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Re: Help with fix CD/DVD Drives?

Posted on 2020-05-22, 01:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Why even bother? Even if you could find a replacement laser assembly, just buying a new drive is easier and cheaper. And unlike with game consoles, there's no market for the laser assemblies used in these old drives anyway. Also, you need to adjust various things on the pcb after a laser- …

Re: Windows 3.11 vs. Windows 95

Posted on 2020-05-21, 04:09

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

> File management from within open and save common dialog boxes! Linux DEs STILL don't have that. How frustating ! Every single day I had to remind myself "oh no, this is not Windows ! You can't do that !". I don't understand what you mean with "File management from within open and save common …

Re: Good ftp client for 95

Posted on 2020-05-19, 22:06

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in Marvin \ Software

Here's a list of some: http://omolini.steptail.com/mirror/win95/win9 … -1/ftp/ftp.html I used WS_FTP back in the day. It worked fine.

Re: Windows 2000 on single Pentium Pro

Posted on 2020-05-19, 04:06

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

2k will run ok on it but you *really* need at least 256MB RAM Yeah, I was planning to go up to 256MB already so I might as well do that. But even with 256MB I feel like the CPU speed might be a liability. I'd rather avoid NT4 because everyone I know who's used it tells me getting it configured and …

ESS vs SB16 match, please post your opinions!

Posted on 2020-05-19, 02:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi guys I am currently using an ESS1688F ISA soundcard on my DOS/win98 machine. It's nothing spectacular, it seems to do the job. However, I recently fixed my SB16 CT2950. It has the two well-known SB16 bugs, so...there's that. The games I play the most are FPS ones, from Wolf3D to Quake, maybe …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-18, 21:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not necessarily retro hardware in itself, but it will be used for my retro systems. I have about 6 systems atm, ranging from a 286 to a Pentium II 350. I already managed to connect each system to a single display/keyboard through an 8 port KVM switch, which works great (wish I could get in beige …

Re: Replace IBM laptop HDD

Posted on 2020-05-18, 02:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Fixed. I switched the master/slave jumper on the adapter (which AFAIK was always on master, but it's not clearly labeled) and it was detected without a problem. I installed DOS 6.22 on the CF card without any issues. Thanks!

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

Posted on 2020-05-18, 02:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Fixed an issue with the detection of a CF-to-IDE adapter on my 486 laptop and installed some games on my WinME/XP dual boot machine: Return to Castle Wolfenstein, DXBall2 and Crimsonland 1.9.8. Played like an hour of Crimsonland, very funny game IMO.

Replace IBM laptop HDD

Posted on 2020-05-17, 18:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi guys I have a 1995 IBM 360CE laptop. It works well, except for the battery which does not hold charge at all. Anyway, I want to replace the original HDD (340MB, currently working with no issues) with a 500MB CF card. I already got the adapter and the CF card, tested them in another PC, they work …

Re: Startech PS2 Header from ebay pinout

Posted on 2020-05-17, 16:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

candle_86 wrote on 2020-05-17, 16:28: Oh the pinout is for the PS2 port itself, and colors provided so you can rewire the header to fit your need, dont use the pinout as what matches the header block You are correct, thanks for pointing it out. Don't know what I was thinking, fixed my previous post …

Re: CD-ROM drives that "lose the strength" to open

Posted on 2020-05-17, 16:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

schmatzler wrote on 2020-05-17, 16:04: Maybe the motor that drives the mechanism is seized up. Applying a bit of oil to its bearings might make it work again. Thanks for the hint, I'll try it. Is sewing machine oil OK?

Re: Startech PS2 Header from ebay pinout

Posted on 2020-05-17, 16:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I finally put a multimeter to the star tech PS2 header, the one with the 5x2 block on ebay popping up everywhere, i tested continuity and matched the wire colors to the pins, i hope it helps someone startech pinout.png Thanks, very useful information Thanks ! and it figures.... bought two a month …

Re: CD-ROM drives that "lose the strength" to open

Posted on 2020-05-17, 16:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am having that issue with a sony IDE dvd-rw drive, however that one does not have driving belt, just a few gears that transmit the movement from the motor to the tray. It will open halfway (a bit beyond where the center of the disc should be) but I have to open it manually completely, else it …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-15, 15:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Apart from the CPU... It may be just the picture but ISA slot 3 looks a little strange. Apart from that I wonder where did all those tantal caps at the RAM sockets go? No idea, I couldn't leave this board and fixed it, working fine now. Third slot has a little dirt on it, no biggie. Since it didn't …

Re: USB drivers strange issue

Posted on 2020-05-14, 19:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi! just tested with the driver suggested by @darry, which is version 1.0.3 of Intel USB driver, but got the same result. The previous one I installed turns out is version 1.0.6 of the same Intel USB driver.

Re: USB drivers strange issue

Posted on 2020-05-14, 05:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi guys I am having a bit of a strange problem here, and I'd like to know you opinions (and possible solutions) to it: I have an Intel D845GEBV2 motherboard. I'm using it with 512MB of RAM, a Pentium 4 CPU, 60GB HDD, etc. Everything seems to work OK. I installed Windows ME and Windows XP on the PC. …

Re: USB drivers strange issue

Posted on 2020-05-14, 03:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

To my knowledge, anything older than XP never had proper support for USB 2.0. Maybe the drivers for those versions weren't tested properly? I found these drivers on a website, not sure if they're the same you used. Hi, thanks for the suggestion, however the file you found is indeed the very same …

USB drivers strange issue

Posted on 2020-05-14, 03:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi guys I am having a bit of a strange problem here, and I'd like to know you opinions (and possible solutions) to it: I have an Intel D845GEBV2 motherboard. I'm using it with 512MB of RAM, a Pentium 4 CPU, 60GB HDD, etc. Everything seems to work OK. I installed Windows ME and Windows XP on the PC. …

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

Posted on 2020-05-12, 02:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just ran a "benchmark" between 3 of my video cards under DOS using Quake's timedemo. Much to nobody's surprise, DOS does not give a lot of a damn about the power of the video cards. Got only 9FPS difference between the 27FPS of the slowest video card I tested (1MB ATi Mach32 PCI) and the 36FPS of …

Re: Volo's Gampad to PS/2 Adapter. Device discussion (Do you need this thing?)

Posted on 2020-05-12, 01:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I also sent an e-mail.

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