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Turning off the TURBO mode on my P1 133MHz box helped with misbehaving cdrom drive that refused to read cds. My explanation at the time was slower reading is mo
by janci 8y ago
Turning off the TURBO mode on my P1 133MHz box helped with misbehaving cdrom drive that refused to read cds. My explanation at the time was slower reading is more reliable.
Oh the disappoitment when I disassembled the case and noticed the turbo button is not connected to anything except for led display showing Hi and Lo on 7-segments. It was just placebo effect.
- kungtotte 8y agoIt's not necessarily placebo: http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
- jlebrech 8y agothat could the premise to a movie. a kid finds the magic button his grandparent's basement and flips it.
- Bluecobra 8y agoOh man, you just gave me a flashback to the buffer underrun days in the mid 90s. Even moving the mouse in Windows 95 could cause a bad burn and render a (then expensive) CD-R useless. I’m glad that was short lived.
- mnw21cam 8y agoBut if you didn't move the mouse, the screensaver would kick in, and then you would definitely get a buffer underrun. I got more reliable CD burns on my 14MHz Amiga than I did on my ~200MHz Win95.
- alinspired 8y agothat certainly wasn't LED display
- lepht 8y agoIt almost certainly was -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-segment_display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-segment_display