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Re: PC100 M747 - The bane of my existence

Posted on 2016-01-30, 08:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You diddnt happen save the "ATX form factor card" with USB and PS/2 ports or the audio bracket? I only have one of each but at least 4 differnt PC-Chips boards that can use them. What does this look like? If I pulled mine out of a system myself then chances are good I still have it in one of my …

Re: IBM PS/2 8570 4-pin molex power adapter?!

Posted on 2016-01-30, 08:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There has to be a solution. This thing came with a SCSI hard drive with a 50-pin connector. Goodwill jacked the drive and whatever adapter it came with. I appreciate your jokes but I really would also like a solution. Thanks Yup, either solder a molex or (if possible) get an adapter, though I don't …

Re: IBM PS/2 floppy disk drive restore / repair

Posted on 2016-01-30, 08:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My mistake, a beast of a PS/2 :D Yea MCA is a funny bus... still tryin to get my head round the various types and length (16 & 32 bit bus's). The PS/1 tower is luckily both ISA & VLB... got quite a surprise when I opened her up for the first time. The only MCA system I have is the Model 80, don't …

Re: Will you ever build a Win7 retro PC?

Posted on 2016-01-30, 08:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have quite a collection of "retro" hardware running Win7. I typically put it on anything that is S939, LGA775 or newer. I just...can't stand XP anymore. As with Win98, I only use it when I have to. And because nearly all of my old XP games and apps work just fine on Win7, I rarely have to. :happy …

Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-01-30, 07:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think the 5v:12v power draw of old graphics cards is still somewhat unexplored territory and I'd like to learn more about this :) By the fact that both my 9800Pros have yellowed plastic around 5V pin, I'd say they use 5V line a lot :) It's not hard to measure though, a few resistors and a …

Re: How to repair loose labels on 5.25'' and 3.5'' disks?

Posted on 2016-01-30, 07:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Use magnets, won't damage the floppy disk that way 😀

Re: MB 486 - please help to identify this one

Posted on 2016-01-29, 22:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

brostenen wrote: Uhhhhh... Yikes.... The battery!!! This. Remove the battery ASAP and clean it up. Use vinegar and some paper cloth or so. If you leave it like this and it still works, the battery stuff will kill the board eventually.

Re: IBM PS/2 8570 4-pin molex power adapter?!

Posted on 2016-01-29, 22:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PeterLI wrote: Welcome to the difficulties of IBM PS/2. 🤣 Looks like it's another IBM-incompatible IBM 🤣!

Re: IBM PS/2 8570 4-pin molex power adapter?!

Posted on 2016-01-29, 20:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If your PSU doesn't have Molex's then what connectors does it have?

Re: Supermicro 370DLE Drivers

Posted on 2016-01-29, 20:04

in Milliways

in Milliways

IDE disk. It is a Western Digital 40GB hard drive. The CD I'm using is a self-booting, and I used it to sucessfully install Win 2K on another computer. The Supermicro board has SCSI headers, but the original owner opted not to get a board populated with SCSI sockets. I can't tell you where I got …

Re: Supermicro 370DLE Drivers

Posted on 2016-01-29, 19:48

in Milliways

in Milliways

Ok, I have tried installing W2K Advanced server, but I would get as far as the reboot and load into the OS, and then get a BSOD that says "Inacessable Boot Device". I then tried installing Server 2003, wouldn't even complete install without a disk copy error. I then tried installing W2KAS on my …

Re: Supermicro 370DLE Drivers

Posted on 2016-01-29, 19:33

in Milliways

in Milliways

I just went and grabbed the driver for the NIC on the Intel website. Do you happen to know any other boards that have the same chipset? Apparently Serverworks was absorbed by Broadcom and their site doesn't appear to have these drivers either. What exact problem do you have with W2k btw? What type …

Re: Supermicro 370DLE Drivers

Posted on 2016-01-29, 19:27

in Milliways

in Milliways

HardwareExtreme wrote: I just found that one a few minutes ago, but I can't find chipset drivers, only BIOS, LAN and graphics. I just checked (inlcuding the stuff I downloaded a couple days ago) and you are correct. No idea why they aren't there.

Re: PC100 M747 - The bane of my existence

Posted on 2016-01-29, 19:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here is an image of my spare board, it's a PC-Chips M729 REV:1.2. The motherboard isnt marked with the model number so it may have been sold under a different brand name. I think my other very similar board is a PC Chips M726 using the same chipset but a sligtly different layout. All these PC-Chips …

Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-01-29, 19:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think the 5v:12v power draw of old graphics cards is still somewhat unexplored territory and I'd like to learn more about this :) By the fact that both my 9800Pros have yellowed plastic around 5V pin, I'd say they use 5V line a lot :) It's not hard to measure though, a few resistors and a …

Re: Supermicro 370DLE Drivers

Posted on 2016-01-29, 18:58

in Milliways

in Milliways

HardwareExtreme wrote: Do you know of any other boards that have this same chipset? I have looked and found very little about this chipset. The problem I'm having is that Windows 2000 keeps giving me "Inacessable Boot Device" and refuses to boot. Apparently this one, an ASUS board: CUR-DLS

Re: Will you ever build a Win7 retro PC?

Posted on 2016-01-29, 18:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. XP (in my mind) seems to be "barely eligible" for retro status at this point. I think this is true when it comes to Windows 7 lol, but the definition of what actually is retro depends a lot on who you're asking :P The set definitions are a mess atm, wiki …

Re: Supermicro 370DLE Drivers

Posted on 2016-01-29, 18:31

in Milliways

in Milliways

I don't know for sure, but would it be possible to use the driver from a board with the same chipset but from another brand? I've very recently went downloading basically everything from the ASUS website for my own s370 dual s370 boards as I'd rather get them now before they disappear in case I'm …

Re: ati rage turbo pci

Posted on 2016-01-29, 18:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I might have one but it may be weeks before I have the time to try and get the BIOS file. And as you mention you only have 1 PCI graphics card, I'd recommend you at least get a couple more.

Re: PC100 M747 - The bane of my existence

Posted on 2016-01-29, 18:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's interesting - I picked up an M748-MR ("Xcel 2000") cheap off eBay a couple of years ago as I wanted a reflashable BIOS chip and the board was cheaper than the chip. I had no idea they were so unreliable, but I did wonder as I remember in the 90s anyone who had one of those hybrid AT/ATX …

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