Started on a WinME system (XP seemed as little too new for this one)

I'm trying to pair down computers since I have no more space in the basement, but I couldn't bring myself to get rid of this system (mainly I love the A7V)...the computer smells like damp musty basement (which accurately describes my friends basement, where it came from)... I dub thee Musticlees!

- Athlon 1.1Ghz
- Asus A7V
- 1GB RAM (512,256,256) PC133 @100MHz
- GeForce FX5500 256MB AGP
- SB Audigy PCI
- Seagate 80GB HDD
- Pioneer DVD-ROM
- LG CD-RW

Unfortunately the case is missing two drive bay covers (5.25 size) and I have no idea what to even search online to find possible replacements 🙁

Try opening six instances of http://zombo.com.

gdjacobs wrote:

Try opening six instances of http://zombo.com.

Shit, I haven't seen this in years....mmmmm, zombocom!

I had to hace some retro-ness at my main desk, so this is what i put there. P4-3.0-1M, HD3450. Should be perfect when I need a quick deathmatch or a floppy image written.

probnot wrote:

gdjacobs wrote:

Try opening six instances of http://zombo.com.

Shit, I haven't seen this in years....mmmmm, zombocom!

WTF? I guess that's zombo-com.

gdjacobs wrote:

Try opening six instances of http://zombo.com.

OMG, help us all. 😳 I just opened zombocom and cachemonet together. Aspirin please.

hmmm... hamster dance as an additive should be interesting.

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Started on a WinME system (XP seemed as little too new for this one)

I'm trying to pair down computers since I have no more space in the basement, but I couldn't bring myself to get rid of this system (mainly I love the A7V)...the computer smells like damp musty basement (which accurately describes my friends basement, where it came from)... I dub thee Musticlees!

- Athlon 1.1Ghz
- Asus A7V
- 1GB RAM (512,256,256) PC133 @100MHz
- GeForce FX5500 256MB AGP
- SB Audigy PCI
- Seagate 80GB HDD
- Pioneer DVD-ROM
- LG CD-RW

Unfortunately the case is missing two drive bay covers (5.25 size) and I have no idea what to even search online to find possible replacements 🙁

A7V, it's a shame it doesn't have official 133MHz FSB support.
About the drive bay covers missing, I'll typically fill these up with dead or spare optical drives (and place an "X" so I know it's just for covering up the holes in the front). I simply don't hook up these "filler" drives and this prevents the build up of dust in the case.

Discovered that my 3TB drive in my main computer, which has a huge amount of old software on it, hence why it has to do with retro activity, was not being recognized anymore.

Did a bit of troubleshooting and found out it was a cable problem. I went to replace the cable and found that the end that plugs into the motherboard had come loose.

Now I am a happy camper again.

cyclone3d wrote:

Discovered that my 3TB drive in my main computer, which has a huge amount of old software on it, hence why it has to do with retro activity, was not being recognized anymore.

Did a bit of troubleshooting and found out it was a cable problem. I went to replace the cable and found that the end that plugs into the motherboard had come loose.

Now I am a happy camper again.

I felt scared for you for a second. Dead hard drives are scary business.

Tetrium wrote:

A7V, it's a shame it doesn't have official 133MHz FSB support.
About the drive bay covers missing, I'll typically fill these up with dead or spare optical drives (and place an "X" so I know it's just for covering up the holes in the front). I simply don't hook up these "filler" drives and this prevents the build up of dust in the case.

I was thinking about finding one of those white audigy front port bays. Adding it will be a pain though, since the case has these annoying snap-in sliders. Then I just need one blank. I would prefer functional stuff on the front over dead filler drives.

I've tried everything I can think of to flash my TH7II bios. I still get the annoying bios lockdown jumper error. This could either mean the BIOS chip is corrupt or when I attempted to flash the first time messed it up.

Edit: I'm going to check work for a BIOS flasher first.

probnot wrote:

I felt scared for you for a second. Dead hard drives are scary business.

I really need to get another drive so I can backup more of my stuff to another computer just in case.
The computer I back up to then backs up a lot of stuff to Backblaze.

cyclone3d wrote:

Discovered that my 3TB drive in my main computer, which has a huge amount of old software on it, hence why it has to do with retro activity, was not being recognized anymore.

