Operation Deltqa 19

[greengoose1]

Operation Delta 19 begins, where we find the Queen of Hearts with the computer she built that is up and running. Looks like this section will be devoted to fine tuning and tweaking. (Is there a difference?) Thanks to all of you that have made this possible by your inputs. Vir Dr. helps build a computer long distance so to speak from conception to completion.

Click here for Operation Delta 18.

Made a typo in the topic heading. How is that fixed?
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[Queen_of_Hearts]

I am in awe at the speed of this new machine.
I didn't know what I was missing. It is incredible.


This would not have been possible for me to do without the help and input of all those involved, from the first spark in our minds to firing this thing up. Thank you.

...'specially you, bistro.

AND IT WORKED, first pull....no smoke!

Here I am...

[bistro]

You are most welcome, QoH. Now...was it as hard as you thought it would be a couple of months ago? Allllll that hand-wringing and night sweats? Does it make you wonder why people pay so much for a ready-made (that may or may not have all the components they would like to have)? BTW, YOU are the "warranty" for that system. What some folks don't know is that almost everything inside the case--to include the case---is considered by manufacturer techs as FRU's--Field Replaceable Units. Bad motherboard turned in for "repair"....it's usually not "repaired", just replaced with a new one. Bad RAM? Replaced, not repaired. Bad cables? Replaced. etc., etc. Well, you now know how to do it yourself with little to no "downtime" taking it to the shop or shipping it off to the manufacturer somewhere in Tibet.
Ahhh, but you say that NOW you would have to pay for the parts being replaced! Maybe. Most components have their own warranty--if you can stand the downtime--turn it in and demand it be replaced by the manufacturer of the part. Tell them to do it booms-quick or you'll complain to the Supreme Court or their boss's boss. You can usually get the replacement part within a few days.

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[greengoose1]

Thanks for info Mosaic. Guess we'll leave it as is then. With you and the QoH now tweaking and peaking on a new computer .... Didn't hit me until now, but the building is only part of the picture. Get ready world, the 1's and 0's are getting ready to be accessed, modified, cut, copy, pasted, swapped, filed, checked, HI KEY, you name it. Think I'll go with Bistro to the sanctuary in the high mountains if their's room.

Feels good doesn't it, YOU did it. Get my act together and I'll be there too.

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[Queen_of_Hearts]

Heck NO! In fact, if I had had the money to buy all the pieces at once and had everything I needed sittin' right here I coulda built it in about 2 hours.
And if the boot disk had been right, weeda been flying right off the bat.

There is those BIOS setup entries, tho. Thank you for the sheets you typed up. I have a "book" of bistro notes and tweaks...and humor

I have some setting up still. But no more worrries about how many MB I have left.

If I need more room....I'll get another Hard Drive...and then another... and another... and another....

Good save, Mosaic

Thank you greengoose.
You can handle this. It's about twenty screws. A piece of cake.

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[bistro]

OK, boys and girls...let's see if we can't speed up those modems a bit....

1. Go to Msconfig, under the Win.ini Tab and scroll down to the [Ports] section. Under there you'll see Com1 through COM 4 entries.
Replace those entries with these (be careful--double-check your typing):

COM1:=921600,n,8,1,p
COM2:=921600,n,8,1,p
COM3:=921600,n,8,1,p
COM4:=921600,n,8,1,p

EDIT: (litle confusing there from the original post...Exit out and Reboot here.)

NOW.....
2. Copy all the text below THAT IS IN BETWEEN the dotted lines (NOT the lines) into Notepad. Save the file as Modem.reg, NOT Modem.reg.txt.
Save it to your "Hold" directory or any one where you'll find it easily. Right click on the file and select Merge. This will merge the info into your Registry. Restart the system.

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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Modem\0000]
"Properties"=hex:80,01,00,00,ff,00,00,00,ff,00,00,00,07,00,00,00,0f,00,00,00,\
77,07,00,00,00,10,0e,00,00,fa,00,00

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3. Now go into Control Panel>Modems and you'll see that there are three new speeds available: 230400, 460800 and 921600. Set your modem at the max speed and check it out.
If it doesn't work well, go down to the next highest speed and so on. You may or may not see that much of a speed diff; but the benefit may be lying elsewhere in performance.

Have fun with it....(This is for 56K modems only, BTW...)

Gotta go back to work...see you later.



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[greengoose1]

Thanks, Mosaic, I think.



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[greengoose1]

HEY YA'ALL, check out 98 under Auf Weder.....

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[greengoose1]

Need I say more?

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[Train]

green goose
Where is the unlimited credit card you promised?? Yes, you have more to say.

QOH
Remember that when you have a cpu that is faster than 933MHz you have to get the other shutdown patch. Refering to TA's computer you talked about building. And I'll bet you get a cd-rw so you can put all those .regs and stuff on one so you do not have to hunt them down again

bistro
He is a happy papa again.

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[Queen_of_Hearts]

What?! You think her's is gonna be biggern mine, Train ? Think again!!!

I am finally getting here. It's my daughters BD. Had to shop.

Doing your latest tweaks now, bistro.

[greengoose1]

Hey Train, You must have mistaken me for someone else. I remember Bistro and QoH talking something about the subject though.

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[greengoose1]

Bingo!! I knew it - Note QoH's comment on big. The power syndrome. Watch out Cray computer.

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[Queen_of_Hearts]

It's not going to let me save in Notepad as anything except "text documents" and
"all files [*.*]".

I know I used to have more choices. I have several reg hacks on the OLD.

Something else that is not doing what it's supposed to is the Outlook Express preview pane. I told it to not do that and it still is openable. On OLD when I unchecked that box it locked that part so it didn't even open. Maybe I need to go do the Windows updates ?

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[Train]

Name.reg
select all files
and it will be saved as a reg.

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