TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:Teen here. Please forgive the ignorance of the rest of my generation. My multiple attempts at indoctrination have all failed miserably.
There loss, more Baldurs Gate and Quake III for me.
I feel the same here, I might be considered the only person in my age group to not have a proper "smart" phone mainly because I don't have a use for one. I'm about the same age as you (as much as I hate to admit it) and I actually have an interest in retro-computing so I guess you're not the only one anymore. 😀
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Today, I got around to flashing the BIOS on my AMD64 rig, the painful part was finding the latest BIOS image available and the proper DOS utility to flash it with because ASUS seems to have gotten rid of everything relating to their older hardware (jerks, they're no better than HP) so I ended up taking a long and through course of Google searching until I found the A8V 0229 BIOS update and a flash utility that actually worked, after trying out a few different tools I managed to get it done and over with.
And it turns out my BFG nVidia Geforce 7800GS OC AGP video card has died. During the past few months this computer was having trouble turning on because I had to try turning it on at least a few times to get a picture to show up and now it won't budge, when I attached a PC Speaker beeper onto the motherboard I got 1 short beep which (according to the official AMI BIOS POST code document) corresponds to memory failure so I tried reseating the RAM sticks into different slots as well as turning it on with just one stick, nothing changed.
I decided to go the extra mile by digging through my parts bin and trying a couple different AGP video cards (which included an nVidia Geforce 4MX 440 and an ATI Rage 128 Ultra), that actually worked, I tried to boot it up again with the BFG 7800GS card, it didn't work, and booting it up w/o a video card resulted in the same beep code pattern. So I guess either this video card is dead or it just doesn't like the DDR-400 Crucial RAM that I have.
I placed an order on an ATI Radeon x800 video card to replace it so hopefully I can bring it back to life without having to stick with a wimpy video card (Yes, I know the x800 is technically a downgrade, but because this is a 2004/05 era PC it feels more period-correct and I didn't feel like spending $50+ on a better card).