CMB75 wrote on 2024-11-19, 06:29:

I'll just order a new adapter, then the old one will present itself after a short time anyway.

Oh how many duplicate items I own because of stuff behaving like that 😅

For a few days now I've been on the lookout for a beige ATX case. Last year I put my Win 98 rig in a modern-ish white ZALMAN Z3 plus case for some reverse-sleeper laughs but the joke has run its course and I want something more period-correct.

Replaced this Pentium 166MHz non MMX processor with an MMX version.

After waiting 5 years to find a second matching GTX 285, i finally got my 285 SLI setup installed and working on my Core 2 rig.

Then I immediately changed back to the GTX 280s I was using before because they look way cooler* with their backplates.

*wahey!

…D’oh!

Just going to post a PSA here for everyone.

I am somewhat accident prone and I have gotten injured in some extremely pathetic ways, but this was a new one for me.

BE CAREFUL WITH CHEAP CIRCLE-CUT HEATSINKS LIKE THESE!

I picked one of these up, spun the fan once to check the bearings, spun it a second time and heard a tiny *clink* sound, felt a sharp pain and saw blood gushing out of the tip of my finger.

I have been injured on heatsinks before, but it usually requires a fair amount of force or doing something unwise (applying force to remove\attach one and then slipping for example). This was like I'd literally flicked my finger tip across a razor blade.

After looking at the heatsink at an angle I realized why. They must just drop a hole-saw like cutter down over these to cut the circle for the fan. For the fins near the left or right side of the circle it makes no difference, but toward the top the cuts are at extreme angles so the metal is super thin and razor sharp.

Anyway... figured I'd just throw this out there. This stuff makes me mad because one second I'm trying to do something productive or interesting with basically no sign of "danger" and then I am running to the bathroom with blood running down my finger. Now I will have to baby the index finger on my dominant hand for a few days at least. All because I spun a computer fan a second time. -_-

Lord of computing calamities, be it noted that our brother has offered the requisite blood sacrifice, and thus his hardware should remain problem free for the prescribed period, so mote it be.

BitWrangler wrote on 2024-11-19, 21:55:

Lord of computing calamities, be it noted that our brother has offered the requisite blood sacrifice, and thus his hardware should remain problem free for the prescribed period, so mote it be.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yeah, there is nothing like making unintentional blood sacrifices to computing gods.

"What!? No! No! I wasn't trying to do that!... also... OUCH!"

... though I guess it's kind of like sudden, unexpected burnt offerings of hardware as well.

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2024-11-19, 22:11:

Yeah, there is nothing like making unintentional blood sacrifices to computing gods.

I discovered this week that those pins on Dallas chips are not only quite sharp, they make an interesting pattern in the skin when you stick an entire row of them into your finger. 🤕

Updated my QDI P6I440BX/B1S/2000 BIOS to the ones that are available for the standard (non-2000) version. Dunno why QDI literally re-released the B1s with a 2000 suffix since the only differences between them are PC99 colouring on the ports and a classic DIP32 BIOS chip instead of the soldered PLCC on the older B1S.

Shponglefan wrote on 2024-11-19, 22:17:

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2024-11-19, 22:11:

Yeah, there is nothing like making unintentional blood sacrifices to computing gods.

I discovered this week that those pins on Dallas chips are not only quite sharp, they make an interesting pattern in the skin when you stick an entire row of them into your finger. 🤕

Oof... I can both picture and feel it.

Like grabbing onto a CGA card from the mid 80s. Those solder points were so stinking sharp back then. What was the deal with that? 🤕

I started sorting my memory drawer, since it wasn't all fitting. There are so many types, it was becoming a mess. This is what I made:

These drawers fit it all much better AND I can still label them. Not ready for labels yet as I'm waiting on a few more drawers. I'll have a full SD tray (28 in a tray) and two DDR trays and two DDR2 trays. I should be able to half-fill a DDR3 tray and maybe make a DDR4 tray just to have 4 (or 6?) in it.

Major Jackyl wrote on Today, 00:08:

I started sorting my memory drawer, since it wasn't all fitting. There are so many types, it was becoming a mess. This is what I made:

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These drawers fit it all much better AND I can still label them. Not ready for labels yet as I'm waiting on a few more drawers. I'll have a full SD tray (28 in a tray) and two DDR trays and two DDR2 trays. I should be able to half-fill a DDR3 tray and maybe make a DDR4 tray just to have 4 (or 6?) in it.

Looks so cool. Will you upload the 3dprint?

Don't talk to me or my son ever again

Because it's a long term project to get it and all of it's sidecards working without the information that's already on the SCSI drive, I've taken a nice little PCJr home with me. Hopefully I can get legible text out of it on my Apple Monitor II to let me do just enough archaeology to make it work.