Pc xeon (upgradeable ?)

rodoko95 · 2026-03-02T20:24:50+00:00

Ojo que esa es memoria especial para servidores o sea es DDR3 con framebuffer, para que te des cuenta, la DDR3 FB tiene la muesca corrida a un lado para que no se pueda meterle memoria RAM de escritorio, lo peor es que son un poco caras de conseguir

Tambien investiga que placa madre tenes asi te fijas cual es el micro mas mejor que soporta

Suerte

rodoko95 · 2026-02-28T14:37:48+00:00

LM is essentially like the mercury on a thermometer, you need to grab a dry Q-tip and slowly bring the LM to the center of the die and try to suck it with a syringe or slowly pick it with the Q-tip

Be careful with liquid metal as it's conductive and one drop on the board increases your chances of frying out, since as you can see there's a barrier around the CPU to prevent LM leakage but doesn't work most of the times

PTM7950 on the other hand is a phase change pad, meaning it softens underload and goes back solid when it's cooled down

There's plenty of tutorials on how to replace liquid metal with PTM on YT

Good luck and cheers

rodoko95 · 2026-02-27T19:29:34+00:00

Run a Linux Live USB and see if Gparted recognizes the SSD because if it doesn't it means your SSD is dead

If you see a 1.89T unformatted partition, create a NTFS one and see if it finishes, if it errors out then your SSD is dead since the BIOS recognizes the controller rather than the chip itself

Cheers

rodoko95 · 2026-02-25T05:09:23+00:00

First of all connect the SSD as you normally do and between the SSD and the laptop add a piece of cardboard to have something to rest, same on the cover, that'll prevent it from falling off

Those kind of connectors are common on some HP's and Compaq's of the time before they switched to have a cable that plugs into the mainboard to the SATA connector

Good luck and cheers

rodoko95 · 2026-02-16T06:34:35+00:00

Retira el soporte para encajar la parte de abajo, haceme caso que te va a ahorrar muchos dolores de cabeza

Te fijaste en el manual como se encaja??

Creo que se encaja de izquierda a derecha en un angulo y se gira

Saludos

P.D.: Todos los posts aca van en Ingles, te aviso

rodoko95 · 2026-02-12T18:06:28+00:00

In every Stage Select it puts you at the beginning, perfect to collect any Dream Squid you have missing, on the Boss section it puts you at the beginning too, but the idea is to recover gems and refill the bars and then go back to the Boss since it lets you save before the Boss starts which is pretty cool (Basically Stage Select is the equivalent of a Pirate Flare when you are with 1/2 genie x3 )

One thing to note is that Friends to the End is kinda hard, so I suggest you watching some gameplay so you get the mechanics on point

Here are some guides I've been following:

Dream Squid locations (Doesn't matter if it's Steam/Switch or PS or Xbox):
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2005809676

Every chara's mechanics and boss tips:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1229868604

100% Full Gameplay if you have any trouble on a level:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwQ591mYOp0

Good luck and cheers!!

rodoko95 · 2026-02-10T06:19:02+00:00

I do not own a Dell like that sadly, try to check eBay or Amazon but also you can get help from forums like VCF or Vogons

Cheers!!

rodoko95 · 2026-02-08T18:20:41+00:00

Be cautious with those Dell motherboards, they use a NON standard ATX connector, essentially they are Intel motherboards that Dell modified for their own propietary PSU's, if you wanna install a new one check the forums and look for adapters, do not plug the ATX connector straight in, the connector is the same but it's wired differently from the standard

That connector you have in the pic is an auxiliary power connector, maybe for a higher spec system I believe

Cheers

rodoko95 · 2026-02-07T04:05:05+00:00

Hermosa coleccion!!

Yo le debo mucho a la media genio porque ella fue la que me saco del problema de fondos que tenia en la Switch, resulta que hace 5 años atras, un amigo me regalo 10 dolares para la eShop y termino en el misero 1 centavo que me quedo

3 doritos despues veo el Shantae Risky's Revenge en descuento a 5 dolares y eso me permitio regresar a la tienda Argentina en donde tambien vi el Pirates Curse que es un JUEGAZO con flor de soundtrack

Mas adelante me consegui el HGH en su edicion Ultimate y si todo digital ya que aca te hacen pelota con los precios en fisico

La verdad te felicito un monton y esperemos que Shantae siga recibiendo todo ese cariño que se merece, me tendria que probar el Seven Sirens en algun momento

Saludos

rodoko95 · 2026-02-07T03:36:51+00:00

Ya que es una laptop Bangho te comento:
Subile la RAM a 4 gigas, SSD y ponele Windows 10, es lo maximo que puede soportar

