The good old days...?

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manofmilk

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Last week a mate asked me if I’d take a look at his parents pc, which was 'running slow' and being generally unstable…
He came over with the pc a few days ago. I had to spend sometime looking for my AT keyboard and serial mouse but after a while troubleshooting I managed to get to the bottom of the problem:

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Their soundcard had succumbed to its own weight and was shorting out on the bottom of the case...
Keep in mind that this card was an 'upgrade' they had purchased for the pc when they switched to Win95.
Despite not being opened for about 8 years the case was surprisingly dust free due to the total lack of any form of active cooling!
I think I’ve persuaded them it might be time for a new computer!
 
wow.....simply wow....... Makes you appreciate how far we have come. Though it would be nice now if we didnt need active cooling.
 
manofmilk said:
Their soundcard had succumbed to its own weight and was shorting out on the bottom of the case...
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Can't you just move it up a couple of slots to prevent it shorting, or put a bit of plastic at the bottom of the case? ;)

I'd love to see their faces when windows loads in less than an hour, and internet explorer doesn't make everything come to a grinding halt :)
 
Wasn't it cool when you could upgrade the RAM on expansion cards, too? Or were those for more MIDI voices or something? I could never afford SoundBlaster way back.
 
IanG said:
Can't you just move it up a couple of slots to prevent it shorting, or put a bit of plastic at the bottom of the case? ;)
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..I did. Swapped the card up a slot and braced it on the one below it. Going to make them a pooter out of the bits i've got laying around, 800 pII and 256mb of RAM, they can have it for nothing. I'll build them a new one once they work out how much they want to spend.
 
Axman said:
Wasn't it cool when you could upgrade the RAM on expansion cards, too? Or were those for more MIDI voices or something?
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I think they are 30-pin, SIMM slots, as I recall you could stick upto 32mb onboard but I think the card could only address 28mb of it! :cool:
 
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