Re: Time for a Minor Restoration - Acquired a Packard Bell Legend I (286)(Model: PB686)

Posted on 2023-05-30, 03:44

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by gryffinwings

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I love everything about that machine. Very jealous. Looks like you already have an ide controller so yes a cf to ide adapter is all you need. If it can boot off 1.4mb floppies all you need is a usb floppy drive off Amazon and you can make your own. If it can’t and needs to boot off the 5 1/4 you’ll …

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Re: Time for a Minor Restoration - Acquired a Packard Bell Legend I (286)(Model: PB686)

Posted on 2023-05-29, 04:10

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by gryffinwings

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Pierre32 wrote on 2023-05-29, 01:21: What I'm seeing: embeds.jpg No idea why you are not seeing, but I went ahead and put the images in as attachments.

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Re: Time for a Minor Restoration - Acquired a Packard Bell Legend I (286)(Model: PB686)

Posted on 2023-05-29, 01:11

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by gryffinwings

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You can, that first card you showed is an IDE controller. You can plug the adapter straight into that, and your BIOS supports hard drives already. The XTIDE's are really for XT class machines that dont have a bios, it's an easy solution. But your IDE controller and bio should be fine. Whats the …

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Re: Time for a Minor Restoration - Acquired a Packard Bell Legend I (286)(Model: PB686)

Posted on 2023-05-28, 19:59

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by gryffinwings

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I love everything about that machine. Very jealous. Looks like you already have an ide controller so yes a cf to ide adapter is all you need. If it can boot off 1.4mb floppies all you need is a usb floppy drive off Amazon and you can make your own. If it can’t and needs to boot off the 5 1/4 you’ll …

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Re: Time for a Minor Restoration - Acquired a Packard Bell Legend I (286)(Model: PB686)

Posted on 2023-05-28, 17:55

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by gryffinwings

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Good news, it boots, all it needs is a boot drive, likely will use an IDE to CF adapter and an OS, I'm thinking MS-DOS 5.0.

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Re: Help Needed - Seagate ST07A/ST08A controller card?

Posted on 2023-05-28, 17:38

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by gryffinwings

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konc wrote on 2023-05-28, 16:38: No you can use any brand, it's a normal IDE HDD controller. Yours is the ST08A btw, the difference between ST07A and ST08A is the floppy controller. That is excellent news, so this should allow me to use a IDE to CF card adapter pretty easily correct?

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Help Needed - Seagate ST07A/ST08A controller card?

Posted on 2023-05-28, 15:00

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by gryffinwings

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So I have a Packard Bell Legend I 286 computer without a hard drive, it came with a Seagate ST07A/ST08A controller card which has an IDE connector. Can I just put in any lower capacity hard drive or does it have to be some kind of seagate drive? Ideas, feedback are much appreciated, I'm not sure on …

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HELP NEEDED - Time for a Minor Restoration - Acquired a Packard Bell Legend I (286)(Model: PB686)

Posted on 2023-05-28, 00:21

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by gryffinwings

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So I just picked up a Packard Bell Legend I (Model: PB686) for 50 US Dollars. So far I have completed the first round of dusting for now, and it looks pretty good, I can't detect any problems with the boards from a visual inspection stand point. Next I will clean up the floppy drives and if the PSU …

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Antec P182 Computer Case - Drive Rails?

Posted on 2021-10-30, 16:03

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Hey guys, picked up a case from a second hand computer parts shop in my area, didn't know what it was at the time, but I got it cheap, anyways, recently discovered it is an Antec P182, only issue I am having is that I only have one set of 5.25" drive rails and those are installed on the Plextor PX- …

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Re: Video Card upgrade for Dell Dimension 4400?

Posted on 2021-10-30, 15:53

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by gryffinwings

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Well guys, I was able to source an ATi Radeon 9600XT for $30 on ebay, should work well enough for my needs, also the slot on this one is only up to AGP 4x from the information I have seen.

