Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Today, 06:17

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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The more I get into these 7th Day Adventist Cult TV Station PCs the more I am sort of glad the 3 bland ass Vectras from the listing had been misplaced and all this shit found. This stuff is FAR more interesting than 3 bland ass P90 Vectra VE5s. So far I have a 233MHZ P-MMX Dell GN1 that is restored …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 07:07

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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The more I get into these 7th Day Adventist Cult TV Station PCs the more I am sort of glad the 3 bland ass Vectras from the listing had been misplaced and all this shit found. This stuff is FAR more interesting than 3 bland ass P90 Vectra VE5s. So far I have a 233MHZ P-MMX Dell GN1 that is restored …

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

Posted on 2022-06-28, 03:19

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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If your CDROM is 8x or slower you also have to be questioning whether or not the drive itself is boot capable or not. It's kind of a sliding scale at 1:9 at the 1x end to 9:1 at the 8x end as the years went on for proportion of drives boot capable or not. Then there's been some latter day natural …

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

Posted on 2022-06-27, 19:16

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Does anybody know what the stock CD ROM on the Gateway 2000 DX4-66 LP1 was? I finally got the hard disk and floppy drives working (though it refuses to boot my Win95 diskette for some reason, DOS 6.22 works fine) but I cannot get the CD drive to detect. I'm wondering if this is even stock. When I …

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

Posted on 2022-06-26, 16:21

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Today activity is an attempted to repair Radeon HD2600 PRO but it failed. 😓 The card is running untill you install the drivers but than the OS will crash on boot. I found one missing elyt capacitor - replaced and replaced the other electrolytics but it did not help. Thinking if reflowing the chip …

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

Posted on 2022-06-26, 16:19

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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I actually won a Diamond Stealth64 (S3 Vision 968) today, was curious about the IBM branded IC on it, would that be the DAC ? Yes it is. Rather nice looking GPU, even has the 2mb expansion module on it, also wondering what the Feature connector was used for? The feature connector was used for …

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

Posted on 2022-06-26, 04:13

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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The new 2203 date coded Dallas RTC is on the way for the 1994 Gateway 486DX2-66 Desktop. This system is one of those odd 486's equipped with PCI slots. It also has a CT2800 OPL3 Vibra16S from the previous owner. Good taste in sound cards that one.... considering getting a MIDI daughter board for it. …

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

Posted on 2022-04-06, 18:25

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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I think I found out why the Dell Lattitude PPX won't turn on and just flashes its lights before shutting off. Its power regulation sub-board is missing a part. Can anybody tell what this is and take a guess at a suitable replacement? I marked the missing part with <<<<< https://i.imgur.com/CYlNoG3. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-06, 16:00

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Dont even bother with the nForce boards. Something on them hasn't aged well. Caps I suspect. I've owned 2 680I SLIs from EVGA and a 780i from MSI and all 3 died. Only the 750i from ASUS that is all solid state caps still works and even it is finicky. Unless your willing to do a full work up on them …

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

Posted on 2022-04-06, 06:55

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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I think I found out why the Dell Lattitude PPX won't turn on and just flashes its lights before shutting off. Its power regulation sub-board is missing a part. Can anybody tell what this is and take a guess at a suitable replacement? I marked the missing part with <<<<< https://i.imgur.com/CYlNoG3. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-06, 06:51

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Nothing much but today I managed to get my hands on 4gb of OCZ Reaper PC2-9600 DDR2 1200 memory, not sure how many of my DDR2 boards could actually hit 1200mhz with DDR2 but it'll be interesting to find out, I have a nice collection of 775 and a few AM2 boards to play with. Might post some data …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-03, 23:20

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Most laptops are bought for business use, they'll throw stupid money at whatever over-marketed mediocre crap, provided it has a brand name and a warranty. Hilariously thats exactly the story the original owner of my XPS had. He said his work told him he could spend $5k on a laptop since he was the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-03, 20:54

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Bought a Dell Precision M60 for $10 locally. Didn't work because whatever tool had this thing open last FORGOT TO LOCK THE CPU INTO PLACE. Like how do you show that level of incompetence. Anywho, fixed that and it fired right up. Has the QuadroFX GO 700 which is equivalent to the GeForceFX Go 5650 ( …

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Re: Dell Optiplex GX50 "Error: Unable to initialize on-board USB hub" and lock-ups on boot. Worked fine last time I used

Posted on 2022-04-02, 00:01

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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check ebay item 255167519394 only one i could find on ebay with a board not cheap though at 115 euro plus shipping comes from Germany. I found one for $70 stateside and if push comes to shove I'll bite the bullet. Not a lot of Tualatin systems still kicking these days, especially in the SFF Desktop …

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Re: Dell Optiplex GX50 "Error: Unable to initialize on-board USB hub" and lock-ups on boot. Worked fine last time I used

Posted on 2022-04-02, 00:01

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Doornkaat wrote on 2022-03-31, 16:53: Did you try disabling onboard USB in the BIOS? Can you remove the BIOS EEPROM? Yeah, it didn't help. No, the EEPROM is soldered and I doubt BIOs corruption is the issue.

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Dell Optiplex GX50 "Error: Unable to initialize on-board USB hub" and lock-ups on boot. Worked fine last time I used it.

Posted on 2022-03-31, 00:55

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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So I pulled my Optiplex GX50 (which had previously been fully functional with Windows ME setup) out of my garage to play some games and much to my dismay its now throwing errors. This was stored on the concrete of my garage along with all the other desktop format systems and the one that was right …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-06, 20:25

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Well I bought a VIC 20 off eBay for $97 shipped. Comes with a C64 DIN PSU, RF adapter, a beat to shit OG box, and a single game. Now i have a PSU I can use when I get a C64 eventually so thats nice.

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

Posted on 2022-02-24, 04:27

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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ALERT: Russia has just invaded Ukraine. Anyone think this will affect retro computer parts prices? I know alot of the cheap compared to US stock parts on eBay ship out of there.

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

Posted on 2022-02-23, 03:25

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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First I had this - it's a GeForce 6200 - the card would work in DOS and at 640x480x16 in Windows but as soon as you did anything higher it froze with a corrupted screen... I didn't actually notice the caps on the eBay photos even though they were clear to see! 1024-1365.jpg Now it's this it works …

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

Posted on 2022-02-22, 04:42

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Anybody familiar with a DEC Dazzle Multimedia Rev 3 PCI card? I got this thing in a lot and I can find precisely fuck all about it. Apparently it was made in 1997 with a Digital Multimedia 21230 at its core from 1995 (https://techmonitor.ai/techonology/dec_chip_holds_promise_of_low_cost_video_ …

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