Re: Floppy to USB converter

Posted on 2021-04-08, 20:12

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wiretap wrote on 2021-04-05, 23:42: You can get pre-made USB-A to USB header cable. Y'know, I completely forgot about something like that. They're a bit on the expensive side but I suppose that's expected.

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Re: Floppy to USB converter

Posted on 2021-04-05, 23:30

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wiretap wrote on 2021-04-04, 00:53: They are about $10 on Ebay. They usually come with USB type A connectors soldered to the converter board, but I just soldered up a motherboard header cable on mine. Ah, that's the answer I was afraid of. Oh well, guess I'll just have to find a header and bodge …

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Floppy to USB converter

Posted on 2021-04-03, 23:58

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I may be upgrading my XP rig to something much newer, but unfortunately the board I have in mind doesn't have a floppy header. I'm hoping y'all have recommendations for a floppy to USB converter that doesn't break the bank and itself won't break later on down the line. Ideally I'd want one that …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2020-12-07, 18:10

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A few minor changes from the last picture that I figured I'd share. 1. added a 5V LNA to the 9600 Pro because it was obnoxious, and temps aren't even much worse at all 2. moved all my sound card stuff up since I plan on buying a USB 2.0 card before too much longer because not having one has become …

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Upgrading an XP machine to an SSD

Posted on 2020-11-27, 02:19

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I've got a 240GB Kingston SUV400 kicking around and I'm finally biting the bullet and ordering a SATA to IDE adapter from StarTech to give my XP machine a kick in the ass, but I've just got a few questions I was hoping y'all could help me out with. 1. I was planning on cloning both the boot drive …

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Re: What is the loudest hard drive you have???

Posted on 2020-11-25, 23:04

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Sadly just an old Deskstar with a whiny spindle. Would love to get my hands on another Bigfoot TS as well as a Fireball or two, though.

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2020-11-19, 15:20

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Just got some new-old stock heatsinks in yesterday to replace my original ones since the plastic clips broke, and so far I'm pretty damn happy. Both of them are still quieter than just the little GPU fan, and thermals are way better than before. Before with the 92mm fan shared between the heatsinks, …

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Re: Tualatin cooler compatibility

Posted on 2020-10-20, 15:14

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debs3759 wrote on 2020-10-17, 17:46: That cooler is for FC-PGA and others without the IHS, so wouldn't be suitable, unless you are willing and able to bend the clip so that it can cope with the extra height. Well I've certainly done worse to this poor system, so that seems pretty reasonable to me. …

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Tualatin cooler compatibility

Posted on 2020-10-17, 17:42

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Hey all, I'm currently looking at some heatsinks for the 1266 Tualatins in my Supermicro P3TDDE, and I've just got a real simple question. I'm not very familiar with the IHS P3's in regards to coolers, and on Ebay I came across some Cooler Master CM-MF370 heatsinks and was just wondering if these …

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Re: Advantages of Dual Pentium3 or dual Pentium motherboards for retro PC?

Posted on 2020-06-30, 23:03

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They look cool. Not biased at all. They can make for pretty competent early 2000's XP machines in the case of the P3's though there are more cases than I'd like where they're missing some of the instructions that P4's have.

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2020-06-01, 21:51

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Latest iteration of my money pit, thanks to quarantine boredom. Specs: Phanteks Enthoo Pro Supermicro P3TDDE 2x Pentium III-S @ 1266MHz 512MB PC133 ECC Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB 80GB Barracuda 7200.7 (OS + programs), 160GB Diamondmax Plus 9 (games) SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Digital (primary sound card), …

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Re: In search of two components

Posted on 2020-05-31, 19:01

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2. Trickier indeed; can't think of one off the top of my head. You really have 4 USB ports on the front panel, and no available headers on the motherboard? Yep, the Enthoo Pro has 2x 2.0 and 2x 3.0, and the only header I have on the board is not only slow as sin, but also has the pin where the …

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In search of two components

Posted on 2020-05-31, 17:21

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This should be pretty simple. For the first thing, I'm looking for is an XP-compatible PCI sound card (ideally SoundBlaster, but something) that has the connector for an HD audio connector (since my case is the Enthoo Pro I don't have a pigtail for AC97). I've seen the Xonar DG bouncing around quite …

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Re: What would a good PSU be for this?

Posted on 2020-05-25, 02:36

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You should be able to use either an ATX 24 pin or 20 pin and P6 connector. The extra connectors both do the same job in reinforcing the 3.3V and 5V lines. Oh really? I suppose that would explain builds I've seen with this board that have significantly more oompfh that only use the 24 pin. Guess I …

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Re: What would a good PSU be for this?

Posted on 2020-05-24, 20:27

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The 6-pin power connector is used to feed additional +5V and +3.3V rails to the motherboard. Unless you get a super high end PSU, like a EVGA Supernova 1600 (and hope you have enough amps on the 5V rail), a modern PSU will not work. (your mb lacks a P4 connector) Since the early 2000s, the focus …

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What would a good PSU be for this?

Posted on 2020-05-24, 15:01

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Alright so basically, I plan on eventually shoving my current XP machine (relevant specs at end of post) into a much newer case, both for airflow as well as aesthetic reasons, but the whole power supply situation kinda throws a wrench into that. Right now it's got an old Rosewill RV350 which serves …

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Re: Compaq Prosignia 165 restore software

Posted on 2019-11-01, 16:40

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Looking through available documentation makes it sound like restore CDs had to be ordered directly from Compaq and didn't come with the computer. Good luck finding one. Barely anybody ordered the replacement/restore software back in the day. It kinda also looks like the restore media was probably …

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Compaq Prosignia 165 restore software

Posted on 2019-11-01, 14:31

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Alright this one is one hell of a stretch seeing as the Prosignia 165 is seemingly one of the harder machines to come across on the internet (hell, my 3DM99 run is the only video of one on YT), but this is forum is probably my best shot at this. I've got this PS165 that didn't come with its original …

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Re: 3dmark99 MegaThread

Posted on 2019-09-22, 21:34

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Quick run on my XP rig. Ignore the OC shown in the screenshot, turns out it didn't actually apply (it's set to only turn on when a 3D program is running and it never tripped). Result file is attached as well to show that it's not a tampered with score. Only things of note is that I had to install …

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Re: What DOS games do you feel I'm missing?

Posted on 2019-01-19, 22:40

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Turrican 2 and Dangerous Dave trilogy , Goblins games? should be there as well but tbh your list is so small mate... it would help to write what genres you are interested in Honestly it's easier just to say that I'm not into text-adventure games (such as A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). This is …

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