Re: Any advice on a new PSU for an ASUS P4S533

Posted on 2021-09-16, 08:54

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by weedeewee

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The ATX 2.4 PSU's seemed to boot fine on the P4S533 and P4S533-E, it was the motherboard that didn't want to boot with them, so I doubt putting a fan on the -12v will do anything in this situation. Did you measure all the voltages to be present and accurate, including the PG signal, on the powered …

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Re: Volo's Gamepad to PS/2 Adapter. Device discussion (official thread) (Starting shipping 31.08.2021)

Posted on 2021-09-16, 08:48

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by weedeewee

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OOPS, typos! Corrected and updated. Thanks! 😁 What I tried to convey is that: When there is a physical keyboard connected to my adaptor - the device just act as a pass-through for all communication. When my adapter detects no real PS/2 keyboard connected - it responds to PC handshakes itself, …

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Re: 15 pin vga to generic lcd converter

Posted on 2021-09-16, 08:43

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by weedeewee

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As the above, would say they're anything but universal. The dealers generally require you to specify the panel model when ordering the LVDS adapter board, and send it preflashed with the correct firmware, backlighting board, and cables. The LVDS protocol isn't standardized. Even if the hardware you …

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Re: Volo's Gamepad to PS/2 Adapter. Device discussion (official thread) (Starting shipping 31.08.2021)

Posted on 2021-09-16, 08:19

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by weedeewee

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I have to guess at what is meant by the " no keyboard , laptop+gamepad (keyboard emulated) " laptop icon. s / trough / through besides that... Great ! 😍

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Re: 15 pin vga to generic lcd converter

Posted on 2021-09-16, 08:09

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by weedeewee

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I don't think you know what I'm referring to. If you searched for "lcd controller" on ebay it would become clearer. You plug vga output in 1 end, the board converts it to a proper image on a host of different lcd panels. Looking at my title I think I worded it badly. I didn't mean generic so much …

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Re: 15 pin vga to generic lcd converter

Posted on 2021-09-16, 07:32

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by weedeewee

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it's not really universal, it's only for LCD panels with an LVDS interface. The annoying thing about it tends to be that depending on the panel in use, you'll need a different type of connector and inverter to hook up the backlight. Sometimes it's an LED backlight, sometimes it's a CFL backlight. …

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Re: 32-Bit is dead

Posted on 2021-09-15, 18:29

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by weedeewee

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32-Bit is alive ! There, this thread can be closed off for further comments. 🍕

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Re: Any advice on a new PSU for an ASUS P4S533

Posted on 2021-09-15, 17:48

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by weedeewee

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Interesting. Looking up, I found that ATX 2.4 seems to have added a minimum load requirement to -12V, which might cause problems on older stuff. So... anybody wanna hook up a case fan -12V to 0 and see if that lets ATX 2.4 supplies start? If that 's the only difference and reason for them psus not …

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Re: Internet is slow on one computer yet fine on the other

Posted on 2021-09-15, 07:03

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by weedeewee

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Have you tried changing the flow control setting in the nic driver ?

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Re: Updating Award Bios (error the file size does not match!)

Posted on 2021-09-10, 19:06

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by weedeewee

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Just to add my 2 cents. I recall updating a gigabyte motherboard, with the latest bios available which had EFI support for the cdrom boot. (no GPT though) the latest bios was double the size of the previous bios files available, probably due to the addition of the EFI part. and it was a hassle to …

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Re: Help to identify 386 motherboard

Posted on 2021-08-27, 19:30

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by weedeewee

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30-0400-ZZ1500-00101111-050591-ET/386H Bios from 1991 - 05 - 05 some googling leads me to think it was made for zz1500 Netcon Co. can't say I ever heard of'm nor if the info is correct, the 1 apparently indicates a taiwanese company. there is a taiwanese netcom company on the internets, and they …

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Re: Networking in Win 98SE: cannot get a DHCP lease

Posted on 2021-08-27, 11:01

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by weedeewee

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stamasd wrote on 2021-08-27, 10:21: I think an issue is that in winipcfg, the card's MAC address is listed as FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF which is obviously wrong. The card may have a hardware problem. eeprom on the card probably got corrupted.

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Re: Help me identify this ISA card (RAM/LPT Card?)

Posted on 2021-08-27, 10:43

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by weedeewee

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The most wonderful thing about this card is, to me atleast, the fact that there is no microcontroller nor rom on the whole board. It's all built from logic chips, some sram and dram, resistors, capacitors and a delayline. It's just beautiful.

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Re: IDE to SD adapter on old PC

Posted on 2021-08-26, 21:42

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by weedeewee

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There's plenty of threads about people struggling with those kinds of adapters. I have also given such an adapter a try once, in a compaq m700, which shares the ide bus with the cd/dvdrom. and for some reason, it wouldn't cooperate nicely, always causing errors and pulling the bus to the slowest pio …

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Re: it 8212f ide controller win 98 problem

Posted on 2021-08-26, 11:01

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by weedeewee

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bios of card probably interfering with default page frame address that emm386 uses, change either bios location of card or page frame address of emm386.

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Re: Latest PCI video cards and bridge chips opinions

Posted on 2021-08-26, 08:27

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by weedeewee

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You might want to add some photos to make it a bit more visual. 😀

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Re: Sysinternals FAT32 for NT - how to disable CHKFAT32.exe on boot?

Posted on 2021-08-25, 23:52

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by weedeewee

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Did you read my second paragraph? I read page 2 before I posted my reply above. This is how I knew offset 41 was the one to look for. However, I do not wish to clear this HEX value each time I have an error. I decided that it was easier to try fastfat32 first, then revisit HEX editing if both …

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Re: Sysinternals FAT32 for NT - how to disable CHKFAT32.exe on boot?

Posted on 2021-08-25, 23:44

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by weedeewee

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I read it briefly but decided it was not the most desirable type of solution and there is no certainty it would apply to winternals FAT32 for NT. Assuming the winternals dirty flag is at the same location as the Windows dirty flag for FAT32, I would need to, according to that link, track down the …

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Re: Help me identify this ISA card (RAM/LPT Card?)

Posted on 2021-08-25, 22:49

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by weedeewee

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Yeah sorry I was mentally confusing the Acer with daughter with the IBM with daughter one. Yes only has a few mem chips on mainboard. No think it would still need a DOS driver to load the LMS Expanded ram for use in DOS though that could have been put in a secondary ROM in the AT. Like some XT's …

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Re: Upgrading a Paradise PVGA1A-JK to 512K

Posted on 2021-08-25, 22:28

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by weedeewee

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You could just check if there's any traces connecting the ram to the chip. If there are, chances are the chip is needed for more ram.

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