I found this very sad ad on eBay when browsing for an upgrade. Filename Screenshot_20210407-165833.jpg File size 197.12 KiB Views 1125 views Can you match it with something more sad?

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I loved the HD sound too, it felt at home... until I started researching DOS-era sound cards when I needed undisturbed silence. That's when I switched to Flash. With almost no fan sound (Pentium 90 doesn't need one, and the PSU ones tend to be very quiet), I am starting to understand the different …

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 😁. Yeah I'm on a Swedish site similar to ebay too often looking for deals. …

Cool I got the motheeboard cou and ram for 75 $ or something labeled socket 7 prolly seller did not know what it was. Neither did I really it seems so I am considering myself lucky indeed! I read somewhere the board might take 1gb of ram which is silly. I might go with 256 or something like that if …

I agree that matrix g400 is maybe not optimal. It's mostly because it was a good deal and for Lols). Also it seems that I did not get the g400 max but s g400 dual head. I could have swore I checked a table with the revision number corresponding to g400 max.. but oh well it was 15 $ so I guess it's …

The TAG-RAM is missing on this board. 1 SRAM L2 Cache chip is present, but no TAG-RAM. It´s supposed to look like this: http://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/images/acorp_5ali61.jpg (Same revision (F) of the board) If there are instabilities, a closer look at the electrolytics around the CPU and in the …

So I received enough pieces to start assembling but I ran into a problem with general instabilities. Graphic glitches and write and read errors. It's a hassle to find the root cause with no spare parts! I struggled for a couple of days with this, trying different BIOS settings etc. Now I found in …

Very nice! The only thing I would improve upon us maybe the CPU. I'm building a similar system, the hardest part is to find a crt and a case to be honest mostly because if complicated/expensive shipping. I'm envious!

For the record I attempted to use this image: https://archive.org/details/win98se_201801

OK. Thanks for the replies, it really makes me feel less alone in my adventure. It seems like the first Windows 98SE (Swedish) was corrupted. The English one seems to work (and it boots), but I am having trouble installing it on my SD card through the SD->CF card reader. The boot of windows 98 from …

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 …