Got my Pentium III back up and running. Swapped CPUs and gave it a good dusting and contact cleaning and it sprang back to life. Now begins the agonizing process of trying to find drivers for a 20 year old OEM version of an Intel motherboard sold by a company that no longer exists.

I have a program called Snappy Driver Installer that works under Windows 2000 (as long as 2000 is fully updated) but is there anything like that that runs on Windows 9x, or is the only way the classic "write down device ID numbers, Google them, and hope you can find working links"?

I've got a Libretto 50CT with a dead hard drive. Need to take care of that...

Swapped motherboards in my Gateway Pentium III box (upgraded from Slot 1 to Socket 370, both Gateway OEM versions of Intel boards) but now the damned thing won't POST and I have no idea why because it doesn't beep. Guess I just have to start yanking cards and RAM.

My particular SS7 setup is a Tyan AT board of some type with a 500Mhz K6-2+ and 384MB of RAM and honestly, I don't use it and I'd probably part with it.

Going up to SS7 not only gets you the full performance of your CPU but faster RAM as well. I'd definitely say it's worth it.

Yeah, my Gateway DX2 tower has PS/2 ports while my Insight DX2 tower is AT. I thought maybe the Insight had some custom case because I've never seen it before but perhaps it's actually generic and just really uncommon.

I had a Voodoo 3 3000G that I sold and I'm thinking of buying another one for my Pentium II box...

Yeah, I ended up figuring it out yesterday, turns out I was making the diskette wrong. And then I forgot that the original version of 95 can't be installed onto a FAT32 volume on top of that. Once I fixed those issues, I was up and running! As for bloatware, I probably will uninstall some of the …

I personally have only owned one 386 (a generic 386DX-33 AT full tower manufactured by Insight Computers) but I definitely recommend Gateway 2000 when it comes to the 486 era. My Gateway 2000 486DX2 tower is one of the centerpieces of my collection.

I recently acquired a very nice Packard Bell system, a Legend 401CD (75MHz Pentium, "4x4" desktop form factor) that was seemingly wiped at some point and had a generic installation of Windows 98SE put on. I want to reinstall the factory software package this computer shipped with in 1995 but I've …