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to: Roy J. Tellason
from: Wayne Chirnside
date: 2003-01-28 08:51:00
subject: Re: Dead system

-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 WC> Either that or the preamp you were planning to use was compensated
 WC> for one type of input but not the one output by the pickup?

 RJT> That too.  The receiver I have here is set up for a magnetic cartridge.

The more common type.

 RJT> Actually to my left is the smaller part of this L-shaped desk,  on
 RJT> which sits, among much other junk,  the test fixture.  And a little
 RJT> mono vga monitor.  I could move that out of there,  and have all that
 RJT> space...   :-)

My computer desk is a wreck today with butchered computer
hardware bits strewn about.
Recall me saying my 16 meg memory stick was getting flacky
well it lost it's mind yesterday randomly loading 2024K, 3???K,
7???K, 11???K and 13??K instead of 16K.
So I've an open case tower Pentium now equiped with a dirt
slow Seagate  3,800 RPM drive in it.
Can you believe I searched out the specs on this drive
a half hour before the system became unusable and did 
a printscreen of specs 5 minutes before the memory
or addressing went South? I had just hand written the jumper
settings for te hard drive on the printscreen sheet when 
something fried.
Wiped myself out kludging this mess together to get back online.
Currently it's a somewhat confused system my having ripped out
the Acer CD-ROM not having a driver for it, switched Windows
to VGA 3.0 because I don't have the ATI video drivers, nor
do I know if they exist for Win 3.1 yet.
The SoundBlaster Sound and CD-ROM won't get installed
until after I pick up a CMOS battery as the holder resides
behind the CD drive when installed and can't be reached.
I'll have to look and see if there're ACER and ATI drivers
for this mess.
Guess what, Linux boots fine but notes a Pentium error that's a known
bug and dmesg says workaround installed!!!
I never had any bugs in my 486.
 
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