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Yep, good , but how are the jumpers set? A disk (or more generically a SCSI device) may have an internal terminator, so called on-board terminator (that may conflict with the cable one). The "new" Quantum has a scheme of jumpers, The "old" IBM seemingly not, this should be it (or however similar): https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1396588/Ibm-Ultrastar-9es.html About size, it may depend exactly how you are going to mirror them (I mean is it a feature of the Adaptec card? or a software mirroring?) jaclaz

No. SCSI is dependent on ID's (read as jumper or rotating selector or dip-switch) and (it depends on the specific device/model of the cable(s) used) also in some cases on a terminator. The card manual should be this one: http://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/installation_guides/29160_install_guide.pdf read attentively pages 7 and 8. This should be the user's reference: http://theor.jinr.ru/guide/archive/dxcore/29160_users_reference.pdf And this the manualfor the software/driver/firmware you are using, right? http://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/user_guides/ultra160_fms_v110_ug-b.pdf The SCSISelect should allow you to change the SCSI ID of the card (leave it alone, set as 7) and to choose which SCSI ID disk to set boot from, that's it, all the rest is via jumper/dip-switches/selectors. What are the "old" disks? (EXACT make/model) How (EXACTLY) are they configured? What is the "new" disk? (EXACT make/model) How (EXACTLY) is it configured? How (EXACTLY) are you connecting the devices? (I mean are you sure they are connected to the cables properly and that last device or the cable itself is properly terminated)? jaclaz

Is it the LCD or the actual backlighting? The latter is more probable, old laptop used CCFL's it is possible that the "inverter" does not provide (anymore) enough "juice" or that the lamp has lost some of its lighting power. Replacing with spares is doable with a minumum of dexterity and a LOT of patience, *like*: http://www.laptoprepair101.com/replace-laptop-backlight-ccfl-lamp/ http://www.laptoprepair101.com/replace-screen-inverter-fix-backlight/ the issue is understanding if it is the inverter, the lamp (or both ) and finding proper spares. If you go down this rabbit hole, you could also look for led replacement kits, see this as a reference: or - but it costs more - replace the whole screen with a new (or used) one, it is much easier. Being (notoriously) cheap I would procure an inverter board (you should be able to get one for anything between 8 and 16 USD + shipping and try replacing it (it is much easier to replace than the actual lamp) and if it doesn't work, get also a suitable CCFL lamp, that will set you back another 15-20 USD. BUT from time to time you can get an used replacement screen for roughly the same amount of money a the inverter+CCFL lamp on e-bay and similar, example: https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Compaq-Armada-E500-Original-Display-14-1-Zoll-LCD-LT141X7-124/163916560120?hash=item262a3036f8:g:ENwAAOSwTbFfNgtv if you can find one of these, go for it, the amount of trouble to replace a CCFL lamp is huge. jaclaz

Generally speaking, capacitors should be seen as "quick-self-discharging accumulators", when the power is on they are fed some voltage and thus they hold a charge and after the power is switched off this charge fades a way, in a time (that depends mainly from the capacitor value) that may go from fractions of a second up to several seconds for larger (electrolytic) ones. The rule of the thumb is to wait some 10 seconds after having disconnected power (physically disconnect the plug, as common ATX power supply are always partially "on", even if they are switched off for a part of the circuits). The idea is that by fiddling in the inside of a just switched off PC you may (besides getting an electrical shock, which is not the case unless you touch a capacitor inside the PSU that may be storing mains level voltage) you can inadvertedly give (say) bridge a 12V to a component that should have 3.3V or 5V with the risk of "frying" it. Taking the CMOS battery out, wait some time like 5 minutes or so, and then re-connect it should do a CMOS reset, it may be unneeded but it won't make any damage. As well, (again with the PC disconnected from mains for at least a few seconds) removing and cleaning thoroughly the RAM sticks contacts may not fix anything but it won't make damage: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/clean-ram-56720.html jaclaz

What do you mean about commands were not able to be registered? regsvr32 /u is the command to unregister .dll's. Check the status of those .dll's with the nifty Nirsoft tool: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/registered_dll_view.html According to the given thread those .dll's need to be unregistered and - after a reboot - re-registered. jaclaz

The quick test to do is: 1) unpack the original stuff 2) re-pack it using whatever program, method and settings you believe you should be using WITHOUT modifying it is running/installing the result exactly the same as the original? If yes, the methods/tools/settings are fine otherwise they aren't. Do review the thread I posted a link to, that same error seems to come out even with the original package in certain conditions and once it happened it will re-happen over and over unless you clean/delete a number of files. jaclaz

SCSI devices have an ID. Check ALL your drives for what ID they are set to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI https://www.pctechguide.com/how-to-install-a-scsi-device/scsi-internal-configuration http://www.obsolyte.com/faq/ jumpers may be different on different devices. The SCSI ID, as well as the controller/BIOS, may affect the order in which disks are seen in NT. jaclaz

