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Re: Noisy fan + machine oil = even more noise

Posted on 2015-06-22, 15:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've had really good luck with sewing machine oil. I've yet to be told it's bad for PC fans. It definitely doesn't have that hydrocarbon smell that 3 in 1 oil does. You can get a bottle of it for under $5 at walmart (if you can live with the shame of going there 🤣 )

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-19, 23:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today I bought 29 hard drives for $50. All working SATA drives ranging from 80 to 320gb. One velociraptor in the bunch, which is neat.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-19, 04:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I picked up a server that I've been eyeing for a couple of months. The guy selling it needed it gone ASAP so I was able to pick it up for $60. It's a Dell PowerEdge SC1430, currently with a Xeon 5060, 6GB of RAM, 2x 500GB hard drives, and weighs a metric fucktonne. I don't know much else about it, …

Re: GeForce4 artifacting --> recycle ?

Posted on 2015-06-15, 02:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Almost certainly a RAM problem and not a capacitor problem... The more popular manufacturers only started skimping on the caps GeForce 6 and up AFAIK. The reference ATI Radeons of that era OTOH (Radeon 9700 pro, for example) used electrolytic Nichicon HC which performed well overall, but did in …

Re: What is your age?

Posted on 2015-06-05, 14:55

in Milliways

in Milliways

I turned 25 recently, battled addiction for the past couple years and came out on top, wishing I had accomplished more by this age, fun stuff! That's all the info I'm giving away 😎

Re: Fastest Windows XP ,plain, SP1, SP3 ?

Posted on 2015-06-04, 16:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm sure both were stock ACPI installs, in SP2+ they removed the ability to install with no ACPI. Now, I want to run some benchmarks. I unintentionally did a fresh install of SP2 without ACPI recently, so it must be possible. However, this was on a PII machine. It just didn't load the ACPI drivers …

Re: What software should I use to backup floppies?

Posted on 2015-06-03, 04:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I use WinImage for my floppy needs. Do you know if it can backup 5.25 in. disks, and if it can backup old PC booter disks? I really like Winimage, but I really want to get something that will let me backup and restore my PCjr King's Quest game once I get a 5.25 in drive. It'll do 5.25 disks, I just …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-05-28, 14:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I hope you are going to replace the capacitors. I replaced the big metal can capacitor(s) with modern electrolytics. I tested a few of the other caps and they seem to be okay. Does it have... an actual circuit board? http://i.imgur.com/QECaGEv.jpg This is not my image, I found it online. It's point …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-05-26, 22:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not computer related but retro nonetheless. Note the civic defense logos on the top row, cool! :cool: http://i.imgur.com/XYg4eCHl.jpg It's a Hallicrafters S-107 Mark II short wave radio from the early 60's (1961 I think). I picked it up for $45 locally, and it actually works! All the tubes were fine …

Re: Best way to image a bunch of 5.25 floppies?

Posted on 2015-05-23, 20:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I couldn't use VGACOPY with mine, i tried a bunch of other programs and only found RESQFLPY to work well, though it has problems: - saves to a fixed filename you'll have to rename after - you must specify the size of the disk first Copyprotected stuff didn't matter as I was really only doing this …

Best way to image a bunch of 5.25 floppies?

Posted on 2015-05-23, 02:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I recently put together a pentium II machine and decided to include a 5.25 floppy drive in it. This got me thinking, I have a whole bunch of disks rotting away in storage, why not rescue their contents? I'm pretty sure I could use either winimage or rawrite to create disk images, but is there a …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-05-21, 21:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had to get my mind off of a few things today, so why not build a retro PC? I've never owned a Pentium II system, as I went straight from a 486 to a Pentium IV. Even now I've never used one. So off I went to dig around for parts. Pentium II's! On the left is an SLQ2C 300Mhz and on the right is an …

Re: Should I rescue this stuff?

Posted on 2015-05-12, 20:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

frisky dingo wrote: it's a joke. Best done to a pawn shop. Yes, I know of this joke.

Re: Should I rescue this stuff?

Posted on 2015-05-12, 18:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Try calling one of those 1-800 nubs. If by some miracle they pick up ask them how to get battle toads working on a IBM ps/2 pc. EDIT: Also this is cool. Wonder is the floppys are still good? But I don't know if you should open it any more. The first one is out of service, tells you to go to IBM.com …

Re: Should I rescue this stuff?

Posted on 2015-05-12, 17:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ooooooooooh...this is WAY cooler than I thought it'd be. I'm really glad I saved these from the trash. A nice letter thanking me for my purchase of a PS/2. You're welcome IBM! http://i.imgur.com/lkZIwORl.jpg Windows 3.11, sealed with manual http://i.imgur.com/e5ccpUsl.jpg The pièce de résistance, PC …

Re: Should I rescue this stuff?

Posted on 2015-05-12, 15:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I believe that'd be $1.71 per litre so roughly $6.46/gal. Can not be 6.64/gal... That's too much for even the US. The price in the us, is roughly 1/3 and shurely less than 50% price compared to Denmark. A higher pricetag just seem quite wrong or off in some way. Here in denmark, the price is (I …

Re: Should I rescue this stuff?

Posted on 2015-05-11, 21:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If I had lived in the US, the land of cheap shipping and gas I would have paid you to rescue them. I am sorry for off-topic, but...How much do you guys pay for fuel right now? Quick google check shows that you guys currently pay $1.71 per gallon while I pay $2.5 over here? Cheap shipping? Are you …

Re: Should I rescue this stuff?

Posted on 2015-05-11, 19:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Alright, I went and picked it up. I even got to have a look at some of the damage from a tornado that came through about a month ago. There used to be a diner here: http://i.imgur.com/fTgokl0l.jpg More broken stuff: http://i.imgur.com/wYlC4u5l.jpg And now for the goodies. I really want to open this …

Re: Should I rescue this stuff?

Posted on 2015-05-11, 15:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

$1200 + 300% VAT for its value added-ness. Any takers? In all seriousness I may just ship it to somebody on here who can appreciate it more than me.

Re: Should I rescue this stuff?

Posted on 2015-05-11, 15:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll just pretend you are. I've made up my mind, I'm going to scoop this up. Pictures to come later 😎

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