Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-18, 23:50

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Just curious. Does that put out a lot of heat after extended use? Not sure yet, but it does have a fan, so I imagine it gets "amplifier hot" - in my system it will only be near a cdrom (on top of, not underneath) so I think it'll be ok. Oh, cool, it has active cooling. That's awesome. I was …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-18, 23:29

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Welp, all of you probably have your unobtainium piece of hardware that you either seek or have found. I finally found mine and unbelievably NIB. You bet I'll be archiving all of the floppies and docs. Cross your fingers all the floppies work as the DOS/Windows 3.1 drivers and software for this card …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-18, 10:13

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Teac PA-10 PC amplifier. Fits in a drive bay, provides good sound. Mixes multiple inputs. Replacing the amp in my TechMedia 'built in speakers' case, for my ultimate 486 build. It was either this or a BenQ Gold. Via Yahoo Japan. https://i.imgur.com/l90ZktJ.png Just curious. Does that put out a lot …

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

Posted on 2018-04-15, 23:54

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No I don't actually! That's pretty cool, but must have been pretty late in the cycle to be on DVD. When was that distributed? I actually don't. I don't even know what Packard Bell hardware bundle it came with. I am guessing it was within a year or two of the original release to be relevant and a …

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

Posted on 2018-04-15, 21:39

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Where I saw had that kit plus the whole front bezel. It was in two parts though. Not one kit for everything. Interesting! I'm going to have to ask around and see if we can find any more info on this. Thanks! :D So you, being extremely into Packard Bell equipment, must have the rare DVD copy of …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-15, 20:03

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^^ Interesting, that looks exactly like this Gigabyte board . Yours has a few more caps (hope they're not GSC, heh) but there are blank solder pads in those locations on the Gigabyte. What was it marketed as? Same VIA chipset with the 82C686B southbridge, naturally, so hopefully it has the DOS- …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-15, 02:16

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@Artex. Very nice. Now I am sure I should have bought a house with a basement. Edit: I have this bizarre item on the way. 1.jpg 2.jpg Back in the day, I had a thing that was supposed to help overclocking socket 7 CPUs. Basically, you slid it on the CPU pins before putting the CPU in the socket. All …

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

Posted on 2018-04-14, 22:43

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Did some light garage sale hunting today and it was pretty sparse. Found a 2GB Iomega Jaz drive for $5 with power supply. When I got home the case was broken, which I did not notice, and the case literally fell apart in my hands. I am going to recycle it, but I will keep the power supply and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-14, 09:31

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Interesting. Same design, but mine was a full tower version of this with, I believe, four or five 5¼" drive bays. Thanks for the photo.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-14, 09:15

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Bought this system last week for 10 euro, it's pentium socket 7 166mhz with 32mb ram I think it's a Intel Advanced/AS motherboard as far as i can see, with a onboard sound card and ati graphic card, i only wonder what kind of bracket/connector do i need to hook up a monitor on it, the system came …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-14, 03:19

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NVidia Geforce FX 5950 Ultra is the video card. I was worried that it might only support one floppy drive as some of the later Socket 370 boards did. Luckily it does support two floppy drives in the BIOS so I wont need a separate floppy controller.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-14, 01:53

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So good news. The board is very stable, fast and I am completely happy with the product. So consider this a good source for a new Socket 370 motherboard and as I said, it comes with a driver CD and a backplate. Tried the drivers from the CD and everything works perfectly in Windows 98SE. The drivers …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-14, 01:36

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SW-SSG wrote: You might want to not straight up publish his email address? Poor guy might get lots of spam to that account now. Good point. Took care of it. You can contact him by inquiring about the motherboard on Alibaba. That should be good enough.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-13, 19:42

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What was it marketed as? You're going to love this. The driver CD says Banana Digital which Luckybob likes to call it Banana Delight. The BIOS at post read "MA5000 v2.0". Another thing I noticed in the Pheonix BIOS is the fan speeds are not being registered so some corners are being cut on this …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-13, 02:43

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xjas wrote: Yours has a few more caps (hope they're not GSC, heh) but there are blank solder pads in those locations on the Gigabyte. Don't know if this helps. Here are some closeups of the three most common caps on the board. Filename caps1.JPG File size 1.13 MiB Views 2111 views Filename caps2. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-13, 02:09

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I'll know more tomorrow as I reinstall Windows 98SE and give the full scoop on it. Crossing my fingers it all works out nicely.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-13, 01:54

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So I risked ordering this from Alibaba and it arrived overnight from Hong Kong. Right off the factory conveyor belt, brand spanking new. Comes with a backplate and a driver disk. Will be putting it through its paces tomorrow. Missing the classic game port, but . This will be for my Tualatin 1.4 CPU. …

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

Posted on 2018-04-12, 01:39

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I remember using a camera with a floppy drive. haha Definitely not a printer though.

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

Posted on 2018-04-12, 00:35

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luckybob wrote: All those enlight cases... I can only imagine all the cuts, scrapes, and callouses from using those cases. I think that is rather callous of you to say. Compared to what most people scrape up, those cases are a cut above the rest.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-11, 22:02

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Won a Sound Card bundle the other day and received it on Monday: https://i.imgur.com/vtxxtEbl.jpg Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1 SB0060 with the whole 9 yards (I/O bracket, games, software, cables, microphone, and so on). Totally worth it! So I have to ask. Which system are you putting it in and …

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