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Forum: General March 14th 21, 08:50 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 39
Views: 9,551
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
Why is this HDD so small?

On 3/13/21 3:01 PM, Ken Blake wrote:

[snip]

As far as I'm concerned, Amazon is completely reputable. I buy many
things from them--probably somewhere around 100 a year--and I've never
had a...
Forum: General January 30th 21, 07:58 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 25
Views: 7,462
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
RAN 1.35v vs 1.5v

On 1/29/21 11:43 AM, micky wrote:

[snip]

Things usually come when Amazon says they will or 1-3 days earlier, but
this time the webpage said 11-14 days. But...

Bought it late Wednesday...
Forum: General December 28th 20, 12:25 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.microsoft.windows,alt.comp.hardware
Replies: 22
Views: 7,463
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
Have you ever had a working PC that wouldn't go into the BIOSmode?

On 12/26/20 8:58 AM, John McGaw wrote:

[snip]

Yes. More than once. Usually it is a matter of the BIOS mode being
dependent upon a particular keyboard connection. In old MBs it was not
...
Forum: General December 15th 20, 06:41 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.microsoft.windows,alt.comp.hardware
Replies: 22
Views: 7,463
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
Have you ever had a working PC that wouldn't go into the BIOSmode?

On 12/14/20 12:28 PM, Bob F wrote:

[snip]

I have an old Dell that seems to have no way to enter setup other than
to physically disconnect the hard drive (so no boot devices are
...
Forum: General December 13th 20, 09:27 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.microsoft.windows,alt.comp.hardware
Replies: 22
Views: 7,463
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
Have you ever had a working PC that wouldn't go into the BIOSmode?

On 12/12/20 7:47 PM, Arlen Holder wrote:

[snip]

Have you ever had a working PC that wouldn't go into the BIOS mode?
o https://i.postimg.cc/GpkgdmxT/cmos01.jpg Won't go into BIOS

How did...
Forum: General November 19th 20, 11:28 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 9
Views: 990
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
Is cable both power and data?

On 11/18/20 10:33 AM, micky wrote:
I have a Y-shaped USB cable, 18" long, with type A at one end and the
two previously most common mini's at the other end, the one that used to
be used for...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 3rd 18, 07:49 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.freeware
Replies: 73
Views: 1,872
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
PC motherboards with fake cache chips?

On 05/03/2018 01:29 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

Mark Lloyd wrote:

In the 1990s, PC motherboards were sometimes marked '0K'

The...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 2nd 18, 02:34 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.freeware
Replies: 73
Views: 1,872
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
Wireless charging mouse pad

On 05/01/2018 05:34 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

[snip]

You haven't got the joke - look very carefully at that "0K".

In the 1990s, PC motherboards were sometimes marked '0K' (meaning there...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 29th 17, 06:23 PM Posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Replies: 3
Views: 296
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
NVIDIA is gearing up to end 32-bit OS support

On 12/28/2017 07:43 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 28/12/2017 15:26, Mark Lloyd wrote:
Is that anything like PAE? Something that Windows doesn't really
support (supposedly it does, but not for...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 28th 17, 04:26 PM Posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Replies: 3
Views: 296
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
NVIDIA is gearing up to end 32-bit OS support

On 12/28/2017 02:49 AM, Jasen Betts wrote:
On 2017-12-24, Doomsdrzej wrote:
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 21:15:17 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote:


...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 28th 17, 12:38 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Replies: 0
Views: 311
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
NVIDIA is gearing up to end 32-bit OS support

On 12/27/2017 02:03 PM, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

[snip]

Only when an x86 variant with 64-bit general-purpose registers appeared
(amd64) did anyone start calling them 64-bit CPUs.

OK. Base it...
Forum: Printers June 20th 17, 02:04 AM Posted to comp.periphs.printers,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 50
Views: 2,860
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
Printers survive 83 alone

On 06/19/2017 07:50 PM, Lucifer Morningstar wrote:

[snip]

When the printer dies in your all in one you have to replace the
scanner as well. OTOH all in ones take up lest space.


