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    Is -5V needed on a Pentium board?

    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...
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    The case of the mystery capacitor

    Hi there! I have a friend working on an Apple II, cleaning it up etc, and he's come across a capacitor attached across points on the motherboard in what is clearly a non-factory bodge job, see pic attached. Do any Apple II gurus out there have an idea why this might have been done? some sort of...
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    XT-IDE : D1000 ROM Error

    Hi - I've put aside my Gateway project pending some parts arrival and picked up on an Epson Equity I+ I've been working on. I received an XT-IDE card last night, and put it in today along with a SD-IDE card reader, and it worked brilliantly... for a couple of hours. Then I got a couple of file...
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    Bios search for Gateway 2000 P5-60, and other issues

    Hi All! Been doing a fair amount of vintage computer stuff of late but by no means am I an expert (even if in the mid-90s I was building my own PC's). I was given a Gateway 2000 P5-60 tower. At first things were relatively good, except the Dallas battery/clock had a dead CMOS battery, no...
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