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aw I appreciate it but don't drive yourself crazy just to help me. maybe I should just stop being a cheap rear end and buy a Thinkpad T41. Supposedly it's the last ThinkPad that supported Win98. Hopefully it's not a slow piece of poo poo!
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:aw I appreciate it but don't drive yourself crazy just to help me. maybe I should just stop being a cheap rear end and buy a Thinkpad T41. Supposedly it's the last ThinkPad that supported Win98. Hopefully it's not a slow piece of poo poo! i honestly believe you'll have an easier time getting this dosbox setup working well than any hardware purchase would.
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:aw I appreciate it but don't drive yourself crazy just to help me. maybe I should just stop being a cheap rear end and buy a Thinkpad T41. Supposedly it's the last ThinkPad that supported Win98. Hopefully it's not a slow piece of poo poo! I think they might have changed something in dosbox-x to be less convenient and more accurate by default. I downloaded vanilla dosbox (from dosbox.com) and it definitely "just works".
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:i honestly believe you'll have an easier time getting this dosbox setup working well than any hardware purchase would.
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Perplx posted:nginx and letsencrypt should "just work" for the most part fkin perfect, traefik looks exactly what I need. Gonna consolidate the light stuff into a single LXC so I can keep the cluster redundant, much appreciated
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:I mean you can easily find ISOs of Windows 3.1, 95, 98, and even ME on archive.org so I can't imagine mods here would get pissy if you posted the link. I know I'd greatly appreciate it, for one. this is child abuse
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Gentle Autist posted:this is child abuse dsyp
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i'm trying to format a drive that i believe was encrypted with dell encryption, formerly ddpe in disk management it shows as 'disk 1 - unknown - not initialized. trying to initialize it gives the error 'the device is not ready' ran diskpart clean all, it completes, but i still get the same thing. any ideas? e: it's a corsair drive, their SSD utility can't do anything with it. there's no psid marked on the drive. Pierre Chaton fucked around with this message at 11:51 on Feb 5, 2021 |
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 the ears broke off this clip for my left channel. I have the spring still. what is the easiest way to fix this. can I get a baggie of new clips or should I just solder a banana connector or something on to replace the whole assembly.
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is there a reputable place to get a replacement laptop battery? need to replace the battery in a 2017 xps13 and i dont want it to explode and kill me. dell doesn't sell them directly
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Jenny Agutter posted:is there a reputable place to get a replacement laptop battery? need to replace the battery in a 2017 xps13 and i dont want it to explode and kill me. dell doesn't sell them directly did you talk to tech support? it used to be that support could sell you anything they had available for warranty service calls either as spares or as an out of warranty, parts only service call, so that included stuff that sales couldn't do.
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BLOBby Newmark posted:did you talk to tech support? it used to be that support could sell you anything they had available for warranty service calls either as spares or as an out of warranty, parts only service call, so that included stuff that sales couldn't do. huh didn't think of that, i'll give it a try
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Hed posted:
if you can solder you can probably rig something up until you receive parts in the mail. you can find replacement 4 socket panels for a couple bucks on aliexpress, 2mm banana plugs for your wire that would fit in those terminals, anything you want, really. i personally would get some kind of proper plug on there.
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:aw I appreciate it but don't drive yourself crazy just to help me. maybe I should just stop being a cheap rear end and buy a Thinkpad T41. Supposedly it's the last ThinkPad that supported Win98. Hopefully it's not a slow piece of poo poo! A bit late but give "pcem" a go, it's a much lower-level emulation than dosbox and supports larger variety of audio cards along with voodoo graphics and 2d cards; though it does require a good cpu to run (it's also heavily multithreaded). Also unlike dosbox it will emulate a particular CPU and motherboard model, meaning it isn't as reliable in cycle control and the audio is tied to the speed of the emulation (as with e.g. console emulation). e: the main reason not to use it for everything instead of dosbox would be the lack of shared filesystem and requiring minutes of boot time, as it runs a standard bios complete with PC speaker beeps, but it really is a much better solution for accurately emulating old PC systems Private Speech fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Feb 7, 2021 |
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yippee cahier posted:, 2mm banana plugs for your wire that would fit in those terminals, oh poo poo I actually have some of those “skinny plugs” that I found the other day and was like wow wtf did I mis order from the electronics place. didn’t think about it again until you mentioned it here. thanks!!
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i hate spring clip terminals so much. if you end up caring enough to fix, replace with something else. aaaaanything else. ugh.
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My modem / router has been disconnecting multiple times a day, had a engineer out and she suggested a replacement unit (done) and a new RJ11 cable from the wall to the unit (done), and I'm still getting dropouts. A bit of googling and:quote:https://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Fibr...ht/true#M296994 Is this the bullshit it sounds like or is there some truth to it? I never use the landline though it does have a handset plugged in on mute.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:My modem / router has been disconnecting multiple times a day, had a engineer out and she suggested a replacement unit (done) and a new RJ11 cable from the wall to the unit (done), and I'm still getting dropouts. A bit of googling and: "breaks down any corrosion" surely has to be nonsense. an unloaded extension might be acting as an antenna picking up interference though, and the impedance of the actual phone on the end can fix that? i have no actual clue though.
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BLOBby Newmark posted:did you talk to tech support? it used to be that support could sell you anything they had available for warranty service calls either as spares or as an out of warranty, parts only service call, so that included stuff that sales couldn't do. they won’t sell them ;_; so anyone know the reliable spare battery hookup?
