Re: Anyone put an SSD in a Libretto U100? (1.8" PATA SSD)
Posted on 2023-03-22, 01:55
No problem at all! Did you ever sort anything out for yours? Still got mine, still used occasionally and working well!
Re: IDE adapter file transfer
Posted on 2023-02-27, 16:59
I did think something like that might be the case until it started getting flaky without disconnecting it, and you can also hear the drive being accessed But yeah, that would probably explain why I didn’t spot it at first
Re: IDE adapter file transfer
Posted on 2023-02-27, 14:31
I’ve just been playing around with it, tried a Win10 laptop with it too - If I copy files over from Win10/11 and then read them off the drive without disconnecting the adapter, they work absolutely fine most but not all of the time. If I disconnect and reconnect the adapter to Win10/11 and then try …
Re: IDE adapter file transfer
Posted on 2023-02-27, 12:43
Are you using USB at both ends, or are you connecting the drive directly to IDE at the Win98 end? If the latter, what motherboard do you have? Possibly it can't handle the 10GB drive size. Try connecting via USB at that end too. If that does allow you (slow) uncorrupted access to the files, this is …
Re: IDE adapter file transfer
Posted on 2023-02-27, 09:30
That’s weird. Is any encryption or permissions being set on the windows 11 machine? It is a head scratcher as I’ve used the same adapter with my 486 machine which worked just fine (albeit with ImDisk to mount the OnTrack overlay partition) I’ll check this out and report back thank you How large is …
Re: Unable to install Windows 95, format c: won't do anything
Posted on 2023-02-26, 22:57
Bit late now, but my go-to is 98lite with the 95 Explorer for systems that are too slow for full 98SE. Swap some assets from 95 and you’d never know the difference in day to day use but still get the superior driver support and stability
Re: IDE adapter file transfer
Posted on 2023-02-26, 22:54
Can you read known good files off it fine, and is the name shown in device manager correct? (This should exclude bad connections on the converter) What if you open it in a disk editor (such as HxD as administrator)? Yes to the first two questions, I can read the files already on the disk fine, as …
IDE adapter file transfer
Posted on 2023-02-26, 19:34
So - I’ve got a USB-IDE adapter I’m trying to use to transfer some files from a aWindows 11 desktop to a Windows 98 hard drive All of the files I transfer can be accessed and copied absolutely fine from the Windows 11 machine but the Windows 98 install recognises all of the files as corrupt- hard …
Re: AWE64 CT4380 repair - anyone got one?
Posted on 2023-02-14, 11:16
Awesome thank you 🙂
AWE64 CT4380 repair - anyone got one?
Posted on 2023-02-13, 17:03
Afternoon folks - hopefully a quick one, purchased a CT4380 AWE64 card off eBay as “PC won’t boot when inserted”. Normally wouldn’t pay much for anything with an unknown issue like this but I could see physical damage to the card in the photos that looked like an easy fix. Turned out that meant a …
Re: Toshiba Libretto 100CT / 110CT tutorials - 96MB RAM, 300MHz
Posted on 2021-10-26, 16:36
Thank you for these. Will definately try RAM upgrade. My Libretto is 110CT but I have no adapter to try it on yet. No problem - good luck finding one of the RAM modules, glad I bought one when I did. Mine has been running fully stable at the 300MHz with a 47k resistor (according to the CPU voltage …
Re: Retro computer builds that surprised you the most because they worked better than expected
Posted on 2021-09-22, 12:30
My PI machine with a PCChips M598LMR board. Admittedly it did need a few caps but since then it’s been rock solid, plenty of (actual)cache and none of the horror stories I’ve heard about them
Re: Varta's out. Now what?
Posted on 2021-08-23, 17:43
Indeed, works a treat so far!
Re: Varta's out. Now what?
Posted on 2021-08-23, 16:18
With a 1N4002 in series I get about 4V to the board from 3 AAAs
Re: Varta's out. Now what?
Posted on 2021-08-22, 17:02
I was warned against using NiMH rechargeables when I last looked this up in the following thread: NiMH would be very dangerous to do that with - they are tempermental on how they are charged. not nearly as bad as lithium types though! NiCD would be perfect but remember they can leak like the …
Re: Your Mothership PC Components
Posted on 2021-08-12, 21:32
This is bringing some memories of my old systems back! The first computer we had was a P1 - a family computer so don’t know much about it. First computer I owned myself was a Dell Optiplex GX110 I think, with a PII. Was really fond of that computer and quite gutted when a family member threw it out, …
Re: 486 eBay pickup - new project!
Posted on 2021-08-11, 08:07
Have been messing around with my Dreamblaster X2GS and it's absolutely great, the GS bank feels just perfect for a 90s MIDI experience. The Buran bank sounds incredible (for MIDI) in terms of realism but just doesn't seem to fit with retro games as nicely. Yet to play around with any other sound …
Re: My selection of builds ‘97 - ‘00!
Posted on 2021-08-08, 13:14
Few changes to the setup, now focused the P200 and my other 486 pickup for DOS and the rest for Windows. Switched around the sound cards a bit: P933 - onboard AC’97 audio (also added a USB 2.0 card) PII - SB Live P233 - ESS Audiodrive P200 - Yamaha LSI-Audio Wave The P200 has onboard audio but PCI …
Re: Trident 8900D on 486DX2-66 system - VLB replacement?
Posted on 2021-08-03, 22:20
Yeah it’s a pretty conclusive result I would say, it’s actually just over double the FPS. Wonder if it’d be even more of a drastic difference with something like a 5x86 in there. It does turn out the CPU can be a bottleneck after all 🤷🏻♂️ I saw a bench somewhere between the exact same chip in both …
Re: Trident 8900D on 486DX2-66 system - VLB replacement?
Posted on 2021-08-03, 07:50
Still need to bench it properly but so far switching to the 5428 instantly doubled my frame rates in Doom compared to the old card :O so that’s quite the result there. I did have a bit of a panic when it displayed garbled colours on booting into Windows until I ran Setup and figured out I’d …
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