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Re: new old computer

Posted on 2011-06-02, 03:08

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Sounds like a nice system, what OS are you going to run? What about your ram? I also put my PIII 1ghz 512 80gb DVD Geforce 3 build in a brand new case worked out well. Best of luck and look forward to seeing pics. I have been working in a new old computer. 1. Asus p3b-f with p3/450 katmai processor …

Re: OEM Systems Mid-Late 90's

Posted on 2011-06-02, 02:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for the feedback, I have done 1 and 5, I will order number 4 this week. In regard to number 2 it will only take a 266, and I don't want mess with stock-ness of it, and the HDD is pletny I think for Quake and the few games I will run on it. BTW this post is typed on this system. Thanks …

Re: OEM Systems Mid-Late 90's

Posted on 2011-05-31, 19:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks everyone for your input, but so far this thing is not normal at all, it's non standard ATX power supply, I thought OK I can deal with that just buy an extra. So then I went to put in the fan, removed the plate and went to stick in a 80mm fan, won't fit. The mounting holes are 67mm what the h* …

Re: OEM Systems Mid-Late 90's

Posted on 2011-05-31, 16:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It has a place for a fan, but it's covered up with a metal plate. Do you think it would be worthwhile to add in a fan? Ya this one don't have a reset switch but I wonder if the mobo has a header for one? I will have to look. It has one the 1st PII cores, built in 11-1997. From the data on the hard …

Re: OEM Systems Mid-Late 90's

Posted on 2011-05-31, 15:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here is the Gateway system I chose to use for my Windows 98 system. It's a PII 233 64MB RAM 4.3GB HDD and AGP STB Velocity 128 (Nvidia Riva 128) and SB 128 PCI. Let me know your thoughts and anyway to improve it! http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/l554/ibm5150pc/IMG_0009-1.jpg http://i1123. …

Re: Practice PC # 2 - retro PC - Windows 98

Posted on 2011-05-31, 13:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a PC just like this, same thing. It's got a bad floppy drive, disk I/O error on boot. I don't care for those HP's like this, too cramped and to hard to work on and no room for add in's. But to the Op, there no better way then learn PC's then hands on, I started back in 95 at age 9, just …

OEM Systems Mid-Late 90's

Posted on 2011-05-30, 05:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am aware of all the negatives of OEM Name brand systems have today, that they all use the cheapest lowest grade parts out there and non standard parts and so on, and how it's ten times better to build your own ect. Dose that also apply to the systems from OEM's such as Gateway, HP, DELL Compaq …

Re: Gateway 2000 System CD Image

Posted on 2011-05-28, 18:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ya that's it, that's what I am looking for.... It's only lacking DOS 6.22 but I have that anyway! Thanks a Million! swaaye wrote: I think I have that CD. I will check out the version later. But it isn't exactly a image restore. It has apps,drivers, Windows 3.1, amd some wacky Gateway extras.

Re: Gateway 2000 System CD Image

Posted on 2011-05-28, 13:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I like to keep my system's close to factory as I can. Plus my 1st PC all mine was a gateway 2000 486 DX 66, and I have found memory's of playing with the Gateway Mall on that CD.. I was young then so it was easy to entire me ;-) It'll be hard to find. Sorry for not being of any help. What do you …

Gateway 2000 System CD Image

Posted on 2011-05-28, 04:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sorry if this it not allowed or in the wrong place, but I am looking for the system CD image from an Gateway 2000 486DX2 66. cd.textfiles.com has it but it's missing files and not a true image, if you have Version 4.2 (October 1994) or sometime after August 1994 (system was build 08-94) that would …

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-05-24, 20:48

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Yup, the place were I was hosting them is going bye bye ;-( Tetrium wrote: ibm5150pc wrote: DELETED Any reason why you deleted all of your posts here??

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-05-24, 19:55

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

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Re: 486 DX 2 66 What OS

Posted on 2011-05-24, 17:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes that's what I got when I tired it, I went with MSCDX and Oaksys and it's working flawless. In DOS 6.22 and WFW 3.11. Thanks everyone for your input! F2bnp wrote: QCDROM and SHCDX33 have never worked well for me. I always end up with an Access Denied error!

Re: 486 DX 2 66 What OS

Posted on 2011-05-23, 21:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dos anyone have any leads on working MS-DOS Mouse and CD-ROM DRIVERS? I would need step by step unless they install them self's and update the config.sys and autoexe.bat automatically. Don't know much about Pure DOS I am a all windows 😉 Tetrium thanks for that post, very helpful!

Re: 486 DX 2 66 What OS

Posted on 2011-05-23, 18:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

elfuegio, I am logged on this form with this very same 486DX2 system with 16mb, and it's just nearly as fast as my daily driver 2.6Ghz system, In IE 3.0 everything looks like sh*t but it's still very use-able. I am amazed it works this well 😉. My 1st post from a 486DX2!

486 DX 2 66 What OS

Posted on 2011-05-23, 17:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have always been confused about what class CPU should match up with the correct version of windows. On my Gateway 2000 486DX2 66Mhz, 16mb ram, 700MB HD. I installed Windows 95. Is that the correct OS or should I have gone with Windows 3.11 and true DOS? My thought is 95 is to much for a 486 and …

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-05-23, 15:10

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-05-23, 14:50

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

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Re: Advice on Specs

Posted on 2011-05-20, 15:24

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Looks to be the same at E Bay Item "200477402624". The board has E139761 marked on it, stickers say ISFJ00124428 and 4000531. No ideal really....

Re: Advice on Specs

Posted on 2011-05-20, 14:10

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Thanks for everyone input, I deiced to put away the 233PII and go with the 433 Celeron. Mainly because of "Midtown Madness 2" 266Mhz system requirements. This 433 Celeron sits inside a Gateway 433C or GP6-433c. That system has an ATI Rage PRO 128 on board (integrated). It also has 192 RAM and 9GB …

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