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

Posted on 2017-11-09, 22:18

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Cranking the lever back and forward a few times on a ZIF socket usually gets them all that last bit straight. It's easy to overdo it picking at them one by one with a knife or screwdriver, knock them off one way to the other way. You can comb them straight a bit with things like double stacked …

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Re: System utility for Win98

Posted on 2017-11-09, 22:09

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Are there any system utilities out there for Windows 98 worth getting? Only one I'm aware of is from Norton but don't recall if it was of any use or not. I'm not talking about anti-virus stuff as the pc isn't connected to the internet, just "pc optimizing" utilities or whatnot. Good God, no! I take …

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Re: Windows 98 SE lags on Averatec 5100 Laptop

Posted on 2017-11-09, 22:06

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First thing that comes to mind is, did you set your HDD interfaces to DMA mode in device mangler after you installed the chipset drivers?

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

Posted on 2017-11-09, 19:46

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It has it's advantages, like motivation to get projects actually finished, and greater need to stay organised.

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

Posted on 2017-11-09, 19:13

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OldCat wrote: Still struggling with that Toshiba T3200SX. Put a couple hours into it, mostly experimenting with partition size / CF geometry but no luck just yet. Toshiba_z_CF.jpg Oh, I see your problem right there.... it has assploded all over your dining table.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-09, 18:25

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Today postman brought me:Cyrix MII 400GP - hope to find 433 someday... Are you sure they ever made one? It's not in any collection I know of, including CPU-World There were at least some review samples around http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1187&page=1 Even if it's thought they …

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Re: Re: Compaq Deskpro!

Posted on 2017-11-09, 17:40

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Ahhh, that's because it has the "not really that bad" TGUI9680 instead of the really that bad and really really that bad, TVGA9000 or 8900

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Re: Is this USB Stick on it's way out?

Posted on 2017-11-09, 12:32

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The worst thing about this happening to you, is that now you'll get into continual arguments about the reliability of flash memory. Fanboi be like: "Flash rules all, empires will rise and fall, eons pass and you'll still have your data, not like magnetic media that randomly explodes every 2 months." …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-09, 12:02

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Usually the celeron models in the 300s were more sought, because it became known that they topped out at 600Mhz and the mid 500s were best if you wanted a rock solid, non-tweaky system. So you wouldn't really want to get a 400 6x multi one for a 100mhz bus in case it wouldn't get there. However you …

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Re: "Archmont" desktop 386DX-40 build

Posted on 2017-11-09, 03:02

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Heyyyy Wing Commander, gotta play that again, back in the day I think I got hung up on trying to win Kurasawa 2, I'd shoot down 3 of 4, then the last one would be a bastard and survive long enough to get a shot off that finished the ship I was meant to escort.

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Re: Re: Compaq Deskpro!

Posted on 2017-11-09, 02:34

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Sometime in late 95, early 98 era they were putting bad blocks on distribution CDs so they didn't copy right. Trouble is the way to handle it got buried in Nero's smarts and forgotten about.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-09, 02:29

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I snagged a sealed copy of a VideoLogic DVD-Player MPEG2 accelerator card for ~ 12 USD shipped. For those ppl that insist that a 6x86 PR166+ has to be able to play DVDs :D No but serious, many 2nd wave 3D accels had mp2 acceleration in and 400Mhz was enough to do it in 100% software. I never saw …

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Re: Is this USB Stick on it's way out?

Posted on 2017-11-08, 17:29

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It might be in "saving you from yourself" mode if it's run out of blocks to remap.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-08, 17:26

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Edit: IMO, LG 16-52x drives are mulletproof, and early mass market CD writers were failure prone from most brands, think I only have a hitachi survivor. Yeah those LG drives always had sensible haircuts :lol: Heh heh, my meaning is that whatever white trash owned it and used it as a beer holder, it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-08, 16:20

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Heh as I was reading down that, I was mentally going "LG 32 speed" bet it still works, "Philips CD writer" bet it's dead ... 🤣 Edit: IMO, LG 16-52x drives are mulletproof, and early mass market CD writers were failure prone from most brands, think I only have a hitachi survivor.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-08, 16:09

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For native Tualatin motherboard, MSI 694T Pro, QDI Advance 10T-A if you want onboard sound. The MSI 6309 V2 has the same port arrangement but it's a Coppermine only board. However, you can flash the BIOS with a custom microcode to let it accept Tualatins. I had one in my PC and used the South …

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

Posted on 2017-11-08, 15:55

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There were some early PCI boards that didn't have any i/o, or had limited onboard i/o.... most users ended up with crawly ISA HDD interfaces, because PCI i/o cards were rare and expensive.... You probably saved $5 using an i/o-less board and a ISA i/o... or cost yourself another $35 over the cost of …

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Re: Is there any way to put together a socket 7 dos/windows gaming pc cheaply?

Posted on 2017-11-08, 14:59

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Okay, every single last one of my "Finding PC crap cheap" secrets... use responsibly... Join all local facebook for sale groups, search facebook marketplace regularly, check listings on letgo.com and offerup.com regularly, sign up for all the local freecycle groups on yahoo groups, friday night, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-08, 14:03

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Maybe PCI ver 1.0.... or (0.98 beta 😁 ) with no 3.3V ??? Edit: ohhhhh, I'm wondering if that's how I ended up with an ISA card in my P60....

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Re: Is there any way to put together a socket 7 dos/windows gaming pc cheaply?

Posted on 2017-11-08, 14:00

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Deksor wrote: A ton of 3Dfx cards A ton of sound cards (including a boxed AWE64, a GUS and several sound blasters) A ton of 5"1/4 disks and 3.5" hdds I doubt it, the metals recycling value is over $1000 a ton. 😁

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