First post, by that944guy
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Hello, have found a lot of good info on here and thought it best to properly make an account and say hi. I apologize in advance if this build is considered too modern or otherwise out of place here.
I grew up in the 90s/early 2000s and have been yearning for a Windows 9x rig for quite some time, virtualization was not really giving me the full experience and I wanted to run some old games on the OS that I remember playing them on originally. Around 4 days ago I was going through old boxes and I found some parts that I thought had ended up as e-waste already: the Intel D845GEBV2 motherboard from my family's computer in the early 2000s. Complete with a 2.40ghz Northwood P4, 512mb RAM, and an AGP 4x nVidia MX440 in the same box. I popped over to the Goodwill Computer store and got a scrap system for its case and power supply that night - and made a very mediocre Pentium 4 system. No SSD or SATA or maxed out RAM, just wanted a period-correct PC. Stole a 120gb PATA drive out of my 2002 PowerMac G4 MDD (gave it an SSD to replace it).
XP was of course straightforward to get going, and 98SE is now installed as well. I haven't tried to go back earlier yet, as most drivers for my hardware are for 98 and later. I mostly focused on making this a nice tribute build to the late 90s / early 2000s era. I have a lot of PCI slots and old cards collecting dust, so I thought, may as well fill that all up:
- 56k modem
- USB 2.0 card (4 external + 1 internal)
- Belkin wireless G card
- Creative Sound Blaster Vibra128 - on the way from ebay currently
- SATA RAID card... not sure if I will do anything with this but I installed it anyway
- Serial and parallel combo card
Still in the process of getting drivers and etc all working, kind of hit or miss. Not bothering to make this faster or anything, if anything I wish it was a Pentium II system, but this is what I already had. I don't have any specific questions - just wanted to introduce myself and say hello.