How to access HP recovery partition?

Posted on 2021-10-26, 04:51

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by Brawndo

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I recently picked up an HP m8307c media center PC complete tower from a local thrift store, including the original hard drive which still has the recovery partition, and I've been looking for a way to access the recovery data (since I don't have recovery discs) to restore it to the factory original …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-24, 16:19

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by Brawndo

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sound card arrived for my late XP system, X-fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion. Once I get the custom 5.1 speaker system pieced together, that whole system will be ready to roll.

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Re: Best GPU for an Athlon MP (WinXP)

Posted on 2021-10-24, 01:42

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by Brawndo

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The best you're going to do considering you're limited by AGP and Nvidia is a 6800 GT/Ultra. Personally I wouldn't pay the premium of an Ultra considering a GT is so close in performance. The last few 6800 GTs I saw sell on ebay went for $70-$80 USD. Not sure if that's a price you're willing to pay. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-23, 14:52

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by Brawndo

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This arrived yesterday. It came with all the connection cables, not pictured. I usually prefer the internal ones, but it'll be nice to have one that's portable between systems.

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Re: List of PC games that you have not played or beaten yet that you'd like to

Posted on 2021-10-23, 03:24

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by Brawndo

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I still haven't beat Skyrim. I got caught up in the modding scene early into my time playing the game and just spent a disproportionate amount of time tweaking mods rather than playing the game. Now with decent mod packs out there (Ultimate Skyrim is my go to) I just need to invest that time to play …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-22, 00:41

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by Brawndo

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Got lucky at the thrift store again today with yet another complete tower for $5 and it looks to be complete. Specs: Intel C2Q 6600 3GB RAM GeForce 8400 GS 500 GB IBM Clickstar HDD XD Hauppauge WinTV PCI-E video capture card I've never had a complete media center PC, it's a very interesting case and …

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI Issue

Posted on 2021-10-20, 01:15

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by Brawndo

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FWIW I bought the cards from a bigger reseller on ebay and it's very doubtful they actually tested the cards. I was suspecting faulty memory until I remembered I used an untwisted floppy cable 🤣 Hopefully the diag program will shed some light. Better hope the seller isn't reading this thread if you …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-20, 01:10

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by Brawndo

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A couple days ago the CF to IDE adapter came, and then yesterday the cf card arrived. Yesterday afternoon I installed Windows 98SE and didn't get much farther than that. 20211018_141527.jpg That looks like the Monoprice model, right? I bought 5 of those a couple months ago because they went on sale …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-19, 05:17

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by Brawndo

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Today's arrivals, a what appears to be NIB Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro joystick: https://i.ibb.co/sJn2cFN/20211018-231238.jpg https://i.ibb.co/Rcsn2Wv/20211018-231302.jpg https://i.ibb.co/gW3Wnvj/20211018-231325.jpg And another Audigy 2 ZS: https://i.ibb.co/rygt3xF/20211018-231401.jpg

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

Posted on 2021-10-18, 15:42

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by Brawndo

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Looks like an Intel DP965LT. It‘s an early Core2 board from 2006 with maximum FSB of 1066 to CPU and max 8GB DDR2. Maximum CPU is the Kentsfield QX6800. A very nice Base for WinXP. Intel like there is no Support for Overclocking. It's an Intel DG33FB with a C2D E6850, and I have a GeForce 560 Ti in …

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

Posted on 2021-10-17, 06:11

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by Brawndo

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Finished tieing up the cables in my late XP Core2Duo tower so they're all routed nicely and out of the way. Installed XP on a SSD (didn't even need to inject SATA drivers which I wasn't expecting) and verifying the drivers needing to be installed since I had to get them all from third party websites …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-17, 00:54

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by Brawndo

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An original Audigy card with daughter board arrived today. Going to put it in my upper end Win 98 system. I think this will complete that system!

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Does Audigy 4 fill a gap?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 22:59

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by Brawndo

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So I have a nice little collection of "retro" PCs to cover Win 95/DOS era all the way through Windows 7. As such I have components which are period correct all throughout, and I like to build PCs which represent the upper end of the performance spectrum of a specific era. The cost of acquiring some …

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

Posted on 2021-10-15, 05:07

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by Brawndo

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I stripped and thoroughly cleaned up my most recently acquired Core2Duo tower and power supply. Left all the parts out so I can clean them all with some electronics cleaner tomorrow before putting it back together, apply new thermal paste to the CPU heatsink, all that jazz. I'll post pictures with …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-15, 05:01

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by Brawndo

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My latest acquisitions this week. First is nothing spectacular, just a very clean Logitech Ps2 keyboard I found at the thrift, and I like having plenty of spares. https://i.ibb.co/F60crVG/20211014-224155.jpg Got a very good condition Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 joystick for $25 shipped. Looking …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-13, 14:22

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by Brawndo

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Everything appears to work, and all for five bucks! Unbelievable...... I'd never expect a for-profit or even a philanthropist thrift store would have such a low price; only moving sales, selling deceased relative's belongings, or hand-me-down from close friends could I expect such a bargain. Yeah I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-13, 04:38

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by Brawndo

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Another acquisition from ye olde thrift today, a complete Dell Dimension 8100 tower "designed for Windows 2000" in excellent shape, and man is this tower beefy, and heavy. Specs: Pentium 4 1.5 GHz 512 MB RDRAM 40 GB Maxtor IDE hard drive GeForce 2 MX AGP SC3000 audio (Diamond XtremeSound XS51) …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-13, 01:58

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by Brawndo

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This just arrived, another NOS Antec power supply. I only like to run new high quality PSUs in my retro systems to make sure the power is good. These were the biz back in the day and it has a very heavy 5V rail. https://i.ibb.co/QpB7RKg/20211012-183423.jpg I picked the enermax model for my new …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-13, 00:37

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by Brawndo

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This just arrived, another NOS Antec power supply. I only like to run new high quality PSUs in my retro systems to make sure the power is good. These were the biz back in the day and it has a very heavy 5V rail.

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Re: Can someone with a Voodoo 5 confirm if these graphical glitches are a software or hardware error?

Posted on 2021-10-12, 23:26

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by Brawndo

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I've got a Voodoo 5 but it's not in a PC at the moment. If nobody else gets to it before me I'll see what I can do.

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