Today's retro computing delivery came in. Saw these two Upgradeware Slot T slotkets, which are capable of running Tualatins on boards that can supply the right voltage, on the Dutch Marktplaats website. My Rev 1.10 ASUS P2B does, and I still am wanting a dual Slot 1 board that can run Tualatins to …

Managed to shear off a VRM cap off of an, at the time favourite, S7 board with one of those stiff 3-point Athlon heatsink clamps everbody was always warning for. Since then I even more agree, they are bad news if you want to change your heatsink with the motherboard installed in a case. I managed …

For what it's worth, I tried that same pinmod on an ASUS S370-L Slotket (this one being early enough to be meant for Mendocinos only), and while it booted XP fine on my ASUS P2B Rev 1.10, it would hard crash when opening the Start Menu or opening Explorer windows. Eventually got an MSI Master Rev 2 …

Got some great stuff this week, really lucky on some of these pickups/buys I think. Can't wait to use this stuff :) Today's thrift run got me this incredibly early-to-mid-2000s computer case. Was thinking about it for a bit given it was pretty dirty and yellowed on the front, but I couldn't resist …

Got these cards at the thrift a few days ago, for €1 each. An ASUS V9280 GeForce 4Ti 128MB, working but the fan was broken so I just mounted this spare CPU fan, going to have to see what to do about it for a permanent fix A GeForce FX5200 128MB, that seems to sadly not work, not a great card but …

While its manufacturing date of August 2007 makes it kind-of not really retro, the underlying hardware definitely fits the bill, I think. At my favorite thrift, they often sell old HP Thin Clients, varying between mostly VIA and Transmeta based models, but today I lucked into one I had hoped would …

Right, the games I have tried are Unreal and Midtown Madness. MM looks very blocky and runs very poorly, Unreal runs shoddy at even 640x480. The only games that play decent are games like Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 and SimCity 3000, since those are 2D games.

Yeah, would assume it's the incorrect driver or an incomplete installation of the driver package. Try to source a different driver first thing. I am starting to think driver issues as well. Shall try to find a different one, which might prove to be hard. Exactly what motherboard is this? As said …

It is an AGP card. It's not showing the Chipset/DAC/Available Memory of said card, not the motherboard, that is working fine. I installed the driver for the GeForce2 card, and SoundBlaster Live! card, as well as some games, 7Zip and KernelEx. It's just not doing hardware acceleration, pretending it …

Ah, I overlooked the Marvin section. Anywho, yes, it's now on DX8.1. Now I noticed in the DXDIAG, it doesn't display Chipset/Available Memory/DAC, it seems like either a faulty driver or a faulty card at this point.

Right, so I bought a Pentium III PC to make into a Windows 98SE gaming rig. It has a Pentium III 900MHz Coppermine CPU, 512MB SDRAM, a SoundBlaster Live! sound card, and an NVIDIA GeForce2 MX-400 (under the ASUS AGP-V7100 brand). Anyways, I succesfully installed Windows 98SE, as well as the drivers …