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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-04-07, 16:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just received this, which ended up costing me way more than expected because it was a lot larger and heavier than expected (and got intercepted by customs): IMG_7148.jpg It's a NEC Packard Bell machine with a Pentium 166 MHz on board, 32 Mb RAM, working CD-ROM (a pretty neat one too) and floppy …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-04-07, 16:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Found this baby hiding in the CPU section of ebay. Cheaper than the one I was watching and in near mint condition. Popped the service tag into dell support and checked the original build. Supposedly it shipped with a P4 EE 3.4/800. It's a bit off from what the seller described, but I really don't …

Re: Newbie installing DOS for the first time: Where is "COMMAND"?

Posted on 2017-04-07, 15:23

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Why not create a Win9x, 2k, or XP boot floppy directly from Windows using the Windows floppy format utility, boot the PC onto which you want to install MS-DOS with that (it should create a RAM drive with all required utilities), and do a base format of the hard disk and create a bootable FAT16 …

Re: Newbie installing DOS for the first time: Where is "COMMAND"?

Posted on 2017-04-06, 17:06

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I know winworld "abandonware" is not the way to go, but you gotta work with what you've got. Are you using a USB floppy drive? Sometimes that causes issues with winimage. I used the images from there successfully on my 486.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-04-01, 21:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

- a combo Hercules (reportedly) card with an LPT port. It says PEAKTRON ELECTRONICS on the card. I wonder why does the duct tape cover the crystal on the BIOS chip; - a UMC U5S-SUPER33 CPU and three Pentiums; - a Realtek ISA videocard; - a multi I/O from Acer and some sort of a 8bit COM/LPT card; - …

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

Posted on 2017-03-28, 13:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Uploaded some wallpapers from a Gateway 2000 system CD http://imgur.com/a/dW4Lf Embrace the cringe. I've been trying to find dell ones. Did they not make custom wallpapers before the XP era? I am not sure, have never found them before the XP era. These might be of interest http://www.bay-wolf.com/ …

Re: Missing textures with a 6800 GS

Posted on 2017-03-27, 19:29

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Well, I ended up getting it working. Google was completely unhelpful with searching for info based on portal or about the card. Finally found the issue in a CnC specific thread. Downgrading to Forceware 81.98 worked. Hope this helps somebody else.

Re: Missing textures with a 6800 GS

Posted on 2017-03-27, 18:59

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I installed a regular copy of XP Pro and tested the games again with no luck. Also, it's a GT, not a GS, and it's an AGP model.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-03-27, 16:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought a P2 board with a CPU and 2 sticks of ram on it. Seller's photo: http://image.bolterandchainsword.com/uploads/gallery/album_11505/gallery_60983_11505_97771.jpeg No idea what the CPU is (asked the seller and he quoted the sticker on the BIOS chip..) or how much RAM it has (did not ask after …

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

Posted on 2017-03-27, 14:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

oeuvre wrote: Uploaded some wallpapers from a Gateway 2000 system CD http://imgur.com/a/dW4Lf Embrace the cringe. I've been trying to find dell ones. Did they not make custom wallpapers before the XP era?

Missing textures with a 6800 GS

Posted on 2017-03-27, 14:25

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I've been playing a few games on my P4 rig, but i'm noticing some graphics issues. In portal all of the shadows are black squares, then in CnC Generals i'm i'm white patches instead of the proper textures. I'm using latest drivers from nvidia's website, and i'm using TinyXP.

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

Posted on 2017-03-27, 14:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just did the same on a similar celeron. I used a sewing needle. Not too small. If you slide it along the bottom and kinda "pluck" the pins upwards you can get nice even rows. Wiggling them around like with a mech. pencil will stress the metal way too much. Haha.. I went through the same process …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-03-27, 00:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks brostenten :-) Might sound stupid, but I think chache controllers add a lot of flavour, really improving "cool factor" of any build, even though cache may not be useful at all if you use CF card. I want to get any ISA slot in my PC pupulated with something interesting and cache contoller …

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

Posted on 2017-03-26, 18:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Spent the past three nights straightening pins under a large magnifying glass on a pair of Northwood P4s... Got one to post but keep getting BSODs right away during winXP setup.. Progress has been made. Now I sleep. I just did the same on a similar celeron. I used a sewing needle. Not too small. If …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-03-26, 16:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought a P2 board with a CPU and 2 sticks of ram on it. Seller's photo: http://image.bolterandchainsword.com/uploads/gallery/album_11505/gallery_60983_11505_97771.jpeg No idea what the CPU is (asked the seller and he quoted the sticker on the BIOS chip..) or how much RAM it has (did not ask after …

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

Posted on 2017-03-26, 01:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally got my PIII system a home and put it together. Next thing is to get 1GB of ram and an SB Live! Platinum with Live Drive, as well as an ASUS iPanel. I may eventually get a different MB, but I don't see much reason too. Still can't figure out what GPU to put in it. Maybe a VooDoo 3 and keep my …

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

Posted on 2017-03-26, 01:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Made a video of me running some really old Emulators on my 80486 DX4-100 today - did it for the other thread on running emulators on older hardware. - https://youtu.be/Y7XETcYr8vk - used the potato camera though. IDK why, but I never knew about those back then. My old machines were so underutilized …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-03-25, 22:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought a pair of cases for a few bucks and gas but ended up being really dissapointed when I opened them. Pentium III and ASUS case badges on the outside and ECS K750+ with solderd on Duron 1200s. Haven't been this disappointed since christmas quite a few years ago. Oh well, case badges and style …

Re: Am I missing something?

Posted on 2017-03-24, 22:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dug out a floppy drive that ended up working and used the built in EZ-flash utility. No luck. I was really hoping to get it working so I could have my ODDs, HDD, and LS-120 on separate channels. I've got a spare PCI raid controller I might use, but I'm not too sure of how stable that will be for …

Re: Am I missing something?

Posted on 2017-03-24, 19:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nope, not showing up in lspci

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