I just picked up a Packard Bell Platinum 55 for $10. I had recently bought the monitor with speakers for $5 and the keyboard and mouse for around $10, so $25 isn't bad for a complete Packard Bell. It has a 200Mhz processor, two 2GB HDs, 48MB of ram and a Sound Galaxy sound card.

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AlphaWing wrote:

Good luck with that x-fi! I had that same oem x-fi card in my main PC for awhile, gave up on it, due to clicking sounds being in […]
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Good luck with that x-fi!
I had that same oem x-fi card in my main PC for awhile, gave up on it, due to clicking sounds being inserted into just about anything played over it, issues with the drivers in windows Vista and 8, worked fine in XP, but that PC rarely boots into XP.

As for I/O plates I just make them outa malleable Plastic, usually cut from Ice cream buckets, and paint them whatever color, and attach them either with glue or nuts\bolts if the case has convenient holes to mount with. Usually ends up looking nice, and easy to cut every hole needed, with no sharp edges.
Cheap and easy solution that comes with a treat 🤣 .

🤣...yeah I heard that these xfi cards can be troublesome but I only plan to use it on xp anyways. I have a retail pci e Creative card for my win 7 setup.

I love the idea of using plastic from buckets or whatever works. I tried using acrylic once and it worked pretty good. Easy to cut with olfa knife so it is easy to work with but I like your idea about the malleable plastic. ..I think it would be easier and cheaper.

I looked and it's a 670, that's the card that works with the stock Creative drivers.

Posting from my new Thinkpad 770. 233mmx Pentium, 2mb Trident, some crystal based audio chip, 4.7gb hard drive running Windows2k on 228mb of ram. Currently using IE6 and trying to find the best version of Firefox to download. Spent all day yesterday scrubbing it with Simple Green, it was coated in mold. O and it is missing half the paint 🤣

ODwilly wrote:

Posting from my new Thinkpad 770. 233mmx Pentium, 2mb Trident, some crystal based audio chip, 4.7gb hard drive running Windows2k on 228mb of ram. Currently using IE6 and trying to find the best version of Firefox to download. Spent all day yesterday scrubbing it with Simple Green, it was coated in mold. O and it is missing half the paint 🤣

Don't bother with firefox with 228MB RAM.

I suggest you try Opera. Somewhere between version 9 and 12 works good on old systems

Ya it is a little sluggish on Firefox 12 or whatever version it is I ended up istalling. Time to scope out Opera and I am trying to figure out the best way to get some form of Flash on here. Somewhere I read about a way to use VLC to play youtube videos. Overall this system is not half bad on 2k, surprising for a 95 based laptop. Heck it even has a USB 1.0 port on the back!

snagged one of those serial to ps/2 converters for $9.99 so will see how well this one does once it gets here.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/111506636891?_trksid= … K%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Won this on eBay recently - was advertised as an AWE32, but turned out to be an SB32. Not too fussed, it's an impressive looking card 😎

Also picked up the following two (untested) cards in a big and very cheap haul of mostly Apple cables and SCSI stuff:

(Compaq/Creative CT5805)

(XWave card)

EDIT: Any suggestions for a good free image hosting service?

A lot of people here just use imgur 😀

JidaiGeki wrote:

EDIT: Any suggestions for a good free image hosting service?

I use http://cubeupload.com/
Its free and fast.

^ There is also, very popular, imgur .

I use postimg. Though I don't doubt somebody will ruin them all eventually - just like Imageshack.

Nice, a Yamaha 724 card, neat little things those with the little XG synth... A coincidence is that I've just started unscrewing the side panel for my P2, which houses a card with that chip, I think SoundMAX made mine but I don't remember.

Biostar MB-8500TTD Mainboard
Pentium MMX 2,33Mhz
Matrox Millenium MGA-2164WP-C PCI

Top: Asus AGP-V 3000 (Riva 128) - Diamond Viper 770 32 AGP (Riva TNT2) - Creative 3D Blaster Banshee (CT6750)
Middle: ATI Rage II + DVD - 3Dfx Banshee
Bottom: ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP - TNT 2 32 AGP

Best part? 2e from a flea market! Last 2 were free (recycling center).

MrTentacleGuy wrote:

I just picked up a Packard Bell Platinum 55 for $10. I had recently bought the monitor with speakers for $5 and the keyboard and mouse for around $10, so $25 isn't bad for a complete Packard Bell. It has a 200Mhz processor, two 2GB HDs, 48MB of ram and a Sound Galaxy sound card.

Wow someone really decked out your system, mine came to me almost stock and I had to upgrade the CPU and RAM. Nice find though, I love my Packard Bell Platinum 55. Wish I could say I had the monitor and correct mouse but alas I do not. 😜

You don't need AT cases as there are pretty good AT/ATX cable converters

schlang wrote:

You don't need AT cases as there are pretty good AT/ATX cable converters

It's not so much the cables that are the issue since as you said, there are all kinds of converters out there. The issue is the standoff/hole arrangement for AT motherboards.

are there really differences compared to "not so newish" ATX cases?

schlang wrote:

are there really differences compared to "not so newish" ATX cases?

Yep, the mounting holes are different. Some ATX cases have mounting holes for AT form-factor cases, however.

Yes, since I haven't had any problems so far

You could always drill your own holes, I suppose; or do some of them clash a little bit?