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Re: Combinations of hardware/software that you don't like

Posted on 2025-04-24, 11:20

To me it's connecting TFT monitors using VGA cables. Even nowadays I sometimes see it in public stores/offices, and to me that's just so wrong. Even 25 years ago, when I got my first TFT monitor, I made sure it had DVI and also bought a graphics card that had DVI as well. I witnessed an even worse …

Re: Intel old GPU drivers

Posted on 2025-04-23, 21:18

No sources I'm afraid, but I do have XP 32bit 6.14.10.5445 (29/9/2013) and 6.14.10.5449 (30/1/2014) which have the following Ivy Bridge devices in the inf: %iIVBGD0% = iIVBD0, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0162 %iIVBGM0% = iIVBM0, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0166 %iIVBGD0SRV% = iIVBD0, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_016A %iIVBGD0GT1% = …

Re: Combinations of hardware/software that you don't like

Posted on 2025-04-22, 18:36

Jo22 wrote on 2025-04-22, 17:53: Ah, I see! Because of the nForce chipsets, right!? 😃 I was in team, uh, well.. Which team was Via C7 and S3 UniChrome again? Team yellow? 😥 Yep, nForce chipsets. Via was blue, S3 yellow… so you could make green! But in my mind red or blue just didn’t go with green… …

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

Posted on 2025-04-06, 11:15

So much crap...anyone else keeps ton of digital junk that really isn't needed, but still feels it'd be shame to delete it? Just formatting everything would be liberating in a way and so much faster! I know that feeling… I’ve recently had to do a lot of copying terabytes of files around different …

Re: hardware you are glad you never bought

Posted on 2025-03-28, 14:50

IBM Deskstar hard drives. People started calling them "Death stars" for a reason. :skull: According to Wikipedia, it was only the 75GXP series that had the infamously high failure rates. But that was enough to kill IBM's reputation on the computer storage market. I had a 75GXP and it was perfectly …

Re: hardware you are glad you never bought

Posted on 2025-03-23, 13:04

I've also found that some hardware may have poor reputations (such as Pentium 4 processors mentioned above), but in practice those reputations may not be deserved. A lot depends on the rest of the system. My ex-BiL had a P4 system that was horribly sluggish and never felt like it performed anywhere …

Re: Whats the most rare piece of hardware you own?

Posted on 2025-03-21, 16:57

I would guess my Voodoo 4500 PCI, and also a Kyro 2SE (STG4800X) chip - on the right in the attached pic. It is a pre-production example from around 2 to 3 months before it was cancelled. Naturally not ever useable but pretty cool to own. Filename IMG_6170.jpeg File size 1.02 MiB Views 285 views …

Re: Hardware you wish you'd never bought.

Posted on 2025-03-20, 18:48

More generally, upgrading my systems far too regularly (12-18mths on average from the mid 90's through to the 2010's) rather than waiting for them or specific components to struggle with whatever I was doing (coding) or playing, and particularly all the fans, cases etc trying to get a quieter system …

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2025-02-26, 20:05

Bought another WD My Passport 4TB usb to replace a drive in my server which is suspect. To keep the electricity bill down I’m running a NUC 10th gen with two of said drives running in a ReFS storage space mirror setup for my media and a bit of redundancy of other files I’d rather not lose. However …

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