Calling all Slotket users
Posted on 2018-01-01, 23:08
Whatcha got? What board or boards have you used? What processors have you used? How far have you jumped (i.e. 350 MHz to 1.4 GHz) on a given board? What frustrations have you encountered?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-12-31, 01:41
cyclone3d wrote: This lot of floppy drives for about what a single tested 5.25" floppy drive normally goes for on eBay. Center stack - middle: I think that is a Compaq?
Re: IRQ conflicts
Posted on 2017-12-31, 00:57
Did you disable onboard sound? I don't know if those front ports are just wired for any given sound solution or if you have something on the motherboard itself. Are there multiple serial ports, etc? What OS is on it? Does the sound card have CD-ROM interface(s) enabled? I wouldn't just focus on the …
Re: Best and worst sound cards you have ever owned?
Posted on 2017-12-30, 11:45
Hmm. Fun question, andreja6. So my main machine sound card progress from 1991 to present is: Sound Blaster 2.0 -> SB16 + Wave Blaster -> AWE64 Gold -> Diamond MX300 (Vortex 2) -> Turtle Beach Santa Cruz -> HT Omega Striker -> Scarlett 6i6 (currently in use) I don't really know that I've owned a bad …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-12-29, 20:36
Predator99 wrote: most probably working Definitely probably maybe.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-12-28, 00:13
probnot wrote: Found a dirty (DIRTY!) old 486DLC. Haven't powered it on yet, I'm probably going to bring it inside piece by piece so that I can wash everything. I have to say that you find some of the coolest systems, probnot. I wish you lived next door. 🤣
Re: Slot 1/Voodoo 3 machine
Posted on 2017-12-27, 23:47
I believe there were tests done back in the day to see what cards can handle the 89 MHz AGP result from the dividers available for 133 MHz FSB. I think the conclusion was that the Voodoo series of cards were fine. There may have been an assumption made at the time (for reasons that are either …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-12-27, 01:11
brostenen wrote: Watching old school cyan/magenta 3D movies with my children. Whoa! How old are they, and what do they think of that technology?
Re: Most frustrating part of working on old computers?
Posted on 2017-12-27, 01:10
If a slot-loading optical drive appears to have eject mechanism troubles, I would recommend pulling and disassembling the drive to extract your disk. At that point, you can either service the drive as needed to get it working again, give/sell it to someone who wants to repair it, or recycle it.
Re: Help Fixing suddenly dead Motherboards
Posted on 2017-12-26, 05:24
As a side note, bad +5vsb from an ATX power supply can damage a motherboard. Make sure whatever PSUs you hook up to any given mobo are good - Otherwise a single PSU can start killing each mobo you boot/build/buy.
Re: TOP 5 videocards of all time
Posted on 2017-12-25, 05:13
What is your criteria? There are a lot of different approaches to this. Like I would put the move from CGA to EGA or (in my case) CGA straight to VGA in there - but I don't have a specific card to mention for that change. Also - why GeForce 2? The jump to the original GeForce T&L was more of a …
Re: please identify: unknown typical generic 386dx board
Posted on 2017-12-22, 04:07
Good luck with the ID work. Wincing at the leakage there. Looks like it is on half your AT PSU connectors in addition to those caps. Can't tell from the resolution/lighting, though.
Re: Dell Optiplex GX1 slocket issue
Posted on 2017-12-21, 22:50
Nice. What slotket is it? Any identifiable markings?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-12-21, 10:06
Haha. Right on, guys!
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-12-21, 09:24
liqmat wrote: I was wondering if anyone would catch that. haha That is a demo/prototype version of Donald Duck Goin Quackers Nice! Thanks for the link.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-12-21, 01:41
So I helped out friends quite a bit back in the day when desktops reigned supreme. Packard Bell, Hewlett Packard, etc... had their quirks. But by far the worst machine I ever worked on was an eMachines system that I tried to fix/improve/service for this one girl. I swear those things were the …
Re: Price your retro rig!
Posted on 2017-12-20, 19:35
IBM PC - Dual 5.25" Floppy, CGA graphics, 5153 CGA monitor, Microsoft Mouse, Epson fx-86e printer, DOS. Was around... $4500 in 1984? So $10,893 in 2017. The "car or computer?" question was real back then.
Re: Most frustrating part of working on old computers?
Posted on 2017-12-19, 20:55
Working on them before access to the Internet. 😎 😉
Re: Voodoo2 corrupt graphics
Posted on 2017-12-19, 08:45
In my opinion, it looks like a RAM issue.
Re: middle class of isa videocards dos performance?
Posted on 2017-12-16, 02:05
ISA benchmarks on a Athlon XP 2200+ ? Really? true, he used a kt133a motherboard, which i think is almost the fastest platform with native isa slots, save for the third party isa bridge chips which are usually for special purpose, rare and expensive. Well, I was just indicating a desire for …
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