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- Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:43 pm
- Forum: other vintage hardware, software and languages
- Topic: Weird CMOS issue with old Athlon XP machine
- Replies: 2
- Views: 90
Re: Weird CMOS issue with old Athlon XP machine
Does this use a CR2032? These seem to be rather prone to loose contacts. yes, CR2032 - contacts are nice and clean and I've made sure they are making good contact with the battery Never seen a machine behave like it before - seen plenty of dead batteries, bad contacts and the occasional faulty CMOS...
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 2:31 pm
- Forum: other vintage hardware, software and languages
- Topic: Weird CMOS issue with old Athlon XP machine
- Replies: 2
- Views: 90
Weird CMOS issue with old Athlon XP machine
Hi All, Got an old Shuttle SN41G2 PC with an Athlon XP 2700+ CPU and updated to the latest BIOS (problem existed with old BIOS as well) and am having issues with it keeping the CMOS settings - the behaviour is most odd! Originally I thought no problem old machine, off course the CMOS battery is goin...
- Fri Feb 12, 2021 2:11 pm
- Forum: general
- Topic: Today I received.....
- Replies: 6137
- Views: 702066
Re: Today I received.....
sn41g2.png Had it some time, but only just found the rest of the parts I had for it - Shuttle SN41G2 with AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton), 1GB DDR400 RAM, Hitachi 400GB IDE hard drive, nVidia nForce2 chipset - fitted with an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128GB graphics card and a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Aud...
- Fri Feb 05, 2021 6:03 pm
- Forum: past all-day virtual ABugs
- Topic: All-day 'Virtual' Acorn session #11, Saturday 6th February 2021, 9am - 11pm
- Replies: 54
- Views: 1866
Re: All-day 'Virtual' Acorn session #11, Saturday 6th February 2021, 9am - 11pm
can you add me as well - should be around most of the day if you need me to do anything
Mark
Mark
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 11:37 am
- Forum: off-topic
- Topic: Windows 10 reinstall help needed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 881
Re: Windows 10 reinstall help needed
(a) if the machine came with Windows 7 and was upgraded to Windows 10 then when prompted for a product key click 'I do not have a key' then pick the correct version of Windows 10 (Home / Pro) - after install it will automatically activate using the hardware ID. Hopefully that also holds true for sy...
- Mon Jan 04, 2021 9:35 pm
- Forum: off-topic
- Topic: Windows 10 reinstall help needed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 881
Re: Windows 10 reinstall help needed
They were saying you have to remove/disable all network adapters to make it appear now :shock: Maybe that's it - something to do with when the WiFi card driver gets loaded during the install - if there's an active connection you have to log in, otherwise you can make a local account. Maybe. Who kno...
- Thu Nov 05, 2020 7:36 pm
- Forum: past all-day virtual ABugs
- Topic: All-day 'Virtual' Acorn session #9, Saturday 7th November 2020, 9am - 11pm
- Replies: 63
- Views: 8718
Re: All-day 'Virtual' Acorn session #9, Saturday 7th November 2020, 9am - 11pm
Hi Dave,
Can you add me as well
thanks, Mark
Can you add me as well
thanks, Mark
- Sat Sep 26, 2020 11:33 am
- Forum: past all-day virtual ABugs
- Topic: All-day 'Virtual' Acorn session #8, Saturday 3rd October 2020, 9am - 11pm
- Replies: 88
- Views: 5268
Re: All-day 'Virtual' Acorn session #8, Saturday 3rd October 2020, 9am - 11pm
can you add me as well - plan to be around, but might have to do another Kent run - if so I'll setup the laptop with the schedule before I leave
thanks,
Mark
thanks,
Mark
- Sun Aug 16, 2020 10:02 pm
- Forum: past all-day virtual ABugs
- Topic: All-day 'Virtual' ABug session #7, Sat 5th September 2020, 9am - 11pm. Supporting CCfCH. *ACORN/ACORNSOFT Special*
- Replies: 88
- Views: 11310
Re: All-day 'Virtual' ABug session #7, Saturday 5th September 2020, 9am - 11pm. Supporting CCfCH. *ACORN/ACORNSOFT Speci
Hi - can you add me as well,
thanks, Mark
thanks, Mark
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 7:42 pm
- Forum: past all-day virtual ABugs
- Topic: All-day 'Virtual' Acorn session #6, Saturday 1st August 2020, 9am - 11pm [NOW FULL!]
