often don't even have the game port connected. I have a few of the Sound Blaster Live cards, but finding a working driver can be hard because some of the …

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Re: Floppy disks: emulator or not?

Posted on 2020-05-31, 16:28

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by will1384

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have lived were I do now for over 30 years, and unfortunately I live down a dusty gravel road that has a fair amount of traffic on it, floppies don't live very long were I live, the very fine silt like dust gets into them and causes scratches and that kills the floppies, I "might" get 5 or 10 uses …

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Re: PCI Riser Card capacitors - required on all thin clients?

Posted on 2020-05-30, 02:30

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by will1384

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in Marvin \ Sound

will1384, do you have the 1 GHz model or the 800 MHz model? I have the 800 MHz model. The most obvious difference visually between mine and yours is that mine lacks the DVI port. Otherwise our setups are very similar, including replacing the original flash storage with an SD IDE adapter! The CA10 …

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Re: PCI Riser Card capacitors - required on all thin clients?

Posted on 2020-05-29, 22:35

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by will1384

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Could it be that your Neoware CA10 is different than my Neoware CA10, I took a picture of my CA10 and uploaded at imgur.com and direct link: https://i.imgur.com/CNqDDIC.jpg Could it be your cables or speakers?

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Re: PCI Riser Card capacitors - required on all thin clients?

Posted on 2020-05-29, 20:52

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by will1384

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in Marvin \ Sound

I installed a SB0100 and the drivers for DOS were a pain to setup, but it works, and no hiss and nothing strange, I did have to let the BIOS control the IRQs before I was able to get DOS sound working, I tested Quake 1, and Wolfenstein 3D, I had no sound problems in ether game. And I tried a Ensoniq …

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Re: Rear panel ports: Corrosion

Posted on 2020-05-29, 18:00

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by will1384

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am going to give you some bad advice for lack for something better, because I have not found anything better yet, I had a lot of computer parts stored in plastic storage bins, and because of the high humidity and hot and cold temperature swings were I live a lot of the chromed parts and connectors …

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Re: PCI Riser Card capacitors - required on all thin clients?

Posted on 2020-05-29, 16:52

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by will1384

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in Marvin \ Sound

Nice to see someone else trying a similar build! Remember, as I said earlier, I tried my AWL744L in the slot without a riser card of any kind, and I still have tons of noise and almost no volume. That's equivalent to using a riser card that merely passes the signals through, like yours. I wonder if …

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Re: PCI Riser Card capacitors - required on all thin clients?

Posted on 2020-05-29, 15:05

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by will1384

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in Marvin \ Sound

I have a Neoware CA10 and it did not come with a riser card, I had to buy a cheap one on eBay, I got a "PCI Riser Card 1U 32bit REVERSE DIRECTION" and it has no place for capacitors or any thing else and "seems" to work just fine with the sound card I am using, I am using a ESS sound card, did you …

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Re: What are the best Vga to hdmi scalers or peripherals for MS-DOS games ?

Posted on 2020-05-29, 00:53

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by will1384

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in Marvin \ Video

I had got this : https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TNZP9G3 because there was a review saying that someone was able to see a BIOS screen with it, but no it does not work with DOS and BIOS screen on older computers. I need to find something "reasonable" priced that works, unfortunately it seems …

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Re: Windows 98SE PCI-E graphic card support

Posted on 2020-05-28, 04:12

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by will1384

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have used a "ATI Radeon X600" and "NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS" under Windows 98SE, and both video cards were PCI-E , I had to use some hacked drivers but other than that I had no big problems. Ah sorry I meant to ask in the original post if they work for anyone with chipsets new enough to support …

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Re: Anyone sold their collections / parts on... any regrets?

Posted on 2020-05-27, 20:18

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by will1384

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I worked in computer repair in the early to mid 2000s, what I regret is all the working computers I scraped and recycled, and all the working parts I threw away, on top of that what I did save got damaged by moisture, condensation, and stuff like the battery on the motherboard going bad and eating …

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Re: I'd like to create a cd with all the useful programs/bench tools/general tools

Posted on 2020-05-26, 20:17

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by will1384

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in Marvin \ Software

I am in the process of making something like that now, but not a CD-ROM because it would be way too small, I am likely going to fill a hard drive, I have been using computers since I was a kid, and now I am in my mid 40s, and I was a heavy downloader over the years, and still am, I am just now …

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