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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Asus P2B 512MB ECC RAM (only 256 is showing up, in theory the board should support it all but 256 is already more than I need so I haven't investigated much) Being a BX board, you probably have single bank RAM, thus only half is recognized by the chipset. I'm a assuming that's 2x256 megs, you've …

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Thanks, I like it too! It started its life as a Pentium II 266, but who knows, it may have sat around a few years before it was used! It's from a shop that mainly did networking and corporate networks, so it may have been intended as server case, I've never found another like it though... I'll let …

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Thanks to you guys for all of the help getting this thing running after these parts sat around for 15+ years! Here's my first hack at a 1997-2000 Franken-PC Pentium III Coppermine running at 550 (underclocked to reduce heat and wear, fan added temporarily by me) Asus P2B 512MB ECC RAM (only 256 is …

Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Thanks cyclone3d, I will keep an eye out, but my hopes are not high, nothing in the last few months in sold either :(. I recently fired up my old Compaq 486 laptop with a really nice screen, and the first thing I saw was Windows 95 telling me my drivers were missing hardware... as it always has... …

Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

I'm sorry I'm no help Bondi, but your question made me realize I also have a similar one - I have a Panasonic KXL-D20 that I got a while ago, but haven't ever been able to get to work. I have two questions here - 1 - do I need a sound/CD-ROM card, instead of this CD-ROM card that it came with? I …

Re: How to Turn my Pentium III Classic Gaming PC Into a *Quiet* Classic Gaming PC?

Can you open it up and start to figure out which parts are the loud ones? It could be that dust is causing overheating too, so it would definitely be advisable to look inside if you haven't yet! Old HDD's are kind of a high pitched whine, the SSD or even a new HDD would definitely mitigate that. The …

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