Re: EISA configuration .CFG files. Does anyone have any?
Posted on 2021-11-14, 20:39
thanks, i will add them sometime soon
Re: New to the hobby, soldering anxiety
Posted on 2021-10-26, 02:29
Or am I losing my mind even more than usual, stuck in a nightmare fantasy land? Yes. I'm guessing you are quite young, live in a relatively new house, and have been told your whole life that various things are dangerous. Yes lead is poisonous. But in reality you have to go out of your way to get …
Re: Interview with "last XP fan"
Posted on 2021-10-26, 01:32
I run an XP system on my network and I only just upgraded to sp3. Its been fine. It is behind a NAT. Ran a win 2000 server too until recently, that's been fine as well. Things seem to just chug along for me.
Re: Right to repair discussion (split from What retro activity did you get up to today?)
Posted on 2021-10-20, 05:20
But with all this crap, TPM, forced updates and restarts is windows worth pirating?
Re: Right to repair discussion (split from What retro activity did you get up to today?)
Posted on 2021-10-20, 01:48
Regarding the TPM issue again. If every computer has a unique TPM, and websites can interact with this TPM for encryption purposes, surely this will compromise anonymity? (I remember a long time ago a similar controversy over Pentium III serial numbers.) When I first heard about TPM I thought it …
Re: Right to repair discussion (split from What retro activity did you get up to today?)
Posted on 2021-10-19, 00:59
I find it hard to understand why it is suggested that a corp./store can make a product however they choose, yet if another corp./store wishes to modify/repair it, this is immoral and should be illegal? Seems contradictory to me. If your going to have a free-for-all for the original company, then if …
Re: PC tower cases by year
Posted on 2021-10-17, 00:16
Those highscreen cases nearly always look good. Never seen one in the UK. They did make one by some famous designer and it looked terrible IMHO.
Re: Help! Pentium II PC doesn't like HDDs
Posted on 2021-10-17, 00:08
Hello! New user here. ... but when booting I get "Master Hard Drive failure" (or something along those lines) during POST I don't hear the drive spin up (though it could just be drowned out by all the other noise) ...I'm really curious as to what the issue could be. Any advice is greatly …
Re: Who here has heard of this drive? :)
Posted on 2021-10-16, 23:56
Reminds me of the iomega click drives. Thought that's what they were until I looked closer. Only used zip and that was briefly. I got a CD-RW in '98 and it was before they had sorted the buffering protection technology. So it wasn't very reliable at writing CD-Rs. Often you'd waste a couple of CDs …
Re: Retro engineering of old AMI bioses ?
Posted on 2021-10-16, 23:41
Another example for 386 motherboards ; we could probably implement support for the L1 cache of the Cyrix 486DLC that later boards had to older boards. What do you think ? Is it too crazy ? Another idea that will be scrapped in a week ? Any of you interested ? This one may be tricky. As I recall an …
Re: Suggestions for build on a PS/2 77s?
Posted on 2021-10-16, 19:48
Thanks for the info! I’m fine with investing a good bit of time and money to make it a great machine, but not sure a $1200 sound card is the first thing I’d look for, but 130 is definitely doable. Also can you recommend a processor upgrade? Any specific threads or sites I should be checking out for …
Re: The late 1997 - early 1998 build I never had. Until now?
Posted on 2021-10-14, 21:33
pixelatedscraps wrote on 2021-10-13, 14:06: the second was a Western Digital 9.18GB Ultra2 LVD unit I didn't know was incompatible with my 2940U2W; How so? They should be compatible.
Re: Compaq Deskpro M series. Does anyone know the model No's?
Posted on 2021-10-07, 19:20
For anyone interested they are now documented here: 386/25M & 386/33M https://www.ultimateretro.net/motherboards/9617 486s/16M https://www.ultimateretro.net/motherboards/9618 486s/25M (002316/002302) https://www.ultimateretro.net/motherboards/1318 486s/25M (002825/003197) 486s/33M (003107-001/003107 …
Re: Unknown motherboard
Posted on 2021-10-07, 19:07
evasive wrote on 2021-10-07, 16:27: Just 47 boards with 7 ISA 16bit slots for 486 and nothing else... Ah 7:-)
Re: Standard ATX Pentium III Xeon boards
Posted on 2021-10-07, 19:03
luckybob wrote on 2021-10-07, 00:19: https://creality3d.shop/collections/ender-ser … -pro-3d-printer its what i use thanks. Do you have the files to make the brackets? Or do I have to create them?
Re: XT-cf shown in FDISK as C: but "C: " gives "Invalid drive specification"
Posted on 2021-10-07, 18:59
The FAT issue shouldn't be an issue if the bootable DOS floppy has the same version of fdisk and format on it. Mix and match will lead to problems as stated above. I've not used CF cards much, but have heard they have incompatibilities sometimes. The usual advice is to try another card.
Re: XT-cf shown in FDISK as C: but "C: " gives "Invalid drive specification"
Posted on 2021-10-07, 00:22
This sounds like the sort of problem you get when you haven't rebooted properly. But you say FDISK did the reboot, strange. Try FDISK /mbr from dos 6.22. Is it possible to write the partition table in a different machine with a normal IDE setup?
Re: Standard ATX Pentium III Xeon boards
Posted on 2021-10-07, 00:03
I don't suppose anyone knows where to get a CPU retention mech. compatible with a MS440GX? It's been 10 years now...
Re: Unknown motherboard
Posted on 2021-10-06, 19:55
Could be one of these (178 matches): https://www.ultimateretro.net/motherboards/?s … 5D%5Bcount%5D=8
Re: Big Computer/Parts Hoard Found, Need Help/Advice (UK)
Posted on 2021-10-06, 19:50
you may have luck on vcfed.org forums. You can sell there. I've never been able to login to Amibay, but perhaps that's just me. Are there any AT towers?
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