Re: IBM Aptiva (Needing some help)

Posted on 2023-07-25, 03:58

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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After looking up more info on the chipset I found here https://www.anandtech.com/show/72/2 that it can cache up to 512mb of ram with 11-bit Tag now where would i be able to search for that type of ram?

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Re: IBM Aptiva (Needing some help)

Posted on 2023-07-25, 02:24

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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Thanks the second link worked. I think the e26fix is going to be latest bios that I'm going to find.

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IBM Aptiva (Needing some help)

Posted on 2023-07-24, 01:09

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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First off it's been a long time since posting here a lot has changed since 2018 some posts are gone, some people banned. I just back into collecting again after selling of everything. Despite all of that how is everyone doing? I just recently acquired two identical ibm aptiva 2137 E26 towers. I'm …

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Re: Maxing out an Asus P3V4X

Posted on 2023-05-20, 04:39

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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The p3v4x is a little picky on the slocket adapter, im using a super slocket III adapter. You could use a power leap, but i would not recommend it was this board cause the volts are a little high with a power leap causing the caps on the power leap to explode. When the modded p3-s is paired with a …

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Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?

Posted on 2021-10-16, 00:12

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/194213649176 <--- This works great on my old win95 ibm laptop it shows up as a secondary hard drive

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Re: Windows 98 SE VM on a Ryzen 3000 not working

Posted on 2021-10-16, 00:04

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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Same issue persists on virtualbox in linux mint 20.2

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Re: Windows 95 keeps Removing wallpaper

Posted on 2021-10-11, 04:25

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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That computer is long gone now, but I do have a win95 era laptop to mess with. Yea its definitely something up with the unofficial service pack. I'm thinking about trying this out https://www.razorback95.com/projects/win95dl/index.php

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Re: What are the best retro ISA and PCI slot network cards?

Posted on 2020-03-10, 03:12

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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Anyone know where to find the Pro/1000 GT windows 98 driver?

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Re: Dimension 4100 Intel BIOS

Posted on 2019-07-29, 18:07

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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Good work everyone

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Re: Oldest Hardware for Win7 / 10?

Posted on 2019-07-29, 16:24

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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the oldest computer I had 7 on was a dell optiplex gx 1 with 768mb of ram, 1.4ghz celeron, 120gb hdd and a fx 5500 pci. Windows 7 ran ok, but nowadays 7 has bug when trying to find updates it spikes the cpu to 100%. For windows 7 a socket 478 p4 runs it good.

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Re: Favourite version of Windows?

Posted on 2019-01-21, 14:23

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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Windows 98SE and XP Pro 32 bit. Rock solid operating systems, I put those two on just about every system I had.

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10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2019-01-19, 17:12

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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Post your 10 year cpu of your main rig from then versus now My main rig in 2009 had a socket 478 P4 @ 3.4ghz and my 2019 rig now is a fx8350 @ 4ghz. Not the best choices of cpus, but they served me well.

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Re: Imaging floppy disks?

Posted on 2018-06-23, 01:11

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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that's a pretty decent program you can easily search for the key

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Re: FlashFloppy, an open source firmware for Gotek drives

Posted on 2018-06-22, 23:45

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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^Thanks that's exactly what I needed.

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Re: Whats the best spray paint to match beige case's?

Posted on 2018-06-22, 23:06

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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I was thinking about having a dealership match the paint color, but I ended up on settling on this look. I'm really digging the way it turned out. A lot of older HP's did this with their towers. I'm debating on weather or not to do the power and reset in grey as well.

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Re: Whats the best spray paint to match beige case's?

Posted on 2018-06-21, 13:16

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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Nope im just trying to match my floppy emulator and the dvd drive to the front plastic case.

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Whats the best spray paint to match beige case's?

Posted on 2018-06-21, 03:28

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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Its been a long time since Ive posted up in here, hows everyone been? Ive Been trying out different color spray paint to find a good match for this project and so far unsuccessful. Ive been digging around online and discovered this from home depot https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rust-Oleum-12-oz-Chiffon …

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Re: FlashFloppy, an open source firmware for Gotek drives

Posted on 2018-06-21, 03:17

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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I did this mod the other day my bios won't boot from my any of my floppy images, but in can view them in windows. Am i missing files that should be on the main of my fat32 formatted flash drive?

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Re: Happy NewYear 2017/2018

Posted on 2018-01-03, 15:36

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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Where are all the drunken retro build video's at?

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Re: Ways to keep a Pentium 4 quiet

Posted on 2017-07-28, 15:32

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by Oldskoolmaniac

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use thermo glue and stick a water cooler straight to that cpu and overclock the piss out of it, my 3.4ghz p4 is at 3.9GHz stable with really cool temps at max load.

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