Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-09-27, 20:16
oeuvre wrote: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Dell-Dimensi … 5.m43663.l10137 That would've been a killer system to have.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-09-27, 20:01
oeuvre wrote: Alright, which one of you bastards outbid me on that 1.4GHz powerleap Dell Dimension XPS T450 on eBay with a VooDoo3? 🙁 Wasn't me. Maybe it was Jade falcon again. I have car repairs that need to be done, and bills, too.
Re: Laptop gaming the hipster way: using an external GPU before it was cool
Posted on 2018-09-27, 02:06
Too bad the docking station won't work on my ThinkPad R40. But, the Radeon 7000M isn't bad at all, but, some games run rather sluggish with 16MB video RAM. Glad that the card works with your ThinkPad. Is it possible to flash the R40 with a T40 BIOS or is that impossible?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-09-26, 21:56
Sure it's EISA? Looks like some kind of Asus Media Bus slots to me but I might be wrong. It's EISA. The ASUS Media Bus slot was common on some of the boards (the slot that's at a PCI slot) for multimedia cards (sound card, video, and, in most cases, networking). The EISA and PCI have one thing in …
Re: DFI P5BV3+ Rev.B2
Posted on 2018-09-26, 21:52
I might have a stack of CDs somewhere. I haven't used this board in years (I had the Rev. B+ version), and I'll let you know if I do have the BIOS on a CD and if I still have it. Clear the CMOS data and try again. Sometimes, when the new BIOS is flashed, it doesn't get erased. Or flash the BIOS …
Re: 1997-98 build (sorts of)
Posted on 2018-09-26, 21:37
Looks like a Seagate drive as the Maxtor drives in the early 2000's were the old Quantum Fireball designs (when they bought out Quantum). I have a 60GB Maxtor HDD from 2001 that I got new at a thrift store and that HDD is pretty darn fast, even Windows 98SE chugs along without issues (fast and …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-09-26, 21:33
On Monday, my dad and I replaced the thermostat on my car to solve the overheating issues on my car, and that didn't work. Yesterday, my dad took my car to my friend's landscaping company (they have a garage), got the coolant flushed, and they discovered that the upper hose was crimped (I didn't …
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2018-09-26, 21:11
oeuvre wrote: I want a USB SB16 with OPL3 MIDI. Please, somebody make this. I'd pay good money for the device.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-09-26, 20:04
It also looks like it was a server board at one point in time (NT, perhaps)?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-09-26, 19:54
Fancy, especially those video/network cards.
Re: Continuous random beeping when using EMM386.exe on dos 6.2
Posted on 2018-09-26, 19:15
Try the EMM386 line as follows: C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM NOEMS or remove the NOEMS line and just add RAM next to the C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE line. Also, change /TESTMEM:OFF to /TESTMEM:ON for the RAM module defects. Had this happen before on my Packard Bell and the 4MB RAM stick stopped working (the PC said …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-09-26, 18:37
Got myself a Radeon 9800 pro recently and it came with an unusual power connector. Not sure if any models came like this stock or if this was done by the previous user, but i didn't fancy on how it looked and soldered a regular molex connector. Also gave it some new paste and a quick cleaning. P_ …
Re: Spam, spam, spam
Posted on 2018-09-26, 17:59
tayyare wrote: Was he really changing all his messages with rotten egg pictures? Anyone know why? It ain't rotten eggs. Looked like the eggs were bigger than that.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-09-26, 17:55
Not a bad price. I haven't used a Pentium Pro system in years (had a Gateway 2000 G6-200XL that had a Pentium Pro 200 in it).
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-09-26, 02:59
My ThinkPad R40 needed a new display as I accidentally put too much screen cleaner on the display and it caused the screen to be brighter in some spots. Found a used display assembly on eBay (fortunately, the same size since I went by the model number (2682)) 2 years ago and I still have the old …
Re: Music Quest MPU clone cards, anyone interested in them?
Posted on 2018-09-25, 20:58
By any chance, do you have the SC-55 set to MT-32 mode? The SC-55 isn't fully compatible with the MT-32 sounds in all cases, that, and speed sensitivity.
Re: Music Quest MPU clone cards, anyone interested in them?
Posted on 2018-09-25, 20:40
Which system are you running it on? Make sure the card is set to IRQ 2/9 and MPU is set to 330h
Re: Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro volume potentiometer keeps spinning after cleaning it
Posted on 2018-09-24, 03:26
Well, now the sound card has another issue: no audio out. Time to reflow the solder and replace the line out with a new one.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-09-24, 03:15
The driver version is 81.98 that I installed (used 71.84 before and it did shutdown with that version). I re-installed the 71.84 driver, going to restart the computer, and do a shutdown test and see what happens. I also get a Windows Protect Error. Restart your computer message. Fixed it. It was a …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-09-24, 02:52
Did some benchmarks last night on my Windows 98SE machine, and now, Windows 98SE won't even shut down (attempted to clear the IRQ conflicts to no avail, as well as removing the 128MB RAM stick). The motherboard is a DFI KM266Pro-MLV Rev. B, and I'm going to "re-install" Windows again and see if that …
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