Hi all This weekend I had a bucketload of extra parts turn up to finally build a rig I had been longing for since forever..... The humble 486 build similar to what I had bitd On Saturday morning I received the following motherboard as well as other parts such as 2x vlb I/O cards, 1x voodoo1 and …

I apologise if you have tried this already but if you imaged the drive first could you not restore the image which would also change back the dma setting? At least then you could get back into it :) You also weren't joking on the scarce information, I've only found a few chinese websites with …

Few recent acquisitions :-) First is a lovely little desktop NOS At case which currently holds a Cyrix m2 300 chip but once my 486 board arrives I will be swapping it out to another case DSC_0012~3.JPG This is a case I won off ebay recently with included pentium 166 cpu and board DSC_0016~2.JPG I …

Woah, you're already teaching your daughter the joys of retro-computing? Congratz! Btw, nice cases. I specially liked the desktop and the taller tower. God... I've been on a "drool over AT cases" mood recently. Wish I could find nice NOS AT cases ^^ Cheers bud, we have many consoles and an arcade …

Lots of retro goodies picked up recently First, welcome!! Second, nice cases - those look great! Thanks for the warm welcome. I've been a long time lurker and have collected consoles and computers for many years and have only recently started on collecting pc hardware again. :-) Going to be …

Lots of retro goodies picked up recently, several motherboards including a dual SLot 1 N440BX motherboard rocking 2 PII-233 processors and also a Pentium 233MMX chip and board as well as a big box of ISA and PCI cards dating from the early 90s to the late 90s. Best pickup completed this weekend was …