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Re: USB on an old gateway 2000

Posted on 2020-01-21, 20:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh, my mistake. I thought you had said the plug was on the PCI card, not on the motherboard next to the PCI slot. That's different. Still, be careful. The original AT and all its clones used two of those connectors, side-by-side. ATX replaced it with the 20-pin Molex Mini-Fit Jr plug. But, later, …

Re: Help me build a Lian Li Snail case computer ?

Posted on 2020-01-21, 19:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Music studios don't use RCA jacks except for SPDIF, which they don't use much because they have ADAT. Or at least AES/EBU digital interfaces. If you're going to start dropping platinum hits in your aluminum snail box, you need a real early-2000s sound card. Like the MOTU 2408 core system:

Re: The Turtle Beach MultiSound Classic Thread

Posted on 2020-01-21, 19:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Uh.... "This project is partially funded by PA Commenwealth's Ben Franklin Partnership Program." ....Whut? Here's the story behind that (not too interesting): https://cnp.benfranklin.org/ben-franklin-alum-companys-journey-kitchen-table-nasdaq-exchange/ Huh! That's really cool. I wasn't aware Turtle …

Re: Is this Mac Se (likely) repairable?

Posted on 2020-01-21, 19:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Supposing the case is in good condition without cracks, ... Some people also convert these to aquariums. I've got one set aside for just that. :-) Got it maybe 12 years ago and the HDD was bad, so like an idiot, I scrapped the (otherwise perfectly good) hardware and kept the case. The early 2000s …

Re: A few thoughts on life, the universe and everything

Posted on 2020-01-21, 19:12

in Milliways

in Milliways

I think in some ways retro can be a social thing but more often than not, it means something different to everyone because at the heart of it is an attempt to reconnect with the past - YOUR past. It might intersect a bit with the experience of others but there is something about late Friday nights …

Re: USB on an old gateway 2000

Posted on 2020-01-21, 01:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's a standard footprint part, so make no assumptions about what the pinout is supposed to be. That said, the pictures I found when Googling that part number did not have any such plug on the PCB. Do you have a picture? Note also, in case you weren't already warned, Windows 95's support for USB …

Re: Should I Upgrade from Celeron to Pentium 3?

Posted on 2020-01-20, 22:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hm, that doesn't sound right from Mouser. I buy from Digi-Key, but same difference. A lot of boards I've had to repair use 1000uF 6.3V caps, 3.5mm pitch on the legs. The last order I placed was for something like 20, 25 of them. At that quantity, Nichicon PN: UHE0J102MPD (DK#493-1467-ND) is $0.258 …

Re: The Turtle Beach MultiSound Classic Thread

Posted on 2020-01-20, 22:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Uh.... "This project is partially funded by PA Commenwealth's Ben Franklin Partnership Program." ....Whut? I didn't know this was based on a Proteus chipset. Interesting. I bet that came to a screeching halt when Creative and E-mu moved in together.

Re: The "Driver CD" for motherboards thread

Posted on 2020-01-20, 21:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Asus, at least, still maintains a support site where you can get manuals, BIOS images, and drivers. It's the defunct ones, and the OEM boards (like my MSI MS-6318 that I got somewhere) that are tricky. :-) I'm all in favor of archiving the original disc images though. Just for grins. I threw most of …

Re: A few thoughts on life, the universe and everything

Posted on 2020-01-20, 20:59

in Milliways

in Milliways

For the record, there's nothing wrong with celebrating a build you're proud of. I really enjoy browsing other people's builds just to see what choices they made, and their aesthetic decisions vs. practical decisions, etc. I'll eventually post a thread about my fleet for the same reason. I've …

Re: Should I Upgrade from Celeron to Pentium 3?

Posted on 2020-01-20, 18:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Re: capacitors. If your two options are "buy them from China" or "buy them at a local place that is holding on to a hope, a prayer, and the five people in town who still know a bare circuit board is not (necessarily) an explosive device", then you might as well list the board on Ebay and take up …

Re: Help me build a Period correct computer ?

Posted on 2020-01-20, 18:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've always been an Intel loyalist for my own builds, but I think for that case, the Athlon 64 would probably be the best fit. (To me) it's weird and unique, like the case. Good fit.

Re: A few thoughts on life, the universe and everything

Posted on 2020-01-20, 18:20

in Milliways

in Milliways

Haha -- this post should be marked with a warning due to the truth-bombs. :-) This one in particular knicked a vein: Is there actual function behind the next rare audiocard you are on the hunt for or do you want it simply because others have it? Although, I'm not in the least concerned with what …

Re: A very persnickety PIII machine

Posted on 2020-01-18, 01:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

jaZz_KCS wrote on 2020-01-17, 19:43: I was hopping through the 4 in 1 drivers as well, but all instabilities on VIA chipsets were - in the end, at least for me - caused by other culprits and the chipset drivers were not at fault. I have - since then - gone by this: If bees had knees, you would be …

Re: Dead PCI Slots or Dead Audigy Sound card?

Posted on 2020-01-18, 01:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Solder's melting point is high enough that you would be smelling other things burning and melting first, like the PCI slot itself. Even plastics adjacent to things that must be soldered can only handle that kind of heat for a moment, and then they turn to goo. So that's definitely not it. :-) I have …

Re: What HDD do you use? (1GB to 10GB)

Posted on 2020-01-18, 01:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Might also have to try a Fujitsu And so I did! # smartctl --all /dev/sdb smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [x86_64-linux-4.14.65-gentoo] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Fujitsu MPA..MPG Device …

Re: A very persnickety PIII machine

Posted on 2020-01-17, 19:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

murrayman wrote on 2020-01-17, 18:23: I thought 4.43 was commonly known to have issues, so most recommend 4.25a? Unless I’m misremembering? I'm curious about this too. I've always tried to steer clear of VIA, but I have one now. Is it OS or chipset specific, or should one always use a particular …

Re: Pentium 60/66 retrogaming use

Posted on 2020-01-17, 19:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was very relieved to upgrade to a Celeron 366 - but if you're a poor student, you can't buy a new system every year... and after I upgraded to 16MB RAM in 1996, it was current enough. I remember the 90s being a constant running theme of "my computer isn't fast enough to do this, but I'ma do it …

Re: AST Bravo LC2 4/33s (486) Multimedia computer restoration ( 1993 ).

Posted on 2020-01-16, 19:54

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Just curious -- does your BIOS allow for >540MB HDDs? I'm wondering because IIRC mine reports "LC II BIOS Rel. 1.00", while yours is 2.00 and shipped with a HDD right at the barrier. ...which suggests they might have been thinking forward to the next model with >540MB drives, and could have lifted …

Re: CT6960 DVI Port not working

Posted on 2020-01-16, 19:41

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

What happens when you get to Windows? Does it work then? (I.e., is it only black while posting and booting?) I have an ATI Radeon 8500 that does the same thing. Early DVI, 1080p/4K monitors, HDMI switching and matrix in between... it can't hang. Someone here told me it has to do with the card and …

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