I have been playing around with some projects to upgrade a Socket 7 motherboard I have. Currently it has 16mb of RAM, but I believe I can add another 16 https://i.imgur.com/vqckKi4.jpeg HY57V168010 is SDRAM, and it looks like a I have some 8 empty spots. https://datasheetspdf.com/pdf-file/608609/ …

@Sphere478 I uploaded the pictures here https://imgur.com/a/F6sk5qC Thanks for the feedback everyone! I will probably just upgrade to a 233. I am able to play all the games I really care about (Dark Forces 2, Age of Empires 2 and Red Alert 2) just fine. Everything DOS works great on it also (Duke 3D …

I have a Compaq Presario 4505 and looking at CPU upgrades. I am currently using a MMX 166 Mhz. The chipset is a 82430VX. Just from looking at others benchmarks it sounds like the K6-3 is the best you can get for a Socket 7. It requires a vcore of 2.2 or 2.4v [0] On the motherboard it only lets me …

NachtRave I would love to buy one from you! Happy to pay up front so you don't have to sit on the cost of parts.

That power supply looks like it's from a Compaq. If it's anything like the model I'm thinking of, the computer is never in a fully-off state; more like a sleep mode. The PSU fan will constantly run when the rear switch is on, but it won't supply "full on" power to the computer until the sleep …

I am reading up on AT vs ATX. I see AT PSU has the P8 and P9 connector, and a push button. ATX just has the connectors. What is this PSU? https://www.ebay.com/itm/164672892153 it has P8 and P9, but no push button? This is the motherboard https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?id=125676 I was …

The issue was really simple, wrong IRQ 😒 What ever I would configure it with the IBM Utility it would actually do `n - 2`. So I was setting nine, but picked seven? I discovered by looking at the log file it was generating. Works perfectly now though!

Thanks for the help everyone! I was looking at the `COAST Memory`. My floppy drive was covering where the SDRAM goes. I put it in and worked perfectly. Thanks for the images of the motherboard that made me realize my mistake instantly :( I put in 128MB (was the cheapest I could find on eBay). The …

I have a Compaq Presario 4505 I am trying to upgrade the RAM on. I am not exactly sure what RAM to buy though. I found a listing here https://www.ebay.com/itm/324898868953, but hoped to upgrade to a larger size then OEM provided. I also found https://memoryclearance.com/237716-001-hp-/-compaq-256k- …

Since you're running linux, it should be as easy as running tcpdump on the machine in question and another one, then trying to figure out if it's a cable, cable-config, irq, or some weird driver quirk. :-D Tonight I am going to confirm that network traffic leaving my Thinkpad is received unmodified …

Thanks Horun, that worked perfectly! The card is now detected in both Windows 95/Linux. Things aren't working yet, but at least one step down. The card is getting incoming network traffic, but not able to get a lease. Even when I set a static IP can't send or receive pings. Fun debugging project for …

Hey RandomStranger, Thanks for the suggestion! I am able to get files on the PC (via USB and CD). I am not able to get the files out of the downloaded .exe though. When I run it wants to write to a diskete drive (and I don't have one.

I have a IBM 60G0605 it is an ISA Ethernet card. For Windows 95 it uses the NE2000-compatible adapter, but I am not sure what IRQ and Port to use. It looks like a provided `CONFIG.EXE` allows me to adjust and determine the values? I found this PDF http://ps-2.kev009.com/pccbbs/options_iso/drvlist. …