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Re: Remove BIOS password from IBM 570

Posted on 2018-01-23, 21:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It is fairly simple to recover the password on these old Thinkpads with IBMPass. All you need is a second computer with a serial port, but you will have to build a simple adapter with two resistors, two diodes and a serial connector. It needs to be temporarily soldered to the 24RF08 chip that is …

Re: What Is the Best Way to Creating a Windows XP/98 Dual Booting Environment?

Posted on 2018-01-23, 00:19

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I've set it up so each OS can see all partitions. Windows XP automatically sets up Windows 98 on the D: drive and I think it would work vice versa with an NTFS driver, but I never needed it that way around. With AntiX Linux, I can skip the BootUS step. It automatically sets up a nice boot manager …

Re: What Is the Best Way to Creating a Windows XP/98 Dual Booting Environment?

Posted on 2018-01-22, 23:48

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Shout out to schmatzler! Thanks for this ridiculously simple solution! Glad I was able to assist. I refined this method over many years just to be able to install Windows 98 very quickly if something broke and get rid of this annoying D: drive in Windows. Some drivers and programs simply won't …

Re: Most frustrating part of working on old computers?

Posted on 2018-01-17, 21:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Filthy smokers and their tar filled components. The components when purchased smells of shi* and is a bitc* to clean. Gross. Cleaning off the obvious dirt with water and dish soap, quickly drying it off and then putting the card into a sealed box with some coffee powder for a few weeks usually …

Re: Geforce 4 460mx unstable in SS7

Posted on 2018-01-17, 21:23

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I can try to swap the power supply tomorrow but 350w should be enough for this card i think. The MX460 wouldn't boot in my system with a 300W power supply, whereas a GeForce 2MX and a Voodoo Banshee worked fine. I wouldn't rule out a power supply issue. You need enough beef on the +12V/+5V lines. …

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

Posted on 2018-01-17, 20:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today I recapped the GeForce FX5500 with leaking caps I found in the trash . Previously it wouldn't POST, so I swapped out all of the 1000uf caps, but I didn't have low ESR ones here. Turns out that was a mistake and I am not done yet. The card is POSTing again, but I have annoying flickering on the …

Re: Things you regret giving or throwing away?

Posted on 2018-01-14, 19:06

in Milliways

in Milliways

I regret throwing away my old Trinitron CRT monitor when I was moving out of my parents apartment. That thing was able to do 1600x1200 @ 85Hz. I threw it out because it was huge and heavy back then, but now I want it back! 🤣

Re: Installing Half-Life GOTY (non-Steam version) on Windows 7 64-bit

Posted on 2018-01-11, 21:26

in Windows

in Windows

Rekrul wrote: Does that work for the Gold edition? Yes. What else was I supposed to do back when I was in school? 🤣

Re: Coolers for older graphics cards.

Posted on 2018-01-08, 20:26

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I note the one you used also seems to wrap about the back...is that really necessary? Is it for RAM chips or cooling the back of the GPU? Was it difficult to mount? The cooler is very easy to mount. It's basically just consisting of 4 metal parts and a heatpipe that are all screwed together with …

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

Posted on 2018-01-08, 20:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am living here for 10 years and the people in the neighborhood never threw out something useful. Until today. Someone had thrown out a PC with: - a PCChips M811 motherboard (Socket A) https://schmatzler.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_20180108_195514-150x150.jpg - a rather useless AMD Geode CPU …

Re: What Is the Best Way to Creating a Windows XP/98 Dual Booting Environment?

Posted on 2018-01-07, 11:59

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I always do it like this: 1. I create a FreeDOS USB drive with Rufus and copy a newer fdisk with support for bigger harddisks on it afterwards. 2. I boot from the USB drive with PloP on a CD . 3. Now I run fdisk to create two primary partitions . One for 98SE, one for XP. I mark the first one as …

Re: Coolers for older graphics cards.

Posted on 2018-01-04, 21:16

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Might not be enough for a Radeon X800, but I recently upgraded my GeForce 4 Ti4200 with a fanless Zalman ZM80A-HP. It's a pretty big beast and takes up an additional PCI slot, but I can't hear it. Paired with a BeQuiet! power supply and a CPU fan with throttle control it makes up for a very low …

Re: GeForce 4 MX 460 not working on Apollo Pro 133A

Posted on 2017-12-23, 13:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My final update to this thread: The new power supply has resolved my problems and the GeForce 4 MX460 is working fine. Though the fan on the MX460 was completely broken. It was slowly turning and making a lot of noise - I replaced it with a passive cooler from an MX440 and the card can handle it …

Re: Good ISA Soundcard for Win98 regular and DOS modes

Posted on 2017-12-22, 13:36

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I bought an OPTi 82C929A MAD16 Pro card and it's just excellent. The drivers are very modern (GUI with mouse) and it even supports Windows Sound System in pure DOS mode. I just bought it because of this review by philscomputerlab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okxN4GVLJRI

Re: Windows XP graphics card recommendation?

Posted on 2017-12-22, 07:16

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I wouldn't buy a new GT730 anymore, with its successor - the GT1030 - being out for a while now.

Re: Do you need an original IDE CD-ROM drive?

Posted on 2017-12-21, 23:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

idspispopd wrote: That's why you should slow down such drives through software. For DOS you can use CDBeQuiet!. For Windows 9x there are several tools AFAIK. CDBremse (German for "CD Brake") is a very useful tool: http://ulrichhanke.de/16/CDBremse.html

Re: Windows XP graphics card recommendation?

Posted on 2017-12-21, 23:32

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

BeginnerGuy wrote: Nice! Any chance you have borderlands (2009) and can test that? I have played Borderlands with maximum details on 1680x1050 with that card and it's never dropping frames. I imagine it can even go higher, but I don't have a better monitor. The GT730 is more than suitable for that …

Re: Most frustrating part of working on old computers?

Posted on 2017-12-20, 02:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Modern power supplies on old ATX boards. Even a beefy one might not have enough power to drive the hardware.

Re: GeForce 4 MX 460 not working on Apollo Pro 133A

Posted on 2017-12-19, 17:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just a quick update: I bought another card, a passively cooled GeForce 4 MX 440 and while that one boots up, it displays graphical errors and the power supply produces a very loud humming sound with that card. Guess that solves the mystery without a doubt, then. My current power supply is rated 16A …

Re: GeForce 4 MX 460 not working on Apollo Pro 133A

Posted on 2017-12-19, 01:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, it does work with a GeForce 2MX.

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