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Sound Banks - a software upgrade for your Sound Blaster

Owning a Sound Blaster back in the mid 90’s was probably a big deal – I wouldn’t know with my ESS AudioDrive. And although my ESS sound card wasn’t a real Sound Blaster from Creative, it was a compatible card which got the job done. Recently, a viewer sent me a Sound Blaster 32 PnP for repair. My first attempt to fix the card failed. There was just no way to get past a…
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Intel Pentium F00F Bug

From time to time, we get to know that our CPUs are not bug-free. The terms ‘Spectre’ and ‘Meltdown’ comes to mind. However…
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SECC Voltage configuration using resistors

Intel released Pentium II and Pentium III processors on the Single Edge Contact Cartridge – or SECC. This type of package was required because…
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Identify DRAM/Memory chips with camera

Camera for Chip Markings Click “Start Camera” to scan chip markings. Adjust sliders and invert image to improve text detection. Click…

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Sound Banks - a software upgrade for your Sound Blaster

Owning a Sound Blaster back in the mid 90’s was probably a big deal – I wouldn’t know with my ESS AudioDrive. And although…
Hardware

Intel Pentium F00F Bug

From time to time, we get to know that our CPUs are not bug-free. The terms ‘Spectre’ and ‘Meltdown’ comes to mind.
Hardware

SECC Voltage configuration using resistors

Intel released Pentium II and Pentium III processors on the Single Edge Contact Cartridge – or SECC. This type of package was required…
Tools

Identify DRAM/Memory chips with camera

Camera for Chip Markings Click “Start Camera” to scan chip markings. Adjust sliders and invert image to improve text…
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Creative SoundBlaster 32 PnP - CT3670

Some time ago, a viewer of my channel sent me a broken SoundBlaster 32 PnP with the model number CT3670. This sound card seems to be special…
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HAWK 370 - Let me know you're interested!

If you’ve been following the HAWK 370 build, here’s where things stand: the design is essentially final, and I wanted to find…