Re: Tool for formating 3,5inch floppys..

Posted on 2011-10-12, 07:26

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by MatthewBrian

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If iam going formatting 1.44mb floppys on this windows 7 pc its screws the sectors.. and i cant see any data on it when iam using it on older windows versions.. Is the disk formatted on that Windows 7 PC readable in other PC that has Windows 7 installed? Or if you run other OS on that Windows 7 PC …

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Re: Tool for formating 3,5inch floppys..

Posted on 2011-10-12, 01:40

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by MatthewBrian

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Try HD-Copy (http://www.asiawide.or.jp/HD_COPY.htm).

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2011-10-08, 06:37

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by MatthewBrian

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What is the portrait-oriented screen on the left of the second picture? Is it a computer monitor?

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Re: What the hell! My motherboard just talked to me ?!!

Posted on 2011-09-26, 11:17

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by MatthewBrian

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My ASUS P4S333 has this feature after updating the BIOS. Yes, we can change the WAV files by ourselves, using ASUS BIOS Voice Reporter application. ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/misc/utils/win … editor_M316.zip

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Re: Anyone knows this soundcard?

Posted on 2011-08-04, 07:26

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by MatthewBrian

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lo further searching suggests it's a compumedia / c-media cmi8738 or some clone of that called a sound pro or whatever. it's likely not DS-XG although it pretends to be. bye When I look closely to the chip, I realized something. The chip is YMH724, NOT YMF724. Is there any (real) Yamaha chip with …

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Anyone knows this soundcard?

Posted on 2011-08-04, 02:41

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by MatthewBrian

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I found this soundcard on my parts pile. It seems that I got it together with some SS7 boards and MMX processors long time ago. http://i.imgur.com/m78Cr.jpg Is it a soundcard or a MIDI board? Because it has a XG chip on the board, and it is the only chip on that board.. I also found another …

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Re: Win7 Prefetch/Superfetch data corruption

Posted on 2011-07-12, 09:03

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by MatthewBrian

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I usually RMAed the memory with the new stick when I encountered the IRQL_Not_Less_Or_Equal BSOD. I have done this two times on two different systems, and the problem gone.

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Re: (Solved) What is this ISA card - it looks like a network card.

Posted on 2011-06-29, 03:16

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by MatthewBrian

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Tetrium wrote: Does this password reset every time you unplug the router from the power outlet? Does it "loose it's changed settings"? No. I've never seen a router forgets the settings once it is unplugged, as they saved it on a flash memory.

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Re: (Solved) What is this ISA card - it looks like a network card.

Posted on 2011-06-28, 13:17

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by MatthewBrian

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: admin admin 🤣 In my case, it is admin password 🤣

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Re: (Solved) What is this ISA card - it looks like a network card.

Posted on 2011-06-27, 21:51

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by MatthewBrian

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3) I have no firewall on the W98 box, and I am also using TCP/IP. Is this dangerous? I haven't set up internet access yet, on the W98 box. Perhaps that is just as well?! Can a hacker gain access to my WXP box, via the unsecured W98 - through the router? (They would only find hundreds of crusty old …

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Re: (Solved) What is this ISA card - it looks like a network card.

Posted on 2011-06-23, 07:04

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by MatthewBrian

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The white connector is a WOL (wake-on-lan) connector. It can be used to wake up your computer remotely by sending a specially formatted 'message' to the target computer. Your motherboard needs to have the WOL socket to use this feature. Newer motherboards don't need this WOL socket, as they …

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Re: P4 multiplier

Posted on 2011-05-29, 13:35

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by MatthewBrian

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Tetrium wrote: MatthewBrian wrote: My laptop uses..... I mean the two systems listed on the bottom of the post: MatthewBrian wrote: As a comparison, a Core 2 Duo Wolfdale at the same room runs around 39 degree Celcius in idle mode, and Intel Atom 230 runs around 36 degree Celcius. C2D Wolfdales and …

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Re: P4 multiplier

Posted on 2011-05-28, 13:21

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by MatthewBrian

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Tetrium wrote: You can't really compare temps in different laptops as their cooling solutions will be completely different from one another. The two comparison systems are desktops, actually. 😀

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Re: P4 multiplier

Posted on 2011-05-28, 12:42

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by MatthewBrian

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My laptop uses S478 processors. It's a 14-inch. The nice thing is that there is a jumper beside the processor socket which selects the installed processor type - "Mobile CPU" or "Desktop CPU". (It shipped with a P4 Desktop CPU though, because when I looked at the Spec number on Intel Ark, it doesn't …

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Re: Networking on Windows 98SE

Posted on 2011-05-25, 00:20

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by MatthewBrian

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Actually DHCP works, but I prefer to say it as 'static IP' because I arranged my own DHCP table at the router, so this MAC address would connect with this IP address, and so on. But it's a weird thing that Win98 doesn't pull the DNS information (whereas NT4 and later do).

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Re: Networking on Windows 98SE

Posted on 2011-05-24, 08:27

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by MatthewBrian

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SquallStrife wrote: So it doesn't resolve names? What about setting the DNS server to your router's IP? Most routers do DNS forwarding. Perfect! Now I'm typing this message on the 98SE box after setting the DNS to the router. Thank you for all of your suggestions 😀

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Re: Networking on Windows 98SE

Posted on 2011-05-24, 05:41

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by MatthewBrian

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Yes. I tried to configure the DNS to my ADSL company DNS (the same DNS with my other computers on the same network), but it still can't connect.

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Networking on Windows 98SE

Posted on 2011-05-24, 05:35

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by MatthewBrian

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Anyone knows how to set up networking on Windows 98SE? At the moment it is connected by Realtek RTL8139 network card, with a static IP (192.168.1.4). WinIpCfg shows the correct configuration (IP 192.168.1.4, Default Gateway 192.168.1.1). The router's address is 192.168.1.1. On Welcome to Windows I …

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Re: SMART Issue

Posted on 2011-05-24, 05:26

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by MatthewBrian

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I also had an old 60GB 2.5" IDE HDD which has the same issue. The drive is definitely healthy, but since I upgraded my laptop's drive and used the drive on my main PC, the SMART area corrupted somehow. It doesn't develop bad sectors, but it's irritating tp see the prompt "Your drive will fail soon. …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-04-22, 12:30

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by MatthewBrian

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stano wrote: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5062/5642870170_2103ff57a7.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/61324868@N02/564 … in/photostream/ […] Show full quote http://www.flickr.com/photos/61324868@N02/564 … in/photostream/ Are all of those CDROM drives? (not DVD-compatible?) And what are you going …

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