appiah4 wrote:

I have one of those exact same CF IDE adapters and among a bunch of others that is the one adapter none of my computers would post with.. Is there a trick to getting it to work?

These are really cheap little devices. I bought these in a bulk order and half of them didn't even work. When they do work... they just... work. No tricks.

Artex wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

I have one of those exact same CF IDE adapters and among a bunch of others that is the one adapter none of my computers would post with.. Is there a trick to getting it to work?

These are really cheap little devices. I bought these in a bulk order and half of them didn't even work. When they do work... they just... work. No tricks.

I see; I guess mine is busted. 😵

Artex wrote:

Testing out this bad boy I finally sold! […]
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Testing out this bad boy I finally sold!

That's an amazing video and sound card combo. I've seen that type with the ASUS's Media card (and motherboard), but not a PCI variant. Must be hard to find these days.

bjwil1991 wrote:

That's an amazing video and sound card combo. I've seen that type with the ASUS's Media card (and motherboard), but not a PCI variant. Must be hard to find these days.

This one is pretty rare, much more rare than the Apocalypse 3D/3Dx (PCX1/PCX2). This uses the NEC PowerVR PCX2 chip for 3D 'acceleration' but I use that word loosely. And the sounds is only ESS audio so instead of being amazing at one thing, this card does just 'OK' at multiple things between the 2D, 3D and audio support. But yeah, there weren't a ton of cards like this.

They're MULTIPLYING!

All 3 of those units have USB ports on the front end? I was trying to figure out what the cover was for next to the system model sticker.

No, only 1 does.

oeuvre wrote:

No, only 1 does.

Ah. Interesting. Must've been optional back then, right?

Probably, yeah. There's a proprietary USB header on the motherboard

appiah4 wrote:

Artex wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

I have one of those exact same CF IDE adapters and among a bunch of others that is the one adapter none of my computers would post with.. Is there a trick to getting it to work?

These are really cheap little devices. I bought these in a bulk order and half of them didn't even work. When they do work... they just... work. No tricks.

I see; I guess mine is busted. 😵

Check for any flaws in manufacture, of course.

I have one from Startech. Not sure if they cloned/bought a design from someone else or vice versa.

I had some cleaning up to do:

Had some leftoeuvre parts lying around and cobbled this together. Not exactly sure what to do with it.

https://imgur.com/a/Cg3QY

oeuvre wrote:

Had some leftoeuvre parts lying around and cobbled this together. Not exactly sure what to do with it.

https://imgur.com/a/Cg3QY

It's always cool to have a Mame box.

Packing and invoicing retro hardware I sold to people on VCF. That's what I'm doing.

First stage of my new vintage/retro corner is done. Actually done yesterday....
Enough space for a couple of machines hooked up, and a small table that can be extended for working on projects.

After overcoming a number of obstacles, I got the rebuild of my P233 MMX system done.

Only problem so far is that any cold boot, the memory test hangs. But after it's powered on, any and all warm reboots make it so it boots up perfectly fine. Will run a memtest to be sure, but I've tried it with definite known good RAM sticks I have and still get the same issue.

oeuvre wrote:

Had some leftoeuvre parts lying around and cobbled this together. Not exactly sure what to do with it.

https://imgur.com/a/Cg3QY

Another case swap project involving the reuse of a late-90s Dell case for a Prescott P4 spare parts build? I like it. Your case swap projects always amaze me, it could probably be useful for testing parts since you never know what (semi-)modern parts you might run into without knowing whether or not they work.

BTW, you have the same processor that I have in my Dell Optiplex GX520.

While out checking for CRTs at Value Village I found a Lenovo T61 and a Compaq V2000.....not really vintage, but the Compaq was well worth the $3.99 I paid for it - because it had a 44pin PATA HDD - so I whipped out that quartet of ill-bought 44 pin to 40 pin adapters and currently I'm pretting my 486 with yet another large hard disk - this time for a Windows XP experiment......never tried XP on a 486 before - tonight's the night to do it, at least before my Pentium machine is handed off with it's CRT since I know the installer will trip once it finds out what it will be REALLY running on (heh).

creepingnet wrote:

While out checking for CRTs at Value Village I found a Lenovo T61 and a Compaq V2000.....not really vintage, but the Compaq was well worth the $3.99 I paid for it - because it had a 44pin PATA HDD - so I whipped out that quartet of ill-bought 44 pin to 40 pin adapters and currently I'm pretting my 486 with yet another large hard disk - this time for a Windows XP experiment......never tried XP on a 486 before - tonight's the night to do it, at least before my Pentium machine is handed off with it's CRT since I know the installer will trip once it finds out what it will be REALLY running on (heh).

I'd hate to be the bringer of bad news, but unless you have a Pentium Overdrive CPU installed (or have enough free time to mess around with SETUPLDR.BIN and NTOSKRNL.EXE in a disassembler), there's no way you're going to get Windows XP up and running on a 486. The reason is that the setup's bootup phase checks for the CMPXCHG8B instruction before it'll allow installation, which means that it'll refuse to even start the setup on a 486 class CPU (this includes 5x86, MediaGX, and IDT Winchip). However, the closest thing you can get is an early Whistler build (build 2223 or earlier I believe) from before the CMPXCHG8B requirement was implemented, you could probably find some builds at your nearest *cough*abandonware sites*cough*.

Fixed my recently aquired Compaq Profesional Workstation AP400, arriving with a dead power supply (was sold as defective). Fuse was blown and a VDR released its magic smoke. Removed the VDRs remains, replaced the fuse and it is working again.
Put in some memory and a HDD and after some hassle with the Compaq softbios (The setup utility resides on a non DOS partition on the HDD and the diskette builder tool didn´t work on XP, so I had to involve an old Toshiba laptop with W98 installed) installed Win98SE on it. Finally installed a Voodoo II to complete the system. The bezel suffered from transport damage, so this had to be glued. Probably I will go for a different HDD as only 10 GB of the 80 GB IDE drive is usable and there is onboard wide SCSI.
If I find another of these low profile PII heatsinks I might switch to W2K to make use of the SMP feature, but the system is known to be thermaly critical and the power supply is only rated 200W. This seems rather low for a dual CPU machine, even with passively cooled CPUs.
System has a PIII@700 Mhz, 512 MB and a Rage pro turbo AGP installed currently.
Later I went through my boxes with stored hardware and took photos for the planned inventory listing/ website project. I didn´t remeber I had tis many boards and cards, and I didnt even start with MCA and EISA cards...