JetWay 542C board with AMD K6-2 500 CPU & 256MB RAM

Posted on 2018-07-11, 15:23

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I couldn't find any rules on this forum and as such not sure if this is allowed, so please delete if this is not, but I'm having a clear out as I am moving, and just found my old JetWay 542C motherboard with its AMD K6-2 500 CPU and a RAM stick, which I think is 256MB. If you go back through my …

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Found a few old CPUs...

Posted on 2013-11-19, 13:38

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I am not sure if I am allowed to ask this here, but I have found a few old retro CPUs whilst just having a clear-out, and I was hoping somebody could tell me how much I could possibly be looking to get for them, if they are sort after, of course (they could be junk, who knows) Problem being they are …

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Re: New here, found my old mobo and got the retro bug back

Posted on 2013-10-11, 12:15

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Good point, I had wanted to find a 486 board for a while. Not sure if this particular one by Pine is much good though, I doubt anybody has heard of it lol. I wish I could find the DX4-120 board I had in my teens though - would love to get that up and running again :( Maybe I will have to store it …

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Re: New here, found my old mobo and got the retro bug back

Posted on 2013-10-10, 10:22

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A good find, Awergh. That is definitely the board. Had never heard of Pine before. I was curious about the molex on the motherboard too. I guess this must have been a point when fans were becoming required on CPUs and they just used a standard 4 pin molex instead of a 3-pin connector. Yes I noticed …

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Re: My K6-3 + Voodoo3

Posted on 2013-10-09, 18:33

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Always wanted a K6-3 years back for my JetWay 542C! Could never ever find one. Had to settle for a K6-2 500. That is a nice case, but is that the floppy drive (where it says peacock)? I always used to try and avoid cases with a custom floppy drive bezel. Wish I could find a nice looking and clean AT …

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Re: New here, found my old mobo and got the retro bug back

Posted on 2013-10-05, 19:38

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Oh no sliderider, I didn't mean I was going to use them, or even had any to use - was just reminiscing about them once I saw that the board had slots for both 30-pin and 72-pin SIMMs. They were a very handy way of re-using old unused RAM which was left lying around! What's the going rate for a pair …

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Re: New here, found my old mobo and got the retro bug back

Posted on 2013-10-05, 14:36

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Being that the JetWay board has an ATX connector on too and is a late AT board, I would imagine it has the holes aligned for ATX too maybe. In an ATX case, there is about 2-3 holes extra needed to suit an AT board. If they don't have them, I suppose you could use the little plastic risers ala AT …

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Re: New here, found my old mobo and got the retro bug back

Posted on 2013-10-05, 10:17

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I was going to say about the AT keyboard, I guess you just punched through the supplied ATX backplate and put your own in there? Would be a nice little project for me maybe, I remember back in the day you could get cases with ATX PSUs supplied for under a tenner on sites like eBuyer, I wonder if …

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Re: New here, found my old mobo and got the retro bug back

Posted on 2013-10-05, 09:51

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I recommend that you shouldnt bother about does AT PSU.. The quality in that time was very poor.. Does AT psu mostly where dead i a few years.. They are also dust collectors.. If you go for an AT one, then choose for a Hi-POT one.. But better looking for a better quality ATX psu I think the PSU in …

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Re: New here, found my old mobo and got the retro bug back

Posted on 2013-09-25, 19:35

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Got a question for you all, if I was to get a usb-to-PS2 converter, and then a PS2 to AT converter, would I be able to use my USB keyboard on my AT motherboard?! Only if it's designed to be used by both USB and PS/2, which is the case in many USB mice, but not so many keyboards. ;) Just thought to …

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Re: New here, found my old mobo and got the retro bug back

Posted on 2013-09-25, 08:27

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Great replies! Keep them coming. I remember that whenever I booted that PS/1 machine, 9 times out of 10 there'd be a BIOS configuration error, but like I said, because I didn't know much about anything PC wise back then, I used to just bypass it. I wonder what it was, I will try and remember the …

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Re: New here, found my old mobo and got the retro bug back

Posted on 2013-09-24, 16:05

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I know I always trust Motherboard brand! Funny, I once had an IBM PS/1 Consultant SX-25 that I had upgraded with an Overdrive chip to DX2-50 and 8MB of RAM. It came with a 133MB hard drive, but I also bumped that up to 850 whopping MB. :D That must be the same machine!! You are indeed right, mine …

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Re: New here, found my old mobo and got the retro bug back

Posted on 2013-09-24, 13:31

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Thanks for the reply. I also found it to be a stable board, though it was more stable obviously in XP due to the inherent instabilities of Win9x, however, I think Windows XP was just a bit too much for this board, never had satisfactory performance, and that was when I had a 500Mhz K6-2 in there. …

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New here, found my old mobo and got the retro bug back

Posted on 2013-09-24, 12:19

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Hi all, Been on here reading all your stories about souped-up 486 machines etc etc. I love all the retro stuff and the reason I'm here is because I have just stumbled across this box: http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i185/alex_ncfc/DSC_1433_zpsc96af876.jpg And inside it I find.... http://i72. …

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Re: Windows 3.11 - grab an IP address, how?

Posted on 2013-08-29, 13:54

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Thanks again for taking the time to respond :) I will look at your idea/link shortly, but it seems some progress has been made. I have disabled all other adapters in "Network adapters" in Windows 7 as I believe WinPcap might be getting confused. It seems now Windows 7 can see the file/folder shares …

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Re: Windows 3.11 - grab an IP address, how?

Posted on 2013-08-29, 11:06

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Yes I am using WFWG 3.11 with the latest TCP/IP stack. I am now trying another DOSBOX build with the NE2000 patch, which seems more stable (the other one corrupted the screen when using the DOS prompt so I couldn't accurately use utilities like PING and IPCONFIG) but I still can't really get very …

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Re: Windows 3.11 - grab an IP address, how?

Posted on 2013-08-28, 18:38

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Thanks for the response :) As you say, seems things have changed. 99% certain that the NetBIOS over TCP is enabled on Windows 7, but I don't even have the NetBIOS or IPX protocols installed on the DOSBOX machine. Should this matter?? I fired up 3.11 in MS Virtual PC 2007 and the two File Managers …

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Re: Windows 3.11 - grab an IP address, how?

Posted on 2013-08-28, 17:16

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Update: Have now got Windows 3.11 getting an IP address (not sure if it was down to IRQ problem on the NE2000.com command line or the fact I didn't have EMM386.EXE NOEMS loaded) It's not seeing any other computer on the network though and nor is my Windows 7 PC seeing it, despite being in the same …

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Windows 3.11 - grab an IP address, how?

Posted on 2013-08-28, 13:40

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Hi all, I've always been interested in virtualisation etc, and have never really found a platform where Windows 3.11 is solid. Virtual PC comes closest, but will randomly crash out at times. I've been reading all the Windows 3.11 in DOSBOX guides, and gave it a go on the NE2K patched version. I know …

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