This begs the question of why take a chance? You will be stuck with it when/if it fails to work. There are more chips out there.

This is a paragraph from wikipedia on the game Lightspeed from 1990: The player must help recolonize the human race after the Earth's habitability is critically reduced by an ecological catastrophe. The entire human race is being housed in huge Conestoga-class colony ships, which are waiting for the …

Keep it! The Win98 system in my sig is based on a Presario 5441. That I snagged at the local salvage yard along with a bunch of misc ram and 2 power supplies for 10 bucks. I bet the old owner didn't realize someone would give it any future love!

And kudos to our friend oerk for still having the motherboard manual for this beast. How cool is that?

I think the space game with the "Conestoga" was Spaceward HO! It was a western-themed 3X game for Windows back in the middle 1990's.

I am a big believer in starting with the obvious first. This power supply does seem very small compared with the power hungry overclocked Athlon and two video card you have stuffed in there. I don't even run a DOS box with less than a solid 300+ supply. A set up like this screams 350-450 if you can …

Are you certain the CMOS battery has enough charge left? I have been struggling with an older socket 3 motherboard, it posted, etc all the way to hanging on the floppy seek. Then I grasped at a straw, bounced the negative side of the battery against a good one to push some charge forward and it …

Just my 2 cents, but why not do away with the modem? Its not like you are taking this machine on line. The less cards in this cranky old box the better for your IRQ and interrupt management. So I guess you are not playing GLquake.

Bought this to straighten the pins on my next project. Use a Potato knife, much cheaper, very effective. Depending on the CPU, a mechanical pencil with the "lead" removed, and steady hands. Even cheaper. However, works better for P4 and above though (maybe P3) depending on the gauge wire used for …

Bought this to straighten the pins on my next project. Use a Potato knife, much cheaper, very effective. Btw what overdrive is that, Socket 4 to ? P133? Well, the pliers only coat $.99 at Harbor Freight. Always buy things I don't really need when I go there! This is a Pentium P54C 83Mhz Overdrive …

Bought this to straighten the pins on my next project.