Exxos's B-roll blog of nothing in particular
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Maybe you need a bios update?
If it ain't broke, test it to Destruction.
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To lazy to go looking for a old laptop.
6gb showed in bios then windows wouldn't boot. Then the screen started flashing all sorts of colours for no reason. Now my WiFi won't connect
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At least it's not as bad as my Acer Aspire 1500, which is Athlon 64 based and has a chipset which should be able to do loads of RAM... However, the BIOS won't POST at all if there's more than 1x1GB SIMM + 1x512MB SIMM. Yep, maximum 1.5GB.
Intro retro computers since before they were retro...
ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
Collection now with added Macs, Amigas, Suns and Acorns.
ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
Collection now with added Macs, Amigas, Suns and Acorns.
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That's pretty bad going!stephen_usher wrote: Fri Nov 06, 2026 11:19 pm At least it's not as bad as my Acer Aspire 1500, which is Athlon 64 based and has a chipset which should be able to do loads of RAM... However, the BIOS won't POST at all if there's more than 1x1GB SIMM + 1x512MB SIMM. Yep, maximum 1.5GB.
I've given up and ordered a WiFi card off my favorite hated auction site just.
annoyingly I had a identical laptop which I was using for spares at one point but I basically had a clear out a couple years ago and chucked all the spare parts away other than the screen
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I literally did nothing but try to load the page..
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That's what bots try to do... Accessing a page is very suspicious behaviour. 
Intro retro computers since before they were retro...
ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
Collection now with added Macs, Amigas, Suns and Acorns.
ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
Collection now with added Macs, Amigas, Suns and Acorns.
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So it would seem !! I was only looking for files from the wiki on sites which have long since vanished !stephen_usher wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2026 7:48 pm That's what bots try to do... Accessing a page is very suspicious behaviour.
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Emailed a metalwork place which is just around the corner from my girlfriends parents.. I had been there before in fact.. Funny story.. I had a Tesla coil part made.. Long story short, I took it back to have a bit of metal editing done, apparently it was done "off the books" so it landed loads of people in trouble.. So seems I wasn't welcome back after that. Not my fault I knew nothing about it!! I saw the same company on the news by accident, apparently they were doing really well work wise. Thing is, about the time I went, some women took over and managed to bankrupt the company in 12 months So there's been a different company there now it seems.. Give them today to reply.. Then onto the next.. I asked on Facebook about metalwork places and got a lot of replies..
So there's been a different company there now it seems.. Give them today to reply.. Then onto the next.. I asked on Facebook about metalwork places and got a lot of replies..Re: Exxos's B-roll blog of nothing in particular
3rd email now.. I replied back .
Places keep bugging me to help, and when I finally ask, they don't reply ! China is worst. I emailed like 100 companies to try and find stock of the Blitter chips. Not one single company actually gave me a price. All I got was massive amounts of spam and the best part was they are offering to find parts etc and were even replying to the blitter email I had sent them in the first place.. They kept harassing me, so I just ended up blocking them all in the end.. I just felt like replying to them how about replied to my first email before we start engaging in other parts sourcing questions !! Just another typical day on the Internet then.....
I replied and asked for a quote probably a couple of weeks ago and did not have a response but be honest I cannot even remember what it was for now. So probably doesn't matter now anyway.
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Places keep bugging me to help, and when I finally ask, they don't reply ! China is worst. I emailed like 100 companies to try and find stock of the Blitter chips. Not one single company actually gave me a price. All I got was massive amounts of spam and the best part was they are offering to find parts etc and were even replying to the blitter email I had sent them in the first place.. They kept harassing me, so I just ended up blocking them all in the end.. I just felt like replying to them how about replied to my first email before we start engaging in other parts sourcing questions !! Just another typical day on the Internet then.....