Re: What retro hardware you killed today or in the past :(. Killing spree stories+serial killers are welcome.Rest in pieces.

Posted on 2019-08-08, 17:27

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by ElementalChaos

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

- Killed a Powerbook G3 Pismo by removing the heatsink (I was 9 years old and thought it was an RF shield) - Killed a WD800 IDE drive by plugging in the molex the wrong way (part of the plastic around the female end was cracked) That's all I can really think of. I'm generally pretty careful with my …

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2019-08-08, 06:31

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by ElementalChaos

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in Marvin \ Video

Recent bench from "Pluto". Specs are in my signature, but for posterity: Pentium III 1400S, 133FSB Intel D815EEA (OEM board from a Dell Dimension 4100 flashed with Intel BIOS P10) 256MB PC133 CL2 GeForce4 Ti4200 AGP 8x (OC, 280MHz core, 570MHz memory) SB Live! 5.1 Adaptec 39160 Ultra160 SCSI …

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Re: Dimension 4100 Intel BIOS

Posted on 2019-07-16, 22:36

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by ElementalChaos

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've succeeded in flashing the D815EEA BIOS (version P10) onto my 4100! I did some sleuthing. The .zip up above will not work: it is missing a couple files. I found the .exe to create a working BIOS floppy and have uploaded it as an attachment. The instructions are similar to what's in the .zip: …

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Re: Dimension 4100 Intel BIOS

Posted on 2019-07-16, 20:43

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by ElementalChaos

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sorry for the necro (again) but I think I'm gonna be the one to try this out in a little bit. A bricked BIOS probably means like $40 spent on a new motherboard, which I don't mind that much. The MediaFire link to the .zip up above seems to have died, so I'm putting it up again as an attachment.

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Re: KVM Rollover Issues?

Posted on 2019-07-12, 01:03

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by ElementalChaos

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Apologies for the necro, but I have the same KVM with the same issue and I hope this will be useful to future googlers. Interestingly it doesn't affect USB keyboards, and using that I found a workaround. I used an active PS/2 to USB converter to connect the keyboard via USB, enabled keyboard …

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Re: If you had $5.000 dollars to buy retro hardware, what would you buy?

Posted on 2018-04-11, 06:20

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by ElementalChaos

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For me, every Japanese micro I could name off the top of my head (MSX2+, X68000, PC-88, PC-98, FM-7, X1, FM Towns)

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Re: Best laptop for DOS/Win9x gaming?

Posted on 2018-04-10, 22:47

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by ElementalChaos

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm partial to the Toshiba Satellite Pro 4xxxCDT series, having owned several over the years, a 425CDT and a 490XCDT. The 4xxxCDT line I speak of in particular spans from 400CDT-490CDT/490XCDT and then 4000CDT-4025CDT. After that point there was a significant redesign and they lost most of what made …

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Re: Retro Hardware Prices... are NUTS!

Posted on 2018-04-09, 17:01

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by ElementalChaos

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Are we ever gonna stop getting threads like this? It's been addressed ad nauseum; there's no more discussion value to be had, just more complaining and epeen-measuring. It will always be the same "supply and demand", "LGR/Phil/(insert youtuber here) caused inflated prices" and "Back in my day I …

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Re: What you thought you will never have?

Posted on 2018-03-03, 06:28

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by ElementalChaos

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For a long time my item of lust was a TRS-80 Model 3 or 4 and I figured it was never going to happen due to the eBay prices and heavy shipping costs. As luck would have it, I ended up pulling a fully working Model 4 out of a dumpster last fall. So, for now, I assume I will never be able to have a …

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Re: How many Retro PCs do you got in your house?

Posted on 2018-02-07, 16:25

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by ElementalChaos

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At home: Apple //e Apple PowerBook 145B Apple Macintosh Classic II Atari 800XL 2x Commodore 64 Commodore VIC-20 Dell Dimension 4100, aka "Pluto" Dell Inspiron 5100 Dell Latitude D610 Sony Vaio PCG-GRV680 Sony Vaio PCG-R505JL Tandy/RadioShack TRS-80 Model 4 Tandy/RadioShack TRS-80 Color Computer 2 …

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Re: Old hardware you didn't take or buy... but might still want?

Posted on 2018-02-05, 04:25

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by ElementalChaos

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I really regret not snatching one of those brand new Audician 32s on ebay a month or two ago. The prices had started going up so I decided I'd wait until I got through my holiday spending even if it meant paying even a BIT more later on.... but they've since vanished altogether. YMF-719 cards, …

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

Posted on 2018-02-05, 03:43

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by ElementalChaos

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well... started noticing some missing instruments playing MIDIs on my CT1600, started playing some modules in 2OP mode on AdLib Tracker II to test out all the channels... and almost half of them aren't working. Tried everything, including another PC, and they're dead as a doornail. Turns out the …

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Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2018-02-02, 03:53

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by ElementalChaos

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I dumpster-dived this AcerView 34T a few months back. Looks fantastic after a flyback G2/focus adjustment. 20180131_172656.jpg Manufacture date: November 1993 14" Panasonic M34KNZ080X tube, .28mm invar shadow mask Maximum resolution: 1024*768 @ 70Hz Horizontal scan: 31-48 KHz Vertical scan: 50-100 …

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Re: Old hardware you didn't take or buy... but might still want?

Posted on 2018-01-31, 20:49

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by ElementalChaos

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think I passed up a Sony PVM at a thrift store a few years back, before they became egregiously expensive... Details are fuzzy, but it wasn't displaying anything so I thought it was broken? But I think that's what they're supposed to do without any input. I still am not sure if any of this ever …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2018-01-27, 00:12

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by ElementalChaos

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Here is "Charon", my K6-2 (soon to be K6-2+) build. Shot with a 1997 Sony Mavica FD7 floppy disk camera.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-01-24, 18:34

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by ElementalChaos

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One of my IT professors found out I liked old hardware, so he told me to stop by his office later because he had this: https://i.imgur.com/aubvIXSl.jpg Dell Dimension XPS T500 Intel SE440BX-3 (OEM variant of the SE440BX-2) Pentium III 500Mhz Diamond Viper V770 (Riva TNT2) Sound Blaster Live! I love …

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Re: Where do you find the best deals on vintage hardware?

Posted on 2018-01-08, 03:20

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by ElementalChaos

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

eBay sucks as we all know too well, I haven't seen anything notable on Craigslist in years, and thrift stores are increasingly sending all computer donations to recycling. If they sell anything at all, it's those dumpy Dell P4 towers with bad caps. E-waste dumps have, for the past few months, been …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-28, 21:02

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by ElementalChaos

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$60 on eBay for an Asus P5A-B listed as "PSA-8". (Quite) a bit more than I'd usually spend on a retro motherboard, but good SS7 AT boards like these are stupidly hard to find, they usually go for even more, and I've been itching to do a Phil-style "time machine" build utilizing SetMul for the …

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Re: K6-2/3+ Success on Asus P5A 1.06 - simple mod

Posted on 2017-11-28, 20:53

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by ElementalChaos

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Talk about perfect timing! I was hunting for a SS7 board the past few days and landed on the P5A-B, found a good deal on one but unfortunately was a Rev 1.05. I just went ahead and bought it and will absolutely be trying this out and updating with results.

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2017-11-28, 19:38

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by ElementalChaos

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How about an ASUS P5A-B for $1,600. But hey, at least it has free shipping. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1pc-used-ASUS-P5A-B-Equipment-Industrial-Motherboard-586-Motherboard/142582951732?hash=item21329b2f34:g:L0QAAOSwz~paDObY I came right here about to post this! Figures that this is the only rev 1.04 …

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