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Yesterday, 05:05 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread Replacement ideas for PB70 PSU that failed. in Later PCs

Switches can most definitely go bad, especially high voltage and/or high current switches. Over time the contacts inside the switch can get pitted...

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Yesterday, 04:46 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread AT power supply with 3.3v rail in Later PCs

Recapping an old AT power supply isn't terribly difficult, power supplies are single sided PCBs and almost all through hole components. You just need...

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Yesterday, 04:22 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread solar light review in General Off Topic

What's awkward about it? Amazon is a completely unregulated marketplace. Counterfeit and bait & switch items are rampant, as well as dangerous...

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Yesterday, 01:07 AM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread Sanwel PSU schematics in Vintage Computer Hardware

This is an AT style power supply, they're getting hard to find. There is at least one company that still makes AT power supplies, but with...

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September 21st, 2020, 07:15 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread Sanwel PSU schematics in Vintage Computer Hardware

If you're asking for schematics to a switching power supply, it's not something you should really be messing with. High voltage AC and high voltage,...

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September 21st, 2020, 07:08 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread Digital Starion 200i - IDE HDD issue in Vintage Computer Hardware

The DS12887A is a RTC, it is not the BIOS. The BIOS chip is elsewhere on the motherboard. If you replaced the chip and nothing works, make sure...

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September 21st, 2020, 06:54 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread solar light review in General Off Topic

Garden lights are definitely not made of "eco friendly" plastic lol. They're made out of ABS, which is one of the worst persistent plastics. ABS...

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September 21st, 2020, 12:48 AM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread Best sights for OS9 resources? in Later Apple (68000+ based machines - Mac, Lisa, etc.)

I assume you know of all the usual suspects for getting old Macintosh software. If not, here's a list. ...

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September 20th, 2020, 09:05 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread solar light review in General Off Topic

There's several failure modes that happen down here in the south: 1) The crap NiCD battery dies. 2) Water ingress damages the PCB,...

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September 20th, 2020, 03:30 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread New W7 Gamer in General Off Topic

That adapter is for the 8 pin PCIe power, not the P4 power connector, the polarity is going to be inverted and will either cause something to blow up...

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September 20th, 2020, 03:11 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread solar light review in General Off Topic

There's no metal on the housing, it's all plastic. The only thing that may be metal is the LED housing, which can sometimes be machined aluminum...

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September 20th, 2020, 02:07 PM

Geri replied to a thread CD/DVD drive for retro usage in Vintage Computer Hardware

LG GSA-4120B Type: IDE DVD burner RESULTS: NOT RECOMMENDED FOR RETRO Outside, it looks similarly to 4082b and 4081b. The drive still uses a...

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September 20th, 2020, 01:51 PM

Geri replied to a thread CD/DVD drive for retro usage in Vintage Computer Hardware

LG GSA 4163B Type: IDE DVD burner RESULTS: NOT RECOMMENDED FOR RETRO This is a CAV-optimized burner from LG, despite of looking like...

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September 19th, 2020, 06:21 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread solar light review in General Off Topic

It could be lead carbonate, which is toxic if inhaled or ingested. Despite lead being banned in many countries around the world, products made in...

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September 19th, 2020, 06:03 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread New W7 Gamer in General Off Topic

Ah, yes. The old switching the PCIe power for the CPU power connector. Whichever genius decided it was a good idea to use the same connector with the...

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September 16th, 2020, 05:53 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread Drive Rails for Arbor Computer Case (My P2 Machine) in Pentium (First generation)

If they don't work out, let me know and I can probably 3D print some for you. I'll need some dimensions to make the rails though.

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September 16th, 2020, 05:40 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread Outdoor Wireless Cameras in General Off Topic

Trunkslammer cameras usually only work with their own branded gear, but sometimes not even that is possible if the brand uses different camera...

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September 15th, 2020, 02:50 AM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread Laser 128 Startup Issue in Early Apple (I, ][, ///, etc.)

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September 14th, 2020, 09:14 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread New Gigabyte/Inter XP Gamer in General Off Topic

Hyperthreading is most definitely an issue. It reduces the performance of single threaded applications because the physical core has to split itself...

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September 14th, 2020, 05:27 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread IBM X3850 M2 server cpu compatibility in General Off Topic

Socket 604 was the follow on to Socket 603, and 603 Xeons would run in some later 604 boards, but not the other way around. And just like with...

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September 14th, 2020, 05:04 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread New Gigabyte/Inter XP Gamer in General Off Topic

A 9% gain in performance is barely noticeable, and much of that gain is lost due to Hyperthreading. The Windows thread dispatcher/manager treated...

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September 13th, 2020, 06:39 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread hope where there's no hope in General Off Topic

All VT8237 variants had the same problem. SATA150 didn't exactly have a smooth launch and there were numerous issues with several SATA150...

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September 13th, 2020, 01:40 AM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread hope where there's no hope in General Off Topic

Foxconn is low tier junk too. I had one AM3 Foxconn board years ago and it gave me nothing but trouble. Support was hard to find and the board only...

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September 13th, 2020, 12:04 AM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread hope where there's no hope in General Off Topic

Without knowing what shorted, there's no way to know if it can be fixed or not. The board to begin with wasn't worth much, it was a garbage super...

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September 12th, 2020, 11:23 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread New Gigabyte/Inter XP Gamer in General Off Topic

If you do opt to try it, make sure that it's enterprise or datacenter, as those are the only versions which support PAE and 64 GB of RAM. The "Web"...

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September 12th, 2020, 04:46 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread New Gigabyte/Inter XP Gamer in General Off Topic

I had an HD5870 on Windows XP for awhile before I migrated to Windows 7. The drivers were a constant headache, and no driver version ever quite...

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September 12th, 2020, 02:08 PM

GiGaBiTe replied to a thread 386 and Quake III Arena in Later PCs

The Voodoo1 with hacked drivers maybe, but there's still the issue of only 2 MB of texture memory. The Voodoo2 won't give you fluid anything on...

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