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My 486 DX2 Build

Posted on 2017-12-03, 05:01

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Thought I would share the 486 DX2 system I've been building over the past several months. It's basically finished now, I don't think there's anything else I will be changing in it unless I run into problems with any components. Feels pretty satisfying now that I've finished it actually. I ended up …

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

Posted on 2017-11-27, 20:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Spent a while trying to figure out an issue with my hard disk that first cropped up a couple days ago. Upon power up or rebooting, my 486 would sometimes say it could not find any system disk. Attempting to either reset or power off and wait a bit before trying again would change nothing. When it …

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

Posted on 2017-11-17, 16:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Was adjusting the sound setup in my 486 last night. I have a SB Pro 2 and a Gravis Ultrasound Classic and didn't really ever get around to doing a "proper" setup so I could use both simultaneously since I got the GUS... just tested it out to verify it worked when it arrived originally and then …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-17, 02:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BitWrangler wrote: *sigh* Talk like this is just encouraging me to keep a DX33 and a DX50 and a DX2-66, and a DX2-80 and a DX4-100 and a DX4-120 and a Cx5X86-100, and an AMD 5x86-133 .... I see nothing wrong with this. 😉

Re: Go-Tek or buy blank floppy's

Posted on 2017-11-13, 22:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Big fan of using floppies, but can definitely understand why people with a Gotek use them. Definitely a personal preference choice either way I think.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-13, 22:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well the second case to replace the one that arrived broken a couple weeks ago arrived today: http://i.imgur.com/WtbXprym.jpg :D No issues that I can spot. The box it arrived in was quite a bit larger this time around due to all the extra packaging. Understandable really, I'm sure the seller didn't …

Re: $50 ebay AT system purchase

Posted on 2017-11-11, 22:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've never worked out the logic for Canada Post, send something gameboxed size down into US, hicksville Alabama or somewhere, $15, send it somewhere out in BC, $20, send it across Ontario basically just the other side of the area the main Mississauga sorting depot serves, 1 hop, $25 wat? ... at …

Re: $50 ebay AT system purchase

Posted on 2017-11-07, 01:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

feipoa wrote: That case badge you posted, https://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Intel-Penti … 31/112625595502 , for a $2 sticker, he wants $75 to ship it to Canada. Oh wow, I didn't look at the shipping cost when I posted that link.

Re: QBasic games.

Posted on 2017-11-04, 17:40

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Used to do quite a bit of QuickBASIC coding back in the late 90's and very early 2000's. QBasic 1.1 (the free version that comes with MS-DOS) is pretty capable and a lot of fun to use, but moving up to QuickBASIC makes it easier to link in high performance code written in C, assembly, etc. as "quick …

Re: Question regarding 8-pin jumper

Posted on 2017-11-04, 17:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just so that this thread isn't left without an answer for the next guy who comes along searching for something about this, this is what I ended up doing and it appears to work fine with no issues:

Re: $50 ebay AT system purchase

Posted on 2017-11-04, 11:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Awesome find, that case looks like it's in great shape, very clean looking! Also I removed that IMS badge and want to replace it with a Pentium MMX sticker; know of a good place to find them? I've bought a couple case badge/stickers from some seller on eBay that makes a bunch of 'em. The Pentium MMX …

Re: Question regarding 8-pin jumper

Posted on 2017-11-03, 00:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That was something I'd considered actually, but wanted to check with people more knowledgeable than me about these things first. 😀 I've got little jumper wires that should do the trick in an old electronics starter kit I still have from years ago, could just arrange 4 of them in the same way.

Question regarding 8-pin jumper

Posted on 2017-11-02, 23:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

http://i.imgur.com/vH6xlsEm.jpg?2 I've got only one of these on my FIC 486-PVT motherboard. The jumper configuration necessary for a WB cache enabled CPU on this motherboard requires two of these jumpers. The text printed on there is "8B000J YAGEO". Wasn't able to find much on this via Google (I …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-02, 10:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh crap, hope you remember which slot which stick came out of Gered ... it's probably mapped in the BIOS or some crap. Yup, I kept the original order. As soon as I saw the warning message on the back of each stick about how they will "only work on Eagle motherboards" I figured there is bound to be …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-01, 21:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

8 sticks forming 24M of RAM? Mmmm that's odd. Yeah that seemed odd to me when I read the eBay auction originally. http://i.imgur.com/Tn1hrESt.jpg From my 30 second Google search, seems to be 32MB total (8x 4MB sticks). That yellow label over the RAM is a pain to remove cleanly. Falls apart in …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-01, 21:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So, I bought one of those NOS 486 motherboards (G486SVL) that was linked in the eBay auction thread a week or so ago. I didn't really need it, but the price was great and how often do you find this kind of old stuff "new". It arrived today and looks all good to me so far. The motherboard was still …

Re: How to detect if cache is real or not?

Posted on 2017-10-27, 15:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BastlerMike wrote: Haha...Look at U11... It ist soldered in backwards! 🤣 , I guess that probably answers the question about it being fake cache or not. That really sucks. 🙁

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2017-10-26, 22:35

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

oeuvre wrote: ThinkPad 770 So... I've seen you post this a couple times now (definitely not a complaint!), and it's growing on me... I kind of want one now if I can find one. Haha.

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

Posted on 2017-10-26, 22:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Amiga600 memory module arived today.... Installed it, and everything runs better. Came in this fancy box. Love the presentation. IMG_20171026_243211851.jpg I love getting stuff from Individual Computers. :) The boxes they package their stuff in are great (plus the stuff they sell is all great too …

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

Posted on 2017-10-25, 10:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

But I do feel your pain. I am still waiting on a couple powered PCIe riser cables and a couple IDE to SATA drive adapters. The IDE to SATA adapters were supposed to be here 4 days ago now :depressed: Between ebay and amazon, I have 10 separate orders I am waiting on. Last couple times I've been in …

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