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Video Card upgrade for Dell Dimension 4400?

Posted on 2021-10-28, 23:59

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by gryffinwings

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Hey guys, got recommended a card for my Windows 98 machine that I realized I already had, but it's in my Pentium 4 Northwood (Windows XP) Machine, so now I need a recommendation for a video card for my Dell Dimension 4400 running Windows XP. Thanks in advance for any recommendations. Dell Dimension …

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Re: Video Card Recommendation? Pentium II Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2021-10-28, 23:42

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ODwilly wrote on 2021-10-28, 23:20: Geforce 2mx I just realized my other "vintage" machine, a Dell Dimension 4400 (Pentium 4 Northwood) Windows XP, has this card installed when I got it, might be better just to take that one and upgrade the Pentium 4 machine to something better....

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Video Card Recommendation? Pentium II Windows 98 SE Machine

Posted on 2021-10-28, 23:16

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by gryffinwings

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Hi guys, I acquired a Gateway Slot 1 motherboard (a variant of the Intel WS440BX board) for cheap a while ago and got a Pentium II 400 MHz cpu for it, and now I am slowly acquiring the addition parts, but I'm not sure what I should get for a video card, I don't want to spend a ton of money, maybe $ …

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Re: ATX to AT PSU requirements for AT Socket 7 with Pentium MMX 200 MHz???

Posted on 2020-06-04, 23:02

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by gryffinwings

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I'm not seeing the ones that have the dummy load and give -5v. Does anyone know where to find the ones with the dummy load and -5v? Some modern PSUs use DC-DC conversion to generate the 3.3V and 5V lines from the 12V internally. These PSUs do not need a dummy load on the 12V, since the conversion …

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Re: ATX to AT PSU requirements for AT Socket 7 with Pentium MMX 200 MHz???

Posted on 2020-06-04, 01:17

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by gryffinwings

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@SodaSuccubus - Thank you for the advice, I wasn't sure if a newer PSU was safe due to the higher amps the PSUs provide. @Ozzuneoj - Thank you very much for the information, looks like I do not need a -5V at all with the ISA sound card I intend to use.

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ATX to AT PSU requirements for AT Socket 7 with Pentium MMX 200 MHz???

Posted on 2020-06-03, 18:19

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Hi guys, I've got an Elpina M537 Socket 7 board on the way that I'm going to use a Pentium MMX 200 MHz CPU in. It requires an AT PSU and I was planning to use an adapter to use a newer ATX PSU. So far I'm only really seeing passive adapters, that have leads to use a switch and I'm not seeing the …

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Re: MS-DOS Hardware check for future build?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 15:51

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by gryffinwings

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Where's the battery on this motherboard? Is that Huston Tech chip some non-standard curse like the DALLAS chip on many boards? I would always recommend to try to find a motherboard that has a coin cell battery... It's a standard coin cell battery, and it has a cover, I posted another picture in my …

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Re: MS-DOS Hardware check for future build?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 15:50

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by gryffinwings

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Look closely at those pins next to the keyboard port and see whether they are for a PS/2 keyboard or mouse. You also need two serial ports on ribbon cables and a parallel port on a ribbon cable. The headers for those are right below the power connector. You can always use a serial mouse. Whether …

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MS-DOS Hardware check for future build?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 15:22

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Hi guys, been a while since I've been here, but I need a hardware check on a future MS-DOS computer build, this is my first attempt at one and I'm getting parts that are easier to find, so it's going to be a Socket 7 system. The motherboard and the CPU I already have purchased. Also need information …

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Re: Drivers for Gateway G6-400?

Posted on 2018-11-09, 02:03

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Actually I ended up finding the drivers I needed, but for the record, I was looking for Windows 98 drivers as I was using Windows 98 SE for this machine. The problem I was running into is that naming schemes for drivers and the name on the chips themselves were not uniform and not clear what was …

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