Come on do you really think that the (approximate) sizes of the archives can affect the behaviour? (that is the only data you provided). There are possibly a zillion commands/parameters/settings in cabmaker or Winrar (which version BTW?) that may (or may not) be connected to the error. Check this: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_other/a-cabinet-file-necessary-for-installation-cannot/9b007762-f6be-4837-928d-59a98378e465 it is possible that it is simply a leftover from a previous attempt. jaclaz

Just in case: http://www.retroarchive.org/garbo/pc/connect/index.html http://www.retroarchive.org/garbo/pc/connect/pktd11.zip jaclaz

No prob , but the difference - besides the "t" - is that nlite (which is/was for XP) is freeware (and this is the right forum for it), whilst ntlite is releaed under a different license (Commercial). No idea how exactly it works, it is possible that the feature you cannot find needs to be unlocked by a license but antway it has a dedicated forum here: https://www.ntlite.com/community/index.php where you may search for an existing thread on the matter or ask a new question. jaclaz

Nlite or NTlite? https://www.nliteos.com/download.html jaclaz

Wait until you have a Profile1 besides the Profile0 ... jaclaz

Sure, whatever does that, it also reads that, so that path/directory name is written *somewhere* and the proper approach remains to read that same path/directory (*wherever* it is written) INSTEAD of using the DIR | FIND ".default", which is intrinsecally prone to error in case of name collision. You are welcome jaclaz

And - only for the record - the Author of the meme also disabled spelling auto correction (or did he/she actually used tolls to "modify OS"? ) jaclaz

The: SET myvar="%%~dpnxA\cache\*.*" Is not really-really carved in stone, try replacing it with SET myvar="%%~nxA" this should be only the name and extension of the folder which contain ".default". Or try: SET myvar="%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\AppData\Local\Waterfox\Profiles\%%~nxA\cache\*.*" Now you see the usefulness of the SET myvar line, don't you? As a side note I doubt it is the "correct" way (remember you asked for this) to find the name of that folder, I mean, unless Waterfox has some peculiar encrypted/encoded way of storing its settings, that folder name and path is written *somewhere*, either in a .ini (or .config file or similar or in the Registry as Waterfox needs obviously to know it, so the more "proper" approach would be to read it from where it is written, instead of using the (subject to possible errors/conflicts/collisions/whatever) DIR /A:D approach. jaclaz

Sure, remove or REM the line SET myvar (that was made to let you check visually that it worked as expected) Also as is it was intended to be a line in a more complex batch, so you might need to remove the SETLOCAL line to have the myvar definition "static" in the environment. jaclaz

I am not sure to understand fully, however: @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL FOR /F "tokens=* delims=" %%A IN ('DIR /A:D /B "%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\AppData\Local\Waterfox\Profiles\" ^|FIND /I ".default"') DO SET myvar="%%~dpnxA\cache\*.*" SET myvar should do. This will only work if there is only one .default directory, or if there are more than one it will get the variable set to the last one jaclaz

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/nasty_file_remover.html http://www.easycommander.com/telecharger/driver-cleaner-pe jaclaz

Only for the record : https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/20/no-predict/ jaclaz

Yep, but that might account for the "BIOS level" issue, not for the "OS level" one, with the HAL and (presumably) the same drivers installed for the same hardware (besides the same OS). jaclaz

Queer. I mean, the previous issue was "at BIOS level", this seems like extending to "OS level". Which OS do you have running on the ECS K8M800-M2, Athlon 64 system? An XP or a later system? Is it not that *somehow* you burned them with (say) UDF (or something else) that the XP cannot recognize? jaclaz

I would say the emphasis is "narrower", almost exclusively on the quality/features of the camera, as if one would fork from an awful amount of money[1] only to take "better" photos and videos (and of course senselessly share them immediately on social media). The "showing off" implied in the above is what is perplexing to me, we have shifted from exalting the user's eperiences to exalting their showing to the world. jaclaz [1] I mean, we are talking of more than US$ 1,000, what else can you buy with the same amount of money (to remain in the area of appliances)? A more than decent desktop, or a not too shabby laptop/notebook, or a laaarge television, or a dishwaher and a washing machine.

Only as a test, try booting from the CD after having physically disconnected the hard disk. It is possible that for *some reasons* the little program that "detects" the presence of a hard disk and prompts to press a key to boot from CD instead (bootfix.bin) does not work as intended. This might happen more likely if using the F12 (or *whatever*) boot menu change of boot order, but you never know: https://msfn.org/board/topic/154015-cannot-boot-from-cddvd-unless-hdd-is-blank/ jaclaz

9) QTWeb (Not Updated) : http://qtweb.net/ 10) Serpent/Basilisk (Updated) New Moon and more: https://msfn.org/board/topic/180462-my-browser-builds-part-2/ http://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/search/label/browser jaclaz

It is, but it isn't see: https://msfn.org/board/topic/179810-download-links-for-all-vista-sp2-32-bit-and-64-bit-updates-from-windows-update/ https://msfn.org/board/topic/179810-download-links-for-all-vista-sp2-32-bit-and-64-bit-updates-from-windows-update/?do=findComment&comment=1185625 Possibly a small subset at a time, then a reboot, ... jaclaz