Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on Today, 15:17

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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Last night, I tested my newly acquired PS2 bundle that I got for $30 and had to clean the battery acid from the one controller due to leaking batteries and fix the other receiver as it was flashing quickly (cleaned the contact points inside and out, unplugged and plugged back in twice, and started …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Today, 02:19

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by bjwil1991

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Good day today. Bought another Original Xbox (2004, might be a 1.4 or 1.5, will open up, inspect, repair, and remove the clock cap) and a phat PS2 bundle (2 Logitech wireless controllers, cables, and the console) all for a good price of $60. Both systems will be soft modded and the phat PS2 will get …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-18, 18:56

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by bjwil1991

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Check the battery sometime. And those were soldered onto the board (no idea why). I have one myself connected to my 486 with my MT-32 and Yamaha DB50XG (connected to a CHiLL board).

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-17, 18:17

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by bjwil1991

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Bought a ViewSonic VX2245wm that not only is a computer monitor, but it also serves as a USB hub, multi card reader, and iPod dock for syncing, charging, and playing music (and possibly videos to the monitor). Got it for $25 a few days ago. In addition, I bought 4 DVI to VGA adapters for the price …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-13, 20:34

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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I agree. The GUS is a nice touch. If'n only them doo-doo heads on flea bay didn't charge them there cards an arm an' a leg. As what Colonel Sherman T Potter would say: Mule Fritters!

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-02-13, 20:05

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by bjwil1991

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Finally got my 20GB HDD on my 40GB HDD for my ThinkPad R40 successfully after so many trial and errors since Sunday night. I had to use Hiren's Boot CD and run Mini XP, the Partition Wizard Home Edition 7, remove the partition that wasn't working correctly, and copied the partition over from the …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-02-12, 02:54

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by bjwil1991

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Was the alignment off on the FDD? Looks nice and clean. Fabulous job on the floppy drive repair.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-07, 17:35

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Good looking sound card and SCSI card.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-06, 04:28

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by bjwil1991

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Bought an external USB floppy drive (tested it and it works), Gamester for the SP (3 games can be inserted with ease), RF adapter for the NES, SNES, Mega Drive (Genesis), N64, C64, Sinclair 1000, and other devices (might work with a VCR using an RCA to RF adapter), an N64 RF adapter so that I can …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-02-05, 18:20

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by bjwil1991

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Having 4 slices of a medium pizza with pepperoni, pineapple, and jalapeños with 3 pieces of breadsticks, dipping sauce (I have another one stored in my work fridge with the rest of the pizza and breadsticks), and Pepsi 0 sugar.

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2020-02-03, 18:02

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by bjwil1991

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I have a similar case for my main PC, except there are 2 sets of rails for the 5.25" bay that are missing and cannot source new ones.

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2020-02-03, 15:04

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by bjwil1991

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I do the same thing. Some things that require professionals, such as suspension work, I take it to the shop to get it fixed. Any other issues I come across, I do it myself. Saved a ton of money from late 2018-mid 2019 when I replaced the spark plugs, got the cooling system flushed and repaired, and …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-02-03, 05:11

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by bjwil1991

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Checked the alignment of the Epson SD-800 dual floppy drive using ImageDIsk 1.18 utility and cleaned the 1.44MB drive using the utility and cleaning kit I bought recently. Going to need a 5.25" FDD cleaning kit to clean the 1.2MB drive and clean a 1.2MB diskette that errors out at sector 70 head 0/1 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-03, 02:11

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by bjwil1991

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Bought another Creative Labs CR-563-B CD-ROM drive as either a spare drive or for another build and 2 power/volume/mic flex cables (1 new, 1 used).

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-02, 20:39

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by bjwil1991

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May be normal, many USB FDDs lack support for 720 KB. The FDD supports 720K, 1.25MB, and 1.44MB according to the box. I think the issue could be the heads are bad or the FDD isn't working correctly. The FDD is more like a standard FDD that were in laptops back then and used a ribbon data/power …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-02, 20:05

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by bjwil1991

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Gorgeous system. Yesterday, I bought an AIW 7500 64MB AGP, external USB FDD (needs repairs as it doesn't read any 720K diskette I put in there and doesn't format), and 3.5" FDD head cleaning kit for $18 at a local computer thrift store/electronic recycling center.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-01-30, 20:29

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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Same here. Prices are higher than car parts for my dad's hatchback.

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Re: IBM ThinkPad 380D Adventures

Posted on 2020-01-29, 21:09

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by bjwil1991

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The BIOS is normally stored on the laptop itself and not on the HDD.

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Re: IBM ThinkPad 380D Adventures

Posted on 2020-01-29, 13:30

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by bjwil1991

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That's the only way to get into the BIOS. Press and hold F1 and then power on the system. Check the keyboard connections to make sure they aren't loose.

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Re: List of Free Games

Posted on 2020-01-29, 04:44

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by bjwil1991

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Same here.

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