HP Pavilion ( A California Classic )

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How many computers had an Arena named after them ? In the 1990’s HP was the largest computer company in California. They had facilities all over California. The HP Pavilion had to be the most popular computer in California family homes and possibly the entire USA. Just about everyone I know had an …

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Re: Famous computer slogans and quotes ?

Posted on 2022-01-21, 19:15

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Mitac- “When reliability is a decisive factor”.

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Re: Nehemiah DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2022-01-21, 17:17

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Look here. I think it is the same as yours. I took this one apart. I still need to fix the damaged area. See the black spots on the PCB is where the capacitor ruptured and leaked onto the PCB Damaging the traces. The fix: I think the fix is to get the surface mount capacitor off the PCB. So I plan …

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Re: Nehemiah DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2022-01-21, 16:34

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The GPU chips on these Voodoo cards run VERY HOT so you definitely want to add a fan. This is the main reason there are so few PCI voodoo cards around because they over heated and the capacitors leaked and destroyed The traces on the PCB. Hmm, if these PCI cards are getting rare, maybe I should try …

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Re: Nehemiah DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2022-01-21, 14:08

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The GPU chips on these Voodoo cards run VERY HOT so you definitely want to add a fan. This is the main reason there are so few PCI voodoo cards around because they over heated and the capacitors leaked and destroyed The traces on the PCB. The AGP voodoo card are a little better but they too run very …

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Re: Nehemiah DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2022-01-21, 13:45

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I had intended to use a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI card in this build, but I got burned (both figuratively and literally - that voltage regulator gets freaking hot!). The picture comes and goes, and this is 2D, not even 3D. I didn't realize when I bought it, that it had been modded to add a fan. I'm not …

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Re: ( 1995 ) 486DX4-100, Low budget Win95 “Plug-N-Play” build.

Posted on 2022-01-21, 10:55

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Yes, I remember when Win95 first came out. Microsoft was having a product release party at “Marriotts Great America” theme park in Silicon Valley. And was handing out FREE Demos of Win95. It was a complete OS but would expire after so many days. I don’t remember Exactly how long the demo was good …

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Re: ( 1995 ) 486DX4-100, Low budget Win95 “Plug-N-Play” build.

Posted on 2022-01-20, 23:09

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But your 486 DX2 is perfect for Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Yes, Actually I personally would not use a 486 computer for WIn95. For Win 3x it is fine but not for Win95. I just wanted to rebuild this thing computer component stores were try to sell to customers as a Win95 motherboard / CPU combo …

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Re: ( 1995 ) 486DX4-100, Low budget Win95 “Plug-N-Play” build.

Posted on 2022-01-20, 21:23

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Budget 486 build costs in 1995 Motherboard / CPU Combo = $100 RAM - 16mb. FPM @ $50 per mb. = $800 Harddrive - IDE 254mb @ $1 per mb = $250 CDROM Drive - IDE 4x Mitsumi = $30 S3 Trio64 Video card = $30 Budget Diamond ISA Sound card = $20 Case with PSU = $35 Total = $1,265 Although the 486dx2-66 does …

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Re: ( 1995 ) 486DX4-100, Low budget Win95 “Plug-N-Play” build.

Posted on 2022-01-20, 14:23

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Okay, I double checked all the jumpers and bios settings on the motherboard. However I received almost the same identical benchmark score as before. I even increased the RAM amount to 32mb. Just to make sure it was not a memory issue. So the 486dx4-100 performed almost twice as fast as the 486dx2-66 …

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Re: ( 1995 ) 486DX4-100, Low budget Win95 “Plug-N-Play” build.

Posted on 2022-01-20, 12:04

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Disruptor wrote on 2022-01-20, 07:15: Did you bench your DX2-66 and DX4-100 in the same motherboard with same BIOS settings? Yeah, I don’t know why the 486dx2-66 is running so slow. Let me double check the settings and jumpers.

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Re: Nehemiah DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2022-01-20, 06:50

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“Philscomputerlab” did a video a while back where he tested different modules of memory for best gaming performance in Win98. He concluded that 1 module of 256mb worked best. 2 modules of 256mb actually cause performance to lag. Did you notice any such lag in your Win98 system ?

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Re: ( 1995 ) 486DX4-100 “budget Plug-n-Play Win95 build”.

Posted on 2022-01-20, 00:33

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I even have an AMD 486dx2-66 to try. As you can the Intel 486dx4-100 has almost twice the performance of the 486dx2-66 CPU. And this performance difference is very noticeable during operation of the computer.

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Re: ( 1995 ) 486DX4-100 “budget Plug-n-Play Win95 build”.

Posted on 2022-01-19, 22:26

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Okay, How low budget can you go ?…… Here is what I found in my bags of components: 1) AMD 486dx4-100 CPU 2) 8mb Memory ( 2 x 4mb ) 3) Conner 254mb Hard drive form 1993 4) Diamond tech ISA Sound card. This is more of what a budget Win95 build in 1995/96 would have looked like. That Conner hard-drive …

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Re: ( 1995 ) i486DX4-100 “budget Plug-n-Play Win95 build”.

Posted on 2022-01-19, 19:58

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Here is a Real Budget sound card that was released in 1996. These were selling for $20 NEW. It a 16 bit sound card for DOS, Win3x, Win95, IBM OS2, WinNT A Very Versatile sound card with Good Clean Audio. And It sounds really good. Nice Clean audio.

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Re: IBM PS/1 Multimedia ( max restore ).

Posted on 2022-01-18, 19:12

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I could not find much info on this “video feature component”. That what IBM called it is a “video feature”. Manual link: http://ps-2.kev009.com/pccbbs/aptiva/63g2028.pdf I think the best thing to do is add a video card. IBM liked to use ET4000 in 486 PS/1 computers And Cirrus Logic 5428 and 5430 …

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Re: IBM PS/1 Multimedia ( max restore ).

Posted on 2022-01-17, 23:52

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@etoromu: I've just poked around under the hood of my IBM PS/1 Expert 2168-33T and have found what appears to be a 40-pin video memory expansion slot like they one you used to upgrade your machine. I'd like to upgrade to 2MB video ram. Can you provide a link to the chips you used for your upgrade? …

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Re: IBM PS/1 Multimedia ( max restore ).

Posted on 2022-01-17, 22:45

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Yes, that is the same type of PS/1 I have but there are about 7 different variants. The motherboards are different. It all depended on what store you purchased it from and what year. Different stores carried different configurations of this PS/1 computer. It was very confusing. Totally agree, …

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Re: ( 1995 ) i486DX4-100 “budget Plug-n-Play Win95 build”.

Posted on 2022-01-17, 17:20

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Okay, I am up to 217 in Topbench.

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Re: ( 1995 ) i486DX4-100 “budget Plug-n-Play Win95 build”.

Posted on 2022-01-15, 20:33

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Here is my latest benchmark score.

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