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Re: I got a 90's Pentium II PC working again!

Posted on 2019-06-23, 18:29

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Jeeze way to make me feel old! A similar PC was MY very first PC (as in not the families) also in '98 only I was born :P in fact I was 18. It's good you held on to it though, people here spend loads trying to recreate their first PC. What you got planned for it? the graphics card is holding you back …

Re: 486 build - trouble at birth

Posted on 2019-06-23, 18:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My recommendations The SB16 is probably the safer bet. Video, S3 is probably fine, depending on what they are will decide what's best for a DX4 120 (nice choice of CPU btw, something different) HDD, If it was me I'd keep the original drive for the OS, and put the SD card as slave, or Primary on the …

Re: Ryzen snoozer build.

Posted on 2019-06-23, 17:44

in Milliways

in Milliways

Noctua got my loyalty when they offered free mounting upgrades for newer sockets) Also slowly standardising my PSU's with Corsair's modular ones, Means I can do things like use the left over Molex cables form my RM750i in my daily driver in my RM550x in the PPro Rest of the hardware is too modern …

Re: AWE64 alternatives

Posted on 2019-06-23, 17:08

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

As your new I'll give a detailed answer. There is very little difference between the AWE sound cards, especially for gaming. Awe32 is basically a SB16 with the EMU8000 chip. Pros may have Yamaha OPL chip, standard 30 pin Ram, Cons Hanging note bug, nosier AWE64 is basically the same as a AWE32, the …

Re: Precision 650 Dual Xeon System

Posted on 2019-06-23, 16:42

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Looks like the board has a bunch of bloated caps above and below the dimm slots. Not sure how long the 650 has left, it does have a few swolen caps but I doubt I'll use this often and It'll probably sit months on end without been turned on so I'll pretend I didn't see them for now. What did I just …

Re: windows 98 se swap file on swap partition?

Posted on 2019-06-23, 16:08

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Out of curiosity, can you put the swap file on a CF card in a IDE CF card reader, or will that wear out the CF card really quickly? You could, how fast it wears will depend on how often you really use the PC, Keep in mind this isn't your daily driver anymore so could spend weeks even months unused. …

Re: Windows 98 install - RAM drive question

Posted on 2019-06-23, 15:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some really obscure software might but My CD hasn't been on d:\ for years and haven't run into any problems. On the other hand if you change the CD drive from E:\ to something else after installing games they will complain as they keep a record of which drive they were installed from.

Re: Finding old hardware (UK)

Posted on 2019-06-23, 15:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got a Dell P3 1Ghz off Freecycle last month. Although you cant be in a rush, I thibk last year I saw less then 10 possibly interesting machines and I've signed up to a few different London groups. Gumtree can be good also. You just have to keep an open mind, It's the guys just trying to get a few …

Re: My builds, parts and doubts... [P2 running!]

Posted on 2019-06-23, 15:41

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Sure you can! Dos will install fine but I would stick with Win9x Dos 7 for the fat 32 support. easiest way is to make a copy of c:\windows\command then Format c: /s froma boot disk Copy the command folder back to the c:\ and rename it to dos. TNT2 wont need any drivers and has good dos support DVD …

Re: Dual booting Windows 95 and NT 4.0 on a 486

Posted on 2019-06-23, 13:22

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Not that it matters now as your up and running but for anyone else you can do this without using non MS tools, you will loose the flexibility though as c:\ is the boot drive for both OS's Preparing the Disk 1) Run Fdisk if it asks about enabling large disk support say no (limits you to Fat16) 2) …

Re: Pentium III 1000mhz 100mhz FSB, Slot 1. How rare?

Posted on 2019-06-23, 12:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

By that time Intel were more focused on Socket 370 so 100Mhz FSB Slot 1 systems days were already numbered, no point making load of CPU's on a dead end system. Someone was selling a few hundred on ebay a few years ago for a good price, wish I got one then, but didn't think I'd have a need for a 2nd …

Re: Windows NT 4.0 Installation shenanigans

Posted on 2019-06-23, 12:52

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

If its new enough to have usb on the system you can load suitable drivers and transfer files via usb stick. Downside is the usb stick needs to be formatted as fat16. There might be read/write drivers for fat32 now if you look hard enough. Formatting the usb stick to NT4s NTFS v4 for will get …

Re: KVM Switches

Posted on 2019-06-23, 12:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One thing I recommend is getting KVM's that use standard cables. my no name 4 port KVM is good but uses a serial port connecter on the KVM side so good luck if I losses a cable. Where as my 8 port Compaq and most enterprise stuff has the vga and 2 ps2 connecters for each input, so you can buy the …

Re: Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.73ghz SL7Z4

Posted on 2019-06-23, 12:20

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Last card that supports 98 is the Audigy 2 ZS, still a decent card for XP. X-Fi are the last cards to support XP and even the later X-Fi cards drop XP support. IMHO Win98 is more trouble then it's worth on hardware like this, I've got a slightly older Socket 478 P4 with 4GB Ram, Not only does the …

Re: In Street Rod 2 dos6.22 mouse cursor moves by itself ?

Posted on 2019-06-23, 12:02

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

not sure about mouse.com Haven't used it for years now but can confirm cutemouse works fine on my 486 with a serial mouse in SR2 http://cutemouse.sourceforge.net/

Re: ISA SCSI setups.

Posted on 2019-06-23, 11:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have to agree. As your taking about a 386... If your looking at SCSI for performance, CF/SD cards are a better, cheaper, easier to find. If your looking for larger disk support, drive overlay or XT-IDE are better options. If your after reliability, SCSI is NOT what you want! most of this stuff will …

Re: Inner Workings of the PC Market in 1998/1999

Posted on 2019-06-23, 11:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think online archives of magazines are still your best bet. This is what I used as a price guide and would get the base build of a local PC store as they could do that cheaper and then upgrade Ram, graphics, Networking cheaper our selves for from computer fairs. Those Add's in the back of …

Precision 650 Dual Xeon System

Posted on 2019-05-29, 15:09

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Another machine I salvaged from the industrial printers https://i.postimg.cc/6qWNCn5d/Front.jpg Looking at the logs this was used up till 2016 although not very often in the final years in the CAD dept As you can see it had a hard life. The drive bay door is missing and a big crack on the "shield" …

ML350 G5 Dual X5460 Build

Posted on 2019-05-29, 10:33

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Recent post on the dumpster post prompted me to put a post on my ML350 G5 This ran the POS system for a restaurant for around 10 years. Windows 2003 x32 with about 6 XP Embedded tills and 10 Windows CE Handheld devices used to take your order at the table. Hardly a demanding task and the hardware …

Re: Why do people like FPS games so much ?

Posted on 2019-05-29, 09:14

in Milliways

in Milliways

Then came Quake and I hated the clunky polygon models, unable to appreciate how much more versatile a true 3D engine was compared to the 2.5D Same with me. I saw it as a step back rather then forward. Think of the big movies round the same period. Arnie, Stallone, etc taking on the world single …

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