maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

this isn't Windows 2000...

you ever just install windows 2000 twice in one day?

i was trying to be clever with the partitions to leave space for the compaq bios stuff once i had the floppy drive working, but it didn't work out well

we did it reddit

alt+72 just gives me a funny tofu

the product key has an H in it... guess which key i just found out isn't working!!!!

partition still is in there somewhere but testdisk hangs so i can't use that to recover it

accidentally formatted my ssd last night.. thankfully all i lost (i think) are copies of photoshop and indesign, and steam games. no actual files

the battery still holds some charge! the cats approve.

im virtual

found a compaq ftp mirror :) http://cwcyrix.duckdns.org/ftp-archives/ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp9501-10000/

does anyone have the following Compaq utilities somewhere? all sources i can find are dead

SP9962 - Computer Setup for Portables v. 2.01 J (24 Jan 99)
SP16085 - Personal Computer Diagnostics version 10.40 A (7 Dec 00)

it kinda works... crackles and fades sometimes, but at least it's something i can try to fix again some other time, maybe this weekend

and the rest of the computer is nice and clean inside now hooray

guuhhhhhh. that was really finicky work. let's hope it works

crud...

i don't have a replacement thermal pad for this, would it be too bad to replace it with paste or keep the pad from 1998?

everybody says winamp but nobody asks whynamp

i wish the 7800 came in the same white colour scheme as the 7700 series but hey at least we get beefier specs. Pentium 2 and S3 ViRGE/MX. don't know clock speed or ram yet, i should be doing my day job instead of playing with this sadly 😓

yes i watched the lgr video about the 7710MT. yes i immediately looked for local Compaq laptops. mostly i was frustrated that i couldn't fix my Satellite Pro 420CDT so this is to tide me over until i can work on that again