- Replies: 105
- Views: 7348
Re: All-day 'Virtual' Acorn session #6, Saturday 1st August 2020, 9am - 11pm
please add me as well
thanks, Mark
thanks, Mark
- Sat Jun 27, 2020 2:03 pm
- Forum: past weeknight 'general' acorn sessions
- Topic: Weekday 'Virtual' Acorn session #5, Tuesday 30th June 2020, 6pm - 10pm
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1887
Re: Weekday 'Virtual' Acorn session #5, Tuesday 30th June 2020, 6pm - 10pm
can you add me as well,
thanks, Mark
thanks, Mark
- Fri Jun 26, 2020 10:19 am
- Forum: past all-day virtual ABugs
- Topic: All-day 'Virtual' Acorn session #5, Saturday 4th July 2020, 9am - 10pm
- Replies: 70
- Views: 5839
Re: All-day 'Virtual' Acorn session #5, Saturday 4th July 2020, 9am - 10pm
can you add me as well,
thanks, Mark
thanks, Mark
- Mon Jun 15, 2020 8:28 pm
- Forum: for sale / freebies
- Topic: Worth Taking a Look At
- Replies: 2948
- Views: 388086
Re: Worth Taking a Look At
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acorn-BBC-Econet-X25-Gateway-with-4-Manuals-VERY-RARE/363018169480?hash=item548591ac88:g:aAcAAOSwyB9e4SS7 Econet to X25 Gateway. Looks like a repackaged Model B/B+ with an in built modem (just from the case anyway).... It's basically a B+ with a dual Z80 co-processor boar...
- Sun Jun 14, 2020 9:50 pm
- Forum: past weeknight 'general' acorn sessions
- Topic: Weekday 'Virtual' Acorn session #4, Tuesday 16th June 2020, 6pm - 10pm
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1415
Re: Weekday 'Virtual' Acorn session #4, Tuesday 16th June 2020, 6pm - 10pm
can you add me as well, thanks Mark
- Sun Jun 14, 2020 2:29 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn hardware
- Topic: TURBO MMC or GOTEK ?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 3074
Re: TURBO MMC or GOTEK ?
Gotek. Every time, every day. For all the reasons above. It doesn't need to be expensive, you can get started with one from China for about £12 plus the cost of a USB A-USB A cable to program it (£3?). Adding an OLED display to it as described in the Wiki is another £3, and a rotary encoder perhaps...
- Thu Jun 04, 2020 10:03 am
- Forum: for sale / freebies
- Topic: Worth Taking a Look At
- Replies: 2948
- Views: 388086
Re: Worth Taking a Look At
Torch Z80 2nd processor board - has multiple boards: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TORCH-Z80-2nd-PROCESSOR-COMMUNICATOR-FOR-THE-BBC-MICROCOMPUTER-008/283752161281?hash=item4210f26001:g:Iq0AAOSwhQpeJzJ- I've taken a punt on one - worth it for £33 IMO. I like that they're from liquidated ex-Torch stock....
- Wed Jun 03, 2020 3:34 pm
- Forum: for sale / freebies
- Topic: Worth Taking a Look At
- Replies: 2948
- Views: 388086
Re: Worth Taking a Look At
Torch Z80 2nd processor board - has multiple boards:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TORCH-Z80-2n ... SwhQpeJzJ-
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TORCH-Z80-2n ... SwhQpeJzJ-
- Thu May 28, 2020 10:51 am
- Forum: general
- Topic: Today I received.....
- Replies: 6137
- Views: 702066
Re: Today I received.....
a Pi1541 - finally been able to load programs on my 64C (and good news on that machine, seems to be fully working after replacing CIA2) and I can now get my C128 out and see if it full works.
