Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-14, 20:54

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A Soyo P4S Dragon Ultra with full bundle. I feel so safe now that I have Norton Antivirus 2002. 20220713_190456.jpg 20220713_190142 (1).jpg 20220713_190337 (1).jpg 20220713_190424.jpg 20220713_190320 (1).jpg Congrats on getting my favorite 478 mobo of all time! The 3.06/533/512 Northwood CPU works …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-13, 19:33

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I live in Norway so I had to ship it all the way across the Atlantic, so I was on the fence, but the dealer offered a considerate discount so I decided to bite the 150$ shipping cost (!!!). If it weren't for the fact I'm starting in a new position in two weeks and had to cancel my vacation I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-13, 19:14

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New in box AT case i got off eBay, going to put the gigabyte MB into it I would like to buy one of those, but the shipping was the deal breaker for me. It would cost noticeably less for me to drive there and pick it up, but when I asked the seller if I could do a local pick up, they said no, so no …

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Re: Blinking cursor on boot with GeForce 6200 and Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2022-07-10, 21:16

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I would try an earlier driver. The 66.94 supports the 6200: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/nvidia-9x-gr … cs-drivers.html

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-10, 17:41

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I stopped by a thrift store today, and to my shock they had a computer part ! A Lacie USB floppy drive for $3.00. It works fine, though when I tried it on an MVP3 board with Windows 98 it caused a blue screen when it tried to install a driver. I had installed NUSB24 driver, so I installed the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-10, 05:05

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I stopped by a thrift store today, and to my shock they had a computer part ! A Lacie USB floppy drive for $3.00. It works fine, though when I tried it on an MVP3 board with Windows 98 it caused a blue screen when it tried to install a driver. I had installed NUSB24 driver, so I installed the NUSB36 …

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Re: Advice/Opinions deciding on cases

Posted on 2022-07-10, 01:35

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I really like aluminum cases so I would never get rid of the Coolermaster Cavalier.

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Re: "Modernish" board is not retaining bios settings EDIT

Posted on 2022-07-03, 18:35

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Have you tried the board outside of a case to eliminate the possibility of unintentional ground(s)?

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Re: Gigabyte GA-586TX3 not working with ATX power

Posted on 2022-07-02, 22:34

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Worst case scenario, you could rig up a momentary contact switch to the contacts in the ATX power connector. I've no experience with repairing traces on motherboards, but I know there are other members of Vogons who do, so if you should be able to find a broken trace that's the cause of this issue …

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Re: Gigabyte GA-586TX3 not working with ATX power

Posted on 2022-07-02, 05:02

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Give this a try: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYb7UaWip8w

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Re: How to fix a Windows 98 install from another computer.

Posted on 2022-07-02, 04:58

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To get this out of the way, it will probably be a lot of work for a disappointing result; when in Safe Mode try removing most of the hardware in Device Manager, then reboot. Once you can get to the desktop in normal mode you can begin the process of installing the correct drivers. Make sure you have …

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Re: Gigabyte GA-586TX3 not working with ATX power

Posted on 2022-07-01, 23:15

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Are you sure the momentary contact switch you're using is good? Have you tried shorting the ATX power on contacts with a screwdriver?

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-06-30, 23:41

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I decided to test the hardware by installing Windows 11. I knew it was too old for 11, but I'd heard there were work arounds, so I was killing three birds with one stone - seeing what I think of Windows 11, seeing how it goes when you install it on unsupported hardware, and seeing if this system …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-06-30, 21:44

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Craigslist freebie: a 2011 Macbook Pro. No charger included, so I'll have to buy one to find out if it works. Wish me luck. I bought a $20.00 knockoff charger from Amazon, and it worked! I reset the password so I could log on, but the original 5,400 RPM drive was slow when new, and the years since …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-06-30, 20:20

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My Craigslist Score for the week; Antec 900 case with an i5 4590, Gigabyte motherboard, 16 gigs of DDR3, Corsair power supply. Oddly, this case has the PSU on the bottom, but there's no air vent on the bottom of the case. Someone gave this away for free? Yes. My only concern was how it might have …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-06-30, 01:51

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My Craigslist Score for the week; Antec 900 case with an i5 4590, Gigabyte motherboard, 16 gigs of DDR3, Corsair power supply. Oddly, this case has the PSU on the bottom, but there's no air vent on the bottom of the case.

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Re: Win98 + PCI SoundBlasters = Bad luck

Posted on 2022-06-29, 06:50

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Around the six minute mark Phil goes over how to install the vxd drivers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfmYYG1rVug&t=31s

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Re: Install win98se on larger hdd?

Posted on 2022-06-28, 21:40

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I use relatively inexpensive 120 gigabyte SSDs with my Windows 98 computers, but I have used one terabyte conventional drives with the size limited using Seatools and they worked fine.

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Re: Install win98se on larger hdd?

Posted on 2022-06-28, 21:24

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There are a number of ways to get around this. Phil has a good video that covers this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCulATQ7GlM You can install Win98 to a drive larger than the size limit and everything will seem fine at first, but sooner or later it will glitch. Also, if you get an error and it …

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Re: Enhance pointer precision for Windows 98?

Posted on 2022-06-28, 18:08

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This is recommended in the Vogons Win98 guide - I haven't tried it myself: https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/ps2rate.html

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