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Just last week I had to lubricate the fans on one of my units as well. Started making this horrible noise... and while now it's not...

Hmmmm, that's odd that it works fine on the second you bought. Perhaps its thermal paste has dried up and the fan must run for longer...

Even if I do find a replacement board, it'll have the same battery, and as such the same amount of damage done to it, if not worse. I'll...

The issue being addressed is that someone (very incorrectly) ran the original code through a character set/encoding conversion tool...

Today I opened up my Nan Tan FMA3300A to attempt to fix the damage from my attempted recapping of the DC-DC board (ripped pads...

Dropping my .02 cents here about these: I can concur they're quite good laptops, so good that I've bought a 2nd one in January of this...

I agree about the ewaste flood: so many Core 2 CPUs can be found for less than 10$ on AliExpress, and motherboards go for right about...

I guess you're right. If P4 is separate, so should be PII and III. I guess the P4 is a lot more modern only in my mind. There's still...

I think P4 is a bit too new to be categorized in the PII/III sections, and the P4 content would very easily get buried by these older...

Lots of people believe Pentium 4s and the AMD equivalents to be vintage, and if vintage is to be defined as functionally obsolete for...

Agreed and done. The last G5 will be 20 years old next year, so I think that’s quite fitting, as well. I always leave it up to folks as...

I was just about to suggest another archive, hobbes.nmsu.edu , when I found out it's been shut down exactly a week ago :-(...

I've tried to install Gentoo on a PBG4 12", and the Nvidia drivers just plain don't work, like, at all. The machine shits itself the...

They're both rock solid, that's what matters to me the most. I don't play a lot of games, and when I do, well, they're DOS based and run...

Hey now, if I find nothing for OS/2 I may just be tempted to learn some C, finally...