I should give the pinmod a go on one of my zd8000 boards and see if it'll work. I doubt it will initialize but it wouldn't hurt to try since I've got a unit with a faulty GPU... if it works it'll be one heck of an upgrade for it, but obviously the BIOS will be a pain in the ass for obvious reasons ( …

Oh, I'd go on about this subject all day. IDE to SCSI converters (which is understandable), using a newer Macintosh floppy drive in place of an older one (manual inject in place of auto), further modifications to more obscure BIOS types like Phoenix CME and Intel BIOSes, the list goes on and on and …

I am curious about how you make the specific pin mods. Is there a schematic you use as a reference? I'm sure it would be different for all types of motherboards.

This is INSANE! I never thought it would have been possible!! I have an HP Pavilion zd8000, and it would seriously benefit from this. Only problem is that the motherboard is proprietary (I have preserved a schematic for it though) and the BIOS is a Phoenix cME FirstBIOS which... you can't really …

Original 1998 CD-ROM PC release of Glover. While it does work on dgVoodoo 2.x, it doesn't perform the best as opposed to the intended hardware it would have run on and seems to require very SPECIFIC graphics cards and drivers. Also from what I've tried it does not play nicely on older systems that …

I've wanted to mess with the original PC release of Glover from 1998 on older hardware but it seems to require some VERY specific GPUs, and I even believe it uses specific drivers for them too. Here's a list taken from a read-me file that I believe came with it (but this is also accurate to what the …

Yes I tried another HP/Compaq branded drive though this machine was from months *before* the merger. The lockout carried over to the D510 e-pc and that's the only mention of the lockout that I could find in HP/Compaq's documentation.

Yeah, it also seems like it was carried over from the Vectra line when HP acquired Compaq... but yes it is weird. If it weren't for the stupid CD-ROM lockout it would make a nice Win98SE machine.

I have an HP Pavilion zd8000 from 2004 that only takes Prescott and Prescott-2M chips... unfortunately when putting my P4-661 in the machine will not boot up; it powers on and the fans spin up but that only lasts for a second until it shuts off. I have heard the 661 uses the same VRM config as the …

Yeahhh I do not get that AT ALL. I don't see how the optical drive being tied to the machine would make it "secure"... if anything it would make it more of a paperweight than it already was... I've attached the BIOS file (zipped) in case you all wanna take a peek at it. I believe its AMIBIOS 7??

Sorry no. I stay away from those SFF of that era from certain companies as they were designed for commercial office use and are "throw away" when they die, the only thing standard is the HDD and RAM.. If you still have the original CD/DVD drive I suggest you try to track down the actual manufacture …

Hello. I own one of these weird hp e-pc systems from 2001 and I have the e-pc 42. I tried replacing the optical drive as the original CD-ROM drive was broken (not even adjusting the pot helped...) and I am met with an error from the BIOS telling me that the optical drive is not present or reports an …

Don't wanna necro a thread, but I feel like this is a rather important discovery. I'm not a fan of sketchy PSU adapters, and I own a Dimension 4100 that didn't have its power supply... so I took matters into my own hands. I managed to get the system to boot without an issue! Attached is an image I …