Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-12-10, 03:32

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by xjas

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Agreed, that thing is sweet! I dare you to build a gaming rig in it & bring it to LAN parties. You might need a forklift (or at least a sturdy hand-truck.)

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Re: Need Help and Advice on my Win 98 HDD Solution

Posted on 2018-12-09, 07:39

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by xjas

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I honestly wouldn't worry about it, any "decent" SD card should be good enough. The speed ratings are theoretical maxima for the cards in ideal situations. I doubt you'd be able to get anywhere near maxing out ATA133 on a Win98 rig with an IDE-SD converter. Either it'll be bottlenecked by the …

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Re: Any list of laptops with GeForce 2Go/ATi Mobility Radeon 7500 and support 98SE?

Posted on 2018-12-09, 07:26

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by xjas

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My Thinkpad x24 has a P3/1133 and an 8MB(?? <-- there's conflicting info about this; some sites say 32MB) Radeon 7000. I also have a Dell Inspiron 600m (same as a Latitude D600) with a 32MB Radeon 9000. The Dell is "just barely" Win98 capable; there are drivers out there for everything but you'll …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-08, 07:36

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by xjas

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Thanks guys! To top it off, check out what I picked up for a whopping $20 on the way home today: CameraZOOM-20181207220640323.jpg Eight gigs of beautiful red DDR3! I've decided to leave the workstation as-is (I need some of its "legacy" features, like IDE for my Zip & LS120 drives), although I'll be …

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Re: Is there any advantage to a single-core XP sytem?

Posted on 2018-12-07, 05:48

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by xjas

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Yeah I was running the completely un-patched original DVD release. It was on a work trip in the boonies & I had no internet. 😜

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Re: Is there any advantage to a single-core XP sytem?

Posted on 2018-12-07, 05:40

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by xjas

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I had to disable the second core in the BIOS to get Prince of Persia: Warrior Within running on a Dell D630 laptop (C2D) a few years ago. I thought it was a pretty new game (2004) to be exhibiting that issue. No idea if that holds true for all machines.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-07, 02:33

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by xjas

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AND... I wasn't expecting to score anything this modern anytime soon, but I lucked out on this Optiplex 7010 for all of thirty bucks. It's completely stripped out (it didn't even come with any RAM), but it has an i7 3770 which is far and away the most powerful CPU I've ever owned, and is in pretty …

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Re: The worst sounding hard drive I've ever heard

Posted on 2018-12-06, 19:35

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by xjas

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^^ wow, that's nasty. Sounds like the bearing grease has hardened into concrete. I have a 1GB laptop drive I can't use for that reason, it sounds like a dentist's drill ... going into your skull, after a while. There's a little wrinkle to the story of the Maxtor drive in the OP - I sold it ... well, …

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Re: Which of these AT PSUs suck least?

Posted on 2018-12-06, 06:57

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by xjas

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^^ cool, thanks for the high quality pics! Good for reference. I ended up keeping all of the above (i.e. I put the cases they were in back in storage), as I just didn't have time to open them up or investigate any further. They all still seemed to work OK though which is more than I can say for ATX …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-05, 08:05

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Haven't gotten a boxed graphics card in a while! New beauty: CameraZOOM-20181204230150783.jpg CameraZOOM-20181204230626487.jpg This is an upgrade for the HD4670 in my workstation . It's not a particularly fast or powerful card (it's R7 250 or ~HD7750-equivalent), but it ticks all the boxes I wanted. …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-12-04, 19:05

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by xjas

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Someone dropped this at work. Looks pretty neat, but the awful Toshiba 4200 rpm HDD with that stupid LIF connector makes upgrading it a pain in the ass and not really worth the effort. Also I think the RAM limit is 2 Gb, but should be enough for XP. dell.jpg https://www.cnet.com/products/dell- …

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Re: RMM (Retro MIDI Machine)!

Posted on 2018-12-03, 22:56

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by xjas

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Cool stuff, I'm a big fan of oldschool GM/XG for 'real' music production too. A lot of those modules sound really nice when used properly. It's a shame GM got kind of a bad rep from crummy low-effort game conversions. I built my Shuttle XPC specifically to sit in my setup and act as a Yamaha SW100XG …

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Re: Asus P5A very slow AGP / Video cards

Posted on 2018-12-02, 07:06

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by xjas

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Well that was interesting ... I tried to do some investigation & benched my K6-2 against a Cyrix MII/PR233 (the closest thing I have on hand to another K6) at exactly the same bus speed and multiplier, 2.5 x 75 = 188MHz, as per the Cyrix. Clock for clock the Cyrix beat the K6 in nearly everything , …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-02, 02:54

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by xjas

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Wow, that's neat. Love the cutaway HDD. Does it boot?

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Re: The worst sounding hard drive I've ever heard

Posted on 2018-12-02, 02:08

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by xjas

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Haha, don't worry guys, it's going in the bin. It wasn't "my" drive with anything on it, just one I picked up at a garage sale for a spare (hence the $4 price tag.) I was just so shocked by the noise I had to record it for posterity. The head parking theory sounds reasonable, but it's awfully noisy …

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Re: Messed up a Win98 driver install, advice needed

Posted on 2018-12-01, 23:21

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by xjas

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^^ yeah, it boots in safe mode & doesn't install anything, but if I leave the card in for a normal boot, it hoses itself. Is there a way to wipe the "driver cache" of the found new hardware wizard thing? BTW tested the Montego II in Linux again and it came up fine & plays sound as you'd expect.

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The worst sounding hard drive I've ever heard

Posted on 2018-12-01, 21:45

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by xjas

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Check out this beauty. 8-O https://www.dropbox.com/s/gbzfvbly0jmmgty/20181201_134805.mp4?dl=0 HOLY crap. I was actually kind of stunned when it first spun up. It's LOUD; I can hear it with the case closed from the other room. Sounds like a bag of microwave popcorn going nuts. Surprisingly it "works …

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Re: Messed up a Win98 driver install, advice needed

Posted on 2018-12-01, 18:23

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by xjas

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Argh, that's what I was trying to avoid doing. 😜 I definitely should have imaged the drive first, but I didn't think the sound card drivers would be the ones to screw things up. Oh well. Annoyingly, it works 100% perfectly with any other sound card installed, but I want my A3D.

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Messed up a Win98 driver install, advice needed

Posted on 2018-12-01, 06:11

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by xjas

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So I'm trying to get my Turtle Beach Montego II going on my K6 machine. This started on a brand new install of Win98SE; no previous sound drivers. Originally I thought the card was a Montego A3D (Montego 1) and installed the driver package in the post I linked to. In my defense, the card looks …

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Re: Roland SC-55mkII works with wrong AC polarity?? [SOLVED]

Posted on 2018-12-01, 05:46

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by xjas

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I've cut & spliced so many center-positive wall warts to be center-negative, thanks to Roland, Korg, and Casio. Usually I try to mark it with white-out or something, but sometimes I'm in a rush and forget. You sure the old one wasn't cut & flipped somewhere?

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