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Indeed, it is a CS. As for the screen being only capable of 256 colors... well then, I guess that solves it! All those hours I spent tearing my hair out and considering trying a VESA driver... for nothing, as usual. It's interesting that the screen's only 256-colors capable, since the utilities...

Swapped 95 A for 95 C on the T2130CS (modified to exclude IE in any form, in lieu of which I installed Netscape Communicator 4.80 ;)) so that I had FAT32 support and thus didn't have to split my 4GB SD card into two partitions. It also came with some updated libraries that I guess made it...

When I eventually move out my plan is to not really bother with communications beyond an internet connection and a cheap cell phone plan. Said internet connection will likely be the fastest thing in the area, which is where I expect the expense to come... After some 6 years of living with 3mbps...

Well, RE: SCSI, I played with a AHA-2940U2 OEM that I flashed to a 2940U2W with the unofficial 3.10 BIOS, and it was a pain and a half trying to get it working with a 146.8GB SCA drive. I ended up ditching the idea entirely, after having sunk a not-insignificant amount of money into it. That...

Card arrived yesterday and it utterly destroys the old Broadcom card on all fronts. 9.2MB/s throughput over SMB compared with the machine's previous 600K/s max, it's rock steady instead of the Broadcom's wildly inconsistent performance and stability, and it barely sips power by comparison. I got...

I found an Intel 7260AC card on Ebay that has a Lenovo FRU number that's confirmed working with the whitelist on the X140e, so hopefully that gets here sooner rather than later. It turns out that I can blame my mediocre-to-awful network performance on the Broadcom BCM43228 that's currently in...

That last bit reminds me, maybe I should look into NFS. My stuff can all make use of SMB shares but performance over the wireless on my laptop is utterly abysmal at roughly 600KB/s r/w. Only slightly faster than what I've got coming down my pipe to the rest of the world these days. My PPro...

Oh I'm prepared for stupid slow transfer rates on both accounts since my SCSI controller is only good for SCSI-1 and is ISA. I ran out of PCI slots... A half-baked idea I once had was to replace the Ultra66 with a SCSI controller on the PCI bus and then swap my SD to IDE adapter for a SCSI2SD...

I'm no stranger to IRQ/DMA troubles. It took me forever to finally get it just so for my Vibra16S to have IRQ5 and DMA1 to itself. Remember my USB2.0 card? It lies in a heap of unused parts because the damn thing wants three IRQs all to itself. Even disabling my primary onboard IDE channel and...

Well, that's a bust. Not only does the onboard controller still corrupt data (in WDMA mode especially, but even in PIO mode with LBA enabled... sad times...) but NT 4 seems to just not like my SD card whatsoever. That's fine, it can be a drive bigot all it wants, I'll just keep using what...

Yeah, you would think that those that lived through those times sacrificed their sanity so that I wouldn't have to so far later, but let's be honest, I've always been a little strange. o_O

So apparently the PIIX3 the board uses supports DMA modes, just not UDMA modes, meaning that at least in theory I can get NT 4 to play nice with it... And apparently I'm a dumbass who doesn't know how to read. The reason it had trouble with drives >8.4GB was because I had the primary IDE...

It's fairly common knowledge that's how most of the game keys are acquired for sites like G2A and Kinguin, and they've been running for years. I guess I just assumed that could be the case for this as well. Note that I also did not say that must be what's happening. It was a question and quite a...

Well, that explains an awful lot. I don't know how to force it down to a PIO mode on my controller card (it autodetects and doesn't seem to let me change anything), and wouldn't want to anyway -- the increased CPU load for file transfers would render the entire point of installing NT 4 -- i.e...

Well, I can't say much, because my LTSC key is one of those "too cheap" keys -- it worked just fine, and I refuse to pay hundreds of dollars for something that should be settings in the control panel, but exactly how legal is it? Were these purchased with stolen credit cards or charged back once...