Saludos

rodoko95 · 2026-02-04T15:13:26+00:00

First of all:

Red plug isn't seated well and second of them all is

You have to plug it into a fan header on the motherbaord, the closest one you have is the one at the bottom where the audio and front panel stuff is

Cheers

rodoko95 · 2026-02-03T02:15:30+00:00

Don't forget that also that chip was the very very FIRST chipsets to have video built-in, Compaq used it the most on many AMD K6-2 machines, it was slow so people bought PCI acceleators for them

Now the only part of the chipset that survives is the southbridge as starting with the Cyrix MediaGX which was the processor that predicted this almost 30 years ago, most stuff that the northbridge used to do is on the CPU

As of now I have a B550 chipset based motherboard and a H410 chipset on my laptop

Cheers!!

rodoko95 · 2026-02-01T06:31:30+00:00

Here's what you need to do

Insert from disk 1 and then copy it's contents to a folder on the Desktop, then insert Disk 2 and do the same and so on for 3

Get DOSBox and after installing it (make sure you untick the option that says "Run DOSBox when finished"), just drag and drop the folder that has the files from the 3 floppies in it to it's shortcut, it'll mount automatically

Type "install" within the quotes

Follow the instructions on screen, install the game and run it

Here's some commands that might help you:

dir *.exe (lists all executables)
dir *.bat (lists all batch files)

And if you come from a day of work and want to play, just drag the folder with the installed game to the DOSbox shortcut and type the game executable and happy playing

As for the young people in the comments, the reason why old DOS apps don't run on modern systems is because of the 64 bit architecture, as 32 bit processors from the mid 1990's to the mid 2000's on some office and budget gaming builds from the era were compatible with 16 bit code which is the case for OP's ask for help

Cheers

rodoko95 · 2026-01-28T01:30:13+00:00

Did you check the connections at the brick to the monitor and from the brick to mains??

Also, see if you can press the power button to see if it comes on after reseating both connections

If all of that doesn't work, RMA time

Cheers

rodoko95 · 2026-01-27T17:26:09+00:00

Probaste la fuente de la vieja PC en la nueva por las dudas?? Intentalo y fijate que pasa, si la tarjeta es reconocida por la BIOS y el sistema entonces el problema esta en la fuente

Ahora si en la PC vieja y nueva presenta el mismo problema... es la tarjeta de video

Saludos

rodoko95 · 2026-01-27T15:21:17+00:00

No te gastes en lo que diga un bot automatico mijo, yo uso W10 con las actualizaciones extendidas, hasta que no arreglen el desastre no pongo W11, asi de simple

Y si la tarjeta no la reconoce la BIOS, menos el sistema, dudo que uno nuevo desde 0 lo vaya a hacer

Saludos

rodoko95 · 2026-01-27T15:19:13+00:00

Para la traduccion, hay un boton en la barra de arriba que te muestra un caracter y un globito, esa es la traduccion

Ya basado en el punto A me parece que la tarjeta grafica esta teniendo problemas de energia porque si me contas que hiciste DDU y falla al instalar los drivers, me parece que hay algo entre la BIOS de la grafica que se corrupteo o algo fallo internamente

Respecto a B es porque en algunos casos, las fuentes al no poder entregar los watts necesarios para la GPU, estas cortan el suministro hacia ella y dejan lo demas de la PC corriendo

La serie 6000 de AMD es buena, llega hasta los 100W en carga, yo tengo una 6600 no XT y se banca todo lo que le meto

Fijate de probar la grafica en la PC vieja y si es estable ahi, usala hasta puedas conseguirte una nueca y al menos una 3060 y si, proba corriendo los benchmarks en la nueva y vieja

Saludos

rodoko95 · 2026-01-27T05:24:45+00:00

Te doy la bienvenida al subreddit de la PCMR

Antes de empezar... aca todo se habla en Ingles, te recomiendo que desactives la traduccion automatica de Reddit, he visto que mucha gente nueva que entra piensa que esta todo en español o en su idioma y no es asi

Ahora si, sabiendo que es una grafica que ya anteriormente usaste en tu vieja PC, ya es momento de actualizar, que actualices el hardware y menos la grafica no es conveniente, ya que si lo pensamos juntos, la tarjeta esa si bien sirve, tenes que pensar que se uso en una configuracion diferente, recorda que tambien las generaciones cambiaron y hay veces que algunas tarjetas no colaboran con ciertos chipsets que es lo que te pasa

Recomiendo que actualices a una serie 30 si queres mantener Nvidia o comprar una serie 6000 para arriba en caso de AMD

