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

Posted on 2020-11-18, 04:58

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nothing special... reworked some old Labtech speakers and got MusicMatch working under WinXP on an old soc775 machine. Not really very vintage (think the speakers, motheboard, etc are 2002 era) but was fun and it all works. Did not take pictures of reworking the speakers but was nothing special...

---

Re: Mitsumi CD-ROM Drive Not Being Recognized

Posted on 2020-11-18, 04:09

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

At this point, I would remove the cover of the CDROM drive and make it work like that to see what it does with a disc and without a disc inside. See if the laser moves after closing it or not, careful with the laser light, do not look at it directly. Does the tray open and close without any issues? …

---

Re: Mitsumi CD-ROM Drive Not Being Recognized

Posted on 2020-11-18, 00:20

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a Micron PC with a Pentium 66MHz and a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive (model FX001D) running off an ISA controller card. I'm trying to install Windows 95 on the machine but I can't seem to get the CD-ROM drive to work, I install version 1.16 of the drivers that are supposed to be for this CD-ROM drive …

---

Re: Searching for Motherboard Manual or BIOS for Motherboard

Posted on 2020-11-17, 01:53

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Smack2k wrote on 2020-11-17, 00:50: Can caps that look fine in terms of no bulges / no leaks still be bad and cause things like board powering on but not posting, strange POST error codes? Yes. If the Vreg caps are going bad then cpu voltages are unstable, that can cause lockups, failed POST, etc.

---

Re: Mitsumi CD-ROM Drive Not Being Recognized

Posted on 2020-11-17, 01:40

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a Micron PC with a Pentium 66MHz and a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive (model FX001D) running off an ISA controller card. I'm trying to install Windows 95 on the machine but I can't seem to get the CD-ROM drive to work, I install version 1.16 of the drivers that are supposed to be for this CD-ROM drive …

---

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

Posted on 2020-11-16, 05:20

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some Thermaltake were built well, the PSU with the man holding a thunderbolt looks like a Leadman/Powmax product iirc. Many of those were poor designed but some were better than average, All depends on the model. Some of the older Leadman/Powmax 6100 series were OK and worked as advertised and …

---

Re: Need Award or AMI Bios for Opti 82C895 PCI VLB Motherboard

Posted on 2020-11-15, 21:37

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have an a Opti 82C895 MB that has 3 PCI and 3 VLB that has a Phoenix Bios and looking for a suitable Award or AMI Bios for it. The board has VIP Rev A written on it. This is the closest I found that resembles just about all of it with a few different jumpers. https://www.arvutimuuseum.ee/th99 …

---

Re: digital DECstation 316sx

Posted on 2020-11-15, 21:06

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dear all, have some one active link to digital DECstation 320sx ? link in this post no longer active :-( Using the Wayback machine was able to get the page and download all the 316 and 320 files succesfully. Here is the link: https://web.archive.org/web/20190730144216/http://unimatrix.gomtuu.net/ …

---

Re: Best new ATX PSUs for Pentium, II, III systems?

Posted on 2020-11-15, 20:37

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That Seasonic PSU should work just fine for a P3-933, am using a similar rated Antec with my P3-1Ghz.

---

Re: My First 486 Build!

Posted on 2020-11-15, 04:45

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Recently, I was able to buy a bunch of 486 PC parts, and have decided to try to get one going. I've never built one before, but am familiar with it in a tangential sorta way. I'm relieved that my MB has a standard watch battery instead of a drum battery, for example. Below are a compilation of both …

---

Re: Can not find manual or board name

Posted on 2020-11-15, 01:45

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Blue 486 Overdrive sockets are 1 pinned same as socket 3.

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-14, 20:34

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not sure if it is considered "hardware" but I bought 3 boxes of "new" floppies today. Not that new considering the year 1989 marked on the boxes. I paid 27 euros total for 3 boxes of them. I am just curious about how much you usually pay for floppy disks nowadays? I guess I wasn't sure how much I …

---

Re: Need parts for a Pacific Computer - Portable PC III

Posted on 2020-11-14, 03:37

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a Pacific Computer Portable XT with mono Amber CRT: Re: What retro activity did you get up to today? am sure the parts are totally different and sorry but will not part with any of them.

---

Re: Interpreting diagnostic codes

Posted on 2020-11-14, 03:30

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have you ever opened it up and checked the main board ? There could be damage from old CMOS battery or something else....

---

Re: Ace A-850BR - Potential as a new ATX PSU for P4/Athlon 5 Volt builds

Posted on 2020-11-14, 03:02

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If the ATX PSU can supply even 25 Amps on +5v properly you should not have an issue with an XP2800+, unless you are using a lot of other +5 volt hungry items. The TDP (thermal design, not same as actual power draw) of XP2800+ is 74 watts, the actual draw is about 68 watts max (www.cpu-world.com and …

---

Re: Need mobo info - LS-P54CE Rev:G1

Posted on 2020-11-14, 02:24

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This board? https://wiki.preterhuman.net/images/thumb/f/fc/Luckystar1.jpg/1280px-Luckystar1.jpg There's some more info here, but links are generally dead Good find ! Without knowing if it has DIMM slots and how many that should get him close. This link may get him closer: http://web.tiscali.it/ …

---

Re: Were VLB video cards ever good?

Posted on 2020-11-12, 04:28

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Going from a early 486 with 16bit ISA video and HD controller to 32bit VLB was a major improvement in speed following IBM's Micro channel. Both VLB and PCI were developed about 1992 but VLB caught on quick for 486 due it being suited for the 486 bus structure. PCI was developed for Pentiums bus …

---

Re: DREM (DRive EMulator) - MFM/RLL Drive Emulator

Posted on 2020-11-12, 01:20

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looks great ! From the user manual it does support many well known MFM/RLL controllers which is a plus ! The current price is a bit high but considering never having to replace the antique mechanical HD it could be well worth it. Maybe if I get a bonus this year will look into one, I swapped a '89 …

---

Re: BIOS update needed for DTK PKM-0033S or Gemlight GMB-486SPS

Posted on 2020-11-11, 01:55

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I checked all the wayback captures for gemlight and it seems v2.05 was the latest BIOS. I wonder if the GMB BIOS is any different from the PKM BIOS. http://web.archive.org/web/19961219082235/http://www.gemlight.com.hk/ GMB-486SPS/PKM-0033S SiS 496/497 486 PCI Motherboard 4WSSG205.BIN for GMB-486SPS …

---

Re: Ace A-850BR - Potential as a new ATX PSU for P4/Athlon 5 Volt builds

Posted on 2020-11-10, 05:01

by

by Horun

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Odd that it is not sold outside UK. Yes please do tell us how it works out. In all the searching did not find if it has Over Voltage and Short Circuit protections which are usually included even in the basic PSU's. My guess is that it is about on par with the older Leadman PSU which were included in …

---