Re: Help with BIOS behaviour, Fujitsu Ergo Pro x453

Posted on 2024-01-26, 17:43

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by b0by007

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Congratulations on the repair. I had a Fujitsu iCL ergopro X series, with pentium 90 mhz, socket 5, with bios corupted. I gave up at the repair becouse I couldnt find any bios to flash from floppy. help with damaged motherboard - Fujitsu ICL ergo pro X

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Re: HP 240MB HDD Failure

Posted on 2024-01-26, 10:07

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by b0by007

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No addon controller or drive overlay. The bios just detects and uses full hdd up to 4gb. It looks like you might have a newer Bios version than the original poster. Bios with support for P24t processors didnt come out until Q4 1995. Not really. I posted a screenshot where you can see is bios v. 04. …

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Re: HP 240MB HDD Failure

Posted on 2024-01-25, 21:40

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No addon controller or drive overlay. The bios just detects and uses full hdd up to 4gb.

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Re: HP 240MB HDD Failure

Posted on 2024-01-25, 20:17

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by b0by007

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Yes. The 1.2 gb mechanical hdd is formated all 1.2 gb fat 16 partition. The CF card is split in 2 gb and 1.7 gb fat16 partitions. I use ms dos 6.22

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Re: HP 240MB HDD Failure

Posted on 2024-01-25, 19:12

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by b0by007

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I have a similar model D2753A - HP Vectra 486/25N , with the same bios. I installed one mechancal drive 1.2 gb and a 4 gb CF card and it works great. Edit: mine had the same drive, which died too.

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-04, 22:01

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I dont think is the end of the era of Retro Compting Youtube channels, in general. Maybe just for the big ones. It is a good thing there now are hundreds of retro computer channels. Competition is good. The small ones are getting bigger. Me, personally, I like just retro pc games and ibm pc …

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Re: Help me find the best storage option for my Socket7 - Intel Pentium MMX build

Posted on 2023-12-18, 22:31

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by b0by007

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About the original post, I think you can still use that 160 gb hdd with the SATA->IDE adapter. Using another pc and hitachi f tool, you can limit the hdd size. Try 32 gb, it should work. https://files.hddguru.com/download/Software/H … FEATURE%20TOOL/

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ms-dos game with 4 players multiplayer with null serial cable?

Posted on 2023-12-18, 20:55

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by b0by007

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Hello people. I read some time ago about a ms-dos game that had 4 player multiplayer with null serial cable conection, like in this picture: vectra retro null cable.jpg The 2 middle computers act as passthrough, having both serial com ports ocupied, so ps/2 ports were needed for mouse. And the game …

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Re: Removing slot covers from a pristine AT case

Posted on 2023-12-11, 10:40

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by b0by007

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Becouse of the usually spaghetti ide calbles mess and the passive cooling of the 486 and even pentiums, I allways remove the slot covers and replace them with these: Filename slot covers.jpg File size 124.58 KiB Views 724 views File comment slot covers

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Re: IBM PC 330-P90

Posted on 2023-11-01, 20:51

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I have an IBM PC 330 6577 and I maxed out the onboard video ram with these parts from chinese market: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002119453898.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004097700159.html These chips worked on other standalone videocards I have: Cirrus Logic, Alicat, S3 trio... …

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Re: SDHC or CF for OS on retro build

Posted on 2023-10-06, 20:33

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I use samsung endurance SD card for my retro system hp t5720 thinclient with windows 98. No problems for more then year by now. Those endurance line are designed for DVR cameras who write constant on the card.

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Re: What kind of computer towers did you choose for your retro systems?

Posted on 2023-10-06, 20:20

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by b0by007

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I placed my 486 dx2 66 mhz in this nice tower case. That led display is soo cool. The original vintage floppy was damaged so I made a case from it for the ide-cf adapter.

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Re: First computers you've used

Posted on 2023-10-06, 10:18

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My first real computer was a 386 SX 16 mhz, with 1 mb ram, onboard vga (dont remember what memory or brand), 40 mb hdd, branded Apricot computer. https://apricot-archive.co.uk/qi-300 It was very limited, but I played a lot of games, shareware mostly. They dont make interesting cases like those.

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Re: The jungle of keyboard and mouse connectors

Posted on 2023-06-28, 07:44

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As a newbie too, I had this problems with keyboard and mouse after I got my first retro builds last year. On the 486 I was stuck with serial mouse (with rubber ball, really crapy) and DIN to ps2 adapter (bought 4 different adapters from chinese market until I got 1 in good quality build). On the …

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Re: MY PENTIUM 1 "TIME MACHINE"!!

Posted on 2023-06-26, 05:37

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by b0by007

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Very interesting project. I tried some time ago this aproach, to make a "PC to rule them all"(dos games) but got some audio problems. It was a pci sound card, a CMI media, I dont remember well. After that I stuck to 486 with turbo button for "old" dos games and Pentium MMX for "later" dos games. I …

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Re: Brand NEW nVidia Geforce FX5500 256MB

Posted on 2023-06-12, 21:41

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I went for it and bought one. It arrived in a simple cardboard box. 20230612_125452a.jpg I tested it a lot today in some games: about an hour in Quake 3 and about two hours in Starcraft. No problems. But the test of time will determine how relaible is going to be. I am not making any advertising, …

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Re: What are your thoughts about the Matrox G450 for Win 98 Gaming (97 to late 2000)

Posted on 2023-06-02, 10:34

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by b0by007

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Speaking from experience, i used for win98 gaming a Compaq deskproEN with PIII at 1 ghz and Matrox G450 - PCI version (no AGP slot), slower then the AGP version. I played Diablo 2, Drakan, Unreal Gold, Starcraft, Red Alert, Thief I, Quake 3, Quake 2 and many others. It has good compatibiliy. It has …

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Brand NEW nVidia Geforce FX5500 256MB

Posted on 2023-05-25, 20:10

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Hello people. I have a compaq deskpro en PIII at 1 Ghz that has just pci slots. I was searching for an upgrade to the integrated gpu and found this: Brand NEW nVidia Geforce FX5500 256MB https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32920228672.html Did anyone tried this? Are they fake (like Phil from …

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Re: What is the best Thin Client for Windows 98 (SE)

Posted on 2023-05-07, 22:29

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I dont have HP T5710. Just HPT5720. But I think HP T5710 is working becouse it uses VIA VT82C686 audio chip. My HP T5720 has different sound chip: SiS7012.

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Re: help with damaged motherboard - Fujitsu ICL ergo pro X

Posted on 2023-05-07, 22:09

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by b0by007

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I think I did some progress with this socket 5 board. I noticed something: if I connect the floppy drive the system keeps trying to acces the drive, and if I inserted a floppy disk the beeps change. So acording to Fujitsu PC Specialist's Handbook for ErgoPro e-, x- and s- Series, the system is …

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