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K6-2 / Gigabyte GA-5AA - Unstable?

Posted on 2011-06-06, 02:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a box with a GA-5AA Super 7 motherboard a 450mhz K6-2 processor, and 128MB RAM (the maximum it can cache). I'm using it for DOS games since it's the best match (compact and has ISA slots) I can come up with out of my computer stock. In terms of cards, all that is in there is a PCI ATI 3D Rage …

Re: PCI S3 STB Trio64V+ VGA, basic info.

Posted on 2011-05-31, 10:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You guys seem unsure if it's really a Gateway card but I have this exact card and can confirm that it IS a Gateway card. I pulled mine from a Gateway P5-133. In the original Win95 installation it was referred to as a "STB PowerGraph 64".

Re: Anyone using a RAMBUS system?

Posted on 2011-05-28, 17:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There's definitely PC1066 RDRAM. It has a 533mhz bus speed which would make sense since I have a P4 HT Northwood 3.06ghz that runs on a 533 bus.

Re: Anyone using a RAMBUS system?

Posted on 2011-05-28, 16:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My family bought a Dell Dimension 8250 in 2003. We customized it with 512MB Rambus RAM because we, the (at the time) not computer-savvy people, were told that it was going to be the wave of the future and much better than anything else. Found out how bad of a mistake that was when I went to upgrade …

Re: So you think your vintage computer is cool?

Posted on 2011-05-01, 14:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And I thought just dual PPro systems were cool. I'm so immensely envious of these.

Re: Aztech cards

Posted on 2011-04-24, 15:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No idea. I've never had anything that used either.

Re: Aztech cards

Posted on 2011-04-24, 14:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey copados33, I have the exact same card ( picture from inside my 486 ), but as a Packard Bell OEM version, so the Aztech stickers are stickered over with Packard Bell ones. It is recognized by Win95 as an Aztech Sound Galaxy Washington 16. Not a bad card really-- compatible with SB Pro and has …

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-04-18, 01:28

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Thought today I'd post about my favorite of my old PCs. It has a lot of history behind it. http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m34/MrKsoft/photos/pcstuff/DSCN1240.jpg http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m34/MrKsoft/photos/pcstuff/DSCN1245.jpg It's a Gateway G6-450, purchased in February 1999... …

Re: DVD hardware decoder cards

Posted on 2011-04-17, 03:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I yanked this card from a dead machine that a friend got from his workplace. http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m34/MrKsoft/photos/pcstuff/DSCN1070.jpg Research so far has pointed to it being a DVD decoder card, but I can't even figure out what brand it is so I can't try it out. Hell, I don't even …

Re: BASSMIDI Soundfont MIDI Synthesiser Driver for Windows XP/Vista/7

Posted on 2011-04-06, 22:45

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

The first one you listed there didn't work. But the second one, the control panel one ("Putzlowitschs Vista-MIDIMapper") did. I found it on a different page, it said to copy to System32 but since I'm on W7 64-bit I put it in SysWOW64. It shows up, opens, and works but won't show an icon in the …

Re: BASSMIDI Soundfont MIDI Synthesiser Driver for Windows XP/Vista/7

Posted on 2011-04-06, 11:53

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

This is great... finally a different MIDI synth on Win7. I had to find a different program to switch the default MIDI driver though to use it in most programs.

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-03-28, 22:09

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

http://monochrome.yudia.net/images/legopc/DSCN0690.JPG http://monochrome.yudia.net/images/legopc/DSCN0695.JPG Built this as a novelty in November 2009 out of a tiny little K6 machine I was given. Gigabyte GA-5AA Baby AT Socket 7 board AMD K6-2/450 128 MB PC133 SDRAM (can support up to 768, but I'm …

Re: Ruined these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-03-24, 23:36

in Milliways

in Milliways

I think my only decent Socket 370 board (Gigabyte GA-6VXE7+) committed suicide a while back... and now I can't fix it now that I have the materials to do so. About a year ago the network card was acting up so I was going to reboot it after installing updated drivers. After that it froze in the BIOS …

Re: How many of you guys/gals are using Windows NT 3.51?

Posted on 2011-03-14, 23:39

in Milliways

in Milliways

Here are a few. Mostly Windows 3.1 but you said you were looking for those too. The rest are on a computer in my basement-- I'll get them soon. Most of this stuff has been tested by me in my own tech adventures, but some of the other ones I have are for hardware I just don't have but I picked the …

Re: How many of you guys/gals are using Windows NT 3.51?

Posted on 2011-03-14, 03:34

in Milliways

in Milliways

I'd dig some NT 3.51 drivers if you have them. It's a really interesting system to run because of how it feels halfway between 3.1 and 95. I run it on some of my older systems just to be different. The normal 3.1 drivers would be appreciated too-- I'm actually trying to build a database of 3.1 …

Re: VOGONS is no marketplace!

Posted on 2011-02-14, 02:31

in Milliways

in Milliways

Make a subforum or something and specifically state that this site is not liable for any problems that occur. There's nowhere for me to get retro hardware locally and eBay is ungodly overpriced. I think it's a logical extension of the site if we have so much discussion about hardware.

Re: Fruitless search for an ESS Solo-1 driver for... NT 3.51.

Posted on 2011-02-10, 00:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The option is "Virus Warning" and it does describe it as protecting the boot sector... however it's disabled. I may have to try enabling it to see what happens then...

Re: Fruitless search for an ESS Solo-1 driver for... NT 3.51.

Posted on 2011-02-09, 23:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Interesting, they don't list one. More interesting is that they list a ton more drivers for it in the more recent pages. I'm going to guess that they never made their own but IBM did for their system. It probably doesn't work on mine because it's not identical. Either way, this project's now on hold …

Fruitless search for an ESS Solo-1 driver for... NT 3.51.

Posted on 2011-02-09, 00:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, strange request, especially since we're on a primarily DOS/gaming board. It's relevant though. I picked up an old Compaq system (Celeron 500, 128mb, Intel 810 chipset) at a garage sale last spring (had to take it with the monitor I actually wanted from the sale) , glanced it over and thought it …

Re: WPA Supplicant WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant

Posted on 2011-02-04, 03:51

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

I tried this the other day. I just put 2000 on my old P4-M laptop and needed a way to get onto my WPA network. It didn't work at all though. The interface lagged so much it was unusable-- but didn't actually use any CPU power so it wasn't that my system was underpowered. It took more than 30 minutes …

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