Seeing as I work in a PC shop, I have access to older things I wouldn't ordinarily find (unless on e-bay), Nothing Pre Socket A though unfortunately :depressed: ) However, acquired this laptop. An Acer Aspire 1700. Unfortunately doesn't work, it seems to power on, and the HDD spins into life but …

Okay. So once home I decided to get the camera out and show yas. This is a typical scenario on boot up. As you can see, sometimes it detects the device title fully (but still doesn't actually work), other times it is just garbled text as you can see. http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g164/Blurredman …

Yeah i've loaded the correct bios onto the device. It's odd because it kinda 'half' detects it. I will post some pictures when I get home. If I'm lucky enough to enter a partition after booting from floppy, then i'll post that too. I'm using a 64mb card. When flashing, the auto bios is assigned …

No one had any experience? I guess it's more vintage than retro in terms of Home PC's.

soviet conscript wrote: you know what I actually don't like about the awe64? The RCA jacks. Here here! But I have a fairly static room setup, and a full length rca l & r to 3.5mm jack lead that I borrowed from my mini-amp that was used on my vynal turntable. So no major issues.

Hey, Some Time ago I built (via a kit) an 8bit XT compatable IDE interface with use for CF cards or the original ATA hard discs. I intended to use it in my Amstrad PC1512DD, but upon installing it into one of the slots, the CF card gets detected in the ROM "bios", but most of the time it has …

The first PC I was allowed to use in my room was an ECS K7VZA board, I don't know any more than that, other than it probably had around 512mb RAM, an ATI Radeon VE (32MB) AGP graphics card (still have this, so much glitches/bugs on Mafia). And probably had a lower class Duron perhaps 800mhz. I don't …

I absolutely love VESA

In all honesty I've never ever used any of the integrated downloadable system updates. For many years I was on XP Pro without any service packs (probably up until 2006) until I realised with software requiring the use of things such as c++ and integrated OS abilities that aren't on a non-SP updated …

Thanks for the replies. Some interesting points raised. Networking is indeed a big attribute to my home, and I could easily "share" the floppy drives on a particular one that has them, and merely ''map'' it onto the new machine, I have a server machine that runs 24/7 (CODUO anyone?-, and my ftp site …

I wouldn't trade the flexibility of a ss7 machine , I have made several 286/386/486 builds in the past but nothing stuck so far as the ~8+ years p1 build I use I agree. Like you my main DOS PC is a Pentium 200mhz. W/ ATI Mach64vt, 16MB SIMM, epox ep-5bvpxa, and an OPL3 chip sound card. I absolutely …

Thanks, after a fresh copy of Win95 soon, I'll be testing all that out.

Hey, Pretty soon, come the other side of the new year i'm looking into building a new pc. One of the many drawbacks I will find is; 1) I'll need an IDE controller (cheaper than two new DVD drives right? :blush: ) 2)Possibly a PS/2 controller card - I know a few years ago, certain makes particularly …

Here's my collection. Not everything can be seen, I'd have to take the CDs out...maybe one day :) Interestingly enough, I count many same titles as Splinter :lol: Image1.jpg Image2.jpg Nice! I love big boxes! Mine are somewhat pricarious. :lol: http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g164/Blurredman/DSC_ …

Hey there, I'm a new user (although i've come accross this site many times over the years for information/specs), and I'm currently in the retro computer mood so I decided to finally register. :blush: Today, I just put together a computer of these specs: TMC TI5VG+ :happy: AMD K6, 233mhz :blah: 32MB …