Well, due to the rather "dirty" way NT 4 setup formats NTFS drives (in an extended FAT partition unless you pre-partition the drive, and starting in FAT and then converting to NTFS on the first boot into setup proper) it really, really, really hated my SD to IDE adapter. The bootloader seemed to...

Duly noted. I do think my drivers support DX5 as they're from 2001-ish I think, but I could be wrong. That'll be the first thing I look at when things inevitably go wrong. The OS-checks are another matter entirely -- I do believe most of the games I've got queued up to run on this thing support...

Nope, purely for my own masochism entertainment. I've figured out that NT 4 does have an option to install plug and play support, or at least a preliminary version of it, and I plan to make use of that on my next off day as I follow the old adage and if at first I don't succeed, try, try again...

Because as we all know I simply cannot just leave well enough alone, I've elected to undertake the monumental task of getting Windows NT 4 set up and playing nice on the Pentium Pro machine. Thorough testing and troubleshooting have revealed that it really, really does not like my SD to IDE...

It's a bit ironic that of those here, I'm probably the best equipped to help, being that I regularly mess with equipment this geriatric. Unfortunately while Windows 98 supports USB just fine as a whole, mass storage support needs a driver... and unfortunately 9x being as flaky in comparison to...

Already long since done. A large portion of my (admittedly aging) diagnostic toolkit is basically just a Hiren's BootCD, which has MemTest86+ on it already -- I just thought there might have been some issues with my board as well considering I've personally never before this had a RAM stick just...

My problems ended up boiling down to a particular RAM stick. Almost a month's worth of messing around thinking my board was dead too and it was a 35 dollar fix. Ech. With the new security vulnerabilities coming to light from hyperthreading on pre-8th gen Intel chips, I'm almost glad I have the...

They'll fix it soon enough. In the meantime I'll use this as a test of system stability, making sure I leave this copy of Firefox running as all my addons still work.

So, 19.4.1 causes BSODs as well, specifically a SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED in dxgmms2.sys. Time to return to my old standby, 18.3.4. Nvidia's not exactly a shining example of driver writer competency either -- I hear one of their newer drivers consumed a whole CPU thread for Pascal...

Been busy slowly fixing my car, going to work, messing with my myriad fleet of other machines. Only exciting thing is that on the main on LTSC 2019 I've been troubleshooting semi-regular BSODs and have narrowed it down to either graphics driver or bad RAM. Jury's out so far as to whether...

I'm honestly not planning on being able to retire. I'm of the mind that by the time I'm at the age where I'd want to retire, the entire concept will have faded away.

Very sure. Already ran into this issue when I was seeing my family doctor for a referral to a podiatrist to get my ingrown nails cut out and the nail beds killed off -- had to pay out of pocket for both. Almost $500 US by the time I was done. I'm sure the procedure at the podiatrist actually was...

Nothing official, no, I've just been taking over-the-counter Nexium... err, well, the generic, Omeprazole, at least. One of these days I suppose I ought to haul myself into the doctors, but with every visit being essentially out of pocket until I hit my insurance deductible and money not exactly...

On my trip up into the Chicago area to see my mother and the rest of that side of the family, I can't say we ever ate in -- but I also can't point to any place we ate and call it particularly bad. The highlights were probably Benihana's -- a bit expensive for my wallet's taste, but very good...

Personally my 8TB is currently plenty, but there might come a day when it's not. I already am something of a digital hoarder anyway -- I find it easier to justify than being an actual hoarder. ;) I can't say I have a ton of experience with RAID setups, or with dealing with drive failures (though...

Basically it "plugged the holes" so to speak in terms of telemetry, or at least as much as can be done under Windows. I'm assuming the free version will no longer be updated, which means it'll rapidly become out of date and near-if-not-completely-useless.

Yup yup. Infinity fabric speed is exactly the same as actual RAM clock, so say you've only got DDR4-2400 -- it only runs at 1200MHz where at 3200 it'll run at 1600. It doesn't sound like such a huge leap until you figure that's probably the main bottleneck of this setup anyway.

