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The printer functions by the computer sending the raw data to it, my Officemaster is using a USB-Certronics cable connected to a Win98 machine and the Generic Text Only driver and it works. You have to install the USB-Certronics cable and then once that's done attach the printer and install it...

This is a bit old but not TOO old and I just joined a short while ago so... I have one of these as well. did you open up the printer to find the certronics port inside? If you're looking at the front of the printer, its on the front right-hand interior side. You have to connect the Certronics...

The Diamond 9250 wound up on the SBC PC I built, where it works fine, so it wasn't wasted. And I've finished my work on the P5-60, though now I guess it's a P5-233MMX. It has 256MB RAM, a GeForce 6200 PCI vid card and an Allegro ESS1989 PCI sound card. Couldn't resist replacing the fans with a...

I did try that, actually, even on the Diamond S9250 which I got New-In-Box (though of course New-Old_Stock, leaving oxidation as a potential issue) - the anti-static bag was still sealed with the sticker and the box plastic wrapped, I actually felt a little guilty opening it! :D One of my...

Wow, thats interesting. I may have to stock up on Voltage Blaster boards. At least I'll get one to test these theories.

I went ahead and replaced the board with an Asus TXP-4. The machine is now operational, with one quirk - the only video card I could use was a PCI NVidia Geforce 6200 board, it wouldn't recognize either a PCI Diamond (ATI) Radeon 9250 or a PCI Riva TNT2 (verified by the Award BIOS one long...

The new PS didn't do anything either. I'm fairly stumped. Think I'll move on to another mobo. There's a recycler nearby where I can get older mobo's at reasonable prices. I should be able to get one that matches the case - and he tests them to POST before selling them.

No it wasn't, not at either time. But this is news to me that you need a load, as I've measured others without load and they've at least been in the general area (within a volt) of being correct. Thanks for letting me know! I've ordered a new supply, at the least, I need a spare around here...

Great, thanks! The way this board is situated in the case there is an ISA slot you can't actually use if you need access to the back slots, which would be good for a Voltage Blaster.

As it turns out the "good" power supply I was trying - an ATX with an AT adapter - must have been a specialty one from one of my newer desktops as it lacks -12V and a couple other voltages. So I'm looking at buying a new PS, but I had a question about them that actually seems to me would be...

Hi - I'm working on a Gateway PC with a Pentium 1st-gen board on it (LX chipset). I would like to try a newer power supply, but new AT ones are difficult to find, and the few I've seen have power cables too short for this tower, so I was thinking of using an ATX PS with the adapter you can find...

That could be true, but this was when G2000 custom built their machines to individual orders, it was kind of their shtick at the time. So I'm pretty sure the serial number on each component and the case denotes someone's original custom order, can't see all those exact cards and case sitting...

One thing I was careful to avoid is this blue wire.. I've seen such as this on other boards, is this a repair or just as designed? One other interesting thing I spotted on this Gateway 2000. Every component - the case and it's serial # info, the cards, etc - has a sticker with the same date of...

Since my last update, I've gotten a new Dallas RTC (actually 2, just in case). While waiting for that, I took the motherboard out of the case and confirmed there were no issues on the bottom, and cleaned out the slots and card interfaces thoroughly. I actually decided to leave it out of the...

Thank you all for that information and apologies for the delayed answer, work and life is perpetually busy it seems. I've passed that on to my friend. A new power supply is being put in (a modern one from the Retro site that makes them) so I believe he'll be removing that capacitor.