Re: A new (old) Toy - Compaq portable III
Posted on 2023-02-06, 09:16
https://minuszerodegrees.net/manuals/Compaq/C … -%20options.htm
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2023-02-06, 07:46
Kind of a traditional move, though shame the XT board wouldn't work for you. Yeah I know. Tried a few things but nada. Both the controllers report to be dead too so I'd thought that transplanting would be the next best thing. Still going to check the hard drive though once I find my spare …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2023-02-05, 20:04
Converted this sadly non-working XT to a working 286-16. I just kept the case and PSU,all the rest are spare parts.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2023-01-21, 12:59
It means horny 😀 I always found it amusing being Dutch/Flemish speaking.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2023-01-13, 11:09
Bought this in a dirty condition for 25€. I think I snatched it just in time 😀 Just cleaned it,now need to test it...Overall it's in a pretty good condition. Spacebar has yellowed a bit.
Re: Trident TVGA 8800CS issue
Posted on 2022-12-26, 19:37
No change whatsoever from what I remember. I'll try it again.
Re: Trident TVGA 8800CS issue
Posted on 2022-12-26, 19:28
Yeah I also thought what was on the screen but also no clue of what's going on and why my TFT doesn't like it.
Re: Trident TVGA 8800CS issue
Posted on 2022-12-26, 18:39
No one 😀 !?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-12-25, 11:42
Quite possible. I have one and only found 1 locally (Belgium) and stupidly passed up on it. Seen 1 on ebay in Spain or Italy for parts. Not that I really look for it since I have one.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-12-25, 11:00
Bought a Radeon HD 2900XT for $70. Not a mind blowing price but these are genuinely rare (didn't sell well, super noncompetitive compared to say, 8800GTX). Took me 2 years to find my 2900GT for $55 so I'm glad to finally have the real deal. I think it's a fair price. It took me a long time too to …
Trident TVGA 8800CS issue
Posted on 2022-12-24, 09:45
I had this card for a while and I knew about the issue but finally I decided to ask help :) When I put this in a PC and connect it to my TFT I get a 'signal out of range' message. When I connect to CRT I get this garbled screen that seems duplicated. I'm sure quite a few will know what's going on …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-12-22, 11:15
Finally it's how I wanted it. Bought this for like 35€ a few weeks ago. It seems titanium ones are more 'rare'? Both parts of top case had cracks but luckily I found a near new set cheap on Ebay. Upped the RAM to 4GB (well 3 lol), swapped the Core Duo CPU for a T7200 and changed the original HD to …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-12-17, 19:10
It's an Audigy 2 card. I'll check the PSU type tomorrow. The PC costed me 20€ so this was a great deal!
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-12-17, 18:47
P4 3,2 and the Ultra 😀
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-12-17, 17:43
Bought it pretty much for the case (with unknown and untested hardware) just in time before it was scrapped. Turns out to be a very nice system with some nice components. The previous owner got taste 😀 Added 1GB more, installed a fresh XP and had to work on the optical drives a bit.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-11-29, 16:06
After 3 damn frustrating days,I finished my latest buy from my regular e-waste supplier. It is in very good shape. CMOS battery was empty so I replaced it with a 2x2032 coincell holder so that solved problem number one. Problem 2: setup config error but this has to be done with a setup file/floppy …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-11-12, 15:17
Yes. I still need to take a good look at it but it seems it's pretty much complete except for the driverfloppy. Got 2 versions of Falcon 3.0 now :p
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-11-12, 15:10
This got in today...
Re: i/o and non system disk fault
Posted on 2022-11-06, 08:01
Or a Gotek as I do 😀
Re: How do you store your keyboards?
Posted on 2022-09-27, 16:04
I have so much computers that I can put all of my keyboards on top of them. 1 per PC 😀
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