- Tue May 19, 2020 9:00 pm
- Forum: past all-day virtual ABugs
- Topic: All-day 'Virtual' Acorn session #4, Saturday 6th June 2020, 9am - 10pm - NOW FULL
- Replies: 119
- Views: 9379
Re: All-day 'Virtual' Acorn session #4, Saturday 6th June 2020, 9am - 10pm
add me as well please - happy to run the schedule display again if you can update it for the day
- Tue May 19, 2020 8:58 pm
- Forum: past weeknight 'general' acorn sessions
- Topic: Weekday 'Virtual' Acorn session #3, Tuesday 26th May 2020, 6pm - 10pm
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1783
Re: Weekday 'Virtual' Acorn session #3, Tuesday 26th May 2020, 6pm - 10pm
count me in as well
- Tue May 19, 2020 2:49 pm
- Forum: for sale / freebies
- Topic: Worth Taking a Look At
- Replies: 2948
- Views: 388086
Re: Worth Taking a Look At
I don’t have words. crazy price - want to bet we see another auction for Elite soon - 'extremely rare £599 BIN' Crazy money indeed, but that buyer was in it from an hour after it was first listed . No messing around, they wanted it. I actually came here to mention this new-old-stock export BBC B , ...
- Mon May 18, 2020 9:14 pm
- Forum: for sale / freebies
- Topic: Worth Taking a Look At
- Replies: 2948
- Views: 388086
Re: Worth Taking a Look At
crazy price - want to bet we see another auction for Elite soon - 'extremely rare £599 BIN'
- Mon May 18, 2020 1:19 pm
- Forum: off-topic
- Topic: Successes and failures with machine repairs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 599
Re: Successes and failures with machine repairs
shame you are not in the UK as I have a Freeview hard disc recorder that I was given and never use that I could have sent you
- Sun May 17, 2020 9:20 pm
- Forum: off-topic
- Topic: Successes and failures with machine repairs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 599
Successes and failures with machine repairs
Well seeing I've not been able to work since the lockdown started I decided it was about time I started sorting out my collection of machines and attempting to fix known issues with them or carry out mods. I have had to learn how to solder again, not having touched a soldering iron for at least 10 y...
- Tue May 12, 2020 2:50 pm
- Forum: wanted
- Topic: BBC Micro top case
- Replies: 2
- Views: 388
Re: BBC Micro top case
thanks Dave,
contacted Mark and got a very quick response from him
Edit: replacement top case sourced from Mark@Retroclinic
contacted Mark and got a very quick response from him
Edit: replacement top case sourced from Mark@Retroclinic
- Mon May 11, 2020 9:04 am
- Forum: wanted
- Topic: BBC Micro top case
- Replies: 2
- Views: 388
BBC Micro top case
Looking for a decent condition top case for a BBC Micro - don't mind if it is yellowed. Preferably the earlier rough finish (going on an Issue 3 machine), but a later one would be fine.
thanks, Mark
thanks, Mark
- Sun May 10, 2020 1:53 pm
- Forum: past weeknight 'general' acorn sessions
- Topic: Weekday 'Virtual' Acorn session #2, Tuesday 12th May 2020, 6pm - 9pm
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1714
Re: Weekday 'Virtual' Acorn session #2, Tuesday 12th May 2020, 6pm - 9pm
Hi Simon,
can you add me as well - thanks, Mark
can you add me as well - thanks, Mark
- Tue May 05, 2020 2:35 pm
- Forum: past all-day virtual ABugs
- Topic: All-day 'Virtual' Acorn session #3, Saturday 16th May 2020, 9am - 9pm. Supporting CCfCH. 50 attendees max. NOW FULL!
- Replies: 125
- Views: 11076
Re: All-day 'Virtual' Acorn session #3, Saturday 16th May 2020, 9am - 9pm. Supporting CCfCH.
please add me as well, thanks Mark
- Mon May 04, 2020 2:57 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn hardware
- Topic: BBC Model B not booting
- Replies: 12
- Views: 880
Re: BBC Model B not booting
I suggest you check the sockets for 6502 (IC1), the OS ROM (IC51), the sockets where any other ROMs are fitted (IC52, IC88, IC100, IC101) and maybe the socket for the ‘system’ 6522 (IC3). In all cases, you are looking visually for any sockets where the socket contacts have been bent, where the cont...
- Mon May 04, 2020 11:35 am
- Forum: 8-bit acorn hardware
- Topic: BBC Model B not booting
- Replies: 12
- Views: 880
Re: BBC Model B not booting
well, it has just started booting using the original 6845 - wonder if there is a bad solder joint somewhere around that area that I'm disturbing when removing / inserting the 6845 - have to pull the board and take a look Also anyone know where to get replacement power terminals and spade connectors ...