I use an old socket 7 Soyo Sy-5eas motherboard and a pentium 166mmx in my retro build. It uses the Via VPX chipset and can cache 64mb of memory. The board has one single slot for PC66 sdram which according to the manual can handle up to a 32mb module. I knew for a fact that it can handle a 128mb …

A small update The system as it is at the moment. As you see, one of the two motherboard trays has been modified when they built the dual ppro machine. I have that motherboard, its a full AT board. I would like to use it, but it dosnt post anymore. I did work when I found the box but the battery …

I have always called it the Mystique and downloaded Mystique drivers for it. You learn something new every day :D As a side note. A long time ago when I was playing with my old 486 dx2 80 on a late 486 board with both PCI and VESA local bus I tried to make it run at 50 mhz fsb with 50mhz PCI clock, …

My last project, the Compaq deskpro 4000 5133 is back in its box. Some hardware trouble that I dont feel like dealing with right now, instead I found the acual motherboard I used for a little less than a year 1997 - 1998. Im the type of guy that saves almost everything so most motherboards I have …

A last bump Here is a picture showing the deskpro board running speedsys before the "year 2k test bug" showed its ugly face. I deleted all the pictures of the compaq running speedsys since they were not sharp enough for my liking but I managed to restore this one. The memory speed is not that great …

I have also had one of those IBM 486 SX25, I think it had 8mb ram and a 170 mb hardrive. Mine diddnt have an overdrive :D It was a stop gap between my IBM 55 SX and a olevetti 486 SX33 (that used standard components) The olivetti had two harddrives 80 + 210 mb and a soundblaster clone of some sort, …

Shameless bump with lots of pictures of naked hardware. I think today was the final chapter in this fairy tale for a while. I was running speedsys with diffrent amounts of memory to see if I could spot a diffrence in performance Since I dont know what chipset the motherboard is using I dont know how …

Nice! I would love to have a DFI super socket 7 board. Im not sure about Via though but I guess DFI diddnt make any super socket 7 boards with Aladdin V / M1541/ M1543? Is your system stable and hassle free?

I did run speedsys to check that everything was working The only motherboard information I can remember is vendor name (Compaq) and information about the bios revison Is there a special command in speedsys to show more information about the system? [Edit] I checked again with speedsys, no …

Not retro you might say Just wait 10 years, beeing the fastest AGP card ever produced and new in its box cant be bad.

I dont know what chipset this board uses. Since I only have dos 6.22 installed at the moment I cant use some clever utility to identify it and the bios is not very helpful I took a couple of pictures of the large chipset like ICs on the motherboard so perhaps some one with more knowledge about …

Your case looks great. This gives me lots of inspiration. 😀 Since I dont have the part of the original deskpro case where you anchor the expansion cards I will need something a bit more sturdy, perhaps wood!

The bios updated without disaster :D There were no instructions in the bios package concerning how the bios should be updated and no files exept a flash utility, some sort of bios package, himem.sys and a config.sys which I stupidly diddn't investigate. I tried to update from dos and it seemed to …

I cant really stand the noise from these really old harddrives :D thats why I like to update the bios. The bios I found on the shady driver site is dated over a year later than the one on the board atm so im hoping that it will remove the 8.4 gb limit. I have a nice and quiet 10gb IBM drive but the …

Hi! I just discovered this forum and after reading a few threads I got inspired to build my own retro system for dos gaming. About 10 years ago I found an old trashed compaq computer, I took it home but for some reason I only saved the motherboard with a pentium 133 cpu and the power supply. It was …