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Re: Can't find drivers for my PSX to USB adapter

Posted on 2017-09-07, 17:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The fact that Win10 isn't automatically detecting your adapter suggests it uses different internals than mine, which means most likely the driver I have won't work. However, here it is if you want to try it. I don't recall ever using it on Win9x but I know it works on XP. Filename KikyJoyX2.1a.zip …

Re: will you run windows95 on a highend 386?

Posted on 2017-09-07, 17:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've not yet tried running Win95 on a "high-end 386". That said, just for shiggles last year I did manage to shoehorn/forcefully coerce Win95 onto a system with a 20MHz 386DX, 8MB RAM and a 40MB hard drive. Had to compress the hard drive with DriveSpace, but even then the installer refused to run so …

Re: Can't find drivers for my PSX to USB adapter

Posted on 2017-09-06, 14:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I also have a USB to PSX adapter. It is a different model, but I would presume (no guarantees though) that it uses the same circuitry. If this is the case, then I believe I have some compatible 2K/XP drivers for it, and Win7/10 do have built-in drivers. Once the drivers are installed, it should show …

Re: Toshiba T5100: installing DOS 6.22 & BIOS help

Posted on 2017-09-05, 03:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

...Wolf 3-D complains there is no VGA card, so that is my next problem to work on. This is because the T5100 is EGA only, not VGA. I'm not familiar with Wolf 3D, so I don't know if there is an EGA version available or not. As for the problems you're having with the hard drive...most Toshiba …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-16, 22:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've been very wary of Zip drives ever since I used them in college. For what it's worth I personally have never experienced the CoD or other catastrophic failure with any Zip drive I've ever used, which includes multiple internal drives in college and a mix of a few internal and external drives at …

Re: Gateway 2000 4DX 66V Phoenix Bios file?

Posted on 2017-08-11, 21:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That EXE contains a compressed disk image, you can't just copy the EXE file onto the disk. You need to run the EXE on a working (DOS or Win9x) computer and it will write the image to a disk, then you use that disk it created to flash the BIOS.

Re: How to format 5.25 floppies for IBM XT

Posted on 2017-08-11, 16:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can you use the magnets from old hard drives to do this? I have a lot of those. That's what I typically use, but any rare-earth magnet should work, or even a plain ceramic magnet if it is a solid chunk (not a flat refrigerator magnet) and is suitably strong enough. I personally prefer and recommend …

Re: How to format 5.25 floppies for IBM XT

Posted on 2017-08-11, 03:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have successfully formatted and written 360KB disks in 1.2MB drives, but my method is a bit tedious, especially if you have to regularly modify the contents of the disk. Here's how I do it: 1. Take the disk you want to format, and run a strong rare-earth magnet across the entire surface radially …

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

Posted on 2017-08-08, 21:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The hard drive controller in the security camera DVR at work died, so I salvaged a couple potentially useful bits out of it. 20170808_163737.jpg Removable IDE drive bay caddy with a 250GB WD Blue drive inside it. SMART (Via a USB adapter) claims the drive itself is ok, but I don't know how much I'd …

Re: Opinions on Sony Vaio

Posted on 2017-08-04, 18:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

amadeus777999 wrote: Depends on if it is a P4 or earlier If I can read the blurry specs sticker correctly, it looks to be a PIII, which definitely matches up time-wise with the Word 2000 logo and what appears to be a WinME logo that I also see.

Re: Any saving this 386?

Posted on 2017-08-01, 03:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ouch, almost looks like it was in a fire...having not seen the pictures of the exterior I couldn't say for certain though. If it was in a fire, at least at quick glance it doesn't look as though it got exposed to heat high enough to melt any of the plastic components, so it MIGHT be possible to …

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

Posted on 2017-07-29, 21:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got called out on a computer repair call today, client said they were having trouble connecting a new printer to an old computer. By "old" I was expecting a WinXP system, but when I got there, this is what I found: DF7ngv-UIAALNV_.jpg DF7nhvtUMAAaL9o.jpg DF7ninWV0AA2qDY.jpg Still in active use as an …

Re: Non-standard form factor PCs

Posted on 2017-06-25, 06:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Aren't most all in ones really just some type of terrible laptop-desktop clusterfuck? Not really, at least not the older ones that fall within the scope of this thread. Most of them use standard desktop-class computer parts, just usually modified and rearranged to fit into the design of an all-in- …

Re: Non-standard form factor PCs

Posted on 2017-06-25, 00:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I imagine the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh would also qualify here, considering it's some sort of mutant hybrid between a laptop and an all-in-one desktop. Filename tumblr_o3c3ekbaiA1v0jfsto4_1280.png File size 426.94 KiB Views 1201 views

Re: PATA HDD issue with no-name and new non-80+ certified PSUs

Posted on 2017-06-24, 21:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Weren't power supplies also a victim of the capacitor plague of the early 2000s? If so, then that would explain why old PSUs from that time period no longer work correctly, yet ones from the 90s still work perfectly fine.

Re: Non-standard form factor PCs

Posted on 2017-06-22, 04:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Perhaps the strangest vintage form-factor computer I have in my collection is the Amstrad PPC640. IMG_20150124_172935626.jpg The oldest tablet I have in my collection isn't really all that old, only from 2000 or so. Fujitsu Stylistic LT C500. Oldest tablet I know of is from 1993, but I wouldn't be …

Re: Anyone know how to configure turbo switches/wires on this mobo?

Posted on 2017-06-20, 14:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Why does the turbo switch connection have 3 pins when a switch has two pins? That picture you posted of the motherboard shows only two pins for the turbo switch connector. Are you saying that the connector on the end of the wires coming from the switch has three pins? Post a picture of the …

Re: Anyone know how to configure turbo switches/wires on this mobo?

Posted on 2017-06-16, 21:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The connectors are labeled right on the motherboard. Crop-z1pIdK8.jpg The top two pins are where you connect the wires from the turbo switch. The bottom two pins are where you connect the wires from the turbo LED. If the LED doesn't light up when turbo is enabled, then turn the LED connector around. …

Re: Do same sized 4:3 lcd's generally have the same maximum resolution?

Posted on 2017-06-14, 16:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It also depends on the age of the monitor, as LCD tech improved and the ability to create smaller pixels became more readily available. For example, a 17in LCD monitor made around 2005 might be able to support 1280x1024 or 1280x960, whereas a 17in LCD monitor from 2000 might only support 1024x768. …

Re: Belkin KVM Switch Issues

Posted on 2017-06-13, 00:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have you tried changing the refresh rate on the affected computer? Depending on how old the hardware is, the KVM could have trouble with higher refresh rates at higher resolutions. If the monitor is an LCD, try setting the refresh rate directly to 60Hz. If the monitor is a CRT, try anything lower …

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