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Re: W98se or Me on Sata hdd

You might need to get a Promise S150 PCI SATA controller because they have Win9x drivers. The early VIA SATA controllers were very, very, very, very buggy. Chances are that it will not work properly with that large of a drive... or even detect it at all. That motherboard often came with a chipset …

Re: PC Retro Heaven Achieved

I haven't heard really good things about Radeon 9800 though. Those seemed to die or be dead so often I actually kinda avoided buying any for fear of getting too many duds lol Higher end cards run a higher risk of being or getting defective due to several things: Obviously higher end products are …

Re: Dead Viper 770?

Don't you have some test hardware laying around? I always first test new parts with known good hardware before assembling it all into a definitive build as this makes troubleshooting easier 😀

Re: PC Retro Heaven Achieved

Ah, and stay away from Nvidia graphics cards if you don't want to see it strangely die one day. Or at least use after market cooling solutions. You mean because of bumpgate? Afaicr the GF6 series was the last series that still used the old-fashioned solder. I'm not sure how much overlap there is …

Re: PC Retro Heaven Achieved

Athlon XP is actually somewhat similar to a Pentium 3. No SSE2, same socket dimensions (and same CPU HSF size), even the CPUs look very similar compared to how an Athlon XP and a s478 CPU look different from each other. Also both P3 and AXP use mostly the 5v lines for their power. AXP does use a LOT …

Re: Bad ide cable ?

I have had 2 bad 80 conductor cables in my life, and zero 40-conductor cable issues. I have had a 40 pin connector get stuck in a board, and pulling the cable ripped it off the connector, but that board was all corroded anyway. I've had a bad 40p cable in my main rig years ago. It happens. Some …

Re: PIII gaming PC

Nice to see one of these rigs assembled from stuff that one has laying around :) What OS are you using? I presume 98SE? The mismatched drives will look better in a beige case, as you kinda already mentioned but as long as it works, right? :P The MS-6119 looks like a nice BX board. Kinda odd that one …

Re: PC Retro Heaven Achieved

OS: DOS 6.22/Windows 3.11/Windows 95 OSR2.1 CPU: Cyrix 6x86-P166+ GP @ 133 MHz RAM: 14 MB GPU: ATI MACH64 PCI (109-25500-30) Audio: AWE64 Gold (CT4390) https://thumb.ibb.co/hxgcv7/IMG_20180306_214410.jpg https://thumb.ibb.co/j75gNn/IMG_20180306_214248.jpg This case looks like it's the AT variant of …

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