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

Posted on 2024-05-30, 19:41

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Can I add "everything Samsung is doing" to the list? Everything Samsung does is anti-consumer, so I don't know how I forgot them. On that subject, I'm looking at new phones to finally replace my Galaxy S7, and I'm worried that the Android automatic backup is keeping a list of installed apps to …

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Re: PCI cards don't fit, different PCI thickness?

Posted on 2024-05-25, 20:58

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Edge connectors like that are usually made for 1.6mm +/-10%. Based on that, I would think that 1.8mm is close enough, but the cards that you measured as 1.4mm are too thin. It's possible that both measurements are 0.2mm too thin, which would result in the new cards being way too thick to fit in any …

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

Posted on 2024-05-25, 17:47

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I got the full-screen Windows 10 EOL message again, but with the text and buttons properly scaled this time (the Windows 11 desktop screenshot on the right was still blurry). I'm totally disgusted by consumer products now, but I also get the strange feeling that the general public is becoming more …

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Re: Best inexpensive Windows 98 CD-RW drive

Posted on 2024-05-25, 03:50

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I remember Optiarc being a Sony-NEC joint venture. NEC drives were actually good, but I have also had lots of Sony drives fail. Samsung was slightly better, but still not what I would consider good. Unfortunately, at this point, all of my IDE optical drives have failed, and every drive I get fails a …

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Re: Mainboard GIGABYTE GA-7VT600 -> DOS

Posted on 2024-05-19, 01:59

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Those Nichicon HM series caps were failure-prone, even though Nichicon is considered one of the better brands. I had an FX5500 AGP video card with bulged caps. Being an FX5500 I didn't care about it too much, but I did want to fix it. I bought some cheap capacitors from a seller on Amazon, recapped …

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Re: No POST or picture from Asus TX97-XE

Posted on 2024-05-16, 04:19

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That resistance is correct. Unfortunately, there are enough traces running under the chip that the circuit isn't obvious here (and in my earlier posts, I was just taking a guess based on other motherboards and cheap voltage regulator circuits I've seen).

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Re: Absolute best, Most reliable fans

Posted on 2024-05-15, 04:26

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I forgot Comair Rotron. leonardo wrote on 2024-05-14, 17:25: Does ADDA still exist? I think they do, but my only experience with them is replacing them after they fail. For some reason, almost all of the Adda fans I've seen were sleeve bearing.

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Re: No POST or picture from Asus TX97-XE

Posted on 2024-05-14, 04:05

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The controller is an HIP6008, which seems to have been used on lots of other motherboards. However, 1.0V on L16 is way too low (assuming that this is actually Vcore - there's nothing else here that looks like it's capable of supplying that amount of current), so there's definitely a VRM problem. It …

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Re: Absolute best, Most reliable fans

Posted on 2024-05-14, 02:25

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I would agree with everyone else here. Better quality ball bearing fans (Papst, Nidec, Sanyo Denki, NMB, or Delta) will be better than some sleeve bearing Aliexpress special, but they will still fail eventually. You need fan monitoring. Panaflo was also top tier, but I'm not sure if they've held up …

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Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-13, 04:06

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136(6)x768 is that nice resolution that you get with those older LCD TVs with VGA input. Why do you do not like it? When laptops switched from 16:10 aspect ratio displays to 16:9, 1366x768 became the only resolution choice on every laptop smaller than 17" except expensive workstation models. The …

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Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-11, 22:59

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If you're specifically talking about modern stuff, I consider 1920x1080 to be the minimum, and I prefer either higher resolutions or a different aspect ratio to get more vertical height. For older stuff, I use whatever the hardware can handle reasonably well as long as it isn't 1366x768.

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Re: Why The Internet Archive Is In Danger Right Now...

Posted on 2024-05-04, 19:15

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I just used the Wayback Machine before reading this post. It's back online now.

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Re: No POST or picture from Asus TX97-XE

Posted on 2024-05-01, 04:09

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At that angle, it looks like one lead is ripped out. That might not be the only problem with this board, though.

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Re: No POST or picture from Asus TX97-XE

Posted on 2024-04-29, 04:17

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I see a broken cap next to the CPU socket. Using these pictures as reference: http://hw-museum.cz/mb/101/asus-tx97-xe Q8 might be a 3.3V regulator (with Q9 used to connect 3.3V to the CPU core supply if an old single-rail CPU is installed), but it's hard to tell with only some pictures. However, …

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Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards

Posted on 2024-04-29, 00:09

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I have one motherboard with a VIA KN133 chipset (S3 TwisterK, which is some kind of ProSavage variant). Its drivers don't support the Metal API, but they might support S3TC (I don't remember if I tried it). They won't perform as well as a discrete Savage card because they're sharing RAM with the CPU …

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

Posted on 2024-04-27, 16:22

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Windows replaced my graphics driver with a broken one again, so I found another method to prevent Windows Update from installing driver updates (although it's a massive downgrade, even if you only look at the release date and not the bugs). The problem with the severe lack of information about …

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Re: Thoughts on this Channel Well PSU

Posted on 2024-04-21, 01:03

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It looks good to me. The only thing I don't like is the fan controller with the thermistor (the green thing on that daughterboard) hanging out in the air. I'm surprised that the caps didn't blow up, but maybe Fuhjyyu didn't suck until the late '90s or early 2000s when Antec power supplies (also made …

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

Posted on 2024-04-21, 00:40

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If I remember right, those Evercool fans had chrome-colored plastic blades. I don't remember fans with metal blades. Papst (not to be confused with Pabst Blue Ribbon) has some metal fans, but they aren't shiny PC fans with home-friendly noise levels. Even the overclockers used the plastic Papst fans …

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

Posted on 2024-04-21, 00:29

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I loaded Linux Mint onto a flash drive, and I've been running the live version for most of the day. I still think it's stupid that Linux needs hacks to turn Num Lock on at boot (Lubuntu 22.04 has the option in its settings, but the other distros I've tried didn't), but I guess someone had a reason …

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

Posted on 2024-04-18, 03:46

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Wow I can't believe that MS really changed your background to tell you, in a sloppy way, that win10 will be simply unsupported a year later. I really can't, I'd do some more checks and googling to verify that this is legit. https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-begins- …

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