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

Posted on Yesterday, 21:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wasn't happy with the noise from the sleeve bearing fan. So that's where two of my old friends come in, and keep the Palit GF3 Ti200 cool. https://tweakers.net/i/O0hnNn_FVZZpwduLVX7roojEqbQ=/full-fit-in/4920x3264/filters:max_bytes(3145728):no_upscale():strip_icc():fill(white):strip_exif()/f/image/ …

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

Posted on Yesterday, 21:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Trying to fix a retrobright that ran wild... Pics? What method do you use? I use the hair bleach cream, saran wrap + sun. You gotta get it on there somewhat evenly and apply the wrap tight around it and not let bubbles appear. I've never had a bad turnout, only one was "fair" (still better than the …

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

Posted on 2020-11-28, 15:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dmetsys wrote on 2020-11-28, 07:10: That board is an MSI MS-6309 v2.0. Good little Coppermine/Tualatin motherboard. Great news! I don't have a Tualatin, but I do have a 1GHz CPU kicking around here somewhere. And a nice CPU cooler for it. Thanks for the info 😁

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

Posted on 2020-11-28, 05:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got a rando PII board out of an auction a couple weeks ago, and I finally had a time to look at it. Bulging caps. POST and even boot no problem, but since this is a category 2 machine for me, I invested the $9CAD and ordered the right caps for it. Here are the old ones, popping the tops and nothing …

Re: What is your oldest working Brand name computer ? - ( Challenge ).

Posted on 2020-11-24, 18:02

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

1987 Redstone Computers XT Turbo 10MHz. Has TVM EGA monitor, 101 key XT keyboard, OEM Amstrad Adlib clone sound card, HD FDD controller, 1.2meg 5.25" FDD, 720k 3.5" FDD, XT-IDE card, 2.4gig BigFoot HDD, serial mouse and ehanced LPT port. Running DR Dos 6 with GeoWorks Pro 1.2 as the GUI. Nice kit. …

Re: What is your oldest working Brand name computer ? - ( Challenge ).

Posted on 2020-11-24, 04:11

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

1987 Redstone Computers XT Turbo 10MHz. Has TVM EGA monitor, 101 key XT keyboard, OEM Amstrad Adlib clone sound card, HD FDD controller, 1.2meg 5.25" FDD, 720k 3.5" FDD, XT-IDE card, 2.4gig BigFoot HDD, serial mouse and ehanced LPT port. Running DR Dos 6 with GeoWorks Pro 1.2 as the GUI. Nice kit. …

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

Posted on 2020-11-23, 03:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Been going over a 486 DX33 desktop system i got a while ago. It got a single speed cartridge cd rom. And 2 free 5.25" bays. I wanted to put a 5.25" floppy drive in there, but of course it needs drive bay brackets i am missing. Btw the motherboard has this double 8bit ISA slot, wider than 16bit. …

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

Posted on 2020-11-22, 10:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes I just put in a 128mb Dimm to test with for now. Back in the day I had a DFI HX chipset board which got killed by the Chernobyl Virus. Eventually I threw that out, unfortunate as I could have fixed it easily now. This is the closest to that so I could rebuild my original system specs as they …

Re: What is your oldest working Brand name computer ? - ( Challenge ).

Posted on 2020-11-22, 02:06

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I got a VIC 20 recently.

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

Posted on 2020-11-22, 02:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got a Jetway (J-Mark) 5TXC rev 2 from Ebay as not working for $30 AUD delivered including Pentium 200 MMX CPU. A real bargain, has Intel TX chipset and support for 83mhz bus speeds and up to 4.5x multi. Anyway it was dead, no post at all. I pulled the Bios chip and noticed pins 15 and 16 were …

Re: CD Caddy tray question - Universal fit?

Posted on 2020-11-20, 23:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thank you all again, I received the tray, it does load into the unit; Confirmed universal fit.

Re: 5.25" Floppy drive support.

Posted on 2020-11-20, 04:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a P4 in the basement that supposedly supports 5.25 inch drives, but when I put one in (A or B), General Failure. I know the drive works, in fact, it ended up going into a Celeron system. Weird. I'll get more details when I recap the board (it's an MSI IIRC) - caps are on their way.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-20, 04:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I never understood why people remove the I/O cover or slot from cards. Most of the time when I buy something with it removed, it works. I personally remove them off dead cards and huck em in the e-trash bin - if you remove them yourself, can you tell me why?

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

Posted on 2020-11-19, 19:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm getting ready to expand the retro corner - this weekend my contractor friend is coming by to add an extra 10 sqft to the office at the expense of a column of dead space (I'll take pics later) so I am taking down all my games and diskettes and all my computers. I will use this opportunity to add …

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

Posted on 2020-11-17, 20:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

On that, I still haven't done anything with my semi-boxed like new condiiton VIC-20 that I got from the thrift store over the summer. I know it turns on, and that's it.

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

Posted on 2020-11-17, 14:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have become the CDROM repair guru! #7 - https://i.imgur.com/ezSsRSol.jpg Tray operation was very rough and that band just spun spun spun... https://i.imgur.com/cDsfqXSl.jpg You can even see it took on its own shape - Luckily I had bought a bag of assorted bands to fix a very tight Compaq 4/75CX …

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

Posted on 2020-11-17, 05:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have become the CDROM repair guru! #7 - https://i.imgur.com/ezSsRSol.jpg Tray operation was very rough and that band just spun spun spun... https://i.imgur.com/cDsfqXSl.jpg You can even see it took on its own shape - Luckily I had bought a bag of assorted bands to fix a very tight Compaq 4/75CX …

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

Posted on 2020-11-17, 05:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I offered I will help in cleaning up some rooms in the dungeon at my workplace, and I found some interesting treasures... Znajdzie sie to na Allegro I bet :D Nope. Those things are still owned by my workplace. And I can make use of this CPC for some less serious purposes there too. Oh, szkoda. I …

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

Posted on 2020-11-16, 14:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

HanJammer wrote on 2020-11-16, 14:24: I offered I will help in cleaning up some rooms in the dungeon at my workplace, and I found some interesting treasures... Znajdzie sie to na Allegro I bet 😁

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

Posted on 2020-11-16, 05:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some Thermaltake were built well, the PSU with the man holding a thunderbolt looks like a Leadman/Powmax product iirc. Many of those were poor designed but some were better than average, All depends on the model. Some of the older Leadman/Powmax 6100 series were OK and worked as advertised and …

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