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Re: Help with Gateway 486 Rebuild

Posted on 2017-09-11, 19:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Deksor wrote: You should be able to remove it by cutting the two pins of the battery. Removing that kind of battery is much easier than repairing the damage it can do to a motherboard, take it out as fast as you can ^^ Will do! I got IDTHEIDE info and going to try to set it up tonight.

Re: SD/CF to ide CHS setup

Posted on 2017-09-11, 19:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Related to the Contura, which mode is it? Because I know I have 2 Contura's around here somewhere that do BOTH use CF/SD cards. And one of them runs W95 indeed. So I am very interested in these DDO flaws. Hi, it's a Contura 400c, I think. I've got also the diagnostics/setup floppies. The problem is …

Re: Help with Gateway 486 Rebuild

Posted on 2017-09-11, 13:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What is the internal cmos battery ? If it's a barrel battery, take it out right now ! You don't want this to leak and ruin your motherboard Yep, it's a barrel. Unfortunately, I'm not experience at soldering, and my go-to tech guy retired. I need a guy that does solder work locally. I have several …

Help with Gateway 486 Rebuild

Posted on 2017-09-11, 01:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello All! So I am attempting to revive a Gateway 2000 486/33C that needed a few things to be 100%. It's obviously a 486DX -33MHz, pure ISA system. It came with a 1MB STB Video card, IDE interface card, and a 5.25in 1.2MB floppy drive. The onboard CMOS is dead, but it has the external battery back, …

Re: Windows 98 Direct Cable Connection over Serial

Posted on 2017-09-04, 18:02

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Try sending in simplex mode. It's half as fast, but less chance of signal crossing.

Re: Matrox Millenium Question

Posted on 2017-09-04, 18:00

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Thanks much!

Matrox Millenium Question

Posted on 2017-09-04, 01:47

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I loved this card back in the day. At one point, I've used the 2MB, 4MB and 8GB cards. Love that they work with old SuperMac Monitors, and other Apple monitors. I recently ran into one, and while the Win98 drivers work just fine, would anyone here have the old Matrox Win 3.1 / Win 98 software ( …

Re: RE: Win98 on Dell 8100 / 8200 Laptop

Posted on 2017-04-20, 04:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Jorpho wrote: Did you not try the ME drivers, as suggested? Have not, but I will and post results.

Re: RE: Win98 on Dell 8100 / 8200 Laptop

Posted on 2017-04-20, 02:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not these machines in particular, but I think the 8100 comes with a Radeon 7500 Mobility? I do have a P4 laptop with that chip that works (Compaq N800C) albeit with a driver from a Fujitsu machine that I have to manually install. Can you post the rest of the specs? It has Nvidia GeForce 2 Go video …

RE: Win98 on Dell 8100 / 8200 Laptop

Posted on 2017-04-18, 18:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Has anyone successfully gotten Win98SE to work on these laptops? I think the 8100 is a P3 and the 8200 is a P4. These came with dedicated video cards, ATI and Nvidia, so they would probably rock. Thanks in advance!

Re: Upgrading Compaq Deskpro

Posted on 2016-07-20, 21:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The Despkro also worked in Win98SE, but was quite slow... Mine on 24MB with Win98SE ran like a dog. Of course, I am running a Cyrix DX2-50...will try with a just received Intel DX2-66. The shumck who sold it to me, sent it in an ENVELOPE. Pins all bent...managed to get most of them pretty straight. …

Re: Upgrading Compaq Deskpro

Posted on 2016-07-16, 04:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I tested out some different overlay software just to see if they would boot. The older versions of seagate overlay (9.xx) and the other available overlay software for other hard drives close to the same kind of software as the Seagate 9.xx seemed to be the only versions that would work. Seagate …

DOS One-Click Install

Posted on 2016-07-10, 05:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have seen people selling some discs they call a 1-Click install to run old DOS games under Windows 7 and later. Anyone know anything about this?

Re: AMD Athlon 1400MHz vs Intel Pentium III 1400MHz

Posted on 2016-07-10, 03:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Pentium III-s 1400 sits on a 133mhz bus while the Tualeron 1400 sits on a 100mhz bus. On chip computations will go at the same speed, but as soon as something has to be accessed across the bus the P-III wins. The 1400mhz P-III also has double the cache, if the specs I have read are to be believed. …

Re: Upgrading Compaq Deskpro

Posted on 2016-07-10, 03:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a close cousin of this unit and have also been upgrading it. It came with an AM486SX2-66 CPU (5volt) and I upgraded it to a Cyrix 486-DX2-50. I had to throttle down the bus to 25Mhz from 33 Mhz or the chip couldn't handle the 66Mhz speed. I wanted to use this Cyrix forever, but I also have a …

Re: Most useless/undesirable piece of vintage computer hardware

Posted on 2016-06-23, 06:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Errius wrote: oldpcguy wrote: Will I ever need that 12in / 2MB SCSI drive? Probably not. But, it's history. What's this? Came from an old DEC Motorola-based server. It's a 12in SCSI hard drive with a 2MB capacity. Last used to program pagers and old radios.

Re: Most useless/undesirable piece of vintage computer hardware

Posted on 2016-06-20, 04:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Modems(Absolutely useless!), CD-ROM(Even my 486DX33 has an IDE DVD Writer) drives, radio cards(Why??), TV tuner cards(Mainly analog...), PCI sound cards(Well i may get different opinions here :D) I actually just fixed up a Compaq 433 with a Sony DVD-RW. To keep the nostalgia, I used the very first …

RE: Does anyone use CF>IDE Adapters as old hard drive?

Posted on 2016-06-18, 08:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am trying to an old 486 with an ALI M1487 chipset up and running. I do not have any old IDE hard drive lying around at the moment, so I tried my trusty CF > 2.5in IDE adapter with a 2.5 to 3.5 adapter. This setup has worked reliably for many years, but it doesn't work here. The hard drive is not …

Old Communication Program

Posted on 2016-04-21, 15:31

in Windows

in Windows

Hello all! I am searching for a program that will allow me to remote control a Windows 98SE machine via the Internet. I have a friend who needs some help periodically on his machine in NC while I am in Texas. I can send him a NIC that he can install, but what software will allow me to view his …

Re: RE: Hello All & Question on CT-2950

Posted on 2014-07-20, 03:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The device was installed when the sound card was installed. Would anyone have any idea where i might find the Win98 or Win95 drivers?

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