Re: capacitor plague finally struck home

Posted on 2024-09-06, 14:35

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Your Amiga also predates the capacitor plague era. Anything made before 1999 or so is far less likely to have catastrophically bad capacitors. However there are still some examples of known bad capacitors before then. The surface mount capacitors used on PS/2 floppy and hard drives is one example. …

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Re: HOT433 - LBA not engaging (40GB HDD)

Posted on 2024-09-04, 01:08

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Great to hear you have something working now.

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Re: HOT433 - LBA not engaging (40GB HDD)

Posted on 2024-08-30, 20:14

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It may be possible to patch the Award 4.51PG eSupport upgrade version 01/05/2001-UMC-881/886A-2A4X5H21C-00 using biospatcher. https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/shuttle-hot-433-rev.-1#bios https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/shuttle-hot-433-ver.-1-3#bios https://theretroweb.com/motherboards …

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Re: HOT433 - LBA not engaging (40GB HDD)

Posted on 2024-08-30, 19:42

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You have a 486 motherboard with a 1994 BIOS core. 8.4Gb is the best you can hope to get working. I don’t think biospatcher will be able to do anything with such an old BIOS.

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Re: End of an era - Anandtech is shutting down

Posted on 2024-08-30, 15:43

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I suppose the saying “Don’t be sad that it is over, but be happy that it happened” applies here. Video format tech news has certainly taken over. I can’t help but just miss reading an article in 5 minutes and being able to form my own opinion about a topic. Versus a 20 minute video that tries to …

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Re: Mouse options on AT board?

Posted on 2024-08-23, 18:37

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I don't reccomend the PCI cards with PS/2 ports on them. Most of them claim that they are incompatible with DOS.

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Re: ATX to AT power switch question

Posted on 2024-08-23, 15:56

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Almost all switches of this type are double pole single throw. The poles are electrically isolated between each side. You will most likely want to connect your new black where the original black was, and green to where the brown was located. If I'm seeing your picture correctly, that would be …

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Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2024-08-22, 21:16

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On one hand, nostalgia is often accompanied with selective memory. Many are forgetting that buggy and awful games always outnumbered the good games. I think that depends. For example, games from the SNES and PlayStation 1 era couldn't rely on post-release updates to fix their bugs, so quality …

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Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2024-08-22, 19:15

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On one hand, nostalgia is often accompanied with selective memory. Many are forgetting that buggy and awful games always outnumbered the good games. There are a lot of good new games out there, they just aren't necessarily coming from the so called AAA or AAAA studios. What many don't like about …

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Re: Remove the sticky threads

Posted on 2024-08-21, 23:21

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Gopher666 should be proud, this thread has been stickied.

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Re: Pre-VESA Proprietary 32-bit Local Buses?

Posted on 2024-08-20, 23:22

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If I'm not mistaken, the ability to private message is tied to post count. Not join date. Almost every forum has a similar policy. This is to limit the amount of damage a spam account can make. Very few spammers can resist outing themselves before gaining private message privileges. Where as it is …

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Re: 486SocketBlaster

Posted on 2024-08-20, 16:40

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Don't waste your time. The switching power module they are designed around are crap and can't maintain voltage under load. Would running two modules in parallel potentially alleviate that (distributing the load) ? No, those regulator modules just have extremely poor performance. Connecting two …

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Re: How to view pictures of a folder in Windows 2000 like in Windows 7, 10, etc.. moving between pictures with arrow key

Posted on 2024-08-19, 22:12

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by akimmet

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Old releases of XnView may work as well.

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Re: 486SocketBlaster

Posted on 2024-08-19, 21:57

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Kingcake's reply is about earlier revisions that used a cheap regulator module. Calamitylime's 4 layer redesign shouldn't have any of these issues. Unfortunately this redesign may not be finished yet. As far as I know it is yet to be tested.

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Re: Which is the best Windows 2000 version should I install?

Posted on 2024-08-17, 04:19

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Microsoft used x64 and eventually x86_64. Microsoft uses amd64, no? Unless I'm remembering wrongly, all the 64-bit NT 6.x DVDs have an 'amd64' folder... (FreeBSD uses amd64 too. Linux, or at least the Ubuntu VMs I have access to, seem to call it x86_64) I could/should probably google this, but I …

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Re: Which is the best Windows 2000 version should I install?

Posted on 2024-08-16, 18:26

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I misremembered it was indeed EM64T not EMT64T.

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Re: Which is the best Windows 2000 version should I install?

Posted on 2024-08-16, 16:31

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Intel's code-name for the 80386 instruction set was called IA-32. When the Itanium was being designed, Intel genuinely thought they were going to be able to transition away from their x86 architecture. This wouldn't even be Intel's first attempt to do so, the iAPX 432 is good example. Intel was so …

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Re: Which is the best Windows 2000 version should I install?

Posted on 2024-08-16, 02:20

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Ever since Windows 95, Microsoft wants that same level of hype and excitement for every new release. XP was certainly hated early on, the driver situation took awhile to catch up. Beyond XP there hasn't been a killer Windows feature to drive immediate upgrades. Many just waited until either it was …

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Re: Which is the best Windows 2000 version should I install?

Posted on 2024-08-16, 01:30

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Don't conflate x64 to mean 64bit. X64 is a common term to describe the AMD64 and x86-64 architecture. Itanium was always referenced as IA64.

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Re: Need help with reflashing a bricked bios

Posted on 2024-08-14, 23:06

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The software is fairly easy to figure out. Only a few steps are required, and so far I've never had to change any settings from default other than the type of chip to program.

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