On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 11:01:20PM -0400, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
Hi, Trying for context.
Yay, worked great.
While I cannot be certain, I feel sure the boxed one I have is 300, perhaps higher.
300 watt is definitely a very common size of power supply.
Its odd what you say about memory, the machine I had to replace had a great deal more memory, then I believe is in this one, but this machine is far louder than any unit I have ever owned. At one point the computer was so warm that the time and date was changing every 2 minutes or so, jumping ahead.
Well if the power supply fan is failed, that means all the other fans have to try harder to cool their part of the system, so it will get louder.
Thanks for that extra wisdom as well. Any serious danger with my cutting power as I have to due to the power button factor? It worries me slightly, at their best, those switches only kick in with a power failure of some kind.
Well most OSs don't like it, but you are running DOS, so shouldn't be a problem. Cutting power sure beats having it overheat enough to break something or catch fire. I suspect it would probably blow a fuse or some other component before catching fire though.
Its internal, in fact the lose cables are floating around inside the case as well. I do have a USB DVD / cd burner that would be a gift to have in place just now. all of my statements, bank for example, come in an alternative format sent on cd..and I cannot read them.
So probably either the data cable wasn't connected or the power wasn't (not enough power connectors on the power supply perhaps and needed a Y adapter to split it?)
Yet another reason why I wish the driver was properly installed. Panasonic created the DOS driver for some of their own equipment, with an engineer a few years back finding it for me. Some of the documentation is actually in Japanese. Granted freedos has a couple of DOS USB drivers, I have a second one as well. I am actually typing on a USB keyboard with that function turned on in the bios, no driver required. of! now that I think of it, are there USB to whatever keyboard adapters?
There are USB keyboard to PS/2 adapters since the USB keyboard protocol was purposely made to be very simple compared to other USB devices. And yes the BIOS will often emulate older keyboards from USB so boot loaders and DOS can access it without a driver. -- Len Sorensen