I set it about generating a copy of this data for myself. Here's hoping they didn't get my SSN...

Looks fantastic! It was rather jarring for me to load this site up and have it look so dramatically different, though honestly it's not a bad difference.

Personally for my face I first use an electric shaver, then, if I have time, I go over it with a 5-blade pull razor. Anything below face-level I try to leave alone if I can.

I got my necessary materials for finishing up my CPU and whatnot yesterday but with this sinus thing I've had going on I had to work up the ambition to actually do it today. It went more or less without a hitch -- I was legitimately surprised, but I was disappointed to note that I seem to have...

I know, it's just a username to me, I just found that particular butchering amusing.:D

It is probably just mental perception, and the sheer difference that this change made in particular as I migrated him from 6-year-old spinning rust to this NVMe drive. I doubt I'd notice near as appreciable a difference going from my boot SSD on SATA III to that NVMe drive, especially...

My uncle bought himself a 512GB nvme SSD the other day and had me install it for him. This is the first time I've ever played with any PCI-E storage, and holy balls is it fast. If I weren't on a platform 3 generations behind him (and 6 behind the current) I may have had to buy one myself right...

As far as headphones go I've become quite attached to my Superlux HD668Bs. They're a little odd (male instead of female aux, a 3.5mm coupler does the trick for me) and a bit uncomfortable stock -- I personally bought replacement earpads with them knowing the earpads were a sore point of a few...

Personally if I'm buying a CD it's usually from local thrift stores, so I can put hands on the disc myself to make sure it's in decent shape, or I'm buying shrinkwrapped discs on the cheap off ebay as well. I too buy them just to rip to FLAC, and if I can do anything to help kill the RIAA I damn...

We're still on 3mbps/768kbps down/up normal service out here, but with even more people using it even more demandingly I've taken to just sticking to my phone for internet things. There's a reason I opted for an unlimited data plan when I got my V30. Home internet's still fine for extremely...

Yes, I have, and I even tried to make the names appropriate. Arwic is called such as it's the bustling trade hub of my network, Al-Jalima is the ho-dunk one-horse town in the middle of nowhere that nonetheless has some interesting inhabitants, and Samsur is nothing really special by itself but...

Heads up, RTX2080Ti's are apparently dropping like flies, particularly Founder's Edition cards. Mostly affecting overclockers at first but now people are reporting dying cards despite not touching any clocks. In other news I've delidded my 3570K -- For now, I'm just using some Arctic Silver 5...

Why yes, yes I am. I'm currently fiddling with Al-Jalima to see just how far I can push it -- right now roundabout Quake III Arena/Unreal Tournament seem to be ever so slightly too much for it -- if I were to track down an SL259 CPU for it, as apparently those clock to 233 without issue, I'm...

A side effect of using 98lite to swap the 98 explorer for the 95 one for a speed boost on machines with too little processor power/RAM to spare on running an instance of IE at all times is that, funnily enough, the 95 easter egg involving renaming a folder several times works. Did it just for...

Home. And snowhiker, good to see you got your GPU sorted out. EVGA always seemed to do right by their people from what I've seen and this confirms it yet again -- if I bought my cards new and if EVGA ever did anything but nvidia anymore, I'd likely be running an EVGA card right now, but in the...

In my case my monitors are arranged thusly -- on the left, in landscape orientation, is the cheapo 1080p panel (AOC E2228SWDN) I bought after arriving in university late 2016. It has cosmetic blemishes that would annoy me for main usage, but I don't really care about in its current use case...

After having a tri-head setup for just over a year, I'm never, ever, ever going back. One display feels like going back to the stone age.

I have found more on this issue -- it only occurs when I have more than one display connected. Seems to be related to an additional dummy display rapidly connecting/disconnecting? Unsure about that. In any case, 18.3.4 does not suffer from this issue and is therefore what I am now running.