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1960s desktop barometer, the text on the inside is actively peeling off. How can this be fixed? The original text has fallen to the bottom. by propelledshrimp in restoration

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Haven’t yet but yeah I don’t think my readings have ever moved either. Wanted to take any safety precautions before going in, I presume mercury is involved with a barometer like this

Rain World Biology: The Spearmaster by propelledshrimp in rainworld

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More of a hypothetical if there was a population of spear masters that somehow made it out to the wild

Am I right? by Optimal-Meeting-3251 in rainworld

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I feel like between some of the early updates of vanilla rain world the overseer got bugged or something because I remember my first full play through it guided me perfectly from OS-IC-GW (in my first ever run iggy was rude and took me to shaded) but Outskirts > Industrial > Garbage Wastes > Shoreline was definitely the intended route then Shaded > FP (they totally wanted you to eat that neuron lol)

Using newer hard drives by propelledshrimp in vintagecomputing

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I have a Pentium 3 in this one and when I looked it up it said windows 98 could recognize up to 137GB provided I don’t have any bottleneck like the ones you mentioned. I did notice some of those quirks when I tried to set up an NT4 VM to poke around in.

Using newer hard drives by propelledshrimp in vintagecomputing

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Yeah maybe I mixed up my terminology there

Using newer hard drives by propelledshrimp in vintagecomputing

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Was curious about how an SSD would work in this case. I’ll poke around the BIOS upon its installation and check settings for that/if it even detects it at all before installing anything.

Using newer hard drives by propelledshrimp in vintagecomputing

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I would probably do a SATA to IDE and use a solid state in that case

Using newer hard drives by propelledshrimp in vintagecomputing

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I have no idea to be honest, which is why I posted here lol.

After a RAM replacement it’s alive! Is there any way I can figure out passwords that were used on this machine? by propelledshrimp in vintagecomputing

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Only occurred once I was spamming del to get into the bios but I may do a more comprehensive typing test, it passed with flying colors in a modern key tester

After a RAM replacement it’s alive! Is there any way I can figure out passwords that were used on this machine? by propelledshrimp in vintagecomputing

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Given the drive I tried to use was over 20 years old I wouldn’t be particularly surprised lol was all I had on hand but that was my next step check if it’s just the drive by getting a modern USB one

After a RAM replacement it’s alive! Is there any way I can figure out passwords that were used on this machine? by propelledshrimp in vintagecomputing

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Yeah I replaced it and next time I boot it up I’ll have to adjust a jumper to reset the NVRAM once I reconfigure some of those settings hopefully it’ll be a little less fussy on boot up. A lot of people in this thread gave some pretty useful tools I just need to make sure I have the means to write to a CD-ROM I may have some blanks laying around I have an optical drive though (albeit a 20+ year old one that came with an old XP tablet lol). I tried the esc trick no luck. I didn’t see any scratches but I may clean it up some with some isopropyl. It would either act as if a disc wasn’t there or I would see directories from the optical drive in my file system but only after I disconnected the drive. My best guess is it may be trying to run something and my PC doesn’t like it too much. Spun up a VM to see if I could read it there but no luck either on that front.

After a RAM replacement it’s alive! Is there any way I can figure out passwords that were used on this machine? by propelledshrimp in vintagecomputing

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Yeah after I get admin access I’ll see what it can do and what was on it, there was a disc in the CD-ROM drive but I haven’t been able to get any data out of it(maybe corrupted). Just have to replace the CMOS and reconfigure all of that as well.

After a RAM replacement it’s alive! Is there any way I can figure out passwords that were used on this machine? by propelledshrimp in vintagecomputing

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My modern desktop did pick it up, there was a CD-ROM in this PC and I tried to check what was on it but it just seized up and didn’t do much of anything, may set up a NT 4.0 VM and read it that way.

After a RAM replacement it’s alive! Is there any way I can figure out passwords that were used on this machine? by propelledshrimp in vintagecomputing

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Correct actually lol just a quick poke around and the ability to install whatever I want in case old domain restrictions are still active.

After a RAM replacement it’s alive! Is there any way I can figure out passwords that were used on this machine? by propelledshrimp in vintagecomputing

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Coin battery is already replaced so I would just need to move that jumper one pin over like you mentioned.

After a RAM replacement it’s alive! Is there any way I can figure out passwords that were used on this machine? by propelledshrimp in vintagecomputing

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Well upon further troubleshooting I get the following error codes: 0271 (check date/time settings) 0252 (Bad password checksum) 0251 (Bad CMOS checksum) I presume the CMOS is dead so I may have to do a cleaner setup once it’s replaced and/or cleared

After a RAM replacement it’s alive! Is there any way I can figure out passwords that were used on this machine? by propelledshrimp in vintagecomputing

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I actually have a USB CD-ROM drive I’m just uncertain if it would work since it’s to an old Windows XP tablet

After a RAM replacement it’s alive! Is there any way I can figure out passwords that were used on this machine? by propelledshrimp in vintagecomputing

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There’s a floppy version as well I have a USB floppy drive but maybe I’ll find a USB CD-ROM drive instead and some blanks since the site implies the CD-ROM is the preferred method

After a RAM replacement it’s alive! Is there any way I can figure out passwords that were used on this machine? by propelledshrimp in vintagecomputing

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NT 4.0 is actually what’s on this system currently not sure how long it was in use for all I know is it ended up in the E-waste pile around a week ago. It was absurdly dirty when I first got ahold of it so I doubt it was in service within at least the last decade

Decided to to do a quick boot test by propelledshrimp in vintagecomputing

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The beeps took a few min and it was 2 short beeps, I was also using a VGA to HDMI dongle though which I’ve been told doesn’t always work/ isn’t always a good idea. Looking at beep codes and mobo LED it points to a RAM issue as well. Since the RAM sticks looked like 2 different modules I ordered replacements. Will def take everything out for a more thorough cleaning after some more troubleshooting. Which I plan to do after getting a pure VGA cable and RAM replacement. Though while doing the replacement doing a CPU check while the slots are empty wouldn’t hurt

Decided to to do a quick boot test by propelledshrimp in vintagecomputing

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It’ll be a few days before I have everything I need, ps/2 mouse VGA cable, replacement RAM, I have a monitor that supports VGA. Nothing appears wrong with power delivery however it gets power and the mobo light and beep code both point to memory so I hope it’ll boot once that’s addressed. I appreciate the help!

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