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

Posted on 2017-10-04, 05:48

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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And this is the system at full load after about 30 seconds. with 7 or drivers off nvidia's site the gpu would be well over 100c. EDIT: This laptop is no LAPtop, its a heater in its own right. Its not safe to use on your lap. I'll need to do some cooling mods at some point, I know I'll have it all …

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Re: Are GeForce 256 DDR cards that rare?

Posted on 2017-10-04, 01:04

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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hello, i bought creative CT 6970 OEM card for IBM or other vendor, i'm looking original bios creative CT 6971 and bios edit program Thank you for your help Creative made Dell's boards too but there not branded like most of there OEM stuff is. You should be able to use the BIOs from one of those. …

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Re: Are GeForce 256 DDR cards that rare?

Posted on 2017-10-04, 00:59

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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This is DVI-D single link (dual link didn't exist back then). GF256 doesn't support dual head, so there is no reason to use DVI-I... you can connect either VGA or DVI-D, but not both at the same time. DVI->HDMI should work, in theory at least. There might be some compatibility issues, this is one …

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

Posted on 2017-10-04, 00:37

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Its a big problem for gaming too. The lack a voltage control and being able to use the 260gtx would be devastating. Take the older area51 laptops with 8800gtx 9800gt and 260m's, your stuck using vista on most of them. NVidia never made a driver that works with those system (that I know of) and Dell …

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

Posted on 2017-10-04, 00:25

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Half retro half what the fuck.... My 4GB Sandisk flip USB stick that I keep formatted to FAT32 for transferring stuff back and forth to and from various vintage OS's so I went to 3 different stores looking for a decent flash drive under the 32GB FAT32 limit since I need one to get files to my iMac …

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

Posted on 2017-10-03, 17:17

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Lol, no vista is far better for that system. Older laptops with mobile g92 core Nvidia cards can get buggy in 7. Most older laptops with nvidia Optimus and g92 cards will not even work on 7. Well you can install 7, but the video drivers will likly not work. 7 on this laptop will lose you the gpu …

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

Posted on 2017-10-03, 08:58

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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took things abit to far on my vista laptop. I even have a custom login screen, removed the windows logo and everything. I'm working on a removing the vista orb that shows up before the login screen. Next I'll make a custom bios screen and boot slash screen. My God. You installed Vista on that …

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

Posted on 2017-10-01, 11:34

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Lot of 3 ThinkPads on ebay, the listing said they were for parts and 2 of them did not turn on. They all work, just needed some pieces like HD caddies, hard drives, power adapters and batteries. I had some leftoeuvre adapters anyways. IBM ThinkPad T43 15" XGA, 1.83GHz 2GB RAM in very good cosmetic …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-01, 08:18

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Samsung SyncMaster 997DF DynaFlat - $65 (CAD) http://qjimbo.com/photobucket/syncmaster997df-1.jpg http://qjimbo.com/photobucket/syncmaster997df-2.jpg http://qjimbo.com/photobucket/syncmaster997df-3.jpg http://qjimbo.com/photobucket/syncmaster997df-4.jpg Not a "true" flatscreen (you can tell it's …

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

Posted on 2017-10-01, 08:14

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Also, it turns out that slot-loading iMac G3 350 is actually surprisingly competent at 3D gaming with its built-in Rage 128 Pro. 640x480 isn't a completely solid 60 FPS or anything, but SiN and Heretic II look quite playable in terms of framerate overall. The real tests will be Q3A and UT, though. …

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

Posted on 2017-10-01, 02:09

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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I cleaned up one of my other computer desks and brought the iMac down. https://postimg.org/image/5khpz42wb/ Yeah, it's way too crowded, and not having an ADB KVM switch is not helping one bit. Still, they all work, and the IIcx's SCSI HDD continues to play nice, even if the extra RAM doesn't. If I …

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

Posted on 2017-10-01, 01:01

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Lot of 3 ThinkPads on ebay, the listing said they were for parts and 2 of them did not turn on. They all work, just needed some pieces like HD caddies, hard drives, power adapters and batteries. I had some leftoeuvre adapters anyways. IBM ThinkPad T43 15" XGA, 1.83GHz 2GB RAM in very good cosmetic …

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

Posted on 2017-09-30, 10:24

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Found two 775 machines, one with a Pentium D 820 and Quadro FX1300 (PCIE) and the other with a Q9450 and Quadro FX3700. Both with Intel desktop boards and identical full size cases, and full RAM slots, though not likely to the boards' maximum capacities. PSUs are FortuneTec, are they any good? …

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

Posted on 2017-09-30, 08:02

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Found two 775 machines, one with a Pentium D 820 and Quadro FX1300 (PCIE) and the other with a Q9450 and Quadro FX3700. Both with Intel desktop boards and identical full size cases, and full RAM slots, though not likely to the boards' maximum capacities. PSUs are FortuneTec, are they any good? …

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

Posted on 2017-09-28, 08:37

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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I started to put together my new c2 setup. OK so a c2 system is not quite retro, but its far from new. with any luck I'll have it done in time to use as a heater this winter. 1600w of fun :cool: Should heat the upstairs part of my home. Dual 6990s right? That will heat upstairs unless you own a …

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

Posted on 2017-09-28, 07:56

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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You can repaint it. Wrong. Take a Dremel or grinding tool and remove that shit and then sand paper it. After that prime it and paint it. Better yet use an air sprayer. Surface rust is a fairly easy fix. I'm surprised no one stated it before me with the massive overlap between computers and cars in …

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

Posted on 2017-09-25, 08:15

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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More updates on the IIcx: -While I'm not ruling out the hard drive's reliability just yet until I've had a recap done on the controller board, since the actual spinning platter/head part seems to be fine (disk utilities aren't complaining about bad sectors or anything), it turns out that even if …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-09-23, 22:35

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Artex wrote: Hahaha right?! Boxed stuff is so pretty! It's like a Christmas of yesteryear with all my wishes that never came true in the early 90s. Lol. "Member artex has spent a questionable sum on vintage hardware" Confirmed. Is questionable. But impressive.

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

Posted on 2017-09-23, 04:47

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Made a couple of vintage computing videos for my YouTube channel. Deleted them all. Flawed and imperfect. I'm seriously considering leaving the vintage PC YouTube scene. It's not yielding the following I had been hoping for. Going on 6 years now and making the same content quality I still can't …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-09-23, 04:05

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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All, and more for $150 - just had to send my son to Oklahoma to pick it up. lol - He and his wife enjoyed the road trip! And I, got the spoils! Intel P3 800Mhz Soyo SY-6BA+II 3, 128meg SDRAM 168pin DIMM PC133 ATI Rage Pro AGP 16MB Quantum3D Obsidian x24 SLI PCI (3Dfx Voodoo 2) Creative Lab's …

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