Hm, I wouldn't want to do too many custom things. So, if new-ish ATX sources don't work it might just be cheaper to dismantle my PSU and tell an electrician to clean it properly from dust / mold / whatever. The 2nd route being finding a 2nd hand AT source which will probably also be dirty. The …

Hello, Perhaps it's a silly question but I've never been much of a hardware guy... My 90s Cyrix PC has two problems: 1. the CPU fan is not spinning. If I manually help it it wobbles a bit then stops. So, I'm thinking of buying any 50mm fan I can find. I can get online 'Fractal Design Silent Series …

It will probably sound extreme to you, but I'm cleaning my retro computers with water and soap + brush, that way it make most dust to go away and it remove quite some smell from the board. Doesn't water... destroy your computers? I thought isopropyl alcohol is the go-to cleaning solution. I'm not …

I'll try to see if I can use the compressed air on the PSU too. Except the PSU I only have the CPU fan which is wobbly and working half the time. (Which reminds me I have to order one). The machine is actually much cleaner than these horror photos. It's the dust you feel, not you see, that's a …

Hello, I finally have my old PC booting but I am very annoyed by the amount of dust I feel in the air when it's running. It's been in an attic for a decade or more and it's even older, so it makes sense. I did clean up manually a bit and with a can of compressed air, but I feel there's much more to …

... and it boots!

Thanks! Not sure why I didn't think of this...

Hello, I finally got around to restoring my old Cyrix PC (which was in an attic in my hometown). After waiting for the PS2/AT adapters and such I now tried to boot it and noticed the floppy drive is not reading anything. So... perhaps the drive itself is broken. The floppy disks are also pretty old …

I will certainly use Windows. Originally I had Windows 95 on the machine, then 98. But I believe Windows 3.1 might be a better fit. > If I relive my childhood I'll fire up the 486, If I want to play the game with everything on high settings I'll use the P3. Oddly enough I didn't even play that many …

The fan is actually kinda not working. It seems to wobble and stops spinning every few seconds. I ordered another 50mm fan to replace it. I read somewhere that while hot the Cyrix CPUs don't really need much cooling (ie. they can take the heat). That's why they didn't even use thermal paste back …

Hello, I'm restoring my first PC, a Cyrix 6x86 with 16MB of RAM. I have an A-Trend ATC-1030 motherboard which is more capable than I remembered it: supports upto 128MB RAM and even has pins for USB. The machine boots but sadly I don't have an ATC keyboard so I'm waiting for the PS/2-AT adapter. I …