Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-03-22, 14:40

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by Kaasschaaf

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ASUS made an ITX board for the Pavillion S7000 which took only a single DIMM. Some were regular DDR/DDR2 (Not sure) but all the ones I have seen were laptop memory as they took mobile Celeron processors from the Core 2 era (In short, they were like slow Pentium III's). http://forums.techguy.org/ …

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Re: Are you also spoilt by high-end retro hardware?

Posted on 2015-03-08, 18:25

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by Kaasschaaf

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Seeing AMD positions on CPU market I'm tempted to believe that they're secretly making a new APU, serious enough to compete with mid-range CPU/graphics combos and it's the reason they do not put more work into current CPUs. I wish that to be true but in fact it must be so far from reality... IIRC …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-03-03, 10:45

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by Kaasschaaf

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alexanrs wrote: Just burn the drivers in a CD... or, given how small NIC drivers are, even a floppy should be enough Fixed it. The SD card reader conflicted with it for some reason..

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-03-02, 19:22

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by Kaasschaaf

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I used to like using flash drives on my Win98 box... until I configured my network correctly. Now I do all my file-moving through my network. It is even easier on my A64 XP box. Network drivers? Oh, you mean those things I wanted to install after Intel's chipset drivers using my.. oh wait. Please …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-03-02, 19:13

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by Kaasschaaf

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Trying to figure out why Intels chipset drivers, after installation, decide to not play nice (or at all) with every flash drive I throw at it... On an unrelated note, anyone here know a non-USB method to get files to a Northwood box?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-03-02, 13:05

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by Kaasschaaf

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I finally bought a P4 box. Northwood 2.8GHz fsb533, GF4 MX480 and 2GB RAM. I'll upload some pics later.

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Re: Not sure what hardware

Posted on 2015-02-21, 22:05

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by Kaasschaaf

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So I'm returning to this thread.. I've just seen a really good deal about 1km away from me. Complete Northwood system on an Intel D865PERL board, with some mysterious 64MB NVIDIA card (I suspect a MX440), having to judge from the Speccy screenshot. Intel boards are generally known for being rock …

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Re: How should I reinstall/update my laptop?

Posted on 2015-02-21, 16:44

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How do the laptop "know" when to switch when I'm about to start a game? Or do I have to do it manually? If so, how? Generally it autodetects (e.g. when you launch a Direct3D app), but let's just say that it doesn't work perfectly all the time (OpenGL games tend to turn into a lagfest if graphics …

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Re: Not sure what hardware

Posted on 2015-02-21, 14:36

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by Kaasschaaf

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So I'm returning to this thread.. I've just seen a really good deal about 1km away from me. Complete Northwood system on an Intel D865PERL board, with some mysterious 64MB NVIDIA card (I suspect a MX440), having to judge from the Speccy screenshot. Intel boards are generally known for being rock …

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Re: How should I reinstall/update my laptop?

Posted on 2015-02-21, 11:48

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Specifications always help. Also those driver download programs generally have a tendency of filling systems up with all sorts of things you do not want. Generally what I do is download the Intel chipset drivers , the GPU drivers (on laptops with switchable graphics you generally can only get them …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-02-08, 13:22

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by Kaasschaaf

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Swapped the hinge on my Latitude C600, seems to have gone fine. However, I have a much rarer laptop to show: http://i.imgur.com/ia7wNCHl.jpg This is a Sony Vaio PCG-SR1K, and it was the only example on eBay UK at the time of purchase. It's a 10" laptop, with a 500 MHz Pentium III CPU, 192 MB of RAM …

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Re: Windows 7 died

Posted on 2015-01-15, 11:59

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Nobody complained when XP's mainstream (not extended) support expired, nor did they when support expired for 95, 98, 2000, and so on. But now suddenly everyone starts whining how the world is going to end now that Microsoft won't bring new features to a 6 year old OS and how everyone has to pay to …

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Re: The speed of the tech industries (or what is retro/vintage for the general man)

Posted on 2015-01-02, 21:13

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XP already feels retro for me. Occasionally when I come across a XP box it just feels weird. I'm so used to being able to type something in my start screen and pressing enter that it's become part of my daily workflow. If I had to use XP as a main OS again I would take forever to get used to it. But …

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Re: Not sure what hardware

Posted on 2014-11-29, 23:03

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by Kaasschaaf

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A7N8X-X doesn't have the P4 connector, unless the schematic in Asus' own manual is incorrect, of course. I'm having big trouble finding even second hand PSU's with that amount of current on the +5, so Northwood it is! Just because it doesn't have a +12V connector doesn't mean that it cannot draw …

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Re: Not sure what hardware

Posted on 2014-11-29, 22:27

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by Kaasschaaf

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You might want to look for older PSUs How far back should I look, and what brands should I focus on? (also, general consensus seems that second hand power supplies are more trouble than they're worth - in which case Northwood may be a better idea?) Look for PSUs that are pre-ATX 2.0. Second hand …

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Re: Not sure what hardware

Posted on 2014-11-29, 20:47

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by Kaasschaaf

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So I did some reading around and it turns out an Athlon XP sucks a lot of power from the +5V line, so I focused my search on that. But the only reasonably priced PSU's (e.g. not in the €150-300 range) I could find supply only 24A max on that line. (Seasonic S12II 520W), so I'm not sure if 24A is …

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Re: Not sure what hardware

Posted on 2014-11-29, 19:15

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by Kaasschaaf

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So I did some reading around and it turns out an Athlon XP sucks a lot of power from the +5V line, so I focused my search on that. But the only reasonably priced PSU's (e.g. not in the €150-300 range) I could find supply only 24A max on that line. (Seasonic S12II 520W), so I'm not sure if 24A is …

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Re: Best Printers for 90's computers.

Posted on 2014-11-11, 12:35

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by Kaasschaaf

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Laser printers should be dirt cheap and plentiful if you look around. There were a lot of them in business use, and for a long time. A replacement toner will most likely cost more than the printer, but it will last you a long time. Oooh, just remembered another good late 90s model: The 4000/4050. …

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Re: Not sure what hardware

Posted on 2014-10-31, 10:55

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by Kaasschaaf

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It's not that expensive anymore, super fast, no bothering with 48-bit LBA and Windows 98. But sure. With mechanical drives I meant new PATA drives (in case I get a motherboard that only speaks PATA). But sure, I could get a €40 500GB SATA drive (and DVD drive while we're at it, most SATA …

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Re: Not sure what hardware

Posted on 2014-10-30, 21:16

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by Kaasschaaf

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+1 for the GF4 Ti. I would go for the 4400 or 4600, going for a little more grunt and skipping the Ti4200. I found both a Ti 4800 SE and a Ti 4600 GS, I understand the Ti 4800 SE is simply a spiced up 4400? (Thus the 4600 is faster)? Now there is just one issue left: storage. A DVD drive should be …

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