General Computer Thread

[Gingerbread Demon]

OK update time:

I put in brand new power supply and brand new graphics card. Wasn't taking any chances it wasn't the thing causing my issues and now everything seems to be working as it's supposed to. Have tried a couple of the games that gave me issues but it seems to be working as intended. So for now things seem happy.

I actually think it's both that had gone bad because I took my power supply apart and inside there was some melted plastic thing with a long stringy thing and one of the capacitors had brown stuff on it which didn't look right as if it was starting to leak.

Is there some sacred thing with putting a PC together that you have to cut yourself at least once on some random part? I cut my finger pushing the graphics card into the PCI slot. Seems to happen at least once on every hardware build I do.

Anyway so far so good.... Fingers crossed.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Yeah, it does sound like the power supply was bad too. I remember one of the older motherboards I had, I had been using it for such a long time, that by the time it was having issues such as crashes, I was surprised I was still even able to use it given that at least one of the capacitors had swollen.

 

[Santaman]

Leaking caps are indeed a sign that the PSU was on its way out.
I've built more PC's and servers than I can count, rarely cut myself unless they used a cheapass casing, in the olden days those had edges as sharp as razorblades..

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Leaking caps are indeed a sign that the PSU was on its way out.
I've built more PC's and servers than I can count, rarely cut myself unless they used a cheapass casing, in the olden days those had edges as sharp as razorblades..

The old days of screw mounting an optical drive in one of those metal cages... A lot of those had sharp edges, a lot of my old 486 and pentium builds gave me little memories thanks to those.

 

[Noname Given]

OK update time:

I put in brand new power supply and brand new graphics card. Wasn't taking any chances it wasn't the thing causing my issues and now everything seems to be working as it's supposed to. Have tried a couple of the games that gave me issues but it seems to be working as intended. So for now things seem happy.

I actually think it's both that had gone bad because I took my power supply apart and inside there was some melted plastic thing with a long stringy thing and one of the capacitors had brown stuff on it which didn't look right as if it was starting to leak.

Is there some sacred thing with putting a PC together that you have to cut yourself at least once on some random part? I cut my finger pushing the graphics card into the PCI slot. Seems to happen at least once on every hardware build I do.

Anyway so far so good.... Fingers crossed.

In fact it might have just been the power supply because if the GPU couldn't pull the voltage it needed to run what the game required of it - the result would be a crash.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

A poxy power supply can take out any number of other components due to surges. I know I've gone through that.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

In fact it might have just been the power supply because if the GPU couldn't pull the voltage it needed to run what the game required of it - the result would be a crash.

Well in that case I did well to change it, but changed both. I also christened my PC "Theseus Ship" because that GPU was the last original part to go. I had that since 2015

 

[Spider]

Going through old stuff I found an unopened and still in the cellophane wrapping, a box with the original IBM DOS 3.30, with both 3 and 5 inch diskettes! I wonder if this is a collector's item by now? I'll start the bidding at one million, US dollars.

 

[Santaman]

I still have the CD version of IBM PC DOS 2000, it came with a manual.. a really big one at that.

 

[Qonundrum]

Going through old stuff I found an unopened and still in the cellophane wrapping, a box with the original IBM DOS 3.30, with both 3 and 5 inch diskettes! I wonder if this is a collector's item by now? I'll start the bidding at one million, US dollars.

Why did I just conjure up

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[Gingerbread Demon]

Going through old stuff I found an unopened and still in the cellophane wrapping, a box with the original IBM DOS 3.30, with both 3 and 5 inch diskettes! I wonder if this is a collector's item by now? I'll start the bidding at one million, US dollars.

It probably would be worth something to someone that runs a computer museum or something similar.

 

[Marc]

Going through old stuff I found an unopened and still in the cellophane wrapping, a box with the original IBM DOS 3.30, with both 3 and 5 inch diskettes! I wonder if this is a collector's item by now? I'll start the bidding at one million, US dollars.

don't know if you're on reddit but there are people who gladly take that off your hands.

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/new/

I still have the CD version of IBM PC DOS 2000, it came with a manual.. a really big one at that.

ah the days when software came with huge manual

Can remember ordering in MS Office for customers and it would come in this big box with a thick manual for each application.

then you had some operating systems that came with enough books to fill a row on a bookshelf.

All those dead trees for manuals that few people probably even read. Killed by hunks of plastic which were in turn killed by the internet.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Ah the days of manuals, and old games that came with thick manuals so you'd learn all the bits of the game, not to mention those pesky page codes you had to find in order to run the game.

 

[Santaman]

I do miss the old days.. not every aspect of it but still, some stuff was brilliant in all its awkwardness.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Also special packaging, where sometimes games came in odd containers or something quirky that wasn't a traditional box.

 

[Colonel Midnight]

I miss the Infocom games, and their packaging was pretty original sometimes... ‘Suspended’ (game) comes to mind.

Of course, contrast that with today’s daily ‘Let’s reinvent a box container to be as difficult as possible to open’ method. Argh!!

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Owain Taggart]

Speaking of packaging, the physical copy of MS's new Flight Simulator comes in on 10 DVDs.

 

[Unicron]

"Lot of drama in those days, including constant efforts to force the 'Reflections on Trusting Trust" guy into retirement so we could stop being so paranoid about compilers."

"The git vehicle fleet eventually pivoted to selling ice cream, but some holdovers remain. If you flag down an ice cream truck and hand the driver a floppy disk, a few hours later you'll get an invite to a git repo."

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

She has a fashionable hairstyle

 

[Santaman]

LOL good ones Uni!