Did a bit of troubleshooting and found out it was a cable problem. I went to replace the cable and found that the end that plugs into the motherboard had come loose.

Now I am a happy camper again.

This is exactly why all my old software from 1990's and early 2000's is stored on my file server under RAID-5, on a enterprise-grade hardware raid card, which is mostly duplicated on a second "nearline" (off most of the time) file server, which also runs raid-5 on a hardware, enterprise-grade raid card, which both are backed up to data tapes and stored off-site in our self storage unit in a air-tight plastic case, along with some of my other computer backup images and most of my old CD's.

Slowly ruining my sleep schedule by playing Doom, Quake, and Unreal till 2 in the morning. 😵

Ordered some new potentiometers for my Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro and my temporary sound card, the AZT2316R, has intermittent issues with the sfx playing and the FM synth is too quiet, and still emits a pitched whine for a few seconds. My guess is the card needs fresh caps, but my Redneck speaker balance cable (cable cut in half with the potentiometer as the balance knob in the center) outputs correct volume level to my speakers nicely.

Setup Windows 7 32-bit on an HP Compaq 8510p laptop with 2.4GHz T7700, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD, 1680x1050 resolution 15" display. Runs well after a thorough cleaning and declogged heatsink + clean fan + new thermal paste. Still idles in the high 40s and the fan likes to run a lot but under full load via prime95, it never gets above 75C so I guess it's just working the way it should.

Been playing around further with BeOS on 1 of my Pentium III PCs. Installed Zeta 1.21 and was able to run everything fine, including the rather awful BeOS port of Wolfenstein 3D. So I decided to update to Zeta 1.5 and Duke Nukem 3D stopped working. 😠

I wiped the install and went back to 1.21 and it's all working good again. Good job this OS doesn't take long to install. 🤣

I might play around with the BeOS 5 "Max Edition" at some point, to be a bit more period correct, as this version of Zeta is from 2006, yet still runs well on my old PIII.

oeuvre wrote:

Setup Windows 7 32-bit on an HP Compaq 8510p laptop with 2.4GHz T7700, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD, 1680x1050 resolution 15" display. Runs well after a thorough cleaning and declogged heatsink + clean fan + new thermal paste. Still idles in the high 40s and the fan likes to run a lot but under full load via prime95, it never gets above 75C so I guess it's just working the way it should.

I use a similar HP Elitebook as my main laptop. 2.5GHZ Core2Duo P8 something, HD3650, 320GB HDD, and 3GB RAM. Runs CSS and DoD:S pretty well which is about all I need for away from home multiplayer. It's only other duty is outputting movies via it's HDMI.

Decided to swap the DVD drive for the DVD burner in my IBM ThinkPad R40, and I thought the connections were different, but they aren't. The DVD Drive is now in my Pavilion N3350 since it's not needed since the software I have is dated and probably won't detect the drive at all.

gedjacobs wrote:

Decided to swap the DVD drive for the DVD burner in my IBM ThinkPad R40, and I thought the connections were different, but they aren't. The DVD Drive is now in my Pavilion N3350 since it's not needed since the software I have is dated and probably won't detect the drive at all.

Lol I haven't seen that in years, funny that it's still up.

bjwil1991 wrote:

Decided to swap the DVD drive for the DVD burner in my IBM ThinkPad R40, and I thought the connections were different, but they aren't. The DVD Drive is now in my Pavilion N3350 since it's not needed since the software I have is dated and probably won't detect the drive at all.

How does the R40 perform? I just looked on thinkwiki and wow the possible configurations vary so widely.

Finished setting up my Gateway Pentium III 450 system and installing Windows 98. Decided to give this a Voodoo3 2000 as somehow I've managed to go all this time without ever owning one. This is now very nearly the machine I had back in 1999 - same CPU, same 128MB ram. . . just the original was a desktop case with a Rage 128 and this is a tower with 3DFX. It had the same 13GB Quantum Fireball drive too, but thankfully it was dead so I could get something quieter 😜