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Author: edfairedfair
Date: Jun 8, 2010 05:29
Over the years I've saved some of every different one I've run across
just in case I ever needed to change one.
In just the 1/4" high, threaded on one end, tapped on the other, I've
seen 5 or 6 different dimensions across the flats and the 4 possible
versions of thread and tap between inch and metric. In the parts box
there are probably 8 or 9 slots where they are segregated.
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Author: edfairedfair
Date: Jun 8, 2010 05:16
The original "click of death" was referring to zip disks. When they
failed there was no getting them back. It was sudden and always fatal to
the data.
They had their own external boxes for parallel and SCSI and internals
of IDE and SCSI and possibly FD. It has been a long time since I worked
with the line.
I have several sitting on the shelf, external parallels, internal SCSI
or IDE, all operating SFAIK.
So far as putting one in a floppy or hard drive case, it may work, but
be aware that they are about 1" longer than a hard drive and hard drives
are longer than floppies. Width and height are the same as floppies and
the bezel fills the same space as a floppy.
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Author: JDJD
Date: Jun 7, 2010 22:57
Has anyone heard of this modem?
The specs seem very impressive
Remstream REM-8200 DOCSIS 2.0 Cable Modem
w/Ethernet, USB & 2 VoIP Phone Jacks
- 40 Mbps downstream and 10 Mbps upstream speeds.
and the cost is about $30.
The warranty is 90 days, which appears to be
saying something.
TIA
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Author: TinkererTinkerer
Date: Jun 7, 2010 20:46
> mm wrote:
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>> On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 00:31:44 -0500, VanguardLH
>> wrote:
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>>>mm wrote:
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>>>> A friend has a laptop and some zip disks, and a good
>>>> zipdrive in a broken computer. Is there an external case
>>>> available that he can mount the zip drive in and plug it
>>>> all in to the laptop with USB? I already have cases like
>>>> that for 3.5 and laptop harddrives, but my
>>>> googling for this has been unsuccessful. If I know
>>>> there is such a thing, I'll keep looking.
>>>
>>>So are asking about an *internal* zip drive in the old
>>>computer?
>> ...
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Author: TinkererTinkerer
Date: Jun 7, 2010 20:43
> Is it just me or am I the only one who thinks Paul is the smartest guy in
> the whole world!?
Be fair, Kony is well within the same league and I have learnt much from his
contributions. I reckon they make a good team.
--
Tinkerer
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Author: TinkererTinkerer
Date: Jun 1, 2010 10:44
"Sjouke Burry" wrote in message
news:4c02f0b4$0$14116$703f8584@textnews.kpn.nl...
> Steve Giannoni wrote:
>> Thanks for responding.
>>
>> Both were already disabled ...
>>
>> On Sun, 30 May 2010 22:54:57 +0200, Sjouke Burry
>> wrote:
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>>> Steve Giannoni wrote:
>>>> Dell Dimension 2400 with a Celeron CPU running Windows XP Home. The
>>>> hardrive has occasional accesses even when apparently nothing is going
>>>> on. What is this ? ...
>>> Check for indexing.
>>>
>>> My computer>drive>properties, almost at the bottom,
>>>
>>> compressing..........
>>> and ...
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Author: GrinderGrinder
Date: Jun 1, 2010 06:09
I have an HP a6130n desktop, running Windows Vista Home Premium
(32-bit), connected to an HP w17e monitor.
It has apparently been working well, but after the PC had been unplugged
for a hour or so, the user would lose video on startup. She could see
video during POST and Windows startup, but the screen would go black
right before the Welcome screen.
With the exception of the video, the PC appears to work normally -- you
can hear the startup sound, the hard drive works a bit, and it will
shutdown normally with a tap of the power button. The monitor LED shows
amber, which means no signal. Booting in Safe Mode produces video.
A problem, if not *the* problem, is that the system cannot produce video
when set to the native resolution of the monitor: 1440x900. Anything
less is fine. I've tried the driver that was on the machine, which was
probably from HP's factory install, as well as a fresh driver from nVidia.
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Author:
Date: Jun 1, 2010 05:34
Paul wrote:
> E wrote:
>
>>
>> Since the image is now on a single HD, and can boot in to safe mode,
>> what do you think the chances are of doing a repair install of Windows
>> XP, with the correct drivers for the new hardware, and having all the
>> installed games run without problems?
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestions
>> Eddie
>
> If you have a copy of the contents of the 500GB disk, then there
> is no loss (except your time), in trying a Repair Install.
> A Repair Install gives you an opportunity to press F6 and offer
> drivers on a floppy, if you have a storage controller on the new computer
> for which there isn't a build-in driver already in Windows.
>
> Repair install leaves the third party software alone. So the
> games and game settings are all preserved. ...
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Author: JDJD
Date: Jun 1, 2010 05:29
edfair wrote:
> In my experience speedstreams are the longest lasting, although in your
> case it appears that you have lost one.
>
> It has been years (since upgrade from 95 to 98) since I've been into
> the ss setup but IIRC there were some diagnostics buried in there.
Thank you Edfair.
Today I took the modem apart and inside it is
pristine. The capacitors look
perfect and there are no burn- or other distress-
marks anywhere.
Will fiddle some more with it tomorrow.
Hope you enjoyed the weekend :-)
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Author: ShadowTekShadowTek
Date: Jun 1, 2010 04:09
On 2010-05-29, mm bigfoot.com> wrote:> On Mon, 3 May 2010 18:11:16 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
> soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote:>>[]
>>I think most if not all make beeps (if there is a speaker/beeper
>>connected) when things are getting too warm.
>
> Only if ASUS-Probe or something similar is installed, I think, and
> definitely only if it is set to load at startup.
My Gigabyte motherboard has warning beeps that can be enabled when
various temp sensors reach a certain level, and you can even set the
temp that will trigger the beeps, but I didn't have to install anything
to get these functions; it's part of the default BIOS.
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