Forum: General Electronics Technical Discussion
08-05-2022, 03:02 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 176
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Forum: General Computer & Tech Discussion
08-05-2022, 02:03 AM
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Replies: 5,445
Views: 1,194,487
Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1
the battery life is still quite decent. my 13 year old hardware, a dell latitude e6500 from 2009 has a 9 hour battery life with the 9 cell 81 Wh battery with the processor forced into the lowest...
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Forum: Troubleshooting & Designing Networks
08-05-2022, 01:19 AM
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Replies: 28
Views: 602
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Forum: General Computer & Tech Discussion
07-30-2022, 09:19 AM
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Replies: 90
Views: 40,660
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Forum: General Electronics Technical Discussion
07-12-2022, 06:42 AM
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Replies: 231
Views: 23,690
Re: Here is a good used source for 18650 batteries
me three! i like this too. this is so that the cells dont get constantly charged while already in a high state of charge. i have heard momaka say that lithium cells dont like being charged more than...
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
07-07-2022, 11:06 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 573
Re: P4C800 Deluxe broken cap
if the cpu becomes more unstable from more voltage, it usually indicates the thermal wall of overclocking has been reached i.e. the cpu is too hot to handle the increased voltage. 1.6v is quite high...
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
07-06-2022, 02:05 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 573
Re: P4C800 Deluxe broken cap
yes, good that u figured out the problem and got it working. looking at the asus cpu support website for this board: Asus P4C800 Deluxe - Support...
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
07-05-2022, 03:33 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 573
Re: P4C800 Deluxe broken cap
lol where the hell have u been?! this forum has been around for decades since 2003! so im not sure where u've been... vogons? lol! :jester: :jester: :jester:
welcome to bcn anyway! :rejoice: ciao!...
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Forum: Troubleshooting Printers, Copiers, Scanners and other Imaging & Printing Devices
06-24-2022, 02:30 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 820
Re: Why would an HP deskjet not print?
same issue. hp deskjet inkjunk printer keeps printing out blank pages after not being used for a while, usually at least a month. this issue happens on many hp deskjet models. sometimes, changing the...
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Forum: General Computer & Tech Discussion
04-14-2022, 03:24 AM
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Replies: 52
Views: 3,412
Re: Topcat's Ultimate Pentium 4 Retro Gamer!
damn! that would be a waste of hundreds of dollars there! all those parts would be worth several hundreds of dollars on junkbay currently!
yea neat idea but i disagree with gigabyte's...
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Forum: General Computer & Tech Discussion
04-13-2022, 10:27 PM
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Replies: 90
Views: 40,660
Re: Topcat's Other Misc Weird Build Thread
just to add a name to that cooler so people can find it and get it if they like it and wanna use it also, that is the zalman cnps7700-cu cpu cooler. there is also an al-cu hybrid aluminum copper...
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
04-13-2022, 10:00 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 667
Re: Soyo SY-7VBA133U recap
dont replace the junk sacon caps with more junk caps like capxon and jackon if u want the system to last a long time! the board u have is a chipset that has p3 tualatin support with agp, pci and isa...
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Forum: General Computer & Tech Discussion
04-06-2022, 09:53 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 484
Re: 1000gb Seagate hdd help
some dvr appliances use the udf filesystem meant for optical media like cd/dvds/blurays on their internal hard drives which they record to. if u still dont see any files, its probably a filesystem...
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
04-06-2022, 08:35 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 689
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Forum: General Capacitor Questions & Issues
04-06-2022, 08:23 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 582
Re: AsRock P4i65G polycap/polymod advice?
it depends on the age and quality of the caps and whether they are japanese or not. i know asrock likes to use junk caps on their boards and the board u have is from the bad cap plague era.
and...
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Forum: General Computer & Tech Discussion
02-26-2022, 11:56 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 774
Re: Cats are an expensive investment
lol a computer that actually got peed on by a cat! :jester: haha! that could have fooled me too if a client brought in a computer that smelled like cat piss and says it doesnt work. my instinct would...
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Forum: General Computer & Tech Discussion
01-10-2022, 03:08 AM
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Replies: 133
Views: 63,493
Re: Repurposing a 2004 Athlon 64 system in 2021
256mb agp aperture size with only 1gb of ram? not a very wise move as u could end up with only 768mb ram usable if u play high-res texture games. from my own testing, if u use a 128mb vram card,...
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Forum: General Computer & Tech Discussion
01-07-2022, 06:11 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,594
Re: The 2022 Operating System Thread
with regards to decrapifying win10, i heard there's software around that lets u do that. some members like topcat posted links to some of them on how they decrapified win10 with the help of some...
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Forum: General Computer & Tech Discussion
01-03-2022, 10:57 PM
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Replies: 114
Views: 29,904
Re: Hard drive reliability
yea those wd scorpio blacks are the only good laptop hard drive i've seen. dropped and flipped my laptop over while still in operation and the drive just continues chugging along, no issue, no bad...
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Forum: General Computer & Tech Discussion
12-20-2021, 09:47 PM
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Replies: 5,445
Views: 1,194,487
Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1
been thinking hard about this and i believe bill did that as a tradeoff because win98 was a hybrid 16/32 bit os, so some libeties had to be taken and some compromises had to be made. on the other...
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Forum: General Computer & Tech Discussion
12-19-2021, 10:16 PM
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Replies: 114
Views: 29,904
Re: Hard drive reliability
it all depends on what type of data u put on them and your risk appetite. if its critical data then even 1 bad sector is unacceptable because that has already caused loss of your valuable data. if...
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Forum: General Computer & Tech Discussion
12-19-2021, 10:08 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,058
Re: what to do with faulty hard drives?
just one more question tho, if the hard drive is focked, how do i know its not the pcb that is causing the hard drive to be focked? if i sell the focked hd pcb then what if the buyer complains i sold...
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Forum: General Computer & Tech Discussion
12-19-2021, 03:43 AM
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Replies: 114
Views: 29,904
Re: Hard drive reliability
i just use them till they drop. thats the point of the hardware. all hard drives will fail eventually... :violin: just a question of not if but when.
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Forum: General Computer & Tech Discussion
12-17-2021, 01:22 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,218
Re: Completely dead BaoDiKai 120MM fan
yea momaka also mentioned something about symptoms like those. if it wont spin up on its own but only with a finger or push, it means one or more of the fan phases or coils is busted. for me, i...
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Forum: General Computer & Tech Discussion
12-16-2021, 09:23 PM
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Replies: 5,445
Views: 1,194,487
Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1
yea the memory limit on win98se varies with motherboards and their bioses depending on how much pci address space they reserve. if a mobo has a large reserved pci address range, u will have less max...
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