Re: Need help with AMD K6-2 support on EPOX EP58-MVP3C-M
Posted on 2020-06-01, 12:47
Just wanted to make sure - I've definitely made that mistake a few times, could have sworn I changed it but somehow didn't.
Re: Need help with AMD K6-2 support on EPOX EP58-MVP3C-M
Posted on 2020-05-31, 22:34
Yeah that should definitely support K6-2's - I have the identical board on the shelf next to me with a 500 Mhz K6-2 installed. I'd have to put it in a case to test it for sure but I'm pretty confident I ran it this way, the jumpers are all set appropriately. Edit: And yes, that one capacitor is …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-05-22, 15:12
Was working on putting together a "Super-Simple-&-Compatible" 95/DOS machine - MVP3 motherboard, P166 MMX, 64 MB RAM, PCI S3 Trio Video, AWE64 Value, 3COM 3C905B. For some reason I've got working MIDI on the sound card but not working normal PCM sound, which is really confusing me at the moment.
Re: SiS651 Chipset and Windows 98
Posted on 2020-05-14, 19:51
Older Tom's Hardware reviews suggest the chipset is supported under 98: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/integrat … nce,674-11.html
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-04-28, 16:49
How has shipping and parcels arriving been for you fellow Vogoners? Mail systems are backed up to hell here in Canada due to Covid-19 and everyone seems to be a bit paranoid as to weather things are gonna arrive or not. Had a bit of free coin and picked up a few 486 items, including a nice Lucky- …
Re: Need to get rid of some apples
Posted on 2020-04-26, 17:33
Personally I would keep the G3 Desktop at least... admittedly it's one I have as well. It will run OS9, early OSX, and pretty much any early PowerPC software, so it's decently flexible.
Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?
Posted on 2020-04-15, 14:13
In 1999 the family had a Packard Bell tower set, a french-conversion package deal we got from an outlet mall in 1998. Pentium 1 MMX 233 32 MB Ram 2 MB S3 video Yamaha OPL3-SAX Win95 We had the matching Keyboard/Mouse/CRT with Speakers as well at the time. We had this until I got my crappy Celeron D …
Re: Windows 9x/ME with WPA2 router compatibility
Posted on 2020-03-30, 15:12
You can also use a cheap Ethernet->Wifi bridge, which will circumvent any requirements for the OS, since the bridge does all that and the OS just sees a standard Ethernet connection. That's also a nice idea. I was thinking eventually if everything will fail to work, using a raspberry pi as router …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-03-06, 14:22
Saw an add on FB market "does anyone buy old computers?" Well yes. I do! £30 later and I have picked this up: https://i.ibb.co/kMxg2Mk/compaq.jpg I am a sucker for matching monitors! I already have a compaq kb/mouse. Was very surprised to see an AGP slot although it appears to only take compaq …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-02-24, 02:26
Snagged a set of laptops for $25 locally. 1 very interesting laptop, 1 nice-to-have, and 2 that I could care less about. The best of the lot is a Toshiba Portege S5005 with a DESKTOP Pentium 3 1.1GHZ CPU, 512MB of RAM, and a GeForce2 Go with 16MB of DDR memory. I had to order a power supply for the …
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2020-02-22, 02:18
Got this one working today. 4E0FA9E3-BD6D-483B-A56A-D296B98B5942.jpeg 13174B18-CCB3-4CB6-8B87-D51DA51560D4.jpeg 77F1661F-C07B-4300-85AC-7006BF1CBF32.jpeg It’s a Compaq Presario 1090ES from 1997. The original series of Presario notebooks were light grey, rather than black like the later ones. These …
Re: AMD 5x86@160mhz., Media Vision PAS16.
Posted on 2020-02-21, 02:17
I only use Liquid Wrench and WD40 to soak torqued rusty bolts overnight, in preparation for removal. I've heard of this fluid film stuff from a mechanic friend of mine. I've always wanted to find some and now I know the name. This the stuff? https://www.homehardware.ca/en/333g-fluid-film-multi- …
Re: Tualatin Laptops
Posted on 2020-02-21, 02:00
I've actually got 2 Thinkpad T23's - one in great physical condition with the high res screen, and one in rough looking shape with the lower res screen. Both have the 1.13Ghz Tualatin. Of course the nice looking one with the high-res screen has the "Red Screen on start" issue and weird intermittent …
Re: Green thinking still companies change computers every 3 years.
Posted on 2020-02-18, 14:06
I work for a smaller business and almost exclusively buy 3-year or so old refurbished machines for the office staff (and myself). Generally maintenance costs are minimal and the performance is more than sufficient for the work we do. We let somebody else pay the initial depreciation of a 1200-1400$ …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-02-10, 13:59
Well - over the weekend, not today, but.... Dug out and cleaned up my Compaq Deskpro EN450, gave it a scrubdown with a magic eraser to clean some marks up and powered it on, booted right up to what I was doing with it previously. Thinking of doing a fresh install, and not entirely sure which way to …
Re: The Painfully Inauthentic Windows 9X Build
Posted on 2020-01-16, 02:57
I do have an ATI X700 PCI-e running on one of those oddball Asrock boards, the 4CoreDX90-VSTA (Core2Quad compatible, PCI-e, but DDR1 and works with Win9x? Gotta love VIA chipsets) in Windows ME, actually. I wouldn't say I stress it terribly (it's in my in-law's retro-lan setup, primarily running …
Re: The Painfully Inauthentic Windows 9X Build
Posted on 2020-01-15, 02:40
I do have an ATI X700 PCI-e running on one of those oddball Asrock boards, the 4CoreDX90-VSTA (Core2Quad compatible, PCI-e, but DDR1 and works with Win9x? Gotta love VIA chipsets) in Windows ME, actually. I wouldn't say I stress it terribly (it's in my in-law's retro-lan setup, primarily running …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-01-03, 02:56
Powered on three of my retro Toshiba laptops to make sure they're still functional - a Toshiba T1910CS (486-33, 4 MB Ram, 200 MB Hard drive, passive matrix colour screen), my 430CDT (Pentium 120, 32 MB Ram, C&T Video, ESS688 w/real OPL3!), and my Tecra 500CDT (P120, 32MB Ram, C&T Video, CS4232 w/ …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-09-09, 12:34
Fixed my Macintosh color classic with NEW logic board more ram and a NEW larger hard-drive. Fresh install of Mac OS System 7.5.3 Works great now. Display is like NEW. Is there anyone here who sees old Macs of this generation and *doesn't* associate them with high-school? Sort of? We had a few …
Re: Just got my first retro laptop!
Posted on 2019-07-12, 19:22
I actually find I prefer the sound of ESFM in some ways, so yeah. Looks like a really good DOS laptop if you can sort the minor issues.
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