Re: BSOD on Win98 system

Posted on 2017-11-02, 18:22

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had a blue screen when I was checking for new hardware in Windows 98SE saying it was unable to write to the C Drive, then Fatal Exception 0E errors until I restarted the computer, checked the drive for errors, and it's now running without issues. It was all because of the PS/2 and Serial mouse …

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Re: How to detect if cache is real or not?

Posted on 2017-11-02, 16:53

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bought myself a 45W Desoldering Iron and No-clean electronic solder flux at a computer store I always go to, and 5 packs of Solder Braids from eBay. I've desoldered my Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro to do proper soldering for the jacks and volume potentiometer since the previous job I did was only …

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

Posted on 2017-11-02, 12:17

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Desoldered the jacks and volume potentiometer on my Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro since the soldering job I did didn't work out too well as the jacks were loose and didn't make contact. Fortunately, I have spare jacks, and the volume potentiometer solder points didn't exactly go away in a couple of …

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

Posted on 2017-11-01, 23:40

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Testing the Precision Instruments PS/2 3-button mouse on my Windows 10 machine and it works.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-01, 12:18

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by bjwil1991

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derSammler wrote: bjwil1991 wrote: Those things are a PITA on plastics to remove. Just use isopropyl alcohol and it will come off easily. Ah. Forgot about that. Also, does anyone have the installation files for Windows so that I can use the middle mouse button for certain things in Windows?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-01, 12:07

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can you get the price stickers off? I swear to god, a lot of people working it these stores must have a negative IQ/don't give a crap with passion. In many cases an extremely greedy manager as well, particularly when the glue residue stays no matter what you do. Those things are a PITA on plastics …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-01, 03:04

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Went thrift or treating today and got these: Precision Instruments Universal Serial and PS/2 3-button mouse with programmable middle button and Myth II: Soulblighter for $3.17

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

Posted on 2017-11-01, 02:15

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have 2 computers (3 after I re-install Windows XP on the Dimension 4550) that have XP installed on them right now with the POSReady 2009 Registry hack. I diagnosed my GT 730 that's not outputting the desktop when Windows 10 Pro loads after the splash screen, and it looks like a graphics card …

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

Posted on 2017-10-31, 20:52

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not retro, but I took the guts out of a Compaq case that I used for my daily driver desktop, the FX-6300, into another case that has the external drive bay door with the keys. I also used the same case with the Socket 370 build I did a week or so ago. The cases are the Ultra products ult31586 ( …

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AMD K6-2/300 Rebuild

Posted on 2017-10-31, 16:59

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I'm about to finish up the rebuilding process for my AMD K6-2/300 system with the following specs: Abit AB-TX5 Motherboard (jumper-less BIOS configuration) with a PS/2 to DIN-5 keyboard adapter and PS/2 mouse header 128MB SD-RAM Lite-On CD Burner* Maxtor D740X-6L 60GB IDE Hard drive LS-120 SuperDisk …

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Re: HP TC3100 Dual PIII-S

Posted on 2017-10-31, 15:23

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The Dell server I had used the hotswap drive configuration and up to 8 SCSI hard drives could be installed in it. Pros: When the controller initializes, one drive turns on, then it goes to the next one & turns it on, and repeats until it's done detecting the drives. Can be setup as a RAID (5 being …

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Re: Sound Blaster Issue - works but no sound

Posted on 2017-10-31, 15:05

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ Sound

There's your issue. Check to see if there are any ports using DMA 1 (Parallel port might use that if the port is set to ECP/EPP mode) by going into the CTCU program (CTCU.EXE), go to the resources by going to the menu and click the first option, and it'll say what conflict there are. Also, use the …

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

Posted on 2017-10-31, 12:52

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have 2 computers (3 after I re-install Windows XP on the Dimension 4550) that have XP installed on them right now with the POSReady 2009 Registry hack. I diagnosed my GT 730 that's not outputting the desktop when Windows 10 Pro loads after the splash screen, and it looks like a graphics card …

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

Posted on 2017-10-31, 03:55

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by bjwil1991

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My Samsung SyncMaster 215BW decided to play tricks on me as DVI isn't working anymore for some reason when I was upgrading the GPU's drivers to the latest one. Help?

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Re: HP TC3100 Dual PIII-S

Posted on 2017-10-30, 19:33

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got my hands on an almost pristine HP TC3100 server, seems like a perfect candidate for a retro gaming PC for me. It has: - 2x Pentium III-S 1266MHz - 2x512MB + 256MB SDRAM ECC PC133 CL3 - A plethora of PCI slots and 2x PCI-X - 320W Delta PSU It's also very quiet, the only issue is that I can't …

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Re: PcChips sucks!

Posted on 2017-10-30, 17:59

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by bjwil1991

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Maybe the board's too close to the metal mount the motherboard sits at, or possibly a bad ground. My current AT case has an issue at the top right end (no mounting points) for my motherboard to not flex back and forth. Check the caps, diodes, and resistors on the motherboard to see if any of them …

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Re: Creative Voodoo2 3D Blaster SLI -rookie needs help!

Posted on 2017-10-30, 17:47

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ Video

Here's a link to the driver: Creative Labs 3D Blaster VooDoo 2 Driver

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Re: Best Pentium for 88-95 DOS?

Posted on 2017-10-30, 15:30

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Using a turbo button for the CPU speed is a great idea. I have an Abit AB-TX5 that has the CPU speed in the BIOS (jumper-less), which is nice, but if I can make a program in DOS to lower the speed and change the FSB without going into BIOS (temporary), that'll be amazing, as well as disabling the L1 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-30, 14:33

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The first picture looked like it lost Control. I have the same exact keyboard without the SDL to PS2 cable (now have one thanks to the magic of eBay), and the arrow keys were incorrectly placed, but luckily, they pop right off to easily swap or replace instead of the whole 9 yards.

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Re: PcChips sucks!

Posted on 2017-10-30, 13:39

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by bjwil1991

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Oh. Check the solder points on the PCI slots then. Didn't realize that board came with PCI slots, and I thought it was VLB. My bad.

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