Macrium Reflect Free is a great tool for making an image of a drive; especially now that they've made viBoot to boot the images you take. It will NOT write an image to CF card if your card has the removeable bit set; it has to show up as an 'internal' drive - queue the search for SiliconDrive cards …

My first PC my dad built/gave to me as a kid was a 386SX-33 with Win 3.1 - you'll be totally fine. I played Command & Conquer on it, but it ran so bad that I had to tell it "no sound card" for the game to run at a decent framerate. Then he gave me a 486SX-25, and it was fast enough to add sound! It …

I've got a DFI P2XBL Rev. D that has SB-Link header (and WOL!) on the board.

Asrock is something like Asus cheaper brand, which something do more experimenting.. i guess that electrical components were often worse.. VRMs arent good for overclocking, but only Asrock made these universal boards, so i some point of view are the best. I similar today HW, im still buying …

Going through old boxes at work yielded this guy:

Probably dual Pentium Pro was the best you could find in 1996. The OS would be Windows NT or OS/2, probably. Maybe you'd have 64 MB of RAM; that would probably be a lot for 1996. A lot of dual Pros had offboard VRM cards like some Xeons; I know that back ages ago when I was a teen and my dad had a …

You also have a tape streamer in there. Being a HP model, media might still be available. Yeah, that old HP Colorado Travan 1000 might work - but it wasn't connected to anything. Looks like it *should* connect to the floppy interface, but I don't have instructions and quick research found "how to …

Free, still white and nice things inside. That's quite some first post. Enjoy it! The first system I remember great detail of was my Celeron 533A on Slotket adapter into I think a P3V4X? Started with a SiS6326 vid card, but later traded a DVD Burner and 64 MB of RAM for a Voodoo5 5500. That was my …

First post - but not first time around Vogons. :) I was given a PC a random the other week, and had to squeal with glee when I opened it. Pentium III 500 Katmai, Voodoo3 2000 AGP, SB Awe64 CT4380! Board is a DFI and I found a BIOS update for large drive support; it's on a 440 chipset but off the top …