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Re: FIC SS7 98SE build

Posted on 2020-02-02, 21:15

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

It is really weird to look back at CRTs after so many years with LCD. They really do appear sharper?I dont know maybe its the rose tinted glasses but I do love the CRT screens. Your build looks great, although I might ask why the cooling fans over the GPU/s? Is it not a bit overkill?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-02, 00:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Woah. What an amazing collection!

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

Posted on 2020-02-01, 22:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I tried out a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 PRO (Virge/DX) card tonight.. It has a weird quirk, at the PST screen text that should be grey looks light green (white/bold text still looks white) and when I enter the BIOS all the colors look fine. Wtf? Dodgy BIOS? The BIOS chip does look a bit suspect.. …

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

Posted on 2020-02-01, 19:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Had a chance to try out the CRT that came with the 386 this evening. Still in its OG box with inserts. Also inside the box were 2 beige kettle leads to match although I opted to use my known safe ones instead... https://i.ibb.co/87RMGXq/IMG-2196.jpg It does work but with some problems, the …

Re: IDE HDD woes on an old system - think this is user error rather than anything else.

Posted on 2020-01-31, 16:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

derSammler wrote on 2020-01-31, 08:24: format.com should be in the win98 folder on the CD. I remember that catching me out in the past being too hasty to set up PCs. Installed a fresh windows 98 on a machine today and remembered that 😀 cd win98 format c: Job done 😁

Re: Do anyone have the Kingston KNE2021LC?

Posted on 2020-01-30, 17:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was able to download lc_20.EXE from https://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=45042

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

Posted on 2020-01-29, 21:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This one is 33mhz with 8mhz turbo (according to the display on the case!) I actually am not familiar with anything pre 486 so it has been a learning adventure too. It only has 1.5mb of ram. Should I look to expand this? The ebay seller actually requested that I preserve his data if possible and now …

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

Posted on 2020-01-29, 21:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Replaced the caps on a recently acquired 386 pc that instantly turned off. Works fine now! Just need to clean it up and fit a coin cell battery holder to replace the barrel that had just started to leak.

Re: PIII 600 bottleneck?

Posted on 2020-01-28, 17:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Geforce 2 mx asus p2b 256mb ram 600mhz p3 3572 3dmarks 9200 cpu 3dmarks

Re: PIII 600 bottleneck?

Posted on 2020-01-28, 17:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

3mark99? I have a 600mhz p3 with geforce 2 MX and am running a 3dmark now to compare results.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-26, 21:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

oh neat, does the wavetable work in DOS? Have only given it a quick test in windows as it was the only soundcard I had to hand and something I was tring to launch required a sound card. I also have little knowledge or pre windows soundcards and features so wouldnt even know what to load up to test …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-26, 15:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

oh neat, does the wavetable work in DOS? Have only given it a quick test in windows as it was the only soundcard I had to hand and something I was tring to launch required a sound card. I also have little knowledge or pre windows soundcards and features so wouldnt even know what to load up to test …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-26, 14:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Managed to test this ISA soundcard today that I got in my last ebay lot. Dont know much about it but it installed automatically in windows 98se and seems to work nicely.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-21, 22:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

mpe wrote on 2020-01-21, 21:55: Look at this $19 bundle of "assorted PCI and ISA cards". There is a card thats not like the others... Guess which particular item struck my eye? download/file.php?mode=view&id=75043 (Sorry for quality that's a seller's picture) I guess that beautiful S3 😜

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-20, 22:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The main part of the ebay lot I picked up this weekend was this 386 pc (Still with delivery box from 1991 and CRT also in delivery box from the same time.) https://i.ibb.co/wdJpFQh/IMG-2061.jpg https://i.ibb.co/MpB05Nn/IMG-2042.jpg https://i.ibb.co/G5JqyQ7/IMG-2049.jpg https://i.ibb.co/w0Q4h0Y/IMG- …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-19, 22:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got a large lot (for me anyway) from ebay today with many interesting items that I will share at some point. But firstly I must share this and ask for any information on it. https://i.ibb.co/YLx3Tjb/IMG-2054.jpg https://i.ibb.co/R43LfMw/IMG-2055.jpg Appears to be an ISA VGA-PAL converter card …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-04, 13:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Picked up the motherboard today. £12 win on ebay. Much better condition than expected but absolutely caked in grot, sticks and even bird poop.. Everything looks like it will clean up nicely tho! I did rip off the heatsink to see what I got and it appears to be a 750mhz pentium 3 (thats what the …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-11, 12:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This Voodoo 1... unfortunatelly seller didn't informed about the major problem on the backside of the PCB so I will try to get a refund :/// Gutted :( It makes me angry that sellers dont identify these things before posting them. I guess it is not impossible for someone with a steady hand to repair …

Re: Socket 7 motherboard trouble

Posted on 2019-09-29, 11:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for the responses. I am not overly fussed about getting the motherboard going it was part of a lot that I purchased and I was going to build a win95 machine from it. I have now ordered a better looking board that is confirmed to work and comes with a 133mhz pentium included so that will be …

Re: Socket 7 motherboard trouble

Posted on 2019-09-24, 20:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have not tried hooking up a speaker yet. I have stripped it back to barebones but had no luck so might have to write off this board. 🙁

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