I'm getting a short across all three legs of an SLB1040CT diode in the output stage which could explain why the sc protection is being triggered.

Thanks for the advice, and I would agree you shouldn't mess with these PSUs unless you know what you're doing. Fortunately I have a background in electronics and am well aware of the dangers of handling mains-powered devices. If the fault is something simple I will fix it, but replacement ATX …

Hi all, so today I switched on my Windows 98 machine and the PSU cuts out after about 1-2 seconds. I removed the PSU from the PC and tested it on the bench but it does the same thing. I think this is some sort of short circuit protection, possibly caused by a faulty component. With hardware this old …

Revisiting this after some time, refer to this thread - https://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=30120, you will see that Saitek UK Support confirmed at one point that there is no driver for the Ace Master 18, but you can configure it as a CH Flightstick Pro. I have tried this and it seems to work …

Hi all, I have a Gravis Xterminator with a 15-pin gameport interface. I have installed the Xperience 2.1 drivers and the pad can be added in the Control Panel and shows a status of "OK". However, clicking properties says "Unknown Device or No Device Connected". As you might guess it is not visible …

- Diamond MX300 Vortex 2 AU8830A2 - SB Audigy 2 ZS If you have two PCI slots, I would install both the MX300 and the Audigy. The Diamond MX300 will be ideal for games that support A3D sound (esp. A3D 2.0). While the Audigy will be ideal for games that support EAX. I've been working on a recent …

Hi all, so back in the day I used to build PCs for gamers and musicians and now I am revisiting the past to build a late-era Windows 98 machine for gaming. So far I have a Sempron 3000+ running on an MSI K8T800 board with a 8287+ southbridge, GEForce 6800/512 and 1MB PC3200 RAM. The system has the " …

Hi all, I recently picked up one of these for almost nothing. It has a 15-pin connector so most likely comes from the mid-90s. It has a throttle that doesn't seem to get recognised in Windows 98, buttons and axes seem OK. Does any one have a driver/utility disk for this joystick - google came up …

Very interesting. When I bought the machine in 97/98 it was one of the fastest available but obviously the P3 followed soon after. So now I'm thinking that another machine might be a better choice to cover everything up to XP games. Would a P3 be more suitable - what's the best balance between …

Voodoo 3 because it lets you use glide and it's a good match with good compatibility :) Thanks for the suggestion. Yes some of it is coming back to me now - wasn't glide a proprietary API that 3dfx developed before D3D? I remember running glquake back in the day on a 3dfx card but something in the …

Hello all, New sign-up here! I've refurbished an old P2-400 system I had in storage for the purposes of playing some old games again. I have installed the system maximum of 384MB of PC100 RAM, a DVD-RW and a SD to IDE adapter to replace the noisy HDD. I am ready to install Windows 98 for a dual boot …