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Re: Signs Your an Old Geek

Posted on Yesterday, 07:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I know I'm old because I look at new technology and I don't think it's useful, but everyone else is super excited about it. I feel that way about AI and increasingly, about the internet in general. 100% this. I keep finding at work that the “young uns” consistently suggest “just asking copilot” or …

Re: What does your significant other think of your retro pc hobby?

Posted on 2025-01-15, 19:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So long as most of my stuff is in the attic then the wife doesn’t care (or rather, know). I only keep the bare minimum in my study, so it’s neat and tidy.

Re: Addon PCI /PCI-E PS/2 Mouse +Keyboard cards - experience - its genuine PS/2 replacement or new HW SW emulation / f

Posted on 2025-01-14, 19:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Even the first card is a usb to ps2 implementation. The NEC chip is a usb root bridge. The AliExpress listing for the card confirms that it’s USB.

Re: TunerTom's upcoming builds - The aluminium 7

Posted on 2025-01-09, 17:41

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

As an ACTS whore, I highly approve. (I’ve got two 201s, a brown and a silver, a 210, a 110, a 111, and a 620)

Re: PCI ssd adapter?

Posted on 2025-01-07, 20:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The 44-pin IDE SSDs are OK, they aren’t the fastest by any means, but the one I have in my PowerBook G4 is certainly better than the mechanical drive that was in it.

Re: PCI ssd adapter?

Posted on 2025-01-07, 19:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Plenty of SATA to IDE adapters available, doesn’t need to be specific to SSD. You can also use a PCI SATA card if you like, but that seems overkill. As for native PCI SSD, I’ve never seen such a thing, but if something were to exist it would need to boot with an option ROM, so in essence would just …

Re: I bricked my XT-IDE card

Posted on 2025-01-06, 19:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Where to go from here surely is just buy an EEPROM programmer, they aren’t that expensive and are very handy to have around.

Re: ID motherboard

Posted on 2025-01-06, 15:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Assuming the image hasn't been flipped then that's BTX, which must narrow it down a touch? BTX seems a bit late for Slot1 (or even Slot2).

Re: Is this Nvidia card an FX 5200?

Posted on 2025-01-04, 23:31

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Would help if we had a pic to go off, but my guess would be a Quadro P118, as that’s likely to have an S-Video connection (similar to PS/2) and could have either DVI-I or DMS-59 instead of VGA.

Re: Issue with a M825 Socket 462 motherboard

Posted on 2025-01-04, 16:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Your POST analyser is showing the last TWO codes, it’s only freezing on one of them. Seems to me that most of the functions defined in 08 relate to the inability to address the keyboard controller. Trying another CPU (or trying the current CPU in another board) would rule out the “Initializes the …

Re: Need help with Radeon HD3870x2

Posted on 2025-01-03, 18:19

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

The lack of detection on the bus suggests to me that the problem is most likely to be at the PCIe data/lane circuitry. A working video BIOS isn’t usually required for device detection, neither is a working video core. Potentially a problem with the PLX bridge?

Re: socket 478, P4 PC - Win 98, Win XP, or both?

Posted on 2025-01-02, 19:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don’t see a downside to dual-booting. Though in-period I only ever had XP on my S478 P4 systems.

Re: Question Regarding Networking For Onboard Ethernet Adapter For Retronas With Actual Windows 98 / XP Computer

Posted on 2024-12-30, 08:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

First things first, the NIC is clearly working in XP, so I doubt there are resource conflicts. Secondly there isn’t enough information regarding the actual network setup. 1) When you say the host can ping the RetroNAS VM, what network is this through, you mention both a wired switch and a wifi …

Re: Custom or readymade atx frontpanel board?

Posted on 2024-12-16, 13:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is exactly what Lian Li did in the early 2000s. A front panel with a pigtail leading to a large multi-pin connector. Then another pigtail from large multi-pin connector to individual female pin headers. You could easily connect any motherboard up, slide the motherboard into the case and then …

Re: Let's talk about cooling fans and heatsinks...

Posted on 2024-12-10, 18:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Never was that enthralled with Noctua fans, but the 40mm noiseblockers I have seem quite good. I replaced all the 40mm fans in my Cisco CCNP lab kit with these and they have been silent, even back when the “cab” was an Ikea LACK next to the head end of my bed!

Re: Ps/2 to Serial Adaptors do they even work?

Posted on 2024-12-02, 17:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There is absolutely no standard in PS/2>Serial, so typically the converter that came with the mouse is the one that will work, and there’s no guarantee that another adapter will work. I’ve got two identical looking (but different part number) Microsoft adapters. One works with my Intellimouse, one …

Re: Thinning solder mask?

Posted on 2024-11-26, 17:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Interesting, I’ve got some conformal coating and some cellulose thinners along with an R/C car painting airbrush. I could be tempted to try this.

Re: Need help to repair a Voodoo 5 5000/5500 PCI (missing components)

Posted on 2024-11-20, 17:37

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Mine is in the loft, I’ll get it down later and take some hi-res shots if no-one is forthcoming before then.

Re: Voodoo 2 connection cable and rust/oxidation question

Posted on 2024-11-16, 19:02

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

The only real way to tackle a rusty connector that you suspect is rusting internally as well, is to replace it. As anyone who has owned a classic car will attest to, rust is insidious, if you don’t get it all, it WILL spread again. However you could also try a rust converter gel but that would …

Re: Sapphire R7 370 no video output

Posted on 2024-11-12, 15:50

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Best guess is that the particular card you have is UEFI only, and your motherboard needs a legacy BIOS ROM.

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