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Re: Retro builds with modern conveniences

Posted on 2020-07-11, 15:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some things i feel we need to be able to compromise, like PSU units. if you can't solder, a modern good quality PSU is a necessary investment. I love HDD noise. Don't understand wanting to do single core computing without it. The only thing that annoyed me noise wise, was when CD-ROMS exceeded 24x …

Re: Intel D815EEA2

Posted on 2020-07-11, 13:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

P19 doesn't support it out of the box, but p15 does? Seems counter intuitive. i have a d815eea2 board, i used with a p3 1.0/133fsb, the combo was rock steady stable with win2kpro.

Re: Tandy 1000 TL/2 unable to execute setuptl2.com and is there any way to BIOS ROM Change ?

Posted on 2020-07-11, 12:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/setups.html a ton of tandy setup programs. perhaps one of these works for you?

Re: Going from 3gb to 120gb - how to setup Sectors? Cylinders? in BIOS.

Posted on 2020-06-21, 11:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There are other sizes that are artificial limits, like a few of my machines had a 64gb limit. it shows up in the bios, but doesn't work in practice. You could be in the same boat with this, as in 1997 120gb drives didn't exist yet. Some times I can even fdisk and format the whole capacity, but the …

Re: Would a dying CMOS battery cause keyboard errors?

Posted on 2020-06-21, 10:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a sony vaio pcv-120 (200mhz mmx), which has all kinds of video and other issues when the 2032 battery dies out. I replaced it with a dollar store battery and forgot about it, then had all kinds of issues all over again 2 years later when it crapped out. "it can't be the battery, i changed it …

Re: Newly made ISA CL-GD5434

Posted on 2020-06-20, 23:25

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I have an IBM PC340 with this 5434, like this one i found here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=50493 The card is only 1mb, but it works fine for most things. My PC340 has a 100mhz P1 (256k cache), and i really dont have any video complaints with it. Let's be honest, if I want to run anything …

Re: How much slower and resource intensive is Windows 98SE vs Windows 95C?

Posted on 2020-06-20, 19:28

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

For me the difference is if it has USB. USB systems work much better under 98. On PCs with no USB, Win95 is lighter and is usually a better fit. Just IMO.

Re: Can’t boot DOS at all

Posted on 2020-06-15, 17:34

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

if there isnt an auto setting that is correct for the drive, then look at the physical drive itself. they usually have the CHS info on them, and you may need to manually enter that in the bios.

Re: Pentium III + Windows 98, Slow network transfers

Posted on 2020-06-13, 00:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Pardon my interjection, but is WinME as limited as win98se, or is it faster? if its different it may help track down the causes.

Re: Treasure trove of vintage computers shutting down, what to get?

Posted on 2020-05-18, 17:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

286/386/486 are rare and getting rarer, id scoff them up before anything pentium.

Re: Any modern psu's that have large 5v rails

Posted on 2020-04-26, 14:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Neat software! i thought about measuring externally, but that way is much easier. what systems does it work on?

Re: Any modern psu's that have large 5v rails

Posted on 2020-04-26, 13:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This might sound silly, but has anyone ever directly measured the amperage draw on each of the rails for common setups (430 boards w p1, 440bx with early and late p2, etc ) to see what its actually doing at rest and under a gaming load? Knowing even a typical load would help a lot.

Re: Compaq Pentium 166

Posted on 2020-04-15, 20:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Weird bios issues like that sometimes stem from a dying 2032 battery - if yours is old it may be time for a new one. I've chased all kinds of weird crap like that only to have it be the battery.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-14, 00:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Was it part of an old token ring network, and booted via the network?

Re: TNT2 M64 on Super 7 system - Worth it?

Posted on 2020-04-12, 14:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

see if there are any gateway g7-500 or so PCs nearby. Slot1 P3, AGP, PCI and ISA . I got one for Nascar Racing, as its very graphics intensive but requires ISA sound. It is dos friendly,and since its slot1, anything from early p3 up to about 600mhz down to p2 233mhz plugs in.

Re: MFM-Harddrive spins up and down on power up

Posted on 2020-04-03, 21:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I knew a guy who used to keep a small rubber mallet and would give the drive a whack from the side when they would stick like that. he swears he did it to several of those old mfm drives and it worked like a charm. of course those were not drives that were dropped or suffered head crashes, so ymmv. …

Re: Dell Optiplex GX150 problems --Help Me Please

Posted on 2020-03-08, 23:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today Just thought you might be interested.

Re: DOS 7.1 With Large Hard Drives

Posted on 2020-02-26, 15:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I always install Windows 2000 with SP4 slipstreamed in. Never had a problem with big disks, been doing it that way for almost 20 years (or however long it was since SP4 came out) I used 2000pro sp3 for years (in the original days of xp), but every time i installed sp4 the internet became …

Re: DOS 7.1 With Large Hard Drives

Posted on 2020-02-25, 14:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If the BIOS is limited to 32gb (a real limit i have hit more than once), win2k could likely notice that any partition past that point results in corruption. Win2k did have a registry mod that enabled 48bit LBA IIRC, but ecen that is no help if the BIOS is limited i think. If I had a smaller hdd …

Re: Cirrus CL-GD5434 drivers for Windows 95

Posted on 2020-02-23, 13:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i installed win95c /plus and the driver was included. nice to know it's in the B as well.

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