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Help to identify missing (in action) tiny surface component on 4 port PCIE NIC

Posted on 2024-02-17, 00:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Whilst re-seating the CPU heat sink in my NAS the other day, the screwdriver popped out the terrible little slots on the CPUs mounting bracket things. I clipped the network card and knocked off a tiny surface mount component, and of course now the PC doesn't see the NIC at all. The component I have …

Re: Digital CD audio in Windows 98SE greyed out

Posted on 2024-02-13, 10:15

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?id=185197&mode=view This text from the manual is maybe the explanation for why the digital pins seem to do nothing: The manual implies the digital pins do nothing. Digital audio comes over the ATA bus. The headphones socket does something, as does the line …

Re: Is there anyone in the UK that can recap old PC motherboards?

Posted on 2024-02-12, 01:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've been procrastinating over getting a laptop HDD fixed, which needs a board swap but the retaining of an original chip. I think I could swap a board, but wouldn't want to try soldering a tiny IC. A local phone repair shop have said they could do a job like the one I need. There are so many shops …

Re: Looking for source code of the 3dnow patch for Quake 2.

Posted on 2024-02-11, 14:54

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I had a bit of a mooch into this the other day, I never had a 3dnow chip back in the day, but did play a lot of Q2. I concluded the 3dnow patch was provided by AMD, not id. So maybe written by AMD? And so AMD would own the copyright, I guess. Considering how many mirrors there are out there of …

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

Posted on 2024-02-11, 14:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Setting up a PXELINUX-based setup/recovery environment for retro PCs: IMG_0723.JPG (Still need to look up how to set up Damn Small Linux for netboot, add a Laplink V boot disk, figure out why Norton Ghost's boot disk maker is being a hassle inside 86box, and experiment with setting up Apple's …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-08, 18:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am equally discontent with manufacturers putting the Fn key on the bottom left where the Ctrl key should be. IBM and Lenovo does this. It's very annoying. At least one Lenovo laptop I had had a BIOS option to swap Fn and Ctrl. About a 6th gen i5 I think, don't know if the option was there before …

Re: Retro computing posters and artwork

Posted on 2024-02-06, 03:12

in Milliways

in Milliways

I've got a bit of a mish-mash of TIF files of AMD stuff I downloaded in that era, at the time very high res artwork and logos. 3000x3000, upto, it looks like. Some might print OK? These TIFs must be uncompressed, attached is a 22meg duron logo zipped to 124K! If there's any interest then I'll …

Re: Future planning for my 486DX4 100 (Upgrading my first PC which I acquired in 1994)

Posted on 2024-02-05, 19:50

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

[I can't figure out quoting a picture, so I'm making a mess :) quote=Irinikus post_id=1232089 time=1707153516 user_id=49693] https://www.vogons.org/thumbs/49693_5c3d3f940296b855689247ab69e152e6/My%20IBM%20486-3.jpg What's the thing above the IBM badge, with the purple sliding door? It is an ancient …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-03, 19:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am allergic to laptop keyboards where the control key is more in the bottom left. I would forever mistype everything. I've got a Lenovo Thinkpad like that. It does have an option in the BIOS to swap Fn and Ctrl, so at least if you don't look the keyboard behaves as expected. On the same note, a …

Re: Is this a Rage 128 Pro?

Posted on 2024-01-30, 14:45

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

hardly .. mhm I have a Radeon 7000 that is actually a 7500 just with the 7000 sticker on it. Certainly surprised me when both drivers and HWinfo picked it up as a 7500. Markets get segmented to maximise income, and combined with economy of scale for a manufacturer, it might be more profitable …

Re: Mobility Radeon X600 support for windows 98?

Posted on 2024-01-28, 20:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had a Tosh Sat (Pro?) with ATI Xpress 200M graphics, and I concluded it wasn't a real Radeon. I had a couple of Radeons on the desktop before that laptop, and so had expectations that fell down. Maybe some other Radeon branded stuff was similar? The laptop came with XP Home, but XP was too hand- …

Re: When Microsoft has a go at Tetris...

Posted on 2024-01-24, 18:24

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Banner - A tool to make Banners... I think my parents regretted it giving this to me because we had a dot matrix printer... Banners took hours to print. At least the banners i made as a 12 year old :D . $ banner still on slackware ############# ######## ############# ############## ############# …

Re: Hosting old game servers on new OSes in VMs?

Posted on 2024-01-21, 03:45

in Windows

in Windows

Hey Efflixi86Box Can you emulate, or run lower-spec Intel-compatible CPUs, with proxmox as is possible with qemu-kvm? Have you considered WINE? That might be viable for non-graphical dedicated servers from the old days. Maybe have a VM host that is just a bit old? Keep the VMs lean to minimise RAM …

Re: Antivirus/malware scan for an offline XP machine

Posted on 2024-01-10, 15:08

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I also use AV rescue CDs, and those I could get network booting are offered off my boot server. Kaspersky's one still updates virus definitions, some do not update and others So you have something like a PXE server setup to do AV scans, I've never thought of that and is a pretty good idea! I mean …

Re: I ported DOSMid to UNIX... And how it works on Debian on a Compaq LTE Elite laptop

Posted on 2024-01-08, 14:19

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I'm not a midi enthusiast, but this it still very cool. One thought on permissions, surely those ports are assigned a group? Or the perms on the ports can be changed, so a normal user can run DOSMid? On Slackware here, /dev/ttyS* have the group dialout, which my user account is in by default. No …

Re: Antivirus/malware scan for an offline XP machine

Posted on 2024-01-06, 00:32

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

What do people recommend for an offline XP machine? The XP partition on one machine here has no AV, but I have made a house-of-cards that re-images XP off the NAS, then boots it, if XP is selected to be simply booted. ClamAV is installed on the other partition, in Debian, and scans of XP can be …

Re: Win 3.11 networking

Posted on 2024-01-01, 19:43

in Windows

in Windows

Problem is its refusing to get a dhcp lease it gets offered by my dhcp server but the system does not take it . How do you know this? A lease appearing on the server? Or more hardcore, watching the DHCP traffic? The tests I'd do are: ping 127.0.0.1 ping localhost If these work, TCPIP should be …

Re: Maximizing usage of a Raspberry Pi for a retro gateway/server

Posted on 2023-12-31, 19:08

in Milliways

in Milliways

I'm looking to maximize the usefulness of it for supporting old hardware since it will already be my bridge point and i'm investing the money into it. I'm open to any ideas, but I will already be using an NT3.51, NT4, and Win2K servers/DCs so no overlap of those roles needed. On my home LAN, mostly …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-12-30, 16:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Slow the fans right down, and run it quiet? What else could it be? It isn't like people in that era bought Abit boards (with vast ranges of CPU options in the BIOS), and put cheap CPUs on them, to save buying high-end chips because they could overclock them. That would be like stealing from Intel! …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-12-30, 00:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Still can't understand why did the original owner decide to go for those chonky 462 coolers considering the chips are 333MHz Celerons. They're huge! Slow the fans right down, and run it quiet? What else could it be? It isn't like people in that era bought Abit boards (with vast ranges of CPU …

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