u/YandersonSilva

Hi there. Vague question since I don't have any way to test the hardware aside from just running it. I'm mostly looking at a "should I be worried" and "what are the odds" speculation lol.

I've got a P5A mobo that had an AMD K6-2 in it. It worked wonderfully for a year+ and then one morning wouldn't post. The CPU died, the mobo still functions with a different CPU. All of the capacitors are visually pristine, but there appeared to be NO thermal paste remaining on the CPU/heat sink, I noticed (I did not do a breakdown and rebuild when I found it, my bad).

I am considering putting another CPU in it (an older one even - I read that Socket 5 CPUs work in Socket 7 mobos and I want something slower, ideally in the sub 100mhz range). Thankfully what I want is a dime a dozen.

Thankfully these CPUs are cheap, but is it likely that the original CPU died because of the MOBO?

Is there anything I can test to see if the MOBO is a risk, without voltmeters or whatever? Again, visually it looks pristine. None of the caps are swollen or have any sign of damage, though I understand there can be invisible damage.

Once I get a CPU back into it is there software I can run that checks the health of the mobo?

EDIT: I am not! Thanks u/maWagner84 :)

I got three jokes - unfortunately I did not get the joke from Canuk, and if I un-duck him now he immediately kills me (well, turns me in to a duck).

I only have one zorkmid remaining so I can't pay the blacksmith to tell me his half joke, if that would even count.

Am I hosed?

(Yes, I know, save save save, but my most recent save is post ship in bottle)

I saw it a few days ago and now that I'm trying to tell a friend about it I can't find any evidence of it existing - I don't know cars well, it looked expensive. Like "supercar" expensive - super low to the ground, wide, weird curves and angles. Could be a 100,000 dollar car or a million dollar car for I know, I have no clue.

But it was painted in police colours - blocks of black and white - and the decal on the side said "KAREN PATROL" on it.

Did ANYONE else see it?

EDIT: Thanks for everyone's recommendations! I wound up going to the dutch bakery - I called around to a couple of other places but the answer was "not right now". Seems like 30 degree weather is not super popular pound cake weather. But the dutch bakery had a cherry pound cake which will do for now 😄

For reasons that may get my wife flagged by MCFD, my children are interested in trying some lemon pound cake. We don't drive but are downtown a couple times a week, otherwise I live in Tillicum and go to Esquimalt quite often.

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I could not find a place to ask about Microprose in general, I feel like this would be the best place to ask where I had an OK chance of someone knowing an answer.

I can find this release mentioned on the University of Waterloo archives and some auction site I need to log in to to see. But I can't figure out what this is from.

Not that I am NOT looking for a price - I'm keeping it lol. But is it from a microprose collection? Was it a PC pack-in or something? I really can't find anything about it and am curious. The disc looks untouched and the inserts are in nice condition, so I'll put it in a fresh jewel case and put it on the shelf with the rest of my civ stuff 😄

Probably a better way to word the question but that's what my tired brain can come up with. I also realize there might not be a specific term for this sort of thing.

Basically, abbreviations but for whole sentences instead of just a word.

But emphasis is less on the casual/formal shift than just the number of words changing. I have been thinking about this because I don't like when my children just say "I want food" - I teach them to ask the more specific question, like "can you get me food". I don't actually care if they say "please", BUT i realized I was fine with "food, please" because it implies "can you get me food, please". Same meaning, fraction of the words.