When an...
Forum: Printers June 19th 17, 07:15 PM Posted to comp.periphs.printers,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 50
Views: 2,860
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
Printers survive 83 alone

On 06/18/2017 02:22 PM, Ken Blake wrote:

[snip]

Easier than separate devices? Not here it doesn't. My stand-alone
scanner has a "copy" button, or I can use the scanner software, which
has a...
Forum: Printers June 18th 17, 07:32 PM Posted to comp.periphs.printers,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 50
Views: 2,860
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
Printers survive 83 alone

On 06/17/2017 01:12 PM, Ken Blake wrote:

[snip]

As far as I'm concerned, the only advantage of a combo is that it
takes less desk space, but I can just manage to squeeze in separate
ones...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 21st 17, 04:02 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 29
Views: 734
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
Installing Win 10 on old iron

On 05/21/2017 09:45 AM, Jerry Phillips wrote:
Will Windows 10 install on a LGA775 / Core2 Quad Q6600 w/8GB
ram platform?

Is there a list of Windows 10 supported (legacy) CPUs
anyplace on...
Forum: Storage (alternative) April 26th 17, 01:44 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 45
Views: 4,876
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
USB stick leaking

On 04/25/2017 02:23 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

[snip]

Common mistakes: "silicone chip" for semiconductors; silicon for breast
implants (which would be very uncomfortable!).

Yes. I've...
Forum: Storage (alternative) March 25th 17, 11:11 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 24
Views: 1,683
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
floppy drive turmoil

On 03/25/2017 03:14 PM, Shadow wrote:

[snip]

I don't like either method of formatting dates. As far as I'm
concerned, it should be Y-M-D, since that's sortable.

+1
That's what I use...
Forum: Storage (alternative) March 25th 17, 11:08 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 24
Views: 1,683
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
floppy drive turmoil

On 03/25/2017 10:45 AM, Ken Blake wrote:

[snip]

My last computer had a floppy drive that I insisted the builder
install in it. I had it for about five years and never used it, not
even once....
Forum: Storage (alternative) March 25th 17, 11:04 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 24
Views: 1,683
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
floppy drive turmoil

On 03/25/2017 02:04 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 18:32:36 +0100, "Linea Recta"
wrote:

As you can see, I don't use the floppy drive very often. I...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 23rd 17, 10:25 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 28
Views: 787
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
Win 10 giga-update: KB 4013429 vs KB 4015438

On 03/23/2017 10:29 AM, Char Jackson wrote:

[snip]

Personally, we have 300/50 Mbps service where I live, and Google was
talking about bringing symmetrical 1Gbps service here, which prompted
...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 13th 17, 05:51 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 9
Views: 159
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
April 11: One Windows Version Dies, Another One Sees Daylight

On 03/13/2017 05:11 AM, Bill wrote:

[snip]

For me, XP, Vista and 7 haven't died. Windows 10 regularly does.

Neither have 2000 and ME here. I did actually install 95 on an old
computer a couple...
Forum: Storage (alternative) January 6th 17, 10:26 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 25
Views: 1,722
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
installing HD

On 01/06/2017 02:56 PM, Linea Recta wrote:
I bought a cheap replacement for my dying system drive, in my old PC.
New drive is refurbished WD1600AWS. (SATA)
But before I start tinkering: I can't...
Forum: Storage (alternative) November 26th 16, 08:38 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 31
Views: 2,008
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
Can't format 64 GB USB flash drives as FAT32?

On 11/26/2016 09:11 AM, Silver Slimer wrote:

[snip]

There are limitations to FAT32 partition sizes as far as I know. The
same way that FAT16 was limited to 2GB (if I remember correctly),...
Forum: General June 8th 16, 05:43 PM Posted to sci.electronics.repair,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.hardware,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 13
Views: 896
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
Router sulks, then works.

On 06/08/2016 09:39 AM, David E. Ross wrote:

[snip]

SCE repeatedly tells me that I can report outages through their Web
site. It does not tell me how to reach their Web site when my PC, my
...
Forum: Printers January 26th 16, 06:57 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.periphs.printers,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.hardware
Replies: 14
Views: 1,211
Posted By Mark Lloyd[_6_]
What extension for a print to file?

On 01/25/2016 07:42 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

[snip]

Thanks. I presume the first one was PDF itself.
PNG, JP(E)G, BMP, PCX, and TIFF, are raster images (some with
compression). RAW...
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