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there’s gotta be a reputable third party brand out there. I don’t know what it is but it’s gotta exist
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phone thing sounds like bullshit. if that worked you could just short the two wires of the line together to fix issues. Anyways if that does fix the issue, there's a bad connection somewhere.
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Jenny Agutter posted:they won’t sell them ;_; so anyone know the reliable spare battery hookup? do you know the part number?
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BLOBby Newmark posted:do you know the part number? yeah the battery is a TP1GT or PW23Y, for an XPS 13 9360 laptop. I can find plenty of replacements online, just don't know what to trust
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Private Speech posted:A bit late but give "pcem" a go, it's a much lower-level emulation than dosbox and supports larger variety of audio cards along with voodoo graphics and 2d cards; though it does require a good cpu to run (it's also heavily multithreaded). I appreciate the suggestion. I'd really like to get dos sound, even emulated, working on this win98 ThinkPad though. It's weird...in Wolfenstein 3D I am finally getting sound effects, but no music. The music in Wolfenstein surely has to be MIDI, right? MIDI files play just fine on this computer. However I'm only getting sound effects which is even weirder because I think the sound effects are Sound Blaster. NoneMoreNegative posted:My modem / router has been disconnecting multiple times a day, had a engineer out and she suggested a replacement unit (done) and a new RJ11 cable from the wall to the unit (done), and I'm still getting dropouts. A bit of googling and: A year or two ago my internet completely went out for like two days straight. I hooked up my laptop directly to the modem so I determined it was an issue with my router. I returned the router (even though it was three months old...ty Amazon) and the new one worked fine. Then a week later the same thing happened again. I exchanged that one too and that one did the same thing again a week later. I can't explain the reason behind it but it turned out a WiiU game transfer program somehow completely hosed up my entire network and ability to connect to the internet (even though it didn't even connect to the internet at all). Basically you'd run a program on your PC, then you'd run the transfer app on the hacked WiiU, and you could install games that way instead of having to run back and forth with an SD card a hundred times. Even when the program wasn't running my internet would be hosed for a good 24 hours. To this day I have no explanation as to what that program could have been doing to gently caress up my entire house but it did. Maybe it's some weird poo poo like that.
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hm. have you considered the idea that maybe you got cursed by a wizard?
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Cold on a Cob posted:hm. have you considered the idea that maybe you got cursed by a wizard? install wizard strikes again!
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:I appreciate the suggestion. I'd really like to get dos sound, even emulated, working on this win98 ThinkPad though. It's weird...in Wolfenstein 3D I am finally getting sound effects, but no music. The music in Wolfenstein surely has to be MIDI, right? MIDI files play just fine on this computer. However I'm only getting sound effects which is even weirder because I think the sound effects are Sound Blaster. i think you have electrical problems
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Jenny Agutter posted:yeah the battery is a TP1GT or PW23Y, for an XPS 13 9360 laptop. I can find plenty of replacements online, just don't know what to trust I shop for replacements on ebay that ship from the US, have a picture taken by the seller instead of a stock image, and actually have a dell logo on them. For whatever reason a lot of the Chinese knockoff sellers will blur out the dell logo. I've bought several replacement latitude 7XXX batteries this way and haven't been burned (literally lol) yet, but yeah, it is pretty dicey
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one of the USB ports on the front of my computer tower is kinda loose and disconnects if you touch it a little. can I fix this without replacing the case
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Silver Alicorn posted:one of the USB ports on the front of my computer tower is kinda loose and disconnects if you touch it a little. can I fix this without replacing the case there are springy metal bits in the bottom of a usb port that you might be able to bend back up with a toothpick disconnect power first obvs
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oh yeah those look a little deflated looks like I might also be able to buy replacements, but I'm not sure if they'll fit I might get one of those dealies that goes in one of the 5.25" bays so I can have USB-C on front
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i have a hosed up usb port on my Thinkpad too. tried tweaking the little tabs but no dice. think i just need to replace the port. problem is I can’t find the part(s). the port in question is on the left side. can find plenty of replacements for the right side usbs. e: uh oh. think they might be part of the motherboard. President Beep fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Feb 13, 2021 |
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gently caress. yep. there they are.  wonder how hard that would be to replace myself...
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How much experience do you have soldering surface mount connectors? If the answer is "none" you _will_ destroy your motherboard. Practice on some salvage boards first.
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eh, i can (kinda) solder, but if I’ve got to go through the trouble of tearing it out of the chassis anyway I’ll probably just replace it and keep the old one as a spare.
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Just the small tip: If you used custom searches in your chrome address bar you'll see in Chrome 88 you can no longer type eg: yt big bongos to do a youtube search, you have to tab after yt instead of spacebar. As per https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/02/04/chrome-88-disables-space-bar-shortcut-for-custom-search-engines-but-theres-a-fix/ disabling chrome://flags/#omnibox-keyword-search-button chrome://flags/#omnibox-suggestion-button-row will get your searches working again.
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i like tab for this, it jives with my muscle memory for autocomplete elsewhere
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is there a relatively straightforward way to take photos from my iphone 7 to my windows 10 pc if and only if they are not in album (both the system ones like favorites and the albums i've made) and then delete them from my phone? i have backblaze on my pc and i'm running out of phone storage
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:is there a relatively straightforward way to take photos from my iphone 7 to my windows 10 pc if and only if they are not in album (both the system ones like favorites and the albums i've made) and then delete them from my phone? idk but maybe something via itunes?
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:is there a relatively straightforward way to take photos from my iphone 7 to my windows 10 pc if and only if they are not in album (both the system ones like favorites and the albums i've made) and then delete them from my phone? use onedrive, op
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