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http://www.silentpcreview.com/article67-page1.html Or just get another drive with a FDB motor. |
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http://www.silentpcreview.com/article8-page2.html http://www.silentpcreview.com/article109-page1.html http://www.silentpcreview.com/article39-page1.html Even after enclosing my WD with the black box, vibrations were still transmitted to the case frame. Then I suspended the box from elastic bands and vibrations finally disappeared. However the best procedure for silencing HDDs is replacing them with SSDs ![]() And this gives me the excuse to torment you with another of my ![]() The Poor Man's SSD First we get a CF card, the larger and faster the better. I got a Trascend 8GB 400x. Then we get an IDE adapter for CF cards: (Careful here: Desktop PCs use 40-pin IDE, while laptops use 44-pin IDE, so adapters are not interchangeable). Then we plug it in our dinosaur PIII: Problem now is that Windows XP will try to break our party labelling it as 'removable device' and complaining that it's not a boot drive. So we cheat XP with the Hitachi microfilter trick (scroll down to 'On flash drive only the first partition works'): http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html Now that we can smoothly boot XP from the CF card, next problem is that, unlike Se7en, XP doesn't correctly align the partition. So we use Paragon to correctly align it (otherwise there will be stuttering when writing to the CF card): Then we finally enjoy the much faster access times from our flash CF card, even under the castrating UDMA33 of this ancient i440BX PIII carrack. Last edited by TELVM; 12-13-2012 at 10:26 AM.. |
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![]() This is my world. I wish it had more neat computer sruff in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q972LRH0OzQ
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Would it be possible to make home-made adapters for those. I am intrigued ![]()
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I'm intrigued as well....where do you get the adapters? I could see all kinds of interesting uses for that, especially for field servicing.
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Join Date: Oct 2012
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![]() Been working flawlessly for a year or so. However (politically correct disclaimer follows) CF cards aren't designed for this application, so try it at your own risk.
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http://pinouts.ru/DiskCables/ide2cf_cable_pinout.shtml Quote:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...dapter&x=0&y=0 http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...cf+ide+adapter BTW with Windows 98SE it's even easier, just plug&play, no tricks needed. Last edited by TELVM; 12-13-2012 at 04:56 PM.. |
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Solder Sloth
Join Date: Nov 2012
City & State: CO
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![]() I was looking into the CF-IDE adaptor solution and it tends to be more expensive than getting a real SSD per GB except if you don't have SATA ports... or if you can get the CF cards cheap.
It seems to work quite well as long as the CF card supports the old PCMCIA IDE mode - as CF is a subset of PCMCIA, most of them do support IDE mode transfers. I used to use it on one of my embedded boxes with a 1G CF card. Have to watch out, some cheap CF-IDE adaptors don't have DMA wired, and some CF cards don't support DMA. The former causes hell to break loose if the CF card supports it, and the latter is very slow... I modded two of these "broken" CF-IDE adaptors with bits of 30-gauge kynar wire to support DMA/UDMA... would that be called ghetto? ![]() Last edited by eccerr0r; 12-16-2012 at 01:53 PM.. |
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Join Date: May 2008
City & State: VA (NoVA)
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![]() Here's a failed attempt at ghetto modding that I tried a few weeks ago:
http://www.badcaps.net/forum/attachm...1&d=1356135914 http://www.badcaps.net/forum/attachm...1&d=1356135914 http://www.badcaps.net/forum/attachm...1&d=1356135914 Basically, a friend of mine gave me 2 "naked" HiPro PSUs. I wanted to just take the cases from some of the low-end junk PSUs I had, but it turned out the spacing for the mounting holes on the PCBs of these HiPro PSUs was slightly different. This called for a custom PSU case! (Or so I thought.) Unfortunately, the roll of galvanized steel sheet I had was too thin (probably 24 AWG or more). After bending into the above shape, it still felt very very flimsy. Actually, I still think there's a way to make it work. However, I have put this whole project on hold/at the end of the queue because I wanted to get at least 1 of these HiPro PSUs running so I could use it for testing. Last week, I was finally able to complete a case for the other, but I haven't taken pictures of that yet. It's ![]() Also, here's another non-computer project of mine - this one worked, though: http://www.badcaps.net/forum/attachm...1&d=1356135914 http://www.badcaps.net/forum/attachm...1&d=1356135914 http://www.badcaps.net/forum/attachm...1&d=1356135914 In case anyone is wondering what it is... it's a 9.6V "battery-powered" drill hooked to a 203W Xbox 360 power supply ![]() ![]() |
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![]() That's why they switched from iron to aluminum for cylinder heads back in the day, better thermal management.
Reminds me of the Heatsink from Hell. |
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Join Date: May 2008
City & State: VA (NoVA)
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![]() . . Here's some handy work I did recently (scroll at the end of that thread to see the pictures): http://www.badcaps.net/forum/showpos...97&postcount=8 Basically, I replaced a SOIC-8 MOSFET with a DPAK MOSFET. Soldered some used up braid on the tab of the DPAK MOSFET as its heat sink. It doubles as a holder for it too ![]() The hack works and the buck regulator is outputting the proper voltage. Unfortunately, the mobo is still dead. Good thing I didn't waste money on a replacement SOIC-8 MOSFET. I have plenty of DPAK MOSFETs. |
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![]() Fry's sells them... I have one in my junk box as well.
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Join Date: Jun 2012
City & State: Manchester
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![]() I am now an expert at fixing traces on circuit boards, that good you cant even tell where i mended them
![]() The fix/mod/whatever can be found in the audio section on this site. Amp is now working fine, just a dim vfd ![]() http://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=25220
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![]() Cool repair. Glad it works too
![]() On the line of fine repairs, here's an S939 AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 CPU I fixed: http://www.badcaps.net/forum/attachm...1&d=1357267053 http://www.badcaps.net/forum/attachm...1&d=1357267053 http://www.badcaps.net/forum/attachm...1&d=1357267053 http://www.badcaps.net/forum/attachm...1&d=1357267053 This CPU was left by some customer in my friends repair shop and sat on my friend's desk for over a year (if not 2). During that time, the CPU has had various stuff sitting on it. It even took a drop to the floor a few times. As a result, almost all of its pins were severely bent. 2 of them were actually broke when I found it, but as the pictures show, I was able to solder a thin piece of wire from some through-hole 1/4 W resistors. I expected fireworks when I plugged it in my mobo, but it actually worked fine. Unfortunately, my only working S939 motherboard - an AsRock 939Dual-SataII - is a finicky piece of turd that crashes very often even with my Athlon 64 3200+. Installing the FX-57 just made the board crash even more often (in games, that is). By the way, sorry for the crappy pictures. My camera cannot take such close up shots so I had to use an old camcoder that can only take snapshots in 640x480 res. Last edited by momaka; 01-03-2013 at 08:43 PM.. |
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![]() Is it worth the time to fix that cpu? I have no idea about 939 cpus?
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![]() ![]() Added a heatsink from an old SGI Origin 200, which allowed me to overclock the router safely in DDWRT. Plus it looks fast.... ;-) Last edited by loknar28; 01-04-2013 at 12:34 AM.. |
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![]() FYI, don't do what you originally did with the image... Please upload them using the "manage attachments" tool in the new post editor. One uploaded, you can post the internal link inline.
We ask this because offsite images slow down page loading quite a bit and also ruin posts when the offsite image ceases to exist. Don't worry this time, I fixed it. |
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![]() That router reminds me. I did something like that to a Netgear DGN1000. I might still have it.
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![]() looks like my overclocked desk lamp with the altilon led mod.
i dont think there is anything on my workbenches or desk that has not been modded. |
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