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

Posted on 2017-05-30, 04:17

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm selling 2x Intel Pentium II Xeon 400MHz Slot 2 server CPUs right now on amibay.com since the server I had lost all 3 PSUs, and luckily, the processors are still in great shape and the server was unplugged at that time, and the PSU was pulled out since only 1 was allowed since the server took a …

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Re: Another high-end 486 back in action (ASUS GX4 conversion success! Tons of pictures)

Posted on 2017-05-29, 06:06

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Been having some fun with the machine and done a couple more things to it :) I had some I/O port/IRQ issues with my Music Quest PC MIDI card clone - I could output to it just fine, but couldn't receive input from one of my synthesizers. Windows 95 was detecting 3x MPU401s and the AWE32 MIDI …

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

Posted on 2017-05-28, 07:02

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Trying to install NHL 96 on my K6-2 300 desktop, and it goes south by throwing me this error: cdromdirectoryentry - error 2 reading directory /data\game.ksf The CD has light scratches, and when I run: dir \data\game.ksf It shows the file and I might try to copy the CD onto my hard drive to see if …

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

Posted on 2017-05-28, 03:39

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

oeuvre wrote: got this and set it up nicely http://imgur.com/a/5VID5 Nice rig you got there.

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

Posted on 2017-05-28, 02:38

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Trying to install NHL 96 on my K6-2 300 desktop, and it goes south by throwing me this error: cdromdirectoryentry - error 2 reading directory /data\game.ksf The CD has light scratches, and when I run: dir \data\game.ksf It shows the file and I might try to copy the CD onto my hard drive to see if …

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

Posted on 2017-05-26, 02:36

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Had to swap the video card in my K6-2 300 machine... AGAIN due to the GeForce4 MX 4000 having issues going to 640x480 with the images being chopped off at the left and right side of the screen with my STB Velocity 3D (S3 Virge/VX) PCI card and it works without issues, and my machine would BSOD when …

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

Posted on 2017-05-25, 04:55

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tried to get an Audigy 2 ZS Laptop PCMCIA card working in Windows 98. It only officially supports Windows 2000 or higher... and I couldn't get it to work. Tried both WDM and VXD drivers from the Audigy 2 as well as the drivers from an Audigy. Guess that answers that question... :blah: Try getting …

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

Posted on 2017-05-25, 02:23

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I decided to download my Ms-DOS animated background (GIF) onto my K6-2 300 desktop to see if it'll work as a background image, and it works without issues! I'm typing this on my desktop right now. Here are the images: backgrd1.jpg backgrd2.jpg I also downgraded the RAM to 64MB, and it's holding up, …

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

Posted on 2017-05-25, 01:43

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I once again got reminded how much I hate Socket 423/603/604 CPU mounting clips, especially the ones belonging to Intel Xeon "fan tunnel" heat sinks. In theory they are easy to remove, you just push on one end of the clip and it unhooks it self... In reality you often have to use a screwdriver and …

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Re: Music Quest MPU clone cards, anyone interested in them?

Posted on 2017-05-17, 21:56

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I'm also interested in the card as well.

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

Posted on 2017-05-16, 02:31

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Reviewing two products for data transfer of IDE hard drives to USB 3.0. There are a lot of USB 2.0 devices out there, but not USB 3.0 it seems. There are the "loose" adapters, they are more flexible as you can also use optical drives, and there are the docking types which are a bit nicer to use in …

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

Posted on 2017-05-14, 07:11

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My K6-2 300 system had issues freezing up when playing 3D games, like Tomb Raider 2, for example. It had a 200W Bestec ATX PSU installed, then I placed a DiabloTek 400W ATX PSU, and it still locked up (with both PSUs, the Ctrl-Alt-Del command never worked, and the only option was to push the power …

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

Posted on 2017-05-11, 23:26

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Decided to swap the busted DVD ROM drive with a DVD burner from a parted Presario C700 (no bezel on it) on the Pavilion N3350 (thank God HP and Compaq used the same optical drive interface) and lo and behold. 20170510_215557.jpg 20170510_215605.jpg 20170510_215609.jpg Yeah, it's the same on almost …

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

Posted on 2017-05-11, 02:01

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Decided to swap the busted DVD ROM drive with a DVD burner from a parted Presario C700 (no bezel on it) on the Pavilion N3350 (thank God HP and Compaq used the same optical drive interface) and lo and behold. Filename 20170510_215557.jpg File size 2.54 MiB Views 1206 views File comment "New" …

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

Posted on 2017-05-10, 14:18

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Welp, I looked at the lens glass, and there's a white spot on there and I can't get it out. Would it be possible to replace the lens from another laptop DVD/CD combo drive? And I also can't remove the HDD as the door is stuck, as well as the eject mechanism. Wouldn't it be easier to just replace …

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

Posted on 2017-05-10, 14:09

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Are you getting any mechanical indication of the drive attempting to read the disk? If you get an instant error returned then it's most likely a driver or configuration issue. If you hear it trying to focus lock clean the lens and lube the rails. It is attempting to read the disk when the laser is …

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

Posted on 2017-05-10, 04:38

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Are you getting any mechanical indication of the drive attempting to read the disk? If you get an instant error returned then it's most likely a driver or configuration issue. If you hear it trying to focus lock clean the lens and lube the rails. It is attempting to read the disk when the laser is …

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

Posted on 2017-05-10, 03:59

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got the HP Pavilion N3350 today, but the DVD drive isn't working, but in DOS, it detects the drive without issues. Could it be the laser is bad? Which driver are you using? I've had drives detected but unusable. I know it's a bit large in memory, but I usually just go with the one off the 98 boot …

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

Posted on 2017-05-10, 03:25

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got the HP Pavilion N3350 today, but the DVD drive isn't working, but in DOS, it detects the drive without issues. Could it be the laser is bad?

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

Posted on 2017-05-06, 00:15

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well.... My mission is done. I did my last build today, and now I have a collection of machines, wich display the evolution of the PC from the mid 80's to around 2000/2001. (This is some 13 or so computers in total) All the machines are in perfect working condition. In the process, I took some …

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