Well, the crappy pentium meant to go to trash is now my daily desktop for the most common tasks, check mail, social networks, youtube, music. Good enough for that. IT is now as follows: Xeon X3220 Quad Core Foxconn G31MX-K 2x2GB DDR2 800MHz Radeon HD6570 1GB 128GB cheap SSD + Samsung 160GB HDD LG …

Another rescued machine last weekend. A very low spec desktop from 2007: Pentium E2180 Foxconn G31MX-K 1GB DDR2 666MHz Onboard Graphics Samsung 160GB Sata HDD LG DVD-RW drive I've ordered some ram (4GB, the max it can handle), an SSD and...a xeon cpu. Will it work? Who knows...but for the price, …

Well, time and space have been at a premium, and both the P4 and P2 had to be put in storage waiting for better times. But meanwhile, a quite nice laptop found its way into my desk. Only one pic for now, more for later: https://i.postimg.cc/QVJTRCqS/IMG-20200613-171045.jpg It's an HP Omnibook XE3, …

Well, time for some small updates. (Yes I know I should post some pictures, I'll do that soon) Had some time to mess with the P2, which is the only system running for now (the P4 sometimes has a bit of ECS "stability", and the Athlon 64's psu shorted on the AC side and died) Will definitely keep …

I've found some dos drivers that work with the ensoniq card, but haven't managed to get them to work. I think it emulates the sb16, but not certain. I still have to tweak a little bit more with autoexec.bat to get sound working, for now it is giving some environment variables issues, which i'll try …

Not much has changed in terms of hardware (a couple of HD swaps and that's it). But I'm having some ideas I'd like to discuss with you! As I'm building the courage to recap the MSI to replace the ECS in the P4, I'm thinking of keeping it as the main Windows 98 PC. But with that, I won't need 98 on …

More news! Brought home another IDE cable (I managed to break the only replacement I had...), and will replace the LG cd-rw and Samsung dvd-rom with this awesomeness: https://imgs.chip.de/0CniVFV5J0rvV3KdBcWN9vNDE9M=/1200x391/filters:no_upscale():format(jpeg):quality(100)/www.chip.de%2Fii%2F8%2F9% …

Well, i now have a little time to tinker with this :happy: So, a brought home the "new" P2. As it is now: P2 350MHz FIC VB-601 512MB SDRAM (should be 768, but it only detects 128MB per dimm, don't know why) TNT2 M64 Creative ensoniq es1371 CD burner, dvd-rom, floppy 2x IDE HD, don't remember the …

I haven't lost much time with it, but so far it could be more stable. I've had one or two crashes, and sometimes it decides not to detect the video card. Besides that, the rear usb ports sometimes don't work. Those have been some factors that made me think about de MSI board, but it will be hard to …

Yeah, I've thought about multiboot, and that will probably be the answer. Maybe 2k/98SE on the P4, NT/98SE on the P2. 95 should be out of the equation for the usb support, that ends up being very useful. I'll test with more ram and see if it works, if it doesn't, will definitely use that …

Apart from my 2 work laptops, I have 2 desktops and been gathering some more parts to make other builds. I'm thinking of building a third one, as i shall explain later. For now, my current desktop which is running Windows XP (as for some reason is not coping well with windows 7, and later windows …