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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-03-21, 19:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My "new" Windows 98 build finally has a proper home. I got it all crammed inside a nice tiny case the best I could. I really wanted to keep this build as small as possible to fit into my limited use space. Sure, I have room to store things, but I like to use what I build, so keeping this build …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-03-20, 21:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My "new" Windows 98 build finally has a proper home. I got it all crammed inside a nice tiny case the best I could. I really wanted to keep this build as small as possible to fit into my limited use space. Sure, I have room to store things, but I like to use what I build, so keeping this build …

Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300 Won't Start When Hot

Posted on 2025-03-20, 13:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, you should one clean the fan and the heatsink (mostly fins), and two replacing the thermal paste.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-03-20, 13:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Build a wooden case for it. You can make a frame out of aluminum profile. Now they make some interior household trim out of extruded plastic, it's less likely to split up to drive screws into it, it will hold a self tap metal screw pretty well if drilled. So you can get inside angle or outside …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-03-19, 15:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got some stuff today. The most interesting though, is these screens and video cards/interface cards. 20250316_210319.jpg 20250316_205055.jpg 20250316_210348.jpg From some kind of "industrial" PC, like a casino game? Very interesting video card. It uses the SCSI output to the monitor input. Luckily …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-03-16, 21:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Came across this video yesterday. His parent probably bought these parts for him, but anyway, it's nice to see the younger generation took interest in vintage computing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrKyeK5UNrg

Re: Biostar "MB-8500TAC-A Ver.4" Mod for MMX CPUs

Posted on 2025-03-16, 15:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would put the resistor in a heat shrink tube for a better protection. Nice board by the way.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-03-15, 16:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm very pleased with how this 486 turned out 😁. With Trident VESA installed. Filename 20250315_182251.jpg File size 1.09 MiB Views 478 views File license CC-BY-4.0 Without Trident VESA installed. Filename 20250315_182553.jpg File size 949.18 KiB Views 478 views File license CC-BY-4.0

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-03-13, 18:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have tinkered with a lot of early 3D accelerators but I just tested out one of the rather fancy looking DFI AGP9800 cards, which is equipped with a Trident 3D Image 9850, and I am STUNNED. With any of the drivers I can find it is SO broken in games that in some titles the screen refreshes in such …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-03-13, 17:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have tinkered with a lot of early 3D accelerators but I just tested out one of the rather fancy looking DFI AGP9800 cards, which is equipped with a Trident 3D Image 9850, and I am STUNNED. With any of the drivers I can find it is SO broken in games that in some titles the screen refreshes in such …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-03-13, 15:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Installed the Norton Desktop for Win 3.11. Filename 20250313_183738.jpg File size 1.73 MiB Views 416 views File license CC-BY-4.0

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-03-12, 17:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Recapped this Jaton Trident 3DImàge 9750, also add a little bit of thermal paste for the regulator. 20250312_155451.jpg Wow, cool looking card. What does the daughterboard/hat on top perform? I noticed some of these cards look like they came with SGRAM too which would be nice. Thanks 🙂. The card …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-03-12, 13:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice card! But you should do a recap since it never used for past 30 years. Also, there's a tool on the utility disk called TVGABIO.EXE which can improve the performance. I’ll give TVGABIO.EXE a go on my 8900D as well. Do you know what the difference is between an 8900D and 8900D-R? What I do know …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-03-12, 13:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Recapped this Jaton Trident 3DImàge 9750, also add a little bit of thermal paste for the regulator. Filename 20250312_155451.jpg File size 971.54 KiB Views 698 views File license CC-BY-4.0

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-03-12, 09:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I received this two days ago. It's a Trident 8900D-R 1MB, my first ISA VGA. It's unused (with nice box and Windows 3.1 driver floppy) and I bought it on Yahoo! Auctions for 4500 yen (about $30). I'd been keeping an eye on auction sites for about two years, hoping to find an ISA VGA for under 2000 …

Re: Upgrade the RAM on Tseng ET6000 PCI?

Posted on 2025-03-06, 14:07

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

If your card have all the SMD caps around the pads, then yes.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-03-02, 19:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Fully upgrade the RAM to 1024KiB for the Trident 8900C. It doesn't make a difference in DOS, but Win 3.11 experience is now much more smoother. Filename 20250302_161743.jpg File size 1 MiB Views 574 views File license CC-BY-4.0

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-02-25, 11:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought these babies. I'll eventually upgrade the RAM to 1024KiB. Filename 20250225_144431.jpg File size 886.84 KiB Views 594 views File license CC-BY-4.0 Filename 20250225_144449.jpg File size 930.92 KiB Views 594 views File license CC-BY-4.0

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-02-21, 16:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So turns out I accidentally damaged the 74F245 octal bidirectional transceiver on the ATC-5200 board while fixing a bent in the case. So can I solder a 74F244 instead?

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-02-18, 17:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Kahenraz wrote on 2025-02-18, 17:26: I couldn't say. You can easily compare it with another board though. OK, thanks.

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