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What is a DVD add on card?
In old days of early DVD drives, CPUs were so slow that even high-end CPUs would struggle to play an MPEG-2 stream from the DVD disc, so an add-in card with an MPEG-2 decoding ASIC was required by ...
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32-bit PCI riser cards: different types?
Unfortunately I can't give you specific search terms, but I can say what stands out to me about those risers from an EE perspective.
The goal of a good quality riser is to minimise impact on ...
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What is a DVD add on card?
Possibly it means a hardware MPEG-2 decoder card. Those were common in the fairly early days of DVD, when typical desktop CPUs were not fast enough to reliably handle software decoding.
Here is a ...
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How do I diagnose a "system board error" on IBM Thinkpad 600E?
I read somewhere else that it might be the little CMOS battery on the motherboard which probably went dead about 20 years ago :)
The problem is as I mentioned in the post. You get some cryptic ...
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How do I diagnose a "system board error" on IBM Thinkpad 600E?
I was able to download the Thinkpad 600E service manual from this site. If I am understanding the info in the section "How to Use Error Messages" correctly, the
FRU = 3610
part says the ...
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