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Re: Advent 7094 restoration project

Posted on 2014-07-01, 10:31

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Time for an update, I think: Well, the battery is, unsurprisingly, as dead as a dodo. It indicates that it charges, but clearly isn't holding any charge whatsoever. A shame, particularly given that most of my PIII-era laptops have batteries that seem to hold at least a little bit of a charge... The …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-20, 21:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No wonder he hadn't sold a 1.3 GHz P4 for £25 - that's a ridiculously slow chip, and you can get a 1.4GHz P4 S423 on eBay for £2.95 right now! Still, a very nice find, and if you've got the systems for them, it might be interesting to do some benchmarking with them (Celeron 1400 v Pentium 4 1800 …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-20, 19:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No wonder he hadn't sold a 1.3 GHz P4 for £25 - that's a ridiculously slow chip, and you can get a 1.4GHz P4 S423 on eBay for £2.95 right now! Still, a very nice find, and if you've got the systems for them, it might be interesting to do some benchmarking with them (Celeron 1400 v Pentium 4 1800 …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-16, 16:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My Toshiba Satellite 1800-712 laptop now has a 40GB hard drive, and I'm in the process of fully updating its copy of XP. The DVD drive seems to object to reading DVD-RW discs, but the CD burner part works perfectly. The trackpad is odd - it works perfectly when I'm using the laptop on my lap, but if …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-16, 10:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My Creative Voodoo 2 is also black, but this isn't a Creative card, as, at least in my case, the Creative cards were made in Singapore and state the OEM clearly at the base of the card. I'd go with STB based on the link archsan gave. Interesting to see that the two cards use different memory chips. …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-14, 23:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The PSU on its own is worth far more than $30 - heck, a good secondhand one would be worth more than $30 I bet. That's just an epic collection of loot there!

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-12, 22:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Boxed hard drives are incredibly rare I'd expect - never seen one on eBay myself. Then again, those WD boxes have a fairly cheap-looking design, so that might be why.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-11, 21:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@Lukeno94 you should really change this cap and see what happens , once you open the machine up and inspect it As I've said before, I have neither access to a soldering iron, nor any soldering skills; my hands are not steady enough for such a fairly precise task. EDIT: What's that Avid Technology …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-11, 21:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, the plastic is the only domed part of the capacitor on my ST (I was able to depress it)... but the drop trick didn't work, and I'm no closer to figuring out what the dickens is going on with it. Hmm. I also dissembled the Inspiron 8100 laptop, and my goodness, it's like a giant Meccano set - …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-10, 20:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@Lukeno94 it wouldn't hurt to replace this cap... have you looked at the rest of the mobo? everything clean and shiny? I've got absolutely no soldering skills, in fact I'd be lethal with a soldering iron. If that wasn't the case, I'd happily recap the whole damn kaboodle, just to be on the safe …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-10, 19:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Why 'd you sell on the Toshiba? It's probably the better of the two systems. Both look in very good shape for their age though.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-10, 16:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Intriguing - does it function as a regular keyboard, or did they change the signals/key mapping for what I assume was a bespoke configuration?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-10, 12:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got the floppy drive for my Atari STFm, but it doesn't seem to want to go; I can't see anything other than a white screen still, and the floppy drive isn't being accessed. Now, I'm yet to test the floppy drive myself, but I'm wondering if this capacitor (indicated by the red ring) on the power …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-09, 10:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've only ever had a couple of dead graphics cards; a GeForce 2 that went out in service back in the day, and a FX5500 that I got for free and had long since fried itself, and had quite a lot of artifacting (a shame - it was a low-profile card and would've been great for my Dell Optiplex GX270). …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-08, 16:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It does look like a nice 486 board, albeit one with very little information on the web for it, bar a little bit here, and possibly some more in a Russian Usenet page.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-07, 20:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I really don't understand why you rescued them, only just to throw them away again... 😵 Even if the cards weren't valuable, there are still people who would've taken them to add to their collections - and some of those cards were quite rare.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-06, 23:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Kind of strange that you would throw away a cool haul of old cards like that :confused: . I would keep them or just sell them on eBay at least or give them away to people like me that would gladly needlessly hoard them away with the rest of my retro collection :lol: +1 !! I'm hoping it was more a …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-06, 21:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

With the 5160, I'd take the graphics card out, clean the contacts, check the card slot's contacts, and reseat it. That might fix the issue. I got my STFm today, but it doesn't get any further than a white screen at the moment - so I'll need to fit a floppy drive before trying again. The poor thing …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-03, 10:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Belkin *shudders* I will never, ever get one of their wireless adapters again - they're horribly unreliable pieces of junk. Doesn't matter which OS or computer I've used - I've had several in the past, and they all had the same problems.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-06-02, 15:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just bought a partially-tested Atari 520 STfm for £5, plus £15 P&P. It looks like the floppy drive may be missing and it looks a little unloved, but it powers on at least (no idea if there's any graphics output) and it has its original box.

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