didn't this scare you on windows XP
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That's quite a rare screen for Windows XP. Normally it would instantly shutdown the computer.
I think I only ever saw this once with XP, when I installed XP on an old OG Celeron Slot 1 PC and APM was disabled by default.
It didn't scare me though since I was used to it on Windows 9x machines, I just googled why it occured and changed the appropriate setting.
Now what was scary was letting one of my older brothers use that system online, took him about 1 week to trash that install.
It didn't scare me though since I was used to it on Windows 9x machines, I just googled why it occured and changed the appropriate setting.
Now what was scary was letting one of my older brothers use that system online, took him about 1 week to trash that install.
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I guess the scenario where this screen would appear, are PCs that don't exceed the maximum system requirements, which run older versions of Windows like 95 and 98.
Screen was rare unless your PC was from the 90's, MS did shit like that to keep hardware compatibility, hell Windows 10/11 has it.. just gotta look on the net for it
Before the new power star consumption standars NOT all main boards handle the PSU. So most of the PSUs couldn't be turn of or on from software, they had BIG mechanical switches in order to power on/off them so windows couldn't power off the computer you needed to do manually
They used to be like:
At my country the most common was:
I remember as a young kid connecting the pins on the wrong order and creating a shortcut with big sparks and a burnt fuse
(wasn't funt at the moment but today I laugh remembering it)
They used to be like:
At my country the most common was:
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I remember as a young kid connecting the pins on the wrong order and creating a shortcut with big sparks and a burnt fuse
(wasn't funt at the moment but today I laugh remembering it)
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Nice XPee piss jug!
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This one obv (when played fast & continuously)
Before the new power star consumption standars NOT all main boards handle the PSU. So most of the PSUs couldn't be turn of or on from software, they had BIG mechanical switches in order to power on/off them so windows couldn't power off the computer you needed to do manually
They used to be like:
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At my country the most common was:
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I remember as a young kid connecting the pins on the wrong order and creating a shortcut with big sparks and a burnt fuse
A saying I've heard when connecting pre-ATX PSUs to mobos is 'red is dead', I think it was from Adrian's Digital Basement.
For those who don't know, this is what the original mobo power connections look like:
https://www.playtool.com/pages/psuconnectors/atindex.jpg
Me triggered. In positive sense. Wave of nostalgia.Before the new power star consumption standars NOT all main boards handle the PSU. So most of the PSUs couldn't be turn of or on from software, they had BIG mechanical switches in order to power on/off them so windows couldn't power off the computer you needed to do manually
They used to be like:
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At my country the most common was:
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I remember as a young kid connecting the pins on the wrong order and creating a shortcut with big sparks and a burnt fuse
Awesome memories. Awesome pictures.
The big red flip switch was also used in IBM XT/AT computers.
Most of my AT, non ATX PSUs are dead. Can't use the 80386 and 80486 machines because of this. Well. That was even before Microsoft introduced the "It is now safe to turn off" screen.
The older PCs became unusable even earlier because the MFM harddisks failed. Seagate ST-225 for example. Even had a "park" command to bring the read/write heads in safe position before power off.
I wish I had the ability to repair the stuff and somehow find replacements for the failed HDDs. Can somebody acutally rebuild such things? Some stupid hardware emulator isn't the same.
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