Re: Can anyone recommend a PS2 to AT style keyboard adapter?

Posted on 2017-02-16, 08:27

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It may also be a matter of simple metal fatigue and in such a case the original quality of the board is kinda irrelevant, as in the end it will only make it happen later. And I've always tended to like longer cables and stick the excess length somewhere near the plug that's inserted into the system …

---

Re: What would be the rarest build?

Posted on 2017-02-16, 08:19

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

lazibayer wrote: Nx586, 5x86-150, K5-PR200 are quite rare. V5-6000, Volari Duo are rare. ^This And stuff like prototype-only parts (think of the original Cyrix s370 CPU). And in a way very rare concepts can be build using (for instant) ES CPUs.

---

Re: Can anyone recommend a PS2 to AT style keyboard adapter?

Posted on 2017-02-15, 23:10

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The only problem I could see is if someone were to knock the keyboard from the table or something, but I guess that in that case the problem won't lay with the plug. And sometimes stuff breaks, it happens. I work IT. People break these things all the time. I even have to replace network cables …

---

Re: CD-Rom Drive Belt Recommendations

Posted on 2017-02-15, 22:51

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you can fix something with ease All too often it is easy to vastly overestimate the "ease" with which something can be fixed. Agreed. But if someone manages to find some easy fix, it might be interested to know about it. But personally I wouldn't bother fixing drive belts and just get another …

---

Re: Intel Celeron CPU Benchmarks

Posted on 2017-02-15, 22:48

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My bad its a compaq prosignia 320 motherboard stuff into a new case. If you want other cpu benchmarks then add them. If want more celeron cpu's then add them I don't have many celerons. I googled the Compaq Prosignia 320 motherboard and ended up with this image http://images.emprgroup.com.au/136339 …

---

Re: Can anyone recommend a PS2 to AT style keyboard adapter?

Posted on 2017-02-15, 15:44

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That adapter will work, but with keyboard's plug added it will be bulky and could break your PC's socket if you accidentally hit it or pull the cable to the side. I would recommend one that has two plugs connected with a short piece of cable. This is my preferred method also. These adapters are …

---

Re: Intel Celeron CPU Benchmarks

Posted on 2017-02-15, 15:39

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My celeron board started its life out as a compaq deskpro and I flashed it with an intel bios and ever since then when I check everest under chipset it lists 66 and 100FSB as supported speeds so maybe I can throw in higher celerons or even a p3, but I thought this board was only limited to celeron …

---

Re: WIP: No dollar unspent dual tualatin build.

Posted on 2017-02-15, 15:33

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I feel like the lights are off and I can't find the light switch. What is this about a 3dfx guy who is breaking Voodoo6 cards? Where can I read up on this. What is the purpose of killing the Voodoo6 cards? To increase the value of his own? I think he simply may have wanted to troll an entire …

---

Re: 486 DX4 100MHz - WIP

Posted on 2017-02-15, 15:29

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

gdjacobs wrote: The best game for reflexes (my opinion) is Tempest! Good times. Unreal games against bots are also a nice way, as it requires both fast reflexes and accuracy 😜

---

Re: 1999 PC and the mystery of the Geforce 2 MX

Posted on 2017-02-15, 15:27

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Never seen any GeForce 2MX sold without heatsink! Last nvidia card not using any cooling was Riva Vanta LT 8MB. Every Geforce had any. So there are 2 explanations why yours is so slow. 1]Someone removed heatsink from your card and now its overheating 2]Dell made it without heatsink as 2D office …

---

Re: Downclocking intel cpu help?

Posted on 2017-02-15, 09:11

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My Deschutes 400 ran with 5.5x multi on a Chaintech motherboard, jfyi :) Ah, so the mystery is not just an Abit thing. I found some old pics and the date code of my unlocked Deschutes 400 SL2S7 was indeed 9830 and the other unlocked ones also have the correct datecodes. But alas I never made pics …

---

Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2017-02-15, 09:10

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

cleaned up abit beforehand :-D I don't see any Abit's, only an empty case without a motherboard :confused: :P And if you stack completed rigs on top of each other, label them on the front (an optical drive with a small piece of paper tape might be a good idea) so you can see it on the front quickly …

---

Re: Recommend me some parts?

Posted on 2017-02-15, 01:47

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do you have any thrift stores where they sell broken..err I mean "untested" old computers? You could actually just buy a couple of those for the case itself and view the inside parts all as a bonus 😜

---

Re: Keyboard Recognized at Boot Only Sometimes

Posted on 2017-02-15, 01:41

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is it asus? Sorry for the late reply. Yes, it is an ASUS Socket 370 OEM board. Is this a known issue with ASUS or something? I haven't tried with a USB keyboard yet. Have you tried other memory modules yet? Was there anything wrong with the old modules? And maybe a strange question, but have you …

---

Re: Downclocking intel cpu help?

Posted on 2017-02-15, 01:26

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hm in the arstechnica article you found, they are talking about german people that modded their CPUs, and there are some links to two pictures that apparently someday was hosted on "sandpile.com". That is really infortunate ... Yes i noticed that too. You could ask the sandpile.com webmaster? But …

---

Re: Thoughts on how to go about fixing this?

Posted on 2017-02-14, 20:41

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

When you shifted the machine and the machine subsequently locked up, did the resistor also fell out? I don't really know what could be the cause here. Superficially it seems several things are going wrong. Sorry I can't be of any more help atm.

---

Re: 1999 PC and the mystery of the Geforce 2 MX

Posted on 2017-02-14, 20:24

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Lucky my G400 didn't fry then :| I will learn to quote properly one day... one day dankjewel :p yw :) You can always ask :P There's so much little bits of information floating around, the trick is to find the information you need and the easiest way to accomplish that is to find the right person to …

---

Re: Games for GeForce 4 Ti 4200?

Posted on 2017-02-14, 20:14

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Or maybe you were simply wrong and you missed something. You have no idea who you're talking to, do you? This is exactly my point. The Dunning-Kruger in so many people these days. Their misplaced sense of entitlement. Stupid arrogant people who think their uninformed opinions are worth as much as …

---

Re: Which XP?

Posted on 2017-02-14, 20:02

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Does it also work for gaming? Yes. (that is to say, it still has the same limitations as XP) But isn't it the problem that games that run on XP, typically won't run on machines that are too slow for them and that machines that are fast enough are better off with a more regular (or perhaps tweaked) …

---

Re: Which XP?

Posted on 2017-02-14, 13:30

by

by Tetrium

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

For those wondering. I got my copy of fflp about 10 years ago. Our steel manufacturing facility still ran pentium 1 based systems in all the offices and factory floor and every machine was upgraded to fflp. I still have it and it really does work well on anything with 64mb of ram or higher. Im sure …

---