Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2021-11-26, 17:30

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by EddieHimself

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Does that USB 3.5" drive work with Windows 10/11? I can't seem to get mine to, it always corrupts disks. It works 100% fine in Linux and Win 7/XP though. It works fine. The issue is that, if you have no disk in the drive, it causes certain programs to hang. I think it's because modern Windows …

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2021-11-26, 15:40

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by EddieHimself

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This is my current setup. Specs: AMD Ryzen 1800X AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB 32 GB RAM 2400 MHz Gigabyte X370 Gaming 5 1 TB Samsung 980 PCIe 3x4 NVMe SSD 1 TB Gigabyte NVMe SSD (there is only one NVMe slot on the motherboard, so the Samsung drive is on an NVMe riser card) 4 TB Hitachi HDD 6 TB Seagate …

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Re: The weird GTA San Andreas build

Posted on 2021-11-23, 22:17

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by EddieHimself

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Good thing you've got a passive cooler for the HT Prescott P4, because mine is using the stock cooler and it's loud as all hell!

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Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2021-11-23, 13:35

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by EddieHimself

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The first "retro" CRT I got (as in, when they were considered retro and not just a cheap monitor for when you couldn't afford a flat-screen!) was this Relisys TE-555 15" monitor: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/613773667435806762/881583425583218728/DSC_0010_3.JPG?width=1171&height=778 I …

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Re: Compaq Deskpro EP build-like we had when we were kids

Posted on 2021-10-26, 13:21

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by EddieHimself

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Couple of freebies: a 17" CRT monitor and a GeForce 4 MX460.

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Re: Building my own Woodgrain 486

Posted on 2021-10-12, 14:57

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by EddieHimself

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appiah4 wrote on 2021-09-29, 22:22: matze79 wrote on 2021-09-29, 22:12: Whats the deal with woodgrain ? it looks even worse then beige cases 😁 LGR made it a thing.. *sigh* Like I said, the paint was in awful condition and it's not like I was going to achieve the factory finish using spray cans at …

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Re: Show us your IBM Compatible PC games collection

Posted on 2021-09-26, 19:13

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by EddieHimself

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Some games and shit.

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Re: FM-V Towns - a tale of rare Japanese equipment

Posted on 2021-09-22, 10:57

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by EddieHimself

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Very interesting piece of 1990s computer history. I had the misfortune of having a Buffalo backup drive with the infamous 3TB Seagate drive that's so bad, it even has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001 Of course, I only found out about this after the drive had failed …

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Re: Building my own Woodgrain 486

Posted on 2021-09-09, 16:50

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by EddieHimself

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TheMobRules wrote on 2021-09-08, 19:05: Very nice build! Your motherboard seems to be made by MSI, would it be possible for you to dump the BIOS? You can use GETROM or NSSI if you don't have a programmer. Yeah, it is. I'll do that when I next get it up and running.

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Re: Compaq Deskpro EP build-like we had when we were kids

Posted on 2021-09-07, 10:07

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by EddieHimself

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Ich habe endlich eine ATX-Blende aus Deutschland erhalten. This was hard to get hold of! https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/613773667435806762/884741125464789022/DSC_0005_3.JPG?width=1171&height=778 https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/613773667435806762/884741114597359686/DSC_0007_4.JPG? …

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Re: Building my own Woodgrain 486

Posted on 2021-09-06, 09:55

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by EddieHimself

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The finishing touch...

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Re: Compaq Deskpro EP build-like we had when we were kids

Posted on 2021-08-31, 15:53

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by EddieHimself

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Ah, there we go! 😀

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Re: Compaq Deskpro EP build-like we had when we were kids

Posted on 2021-08-31, 15:36

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by EddieHimself

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My first IT job was a office full of Compaq's but we only had 1 of these style cases and always thought the drivebay rotation thing was smart. The user only used his in desktop form as well so never tested how easy it was to convert. plywood, meh. No one is going to see back of the case anyway and …

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Re: Compaq Deskpro EP build-like we had when we were kids

Posted on 2021-08-29, 17:03

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by EddieHimself

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I installed Windows 98 on here; being a dummy, I didn’t realise that the Compaq restore CD, like all Windows 95 CDs, isn’t bootable. Perhaps I’ll try putting the OEM version of Windows 95 on here at some point, but I’m happy with what I’ve got installed right now and don’t really want to mess with …

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Re: Compaq Deskpro EP build-like we had when we were kids

Posted on 2021-08-29, 17:03

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by EddieHimself

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It’s not the prettiest thing in the world, but it does the job. I also sourced a generic 10-W speaker with the right shape and size to fit in the back of the case. With the case sorted, the next matter was the rest of the system. In my other thread about a 486, I mentioned that the AT-style case …

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Compaq Deskpro EP build-like we had when we were kids

Posted on 2021-08-29, 17:03

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by EddieHimself

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Hello y'all. When I was about 7 years old in late 1998, my father decided to upgrade from our Olivetti 286 with white monochrome display that he had received for free from his friend a few months earlier, which he then ended up taking to the dump due to it being completely worthless at the time! The …

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Re: Post photos of your Multimedia keyboards

Posted on 2021-08-27, 15:41

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by EddieHimself

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Not much exciting, except these two Microsoft keyboards (the former of which I got from a thrift store for £4). I stopped using the beige Microsoft set after I got a Compaq set for my Deskpro PC. https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/613773667435806762/880838933913686067/20200921_173938.jpg?width …

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Re: Building my own Woodgrain 486

Posted on 2021-08-24, 18:44

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by EddieHimself

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Nice system and I enjoyed your write up! But... does Doom run with 30fps now? I did all the Philscomputerlab DOS benchmarks and Doom now runs at... 33.7 FPS in high-detail mode! Quake is (as you would imagine) a slideshow, running at 9.9 FPS, and Norton System Information gave a CPU score of 197.1, …

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Re: 486 DX4 100 Build log.

Posted on 2021-08-23, 12:16

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by EddieHimself

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For me, I really wanted VLB for a 486, because if I were to get a PCI motherboard, I'd feel like I might as well just go for a Pentium instead.

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Re: Building my own Woodgrain 486

Posted on 2021-08-23, 12:14

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by EddieHimself

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I suppose a VLB hard disk controller would allow me to use FAT32 for Windows 95 with it being a 32-bit bus. But I can't really imagine needing more than 4GB of space on this PC to be fair 🤣.

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