I just installed a PC speaker piezo unit since the case has no full PC speaker nor a place to put one. It's a pretty pitiful beep but it's the only beep I'm going to get. Speaking of stuff that plugs into the front panel, my case has a single pin PWR LED cable but the motherboard header has three …

To add another modern PSU data point: I'm running a dual Tualatin 1400S on a Corsair HX750i with a home made 6 pin aux cable. Machine is loaded with 4GB ram, 4 PCI cards, an SSD, DVD, two floppy drives, and audigy front IO drive. No matter what load I threw at it (ran prime95 stress test although I …

Amiga was the future. What we are living today is a lie. :depressed: So sad. I think if Amigas were still being produced, the Amigas of the alternate timeline would be very similar to the PCs of today, because they would have to do the same things and modern Intel/AMD PCs are pretty good at doing …

https://i.imgur.com/5sZCAIXh.jpg Matrox Millennium MGA 2064W from eBay. I plan to test it in my Athlon rig under FreeDOS tomorrow, but it's ultimately going to end up in my future Pentium Pro workstation build (and will be paired with a Voodoo 1). Also an original Athlon case sticker and a …

I've requested a return from the eBay seller and whatever replacement I get will be a non-PnP ISA card. In the meantime I've ordered a Sound Blaster Live! to cover all three operating systems.

Well it starts to the command prompt, though I forgot to take out two of the memory modules so Windows says it has "insufficient memory to initialize Windows" because it goes over 512MB. Whatever, it boots, there's a working filesystem, now to adjust the partitions in GPartEd and after that it's XP …

The 5900 appears to be working now with those two cards removed and the CMOS flushed, but Windows XP now really doesn't want to install. It refused to install several times on the CF card, then finally did after deleting and recreating the MBR for the card in GPartEd, but only booted once, told me …

PSU is a 750W monstrosity so I highly doubt that's the problem. Perhaps feeding it power through the PCIe rail with a 6pin-to-Molex adapter would work better than giving it a cable really meant for an IDE drive or similar peripheral? I disconnected the NIC and PCI sound card and it boots so I'm …

As people who saw my build thread may have read, I'm having problems with the nVidia GeForce FX 5900 I selected for this build. The first time I had failed to recognize the Molex connector in the back, so of course it didn't work. So today I opened it back up, added a Molex extension cable to reach …

Really nice machine, but the PSU is no no no, better try to find old one, as this does not fit at all on the theme of the parts and time... For example look on old HP, Compaq workstations they have Delta PSU on them, that are more then well made... The very last piece of vintage computing equipment …

It's done! https://i.imgur.com/ctFWbvWh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/J1ykEVKh.jpg dat ass https://i.imgur.com/sYTxyzbh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Xs4I5r8h.jpg Inside (click to embiggen) The GeForce FX died a few seconds after I turned it on so it temporarily has a GeForce 2 MX sourced from my now-gutted …

Heh, nice "sticker". Does anybody sell reproduction stickers for old processors or do people who try get sued by Intel?

Unfortunately I'm no good with a soldering iron so that would indeed be a huge deal for me. 🙁

No. The tube and possibly some other components were built by Sony, Sun marketed and distributed it as a monitor for SPARC workstations. It was not marketed as a Trinitron in the material, but it has a Trinitron CRT inside.

Thanks for the advice. I'll just shove it in and see what happens. I'll be bringing the Dell anyway since I plan to pilfer a couple of its cards and many of its cables.

Update 3/24/2018 : The KT7A rig now runs a Thoroughbred 2100+ at its native 1733 MHz. The installation went without a hitch with an assistant to help me with the clips. I'm getting massive improvements in CPU bound games like Doom 3 and Quake II with Qbism's software renderer. This is my project …

I should buy a real camera; a phone is hopeless at photographing a CRT head-on: https://i.imgur.com/m2zccsTh.jpg Sun GDM-51010PT 21" Trinitron. It's absolutely magnificent at 1600x1200. It is an NOS unit that shipped in its original sealed box and cost me $200 + $100 shipping on eBay; god only knows …

It turns out that the beige DVD drive I ordered last year for my retro PC build (which is finally ready to be put together this weekend) was made by Apple of all people, SKU 678T0191. It has standard IDE connectors, a 6X speed, and was made in September of 1999 but I know nothing else about it and …