Update! The retro computer refused to boot from the disk. Sadly I dont know the condition of the CD rom drive so I opened it up and cleaned it a little and gave it some nice well earned lubrication. I sadly dont have a music CD disk to try the actual disk. Maybe it is ok, it might not be able to …

I picked up 100 cdr discs on a goodwill store and I am burning my first cd in ~15 years. I am so excited! WIll it fail? Will the buffer run out or is my iso of windows 98SE (swedish edition) just a dump of someones late 90s porn collection? Will keep you posted!

bloodem wrote on 2021-03-31, 19:30: geertjanb wrote on 2021-03-31, 18:10: [...] do you guys also experience this phenomenon/"problem"? Yeah, we do. 😢 Which is why... ugh... see my signature. I'm looking at your signature and see a lack of socket 479.! 😉

A picture of the mobo. It actually looks brand new even though it is over 20 years old. It's 'baby' ATX. I actually saw an original system at eBay the other day. Quite cool. https://www.ebay.com/itm/172265326345 A keen eye can see that the jumper is set to 3x100 fsb, which happens to be the same as …

I actually am not planning to go the compact flash way. Mostly because I dont have reader in one of my other computers or have any cards and dont want yet an other media. I went with an sd to sata solution, it seems to have higher write speeds but its not really an issue. I am probably getting a …

Hey guys, I just thought I'd join your nice forum here and start by posting my current project! I'm building a Super socket 7 machine (not an other one!?) with some hardware I picked up from different places. I haven't received all the parts yet so I haven't put it together yet. The motherboard is …