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

Posted on 2018-01-21, 16:32

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For some odd reason, Windows 95C on my Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus under the performance tab when I right-click on My Computer it shows the following: Compatibility mode paging reduces overall system performance. Drive C: using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system. Here's my... config.sys on …

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

Posted on 2018-01-21, 04:24

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There is one PCChips board on eBay that has fake L2 cache, but another board revision has the sockets and jumpers for the L2 cache. My plan is to buy both boards and put the sockets and jumpers for the L2 cache from the one board to the other. My Packard Bell doesn't have L2 cache installed and …

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

Posted on 2018-01-21, 02:38

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For some odd reason, Windows 95C on my Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus under the performance tab when I right-click on My Computer it shows the following: Compatibility mode paging reduces overall system performance. Drive C: using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system. What gives? I used the Ontrack …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-20, 14:55

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought a new in box Intel Pentium Overdrive 5V 83MHz ZIF-237 (Socket 3) for $68 shipped on eBay (I made an offer, but the seller made another one, and I accepted it).

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

Posted on 2018-01-20, 14:52

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sweet monitor and typewriter. LCDs on a typewriter is amazing.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-19, 18:10

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by bjwil1991

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I've heard about those systems. Industries used them and when it was time for an upgrade, they only purchased and installed a better SBC board. That system'll make an amazing gaming rig or as a server. I wonder if you can put two of the same cards in there and have a dual CPU setup, or is that …

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Re: Suddenly can't edit posts anymore?

Posted on 2018-01-19, 17:10

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by bjwil1991

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Qbix wrote: I have relaxed the restrictions quite a lot. Let's see how it goes. Please edit in moderation 😀 Lets not go crazy 😉

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Re: Most frustrating part of working on old computers?

Posted on 2018-01-19, 16:35

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by bjwil1991

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https://i.imgflip.com/22zc15.jpg When I attempt to install a hard drive bigger than 2GB in my Packard Bell, it either detects the size smaller than the original size, or doesn't get detected at all. I'm planning on buying a Western Digital Caviar 36400 HDD for the system since that drive has a …

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

Posted on 2018-01-19, 13:24

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Installed the old 60GB Hitachi HDD into my Compaq Presario C700 notebook, installed Windows 7 Pro with SP1, and unfortunately, my wireless card won't work with it. I installed the drivers, and nothing. It's a TP-Link TL-WN722N V1.10 wireless dongle, and the internal wireless card that was in there …

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Re: MELTDOWN and SPECTRE vulnerabilities and older hardware?

Posted on 2018-01-19, 02:06

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ran the InSpectre program on my Windows 10 Pro running on an AMD FX-6300 Spectre & Meltdown Vulnerability and Performance Status Vulnerable to Meltdown: NO Vulnerable to Spectre: YES! Performance: GOOD Well, crap. Also, my motherboard doesn't have a new BIOS whatsoever. My ThinkPad R40 running XP …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-19, 01:54

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought a new Commodore 64 PSU (serviceable and 2 fuses for the 5VDC and 9VAC lines) on eBay for my C64 that lost its PSU.

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Re: Let's see your pizzaboxes!

Posted on 2018-01-18, 21:48

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by bjwil1991

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Re: Packard-Bell sound card - worth it?

Posted on 2018-01-18, 19:19

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by bjwil1991

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Would this sound card be worth it: Packard Bell I38-MMSN824? What it looks like to me is the Sound Galaxy 16 Basic/Pro/Washington that supports the Covox Speech Thing, Disney Sound Source, Windows Sound System, Sound Blaster Pro 2 and Adlib compatible, MPU-401 with a WaveTable header, 3 CD drive …

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Re: Packard-Bell sound card - worth it?

Posted on 2018-01-18, 16:12

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by bjwil1991

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Would this sound card be worth it: Packard Bell I38-MMSN824? What it looks like to me is the Sound Galaxy 16 Basic/Pro/Washington that supports the Covox Speech Thing, Disney Sound Source, Windows Sound System, Sound Blaster Pro 2 and Adlib compatible, MPU-401 with a WaveTable header, 3 CD drive …

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

Posted on 2018-01-18, 13:15

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by bjwil1991

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Was trying to get my PC Chips M912 motherboard set up to do some testing. After not being able to get it to go past "Please Wait" after the POST screen I ended up looking up the manual for it even though it has almost full jumper settings silkscreened on the board. I found out that v1.4 doesn't …

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Re: MELTDOWN and SPECTRE vulnerabilities and older hardware?

Posted on 2018-01-18, 13:08

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by bjwil1991

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On the bright side, your system's performance is better than my Pentium Dual-Core laptop.

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Re: MELTDOWN and SPECTRE vulnerabilities and older hardware?

Posted on 2018-01-18, 00:13

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by bjwil1991

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Checked my Pentium 4 IBM ThinkPad R40 and it's vulnerable :( lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ sudo sh spectre-meltdown-checker.sh Spectre and Meltdown mitigation detection tool v0.31 Checking for vulnerabilities against running kernel Linux 4.13.0-21-generic #24-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 18 17:29:35 UTC 2017 i686 CPU is …

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

Posted on 2018-01-17, 20:25

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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Better than nothing, though. Check for cold solder joints on the card and reflow if necessary.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-17, 14:11

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by bjwil1991

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I have the exact TNT2 card, minus the composite and S-video ports. Every game (minus the ones that require the GeForce2 or higher) has amazing frame rates, except NFS HP2 requires a Pentium 3 (with the SSE instruction set).

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-17, 13:20

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by bjwil1991

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Nice. I can tell the difference between the two: one works, and the other one doesn't. Learnt that the hard way when I purchased IDT chips for my 486. Purchased Winbond SRAM chips on eBay.

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