Well dang, my powersupply came today and the process of getting it going has begun. I am getting a keyboard error in the bios, yet the keyboard works in the bios fine. also get a cmos checksum error.

Haha thanks! il have to see about borrowing a camera from my sister! My extra parts are a isa mach8 (don't believe it works) a vlb cirrus logic card, a trident vlb card, a Pentium mmx 233mhz (from my first retro adventure) a k6-3 333mhz, and so many more. This 486 and a pentium2 I built for my best …

Hi everyone, although in progress I thought I would post about my system im working on. No pics for now, but here are the specs: pcchips m912, 24mb of ram, ati mach32 (rather nice looking model, 2mb maybe?) 3com etherlink 3 if I remember right, magic s-22 audio card, mitsumi 16x, Panasonic 3.5 …

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I recently picked up this motherboard on the cheap and I believe that the bios is corrupt. I get a cmos checksum error and when I press DEL to enter setup it hangs on a black screen. Also it only enters the bios after I remove the bios battery and clear the jumper. The problem is that I can not find …

I have one of those slot 1 coolers from my sisters old Compaq. came off a 450mhz pentium2, I think that thing would be alright with some some fans rigged up to it, not sure however since I have never utilized it on more than a 450mhz p3

See I have also not used any of the "Good" Pentium 4's. My experience is limited to a 533fsb with no hyperthreading. I have seen late 478 and 775 rigs that are pretty snappy. The difference between a single i5 or i7 core and a single Pentium 4 core is still huge imho.

I think its my hard drive, still have both machines. Old 400gb ibm deskstar ide drive. im swapping it out for a wd 80gb just to see what kind of performance gains I get. That and my buddy was telling me that my install of xp might be messed up :p it has a NVidia 6600 in it now and iv always felt …

Newbie here, my Pentium 2 system lasted from around 1997 to 2006. I was born in 94 (my dad was awesome!) Until my motherboard caught on fire. I swear that thing ran ever thing! I put the 32mb all in wonder card in my Pentium 4 replacement I got in 2011 (went with out a pc until then!!!) and i can …

Newbie here, my Pentium 2 system lasted from around 1997 to 2006. I was born in 94 (my dad was awesome!) Until my motherboard caught on fire. I swear that thing ran ever thing! I put the 32mb all in wonder card in my Pentium 4 replacement I got in 2011 (went with out a pc until then!!!) and i can …

Hey I just joined up here and am starting on my first 486 rig. Had a 233 Pentium mmx system I pulled out of our basement that was ran for a while but there was a rats nest in the case, so it didn't last long. I was an idiot and threw out the case (moved) and my 3.2gb Samsung drive just croaked. I …