Re: Changing CMOS battery
Posted on 2021-04-17, 11:55
What majestyk said. You need to push the battery from the side opposite the open side and the battery will ride up over the edge of the holder and out from under the metal clip.
Re: Best pci NICs by lowest cpu usage/ highest bandwidth
Posted on 2021-04-16, 08:22
Sorry, I've amended my post - I claim lack of coffee. It's the capitalisation of the b that is particularly significant. 'B' for bytes and 'b' for bits.
Re: Best pci NICs by lowest cpu usage/ highest bandwidth
Posted on 2021-04-16, 07:26
I was wondering that, too. MB or Mb? I'm using a Realtek PCI on my Win 98 machine and typically get 0.8-1.2 MB/s connected to my Win 10 machine. Might try an older Intel card if they're that much better.
Re: My 'new' Windows 98SE Pentium 200 MMX.
Posted on 2021-04-15, 08:17
Interesting. I was looking around the 'net yesterday afternoon looking at CDROM related things and found a firmware update utility for my suspect Lite-on CDROM drive. I copied it over to the Win 98 box and ran it and it offered to upgrade the firmware from something, something-B to something, …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-04-15, 07:09
A couple of posts above reminded me of something. When powering up really old hard drives, it's often a good idea to let them spin up and just leave them alone for half an hour or an hour so everything can come up to temperature and settle down. I used to look after IBM RS/6000 systems back in the …
Re: What is your unconscious motive for retro hardware ?
Posted on 2021-04-13, 07:24
A combination of nostalgia and a desire to keep some historical computers safe from the recyclers. Like you, I love the early nineties to the early 2000's. Tech was quite wondrous with constant and rapid progression of CPU and GPU technology. Always something new and desirable to read about and …
Re: Need help for finding manual and drivers for an amazing retro motherboard..
Posted on 2021-04-12, 13:19
That's a very nice board. My system has the Triton II chipset as well. Your board has the ribbon connectors in a great place. My Supermicro board has them between two of the PCI slots which is fairly terrible 😒.
Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card
Posted on 2021-04-12, 11:03
I've literally just found one of these cards in our pile of WEE-waste at work, hence searching and finding this thread. It's a Compaq spare 247428-001. Looks pretty basic, no headers, jumpers or joystick port - just a CDROM audio in socket and some prongs to attach the PC speaker. Whether I use it …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-04-11, 15:58
I've been having a play with Speedsys and managed to get my overall memory throughput up from ~80MB/s to around 111MB/s. It seems stable, it'll run three iterations of 3DMark 99 time after time. Oh, and I've also been playing Quake 2. It's runs perfectly but I had to record a 1 second silent .wav …
Re: 486 Multimedia dream build ( 1993/94 ).
Posted on 2021-04-11, 12:06
Very nice, get 'er done 😄.
Re: 486 Multimedia dream build ( 1993/94 ).
Posted on 2021-04-11, 10:48
Hey Intel486dx33, Nice build! Your case is very similar to mine internally. Mine is also very thick steel which beats the cheap tin rubbish you sometimes get. Can I ask, what is that program you use to show the computer information and speed of everything? I would like to run that on mine and see …
Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z
Posted on 2021-04-11, 10:25
Here are my Windows 98SE results. Pretty vanilla system so no surprises here:
Re: My friend give me this old computer...something from 1998, Super 7!
Posted on 2021-04-09, 08:52
Don't discount Freegle in your hunt for a CRT. I put an ad on there recently and picked up a mint 17" Samsung 753S the day after! A lot of people don't realise retro is cool again and have stuff just lying around.
Re: Troll PC part 3: I want the (Celeron) D
Posted on 2021-04-09, 08:45
Very entertaining read, thank you! I've only ever used one celeron based PC, one of my dad's years ago, and I vowed at the time 'never again!'. CPUs have cache for a very sound reason 🤣.
Re: My 'new' Windows 98SE Pentium 200 MMX.
Posted on 2021-04-08, 18:35
Cheers Chris, I've successfully installed and run the original GTA, Quake 2 and Need for speed 3 so far. I think having the 'better than average for it's era' GPU helps. Just looking for Wipeout now...
Re: What's the status of "TweakBios" from 1999?
Posted on 2021-04-07, 12:59
Will check this out tonight. My P200 MMX system is on a Supermicro P5-XTRA board that has limited multiplier and FSB options. Would be cool to see if it supported some of the more versatile settings...
Re: How many working computers do you have right now?
Posted on 2021-04-06, 12:54
Wow, some of you guys needs to join OCA (Old computers Anonymous 😂). My current haul is: My home built i7-9700KF / RTX 3060 / 16GB RAM games and general use PC (Win 10 Pro). Asus Zenbook i3 10th gen / 8GB I bought a couple of weeks ago (fluctuates between various Linux distros and Win 10 Pro). My …
Re: My build and hello world
Posted on 2021-04-06, 10:55
Welcome to the world of Windows 98 computing Joakim. I'm the same, I only started tinkering a month or so ago but and am gradually getting the hang of old computers again. Just try and stay off eBay, it's very compulsive 😁.
Re: My 'new' Windows 98SE Pentium 200 MMX.
Posted on 2021-04-01, 15:52
Excellent. I ran the utility and I don't have the dirty tag issue and all my RAM is cached properly.
Re: My 'new' Windows 98SE Pentium 200 MMX.
Posted on 2021-04-01, 10:06
Cheers Disruptor, Will have a look after work.
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