What did you do to you computer today?

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Volvo242GT

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Feb 7, 2022
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Haven't seen a thread, like the ones over at the other forum, so figured I might as well get it rolling. About 30 minutes ago, decided to see if I could get my MacBook back up to 12GB RAM. A few days ago, I made the mistake of letting my phone drop onto the palmrest between the keyboard and the trackpad. Immediately, the computer froze with garbage on the screen, and three tones being played every five seconds. Shut it down. Tried booting again. Dark screen, same tones. Googled it, and realized that it was a RAM problem. Pulled the 4GB stick. Problem remained. Pulled the 8GB stick, and reinstalled the 4GB stick. Success. Back up and running, but with only 4GB of RAM. Reached out to a friend who had a spare 8GB stick. Picked it up from him yesterday. Finally got around to it this evening. Installed his stick, problem reappeared. On a whim, I decided to pull the 4GB stick, and install his 8GB stick alone. Computer booted. Shut it down, and figured, "heck, let's see what happens if I reinstall the other 8GB stick that I pulled originally." Put that one in. Computer booted up without problems. So, I'm now back to a full 16GB of RAM, like what the computer had before I picked up the problem child mid-2012 MBP last summer.
 

PentaxEnthusiast

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Jan 27, 2026
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I've been fighting in vain to reinstall either XP or 98SE on my ThinkPad 770. The optical drive is fighting me every step of the way after working perfectly a few months back. Not sure what's changed.

The drive itself is a Toshiba SD-C2002, which was used in a broad range of laptops back in the 90s. Preliminary research has shown very little mentions of failure of this drive.

I've ordered a 44-pin to 40-pin adapter so I can use my Compaq to install 98SE on the hard drive. I'd really like to solve the optical drive issue, however.
 

Certificate of Excellence

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Nov 1, 2021
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Installed some games (UT & Q3A) & some of my fav productivity apps (Toast9, iwork08 & omigraffle5) to my a1047 PCI PowerMac G5 and connected a 1T external and pointed TimeMachine to it … still backing up lol. This has turned out to be a very fun Mac to build up and those games absolutely slay on that machine. Additionally, I’m very excited about Powerfox for PPC Leopard/Sorbet. I’ve been using it on all of my Early Intel Macs that still boot to some flavor of legacy macOS for quite some time, so to now have a modern uxp browser for PowerPC is a pretty fantastic prospect for their future.

My 3.5” card reader & 5.25” temperature readout & ATX fan control module came in yesterday so I started installing those into my Linux/win10 tower this evening when my 2y/o came into my office fussy because he wanted to go to sleep. He won’t sleep without Dad and one can easily imagine the shenanigans a fussy 2y/o can get into quickly in ones man cave full of awesome man-cavey things, so that job will have to wait until another day.

Very excited as my Handspring Visor came in too but that also will have to wait for another day.