Re: Help Identifyng Mainboard
Posted on 2017-08-17, 01:51
Remember kids, always reverse image search pictures from eBay, Craigslist or similar.
Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online
Posted on 2017-08-17, 01:48
http://m.ebay.com.au/itm/Soundblaster-AWE-32-with-8mb-RAM-with-Floppy-disks-CDs-Cables-Full-Size-ISA-/112515385849 $1000? Yeah, pass. 11 feedback, laffo. Yes here please take my money. This Macintosh Color Classic with Takky upgrade can be yours for one easy payment of only $5,000! Bonus features: …
Re: What to do with a mobo that only has PCI-e slots?
Posted on 2017-08-17, 01:31
First of all, are you sure about the slots? All the images I can find show that it has at least one PCI slot, depending on the exact model. Second, I don't know where you get that only Win7 supports PCI Express. The slot was introduced during XP's heyday, it should run fine. I've built plenty of XP …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-08-16, 03:27
Nice. When do you plan to install custom firmware? Actually the early PS3s with NOR flash are a PITA to hack, if I recall correctly. I have a CECHA01, and did a bit of research when I got it. It seems that all of the commonly available tools are designed for the later models with NAND flash. The …
Re: burn disc as data and audio
Posted on 2017-08-02, 02:09
The term you're looking for is Mixed Mode Cd . I'm not sure how much of this translates to PC games, but games for older consoles (Sega CD, Sega Saturn, PSX) are often distributed in BIN/CUE format. They have one or more .BIN files, containing a sector-by-sector copy of the data on the disc, and a . …
Re: Your thoughts of sk423?
Posted on 2017-08-01, 18:17
The BW7 is an i845 chipset with SDRAM. TH7 is s423/i850/RDRAM. The TH7-II is the one with s478 and RDRAM.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-07-21, 16:34
Finding a buyer will be hard since it is so specific, but you should try! So how does that AGP work? I can figure out how to put a card in, the backplate would hit the motherboard right? Of am I just not seeing it right? Wow, they want like 800 bucks for that! :S I don't have that cable, but I'm …
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2017-07-21, 08:23
They can't find the key and it is the larger round type. Kind of a pain or do you know a way to get that open without damage. They are selling all these items dirt cheap. It looks to me from the pictures that the lock is already turned to the unlocked position. Did you try to open the case? If …
Re: Awesome CL Pickup
Posted on 2017-07-06, 05:26
Bummer. Well, the offer stands, if you ever find yourself in Chicago.
Re: Awesome CL Pickup
Posted on 2017-07-01, 09:11
That's a really nice Craigslist score. No one ever really sells anything good on craigslist in my area, The only old computer related thing I have gotten from Craigslist was few years ago I paid I think it was $40 to get Two DTK Computer Pentium 166Mhz Machines, A Pionex 333mhz PII Machine, A …
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2017-06-10, 07:33
New camcorders have DRM? So now my games, my ink cartridges, AND my camcorders have DRM? Next thing you know my car will be locked to one owner and rendered useless by some server shut down in 20 years. Fuck DRM, seriously. Just a note to you.. if anyone buys a modern car made after 2004 and has a …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-05-13, 06:00
Nice haul! Pics when? AFAIK in SLI the lowest speed wins. Your OC-ed GTX will downclock itself to the speed of the other one (stock?). Good luck on the heat with those things though lol. Watch the fans on those Geforce256s. They're cheap little things, and like to seize or get wobbly. The heatsinks …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-05-13, 02:11
A fair bet for a wifi card is the Intel one that every other laptop used to have from around 2004-2008. I can't remember the model number. 4300 sounds right. Most OEM's offered those as factory installed options hence forth they are widely supported. Yeah, Dell either used an Intel 2100/2200/2915 …
Re: Need a creative way to boot SCSI drive
Posted on 2017-05-13, 00:39
That's pretty similar to what those old Win95/98 boot floppies did - load a bunch of drivers for various SCSI chips and a CD-ROM driver, then start the installer off of the newly-functioning disc. You could try to hack something together like that, but it'd be pretty ugly. A quick Google brings up …
Re: Frame drops from using the keyboard?!
Posted on 2017-05-12, 23:39
Huh, I've never heard of anything like that before. Have you tried a PS/2 keyboard, just to see if it's a problem with USB? Also, given it's a Slot-1 era Abit board, the capacitors are automatically suspect. Have you changed them out? Bad caps can cause all sorts of problems, including USB …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-05-12, 23:24
My 99 cent XPS arrived today. And it works!!!! It's gonna need some good cleaning up to get the sticker residue off. Needs a wifi card and an HDD as well, and possibly a CMOS battery. Can't wait to put a 9800 and a P4 EE in it. Going to bench it against the desktop and see how well it does with …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-12-28, 11:20
The people asking those numbers are insane. Anything in this hobby is worth 25-50 at most (unless it's IBM or something actually collectable or genuinely rare like the 6800U 512mb). Keep in mind most of these are e-cyclers who would have otherwise scrapped the board. By that logic would dictate …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-12-14, 17:33
Yeah I was leaning towards NT4 also. And dual boot with 98 for LOLs. Too bad it's a single CPU board only. I have a nice pair of SL22Z waiting for a dual board. Any advantage to using an AHA29160N over a 2940UW? Probably not in this machine, but I thought I'd ask anyway. Well, LVD is a lot less …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-12-10, 07:22
Just bought this board for $25. Never seen a socket 3 board with a COAST slot. I suspect it might be PCChips? Either way, I now have 4 486 PCI motherboards (2x PCI/VLB combo, and 2x PCI/ISA). :D http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/LYwAAOSw4GVYScx~/s-l1600.jpg Yup, that's a PCChips or an Amptron or …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-12-06, 08:45
Don't most boards have problems with 4gb DDR2 dimms? Or is this registered RAM for one of your Xeon systems or something?
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