Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-18, 01:40

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by LHN91

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Picked up a couple of DOS/Win9x laptops the other day from the recycler's. Both with some minor issues, but mostly cosmetic not functional. Paid 20$ for these and also one of those older Realistic mini-amps with matching tuner, which also works. Toshiba Tecra 500 CDT Pentium 120 32 MB RAM 2MB C&T …

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Re: Bumpgate? What Bumpgate?

Posted on 2018-04-22, 01:01

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by LHN91

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I'm finally getting back to work on this build. I've gone ahead and added an Audigy 2 ZS with the front panel - I know it's not directly era appropriate but it's a lovely sound card for EAX capable games. I've also installed XP64, which seems to run really well on this machine. I've run a couple …

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Re: Bumpgate? What Bumpgate?

Posted on 2018-03-07, 03:40

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by LHN91

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I've installed a couple of games to test things out this evening. Its interesting how quickly these parts were obsoleted - not to mention how quickly the CPU becomes a bottleneck. For example Mass Effect 2 runs relatively well in SLI, but it maxes the CPU before the GPUs get a chance to go above …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-07, 01:29

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by LHN91

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Saw this on eBay for a really good price and it looked like an interesting board to have a play around with. Came with a C2D 6700 as a bonus. Its a Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 https://i.imgur.com/LqpFGzjl.jpg?1 Had one of these. It might actually run 98SE, I can't remember, but I have one of it's sister …

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Re: Bumpgate? What Bumpgate?

Posted on 2018-03-06, 01:41

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by LHN91

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Well it seems it was the PSU that was causing my issues - I swapped to an otherwise mediocre Cooler Master unit and was able to successfully run 3DMark03 in SLI in 32bit XP. Still, this is before any proper wiring or anything, more a proof of functional hardware than anything. Photos and 3DMark …

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Re: Bumpgate? What Bumpgate?

Posted on 2018-03-05, 10:36

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by LHN91

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Windows XP maybe bump this up to Windows XP 64-bit :D enjoy the 2006 (lack-of)64-bit driver hell! Well the Motherboard drivers do exist for XP 64-bit..... that's actually tempting, in a masochistic sort of way. It's also probably one of the 2 post Windows 2.0 Windows OS's I've never really used …

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Re: Bumpgate? What Bumpgate?

Posted on 2018-03-05, 02:07

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by LHN91

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Well I tossed the machine together to test it all out - along with a 500W Deep Cool PSU. Right now, both cards seems stable in 3DMark03 (just what I have on hand) solo, but if both are plugged in, SLI enabled or not, neither can manage - the PC just shuts off. I suspect the PSU... or the weird …

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Bumpgate? What Bumpgate?

Posted on 2018-03-04, 20:48

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by LHN91

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Hi all, I'm beginning a build I've meant to do for quite a while. I'm tentatively calling this "Bumpgate? What Bumpgate?" and it'll be pretty obvious why. The alternate build name is "Poor Timing - 2006 Edition" Current spec is looking like: Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4 Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2 x 1GB OCZ PC2 …

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Re: Retro Gaming Laptops Win9x and XP

Posted on 2018-01-23, 19:51

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by LHN91

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So ..the only thing that is really bugging me now with this laptop is lack of USB ? The chipset drivers were insralled last night .. Device manager is showing a USB cotriller and a USB Root Hub When I plug in a small usb thumb drive ..the system recognises a flash drive and asks for a suitable …

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Re: Retro Gaming Laptops Win9x and XP

Posted on 2018-01-22, 13:26

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by LHN91

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Hi .. I have a Dell Inspiron 2500 .. I recently got this going ..and although the sticker says 'designed for XP ' ..I thought this would make a good 98se machine. So ..nice and easy to install 98se which I've done on account it does have a working floppy. But I am having problems with drivers.. for …

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Re: Retro Gaming Laptops Win9x and XP

Posted on 2018-01-16, 18:04

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by LHN91

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The 2004 LG Xnote LM50a is a pretty decent late 9x/XP laptop. dims.jpg Pentium M, from 1.4 Ghz to 1.7 Ghz DDR Memory Intel 915 Chipset Radeon 9200 up to a 9700 1024x768 Panel (up to a 1400x1050 panel) I got the 2 I found from a recycler - and I can't seem to find much reference of them ever being …

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Re: Win98se gaming crashes.

Posted on 2018-01-16, 17:17

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by LHN91

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Have you tried the Creative card in 98se? I've usually found the CMI sound chips to be a bit flaky.

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Re: Windows ME build

Posted on 2018-01-12, 16:51

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by LHN91

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For me, if a machine won't be playing DOS games but needs (or I want) a 9x operating system, then I always go ME. It's a convenience thing - more stuff integrated (USB, Zip Folders, it seems to not need the install disk nearly as often as 98SE) and so the setup and day-to-day livability is better, …

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Re: Most frustrating part of working on old computers?

Posted on 2017-12-20, 14:53

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by LHN91

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Things working *almost* perfectly. I have a lovely Toshiba Satellite 430CDT. Active Matrix screen, Pentium 120, SB-compatible ESS chipset, decent Chips and Technologies video. The headphone jack doesn't work and the left Shift key binds sometimes for some reason. 😒 😠

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Re: Craigslist find - Macintosh Performa 630CD

Posted on 2017-12-09, 03:55

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by LHN91

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Is a 6200/6300 better than a 630? In terms of performance I guess - dunno what I'd even do with one of these machines but I'm tempted to tinker with one all the same! The 6200/6300 were the PowerPC based replacements for the 630 line. 75/100/120 mhz PowerPC 603 or 603e in the 6200/6300, 33 mhz …

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Re: Craigslist find - Macintosh Performa 630CD

Posted on 2017-12-09, 03:50

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by LHN91

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The actual replacement batteries are cheap. https://www.ebay.com/itm/131938704910 They get cheaper, the more you get at once. I have one of those Multi sync that oeuvre mentioned. They work perfectly. Actually, on the 630 series it doesn't use the cheap 1/2AA PRAM batteries like the rest of the Mac …

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Re: Craigslist find - Macintosh Performa 630CD

Posted on 2017-12-08, 20:18

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by LHN91

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My Apple Multiple Scan 15 came with a DB15 to VGA cable much like the one squiggly showed.... because the monitor is actually a standard 1024x768 monitor, essentially.

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

Posted on 2017-12-08, 15:51

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by LHN91

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Found one of these in a drawer! Must've come with some old CRT. Now I can use my Performa on my LCD instead of a CRT taking up valuable desk space. Interesting part. It's required because Apple monitors communicate their capabilities in a specific way - so even if you have a DB-15 to VGA adapter, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-12-08, 15:17

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by LHN91

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That's pretty sweet; didn't know you could upgrade the hard drives to that much! From what I understand, with the Quadra/Performa/LC 630 series, Apple went with IDE for the Hard Drive Controller instead of SCSI. The CDROM is still SCSI, but I think you can use pretty standard IDE hard drives (at …

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Re: WfW 3.11 ok on Pentium?

Posted on 2017-12-08, 13:23

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by LHN91

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Basically, you can use as big a hard drive as you want and the hardware will support, as long as you partition it into FAT16 partitions all of less than 2GB in size.

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