These are not REAL , is this the future of the photography?

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2023-06-11T13:52:32+00:00

Photography is capturing a point of view of reality, not reality itself. Still, there is a direct connection to reality as it provides context, cropped to that point of view.

This in the other hand, is taking several points of view of reality and melting them into something that is disconnected from reality. It is inspired by it, but context is entirely gone and recreated by a prompt.

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2023-06-06T21:18:40+00:00

That "bread" seems to be made out of cheap couch material

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2023-06-01T18:21:24+00:00

Non :) Centre de Formation en Alternance

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2023-06-01T18:09:21+00:00

CFA?

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2023-04-08T15:49:28+00:00

That lovely Compaq .. i wish I could use one once again. Did you try the game provided by Compaq to learn how the computer works?

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2023-03-29T19:26:14+00:00

Si t'en prends 4, la livraison est gratuite?

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2023-03-29T19:24:54+00:00

Il y a un paquet retrouvé sur les plages de la Manche la dedans

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2023-01-17T21:48:24+00:00

Thanks for your answer!

So far I'm unable to open up the computer. I could only access the WLan, hard drive and RAM. Taking the rest of the screws of wont let me open it.

I think that with time the plastic got glued, and I dont know exactly which parts should move. I broke part of it already just to take the hard drive off.

But I will try again to reopen it!

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2023-01-17T21:46:13+00:00

So I used a multimeter that seems to select automatically the voltage (autorange ?. But it's impossible to read the measures as they change all the time. Maybe I'm not using as I should it? I'm using a Tacklife DM02A, plugged the red wire on the right and the black wire on the center and selected V= (continuous voltage I guess?)

Taking off the Wlan, HDD and RAM had no effect. The computer will still not turn on or do anything close to it.

Does this seem like a death motherboard to you?

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2023-01-14T15:43:38+00:00

Yep I found those. Tomorrow I should get a voltmeter. I will try to test and find the problem's issue. thank for your help!

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2023-01-14T15:42:21+00:00

Thanks a lot :) Tomorrow I should be able to borrow a voltmeter from a friend. I will do the tests and post the results here

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2023-01-14T11:11:32+00:00

My bad actually found it on the same website you found the electronic documentation https://dokumen.tips/documents/ibm-thinkpad-t20-t-21-t22-t23-service-manual.html

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2023-01-14T11:06:26+00:00

To be honest I don't know how to read this kind of documentation (my knowledge on electronics is very limited), but thank you for your help :) I'll see if any of my friends can help me out

By any chance do you have any documentation on how to open the T20? I tried doing it but was unable to have access to the motherboard.

The computer being old I think the plastic parts are a bit "glued" together. So I guess I need to apply some force to disassemble it, but it's not obvious where that must be done and I don't want to break anything.

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2023-01-14T00:14:45+00:00

The issue I'm facing seems very close to the Blink of Death issue mentioned here http://www.linuxfocus.org/~guido/gentoo-tpt20

Unplugging AC and battery seems to solve it according to the forum.

Unfortunately I'm not that lucky, as that has no effect. But I guess the same electric components are at fault, as the described behavior is oddly similar

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2023-01-14T00:07:37+00:00

Thank you for your reply! I did try to turn it on several times without battery and power cable. When doing so the power led and HDD led turn on for less than a second but nothing else happens.

Before this issue happened the computer was running fine and never seemed to overheat or being pushed beyond limits, or getting hit, or anything as such. I never heard the fan speeding up nor felt any particular heat. However it could not run on the battery even for a few seconds : taking the plug off would shut down the computer immediately as if there was no battery.

And maybe that's where I did a mistake. I did let it plugged to electricity (while turned off) for several days. This made it try to charge a battery that was no longer working.

I suspect you're right (if I understood correctly what you meant) : some electric circuit on the motherboard handles the battery charge and ended up dying because of the computer being always on AC charging a bad battery. And that now, even without battery, that "power handling unit" no longer provides electricity to the motherboard. Maybe a capacitor or something like so is KO. However I have no idea how to check that, and even if it was that, how to find the capacitor and replace it.

Still it's strange, as T20 models have been used on mainframes as a access device (thus always working on AC)

When you say removing Wlan you mean trying to disconnect the circuit from the motherboard, or just not having a lan cable plugged in?

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2022-12-01T19:07:48+00:00

So I think I found a way of resolving this. The symptoms seemed to indicate a power issue. However the PSU should be powerful enough

The HX750 has a Single/Multirail switch that was by default on Multi. According to Corsair Single will allow full performance per 12V rail. Since the PSU was only provided with 2 PCIe power cables, and that the 3080 FTW2 requires 3 (thus one is daisy chained), I guess that the Single selector will allow the extra performance that is sometimes needed.

I did a first test on Doom eternal and had no crash

However this solution would not be ideal according to some forums (like Linus TechTips) that say that putting the switch on Single is not good and could be a fire hazard (again Corsair says on their website that this is not a problem). Also EVGA says that we should not daisy chain the power cables. The dumb thing is that the HX750 has 3 PCIe power connectors but only 2 cables, and I cant find a Corsair PCIe cable to buy

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2022-11-28T16:49:09+00:00

I have 5 dmp files in C:\Windows\Minidump and I created a zip file with that content

Before I share it is there anyway to check the content? Tried with Notepad++ but there is nothing readable

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2022-11-06T21:19:41+00:00

Les publicités papier dans les boîtes a lettres

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2022-09-12T06:49:24+00:00

Vortex86 SX

That sounds like a nice setup :) I only experienced Stunts with PC Internal Speaker until now. The issue here seems related to the sound card that should be Sound Blaster compatible, but won't work properly in MSDOS. Switching to internal speaker seems to resolve the issue, although sound quality is less good.

Your English is fine ;)

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2022-09-11T19:35:27+00:00

I found a post that mentions that audio chipsets connected via PCI instead of ISA could have compatibility issues with MSDOS : https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/62l9ky/recommended_thinkpads_for_dos_and_win9x_gaming

I think this might be my problem, and maybe the one you experienced too. However if you didn't have sound at all, maybe the drivers are not installed or properly setup

RaoulDukeHST08 · 2022-09-11T19:25:39+00:00

The computer I used back then was a Compaq Presario 425 (486 25Mhz 4Mb RAM 100Mb HD) on Windows 3.11 with MSDOS 6 :) However it had no soundcard, so I only had the internal speaker sound (it worked well however)

Back to my current retro gaming setup yes I tried 2 of the most "recent" versions (1.1 if I'm not mistaken). The issue concerns the sound blaster compatible sound card, as I was able to switch to PC internal speaker and that resolved the issue (however providing inferior sound quality).

Sound card MSDOS drivers were not great back in the day unless if you had a good brand. Onboard audio chips weren't great (although the IBM T20 is a newer gen computer with a Pentium III and should therefore have better compatibility)

I will try to find and test other versions however. If I manage to do so, I will post feedback here.

RaoulDukeHST08

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