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Re: Help installing Win98SE on Thin PC without CDROM

Posted on 2021-07-15, 08:01

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

1.Using another PC, boot into a 98SE bootdisk with CD-ROM drivers - FreeDOS is quite picky with 98SE's installer - I've had issues with it on three diferent retro machines (P3 650, P2 400 and AMD K6-2 500) where it would get stuck at "preparing setup files" with a "INSERT DISK IN DRIVE A" text at …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-07-15, 07:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My IBM Netvista went from a crippled 815E mobo to a pretty slick Epox EP-3VCM. That thing can take any mATX board, so in theory I could go oeuvre's way and stick a powerful SFX PSU in and just go bonkers with a 1156 build w/ either a HD7870 or a GTX670. Then there's a Gateway GP6-400 done in the …

Re: "Lone Wolf" Retro/Daily Driver

Posted on 2021-07-10, 07:24

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I have a 775i65G R2.0 and practically every cap except the small audio ones with Panasonic FLs. Horribly painful to do so but it paid off. Retired it in favour of a restored MSI 865PE Neo3-V though.

Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2021-07-10, 07:12

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Or anything LGA 🤣

Re: PCI slots fouling CPU heatsink

Posted on 2021-07-09, 20:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think most AT Socket 7 mobos had bad clearing issues and ATX ones didn't. Feel free to prove me wrong though.

Re: Help with MSI KN72 DELTA 2 !

Posted on 2021-07-09, 17:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BIOS corrupt would yield led 3 and 4 green, 1 and 2 red. I know this from my recently rescued K7N2 Delta-ILSR.

Re: Retro computer builds that surprised you the most because they worked better than expected

Posted on 2021-07-09, 10:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Gateway GP6-400 rebuild with its WS440BX mobo. I don't even know which is faster but either my almost generic PC133 128MB SDRAM are very flexible, or the 13.7GB IBM drive it came with has some absurdly fast cache. I swapped the WS440 for a Jetway J-7BXAN R2.0 though, and will see how that one fares. …

Re: Soyo SY-5EMA+ v1.1 BIOS files

Posted on 2021-07-09, 09:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I believe that these are the two most recent BIOSes for your board . Source : https://web.archive.org/web/20040327042549/http://www.soyo.com.tw/dl/bios/586new/ One of them is newer than the one that you found a reference to . The BIOS from 2000 that you are referring to is actually for the 5EMA ( …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-07-09, 06:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I did try that Mobile 2600 on a ECS KT600 and a ASUS A7V600-X and neither POST'd. The only one it liked was a PCChips M848 mobo I had crossflashed with a DFI BIOS (748AL to be specific) but the reported procesor was wrong. (something like Athlon 1100MHz)

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-07-08, 21:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just came home and got some time to test a few parts I have not been able to test further on my trip. One of them is a ASUS GTX670 2GB GDDR5 DirectCu II - this one works fine, and it was a steal for how much I paid for it ($12). Does need a new HSF though, although it passed Furmark at quite crispy …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-11, 05:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

vad4r wrote on 2021-06-10, 23:11: Asus P2B-D Asus P2B-D.jpg HIP6019BCD... I take it that this P2B-D you have supports Coppermine?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-10, 19:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

dinth wrote on 2021-06-10, 18:54: BitWrangler wrote on 2021-06-10, 13:17: dinth wrote on 2021-06-10, 12:11: https://twitter.com/MGawronskiKot/status/1402931388123389956 What's going in that? K6 2/3+ ? Apparently PMMX and K5/K6 up to 600MHz, guess its Socket 7 or maybe SS7? SS7, chipset points to …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-10, 06:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

These came in yesterday at lunch. ASUS P2B, P2 400 SL3EE, Matrox G200, 40GB WDC. Paid about $34 total.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-06-03, 20:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, you just gotta love it when the board you bought as nonworking not only works but boots into DR-DOS and accepts a BIOS reflash flawlessly. The board is a FIC SD-11 Rev 1.8 (the actual release version) I bought 10-15 bucks (not including shipping) to use as a comparison to the NOS Rev 1.7 …

Re: The worst motherboards you have had to work with

Posted on 2021-06-03, 20:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

IDE controller is the one reason I had to retire my Luckytech P5MVP3. No matter what I'd do, Secondary channel would always show up with a exclamation sign, making the drive work in compatibility mode. I ended up replacing it (for now) with a Soyo 6BA+IV /P3 650MHz build but I'm hoping to switch it …

Re: What are builds you want to make someday?

Posted on 2021-06-01, 16:28

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

The only LX mobo I have can't even OC a PII 266 🤣 - it's a Zida LX98-AT, and the only BIOS I could even find that is AWARD comes from a Epox that uses DIP-switches to manage the clock, while the Zida does it from the BIOS.

Re: What are builds you want to make someday?

Posted on 2021-06-01, 15:21

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

The one build I would love doing someday would be an ABIT based build with a slotket Celeron, just to see how much I can push a Celeron. That, and I've absolutely NEVER EVER had an retro ABIT mobo from the 440BX-815E era. I have the slotket and two Celerons (466 and 500), but sadly no ABIT mobos …

Re: The worst motherboards you have had to work with

Posted on 2021-06-01, 14:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ACorp 6VIA81P - seems to have died with a reset loop issue, and whenever I get it to POST, having a keyboard plugged in will make the BIOS press random keys for no apparent reason. Shame as despite having the VIA693 chipset, it ran 133FSB quite nicely, about on par with my 440BX based Soyo 6BA+IV …

Re: The worst motherboards you have had to work with

Posted on 2021-06-01, 08:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My issues with various boards: ECS K7VZA: Not bad, but the BIOS for it is ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC. It takes seconds to turn of because the ATX soft-off button doesn't work as intended. Flashing it with a Chaintech 7AJA2 BIOS fixed it, and made it much more stable (yes, it's been recapped) Jetway J-7BXAN …

Re: Yet another Abit de-Teapofied (almost)

Posted on 2021-05-31, 16:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Teapo is relatively good in anything that isn't a GPU or PC motherboard. I've seen them usually used in OG Xbox PSUs and those fared well, and in some be quiet! PSUs (which are of good quality) as well. On the other hand, quite a handful of MSI's socket 462, 478, 754, 775, 939 and AM2 were almost …

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