Hello, I recently obtained a Pentium 4 Medion PC which has an internal TV Tuner model 7134 (more precisely this exact model - https://www.ebay.com/itm/284796914410). The drivers can be found everywhere on the internet (like this example - https://www1.medion.de/downloads/?op=search&lang=au&type=TEXT …

Hello, Can you recommend a PCI controller card with SATA connectors? I would like to use it with an older Pentium 3 computer because I don't have any functional PATA HDDs. In such a case would I have any problems concerning compatibility since this is an older 815EP chipset motherboard? Thanks in …

I have an older 286 motherboard with a barrel battery. Since the barrel battery was dead and started to leak I removed it and cleaned the board. But before putting it in a computer, my question is the following: will the motherboard function normally without the barrel battery or a more modern (and …

Hello, I have a DEC Alpha motherboard - I don't know the exact model and I don't have or found any manual. It's a socket 499 processor board with mixed DEC and Intel chipsets. The only problem is that I can't find the Power Switch connector so I don't know where to connect the 2 pin power switch …

Hello everyone, I received a processor AMD K6-2 (450 mhz). The processor is in a good state with one exception - it's missing a pin, more precisely pin AN 37 (Vss) situated in the exact opposite corner of the matching indicator on the corner of the CPU. In the diagram from the link it's the pin in …

Horun wrote on 2022-09-10, 22:35: Is your Scenic Pro D6 the Single P.Pro board ? Which board # (is it D983??) Just curious.... It's a single CPU motherboard. There is a mention on the motherboard about D983 model (see the picture).

I can share you some of my experiences with 1 core, 2 core and 4 core cpus. I am now in the process of transferring/digitizing whatever you want to call it several VHS tapes and audio cassettes. Initially I tried to do it on my Pentium III 1 Ghz computer. For audio cassettes is ok but for video …

Hello, I recently received a desktop computer, Siemens Nixdorf Scenic Pro D6 - actually is just the case and the motherboard. The motherboard has a power connector like a normal AT board (2 6-pin) but it also has an additional 6-pin connector. Above the 2 normal AT 6-pin connectors it says 5V and …

Hello, Recently I obtained an EPOX 478 motherboard, more specifically EP-4PDA5+ (Rev. 1.0). The motherboard doesn't post and I inspected all the capacitors but everything seems ok. One friend suggested after he helped me with a diagnostic board that it could be the BIOS - it seems to him that …

Hi guys, I have a MSI K7T266 Pro2 motherboard which is behaving very strange: it will only boot if I do a clear CMOS operation before each start, otherwise I receive the standard no video detected on monitor with a black screen and nothing happens. This is very annoying and I tried differend …

This could be The Computer Chronicles. If so you can find all or most of the videos (from the 1980s to early 2000s) on YT.

Thank you all the the information! Now I know exactly where is the problem. All I have to do now is to open the case without breaking it.

Hello everyone, I have an old Toshiba T1910 laptop obtained years ago which I was using until recently for running legacy software and games. Unfortunately when I turned it on yesterday, the Power and HDD activity LEDs blink several times but nothing else happens. I received a suggestion that some …