I noticed a lot of noise on my AWE32 CT2760 when I put it into my old P90. When I had it in my high-end Tyan motherboard, it was perfectly silent (I'm not exaggerating) even when the volume is cranked up and listening on Sony MDR-V6s headphones. I'm not sure if it is the motherboard or the cheap …

It's possible that the kernel that comes with Fedora 8 doesn't have those drivers enabled then. Or it does, but I haven't figured out how to load them yet, since apparently it's not automatic. I found this guide that might help you if you want to try imaging the drive using Linux. Tried that, but …

I succeeded doing this many years ago. I took the Seagate MFM controller and hard drive from the old IBM PC/XT and put them in the new Pentium (it was new back then.) The controller was not recognized be the BIOS on the Pentium and the drive did not show up in DOS. So I installed Slackware Linux on …

You shouldn't have to use a dremel to remove the Dallas chip. Just get a pair of angled cuticle clippers, and clip each pin one at a time. Then you can use a soldering iron and a pair of needle nosed pliers to remove the stubs. Solder in a socket. Sorry, I worded that wrong. I didn't mean to say …

chose007 wrote: http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/zz23/prospekty7/hwnet5/DSCF3537_resize_zpsc4kbo1oy.jpg […] Show full quote So many nice cards in there, but this one is really interesting. An SCSI/soundcard combo. At first I thought it was PCI-X, but it didn't look right. Plus it has a Vibra 16 …

And here it is: Beige Beauty. I put in an NEC 4X ATAPI CD-ROM. It came with a Creative Labs multimedia upgrade kit (SB16 + CD-ROM) that was in my ad’s 486SX. It’s similar to the one someone was trying to identity earlier. http://i.imgur.com/hylGQJN.jpg This is exactly what I did not want to see. …

I had a Neptune board with a P90, 40 megs of ram, a Mach 64 video card, and an AWE32 with a Pro-Logic Daughter card. It ran perfectly stable with no heat issues at all at 100 Mhz -- I Just had to move one jumper. It was an excellent system... But then I did something REALLY STUPID! I took advice …

It's possible that it only requires adjusting some trimpots on the inside. I had a 15" Samsung bought in 1998 that was also getting dim a few years ago, and I opened it up, adjusted a trimpot and it was back to it's original brightness. Fixing the cable will be tougher if it's attached to the …

I really like this build but that maxtor is best in a 486 (got two of them just like that) and they are crazy durable. Nice gold top pentium :) I'm glad it is still working, but it does sound a little louder than I remember it. I think it's "period correct." It was manufactured in June '94 and I …

Welcome. :) Enjoyed reading your story and looking at the photos. I'll admit doing the "old switcheroo" a few times in my youth. Like you, I'm not proud, but I'll bet it was fairly common practice back in the day. Hope it all fires up when you get it together! Glad you liked it. And yes I think it …

Hi everyone. I've been lurking Vogons for years, but I’ve never had an account or posted anything. I enjoyed the various “my first computer” stories and threads so I thought I would share mine. I was cleaning up my basement and came across my first computer. I hadn't seen it in years and it was in …