Way OT pic for the computer guys

Royse

Well-known Member
I work on these things for a living, and every once in a while they give me fits.
Other times they just make me laugh. This one is in the second category.
I know some of you guys do this kind of work too, so I thought I'd share it.
To me, the date and time clearly says "time for an upgrade"!

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A month ago bought a Win 8 and being left handed it is giving me fits also.
Have never used something that will just go to another web site just by touching the keyboard.
If we don't come to some kind of a agreement quickly. it will never need a battery replacement.
Designed for a teenager with ADD and need there meds.
ken
 
I am not a true computer guy, but I do use them everyday.

I haven't seen a screen like that since I use to program in DOS or Basic, around the late 1980s. Everything has been windows ever since.

Rick
 
Wheat Farmer,

At work the other day, the guy who fixes our computers said there is an application one can download for about $5 that makes Windows 8 function like Windows 7.

That is all the more I know about, but may be worth asking your computer tech about it.
 
Hah!

I'm guessing that's a 80286 AT clone. The first PC I ever built had the Award BIOS. I bought the kit from Jameco Electronics back in the late '80s and used it for many years. Wikipedia says Award was bought out by Phoenix in 1998.

I'm a bit surprised that the time-of-day clock overflowed. The standard for many years was set by UNIX, which stored the date as a 32-bit integer representing the number of seconds since January 1, 1970. 32 bit UNIX time doesn't run out in 2038, so obviously they something different, not wanting to waste a whole 32 bits back when memory was precious.

I found this note in the Wikipedia BIOS article: "Beginning with the IBM AT, PCs supported a hardware clock settable through BIOS. It had a century bit which allowed for manually changing the century when the year 2000 happened. Most BIOS revisions created in 1995 and nearly all BIOS revisions in 1997 supported the year 2000 by setting the century bit automatically when the clock rolled past midnight, December 31, 1999."
 
Looks like something that was on my first computer. I believe it was a Leading Technologies 286 computer that I purchased new. I think I replaced it with a 386 board at one time. I do remember my wife got one heck of a deal on a 486 because there was a big screwup at her company and somebody ordered about 200 computers that they didn't need. We got a Digital (brand name) 486 for a low cost and I was the envy of all my coworkers.
I remember buying a 2400 baud modem and all my buddies were SOOOO jealous.
 
It's old, but not quite that old. :)
It's an Asus motherboard, A7V8X-X, AMD 2800+ CPU
1.5GB of RAM and Windows XP SP3.
I got the BIOS to flash with their latest stable version,
from 2004, and it seems to be working fine now.
I'm a little surprised that Asus still has the BIOS and
drivers available for download.
They've taken down most of the specifications.
It's still newer than any of my tractors! :lol:
 
old bc,

Thanks! May need this link at one of my jobs... they bought me a new computer - to be installed soon. Don't know if it is 7 or 8.
 

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