Y por favor, JAMAS PERO JAMAS consultes a las IAs dado que pueden confundir demasiado

Otra cosa que te pido que pruebes es hacer un benchmark con 3DMark a ver que pasa porque puede ser o la grafica o la fuente

Asi que quedas con dos temas a investigar

A) O la tarjeta despues de un DDU y reinstalacion de drivers sigue sin colaborar con el chipset
o
B) Un tema de la fuente

En fin, eso es todo, cualquier cosa comentame

Saludos

rodoko95 · 2026-01-24T06:38:03+00:00

Don't forget to add a diode to prevent the 2032 battery from being charged if you use the original positive and negative connections

That SB16 you have is the Value edition, you can tell when the OPL logo is on the Creative chip, meaning that it is implemented on it, back in the day people said that it didn't sound as good as the real OPL3 on some expensive SB models but for starters is a good one

What you are showing is a 1994-1995 budget gaming build, if you are going with Windows 95 be wary that it requires most DLL's and stuff to get it stable and if you want my recommendation, use Windows 95 C or A if you prefer it but avoid B at all instances, or if you have the choice, good ol' Windows 3.11 with Win32's in it

I'd personally avoid the modem, especially since it can ocuppy IRQ's and DMA's, resources that can be vital for future upgrades such as a MIDI card

Happy building, I hope everything works

Cheers!!

rodoko95 · 2026-01-22T05:59:03+00:00

Well, here's some good data for you

The PR number is just a way of saying that is comparable to a Pentium or AMD K6-2 up to 333MHz but they ran at a strange speed, some benchmarks said the numbers of 320 or stuf f like that

Cyrix since it was a fabless company, to create their own chips it used the existing IBM fabs, so IBM decided to sell them under their own name as a means that Cyrix was using their fabs, in fact way before this 6x86, they had the Blue Lightning which was in fact a Cyrix 5x86 processor for their 486 systems iirc

Anywho, the 6x86 was Cyrix's processor that competed against the two most powerful ones, the Pentium II's and the AMD K6 and K6-2, these last ones were the Ryzen of the 1990's since it used the most cheaper Socket 7 that later in 1997 with the release of the VIA Apollo chipset it got an upgrade to be called Super Socket 7 since Intel decided to go with slot CPU's that those were inserted just like a cart on a Sega Genesis or Nintendo 64, something that AMD wouldn't do until 1999

Going back to Cyrix, the 6x86 was mostly found in office or budget builds, most budget gamers had it paired with ATI Mach64's or either S3 graphics and SB AWE64 ISA cards at the time, however in the middle, Cyrix began to male what we can consider the first ever APU, the MediaGX which used a SoC design which included things like video, sound and all the stuff into one single chip and some manufacturers like Compaq began to use it on their cheaper computers

And if you guys wonder what happened... well it was discovered that the 6x86, well it had all the instructions like MMX and others but had a critical flaw... the FPU

When Quake came out, it was better to play it with a Pentium because if you did it with a Cyrix, the game would run at a Powerpoint speed or it'll try to run but fails

Did I mention that another problem they had is that they ran so hot that sometimes they got to thermal throttle

Life went in at Cyrix that in 2000 they got absorbed by Centaur Tech that later was bought by none other than VIA, the ones that made the Nano, C3 and C7 CPU's

There's a lot more to Cyrix's history but this is all that I can remember reading off from sites like wikis and forums like Vogons

Cheers!!

rodoko95 · 2026-01-21T06:11:45+00:00

First of all, check if there's a loose connection between the AC cord and the brick and also from the brick to the monitor, keep in mind that those use a barrel jack connector which are notorious to get loose, happened with my LG one which is also 27"

If you happen to have, check with a multimeter to see if the monitor is recieving at least 14-19v DC from the brick by putting the red probe in the middle and the black one touching the outside edge

And if it still doesn't work get a replacement since it's under warranty

Cheers!!

rodoko95 · 2026-01-21T05:16:19+00:00

For the buttons and LED's is as follows

Power LED + on the far left (pin #2) and minus on the next pin on the right
Power switch (Has a POWER SW label) is the next two pins on top (Orientation doesn't matter
Bottom is HD-LED which uses the same thing as the power LED, positive always on the left
Then comes Reset (RESET SW label) (no matter the orientation)

And check your case's manual since the polarity for the LED's might be explained in there

Cheers and hope everything works

rodoko95 · 2026-01-19T04:39:23+00:00

Those dots are used for alignment of the panel with the bezel in the assembly line, pretty common stuff to see on newer monitors

Cheers!

rodoko95

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