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Reply 2460 of 27182, by Splinter

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Went wit the V2 SLI set up in the end. The Voodoo 4 was preventing normal boot and causing all sorts of problems. I think it may be on the way out.
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I like the nice, plain, no frills design of this case with loads of room inside. No cut fingers either, which is a bonus. The steel is really thick and rolled at the edges in some places, like HP cases.
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Reply 2461 of 27182, by HighTreason

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I have three of these cases as two local clone makers used them religiously in the Pentium II and Pentium III days. Indeed solid and I personally think they look good. Very roomy on the inside too, so they are easy to work with once everything is already installed. They weigh about the same as a small elephant though, which doesn't really matter.

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Reply 2462 of 27182, by alexanrs

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That case looks great! It seems to be from that weird period where ATX cases had a Turbo LED, but no button.... Do any ATX motherboards have a keyboard combination to switch turbo on or off?

Reply 2463 of 27182, by HighTreason

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Strangely, this LED is labelled "MODE" on my cases. One case has it hooked to a SCSI controller and the other has it connected to the activity light on the Ethernet adapter. I am not yet sure what I will connect it to when I replace the internals of that machine, perhaps the mysterious "BLUE LED" jumper my Chaintech has. I guess I could just grab one of my numerous spare 555's and make it flash so it looks impressive, even if it isn't doing anything.

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Reply 2465 of 27182, by Splinter

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That's what I was thinking; getting it to wink in some way just for kicks.
The CD and floppy drives are both from 1998 which I took from customers' old PCs which they left in part exchange or simply left for repair and never bothered to come back for them in spite of my reminders.
Both work brilliantly.

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Reply 2466 of 27182, by Splinter

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Managed to clean up the old 230W psu which I tested on another mobo (PII 200) but it won't fire up this Athlon mobo.
Maybe it needs 300W.

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Reply 2467 of 27182, by ODwilly

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Splinter wrote:

Managed to clean up the old 230W psu which I tested on another mobo (PII 200) but it won't fire up this Athlon mobo.
Maybe it needs 300W.

I think you are right, as the pair of Voodoo2's can suck up a lot of extra power. Usually with a simple system I go with around a 250watt and something with lots of expansion slots gets a bit of extra wattage just to be safe.

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Reply 2468 of 27182, by Sutekh94

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Went through a closet looking for clothes, wound up finding some old computer stuff along the way. Most interesting find was a Panasonic JU-475-2 5.25" 1.2MB floppy drive that I'm probably gonna stick in my 486 tower. Also found a couple boxes of floppy disks, including

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Now I'm wondering how many of these are in my house. 🤣

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Reply 2469 of 27182, by Indrid Cold

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I'm playing one gem I didn't know anything about: HARVESTER (1996)

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Men, this is really funny and great adventure... i hope to find the classic original box in future.

Reply 2472 of 27182, by HighTreason

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After what was said further up the page, I began construction of an adjustable 555 LED flasher with pieces I have lying around. Can't find all the parts yet, some will just be salvaged from dead stuff (have a dead amp nearby which will probably have any caps and resistors I need) - even the 555 and the LEDs are old; The 555 has a date stamp of 1978 and the LEDs are factory rejects I bought cheap years ago, they are in three colors but all appear as a very dull yellow/orange when lit as well as having their beveled edge on the wrong side. These LEDs are also pretty ancient, not sure how old exactly and I doubt I will use them up any time soon given I've been trying for almost ten years now. Meh, they work.

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Reply 2473 of 27182, by alexanrs

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Still rocking my Duron. Still impressed at what it can do with Windows 2000. As long as I have a bit of patience, it is still useable most of the time. Trying to find a way to listen to music through Microsoft's Groove Music service now... looks like I'll have to try shoehorning a recent version of Chrome here, as I'd rather not disturb my Firefox 3.6 installation.

Reply 2474 of 27182, by ODwilly

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Worked on the P4 build more today. Talk about getting bit by the nostalgia bug, reusing my old 32mb All-In-Wonder card that was in either mine or one of my family's computers from 2000-2010. Figured out that it is actually a Radeon 7200 32mb All-In-Wonder and not the crappy Rage 128 that I thought it was which is a nice surprise. I think my p3 450mhz used a TNT2 m64 originally and got upgraded to the Radeon in 2000 or 2001. No wonder Unreal Tournament used to run so well 😉

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Reply 2475 of 27182, by brostenen

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Scanned the manual for an EDOM-486VL3H-Cache-Mainboard manual, and uploaded it to Vogons Drivers through FTP.
Sorry for not making it as a pdf, as I have no program to do it with. The scan was 600dpi Color though (hope it helps someone)

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Scanned and uploaded the manual for "SIDE-jr.-Pro-Jumperless-VL-Bus-Controller" too... 600dpi, JPG-Format, color.

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The packs are somewere between 150mb and 250mb each. I know they take a lot of storage.
On the other hand, they will be there for those who need a complete set of drivers/manual/cpu-support and quick
overview of the board.
Every pack is sorted into the same kind of folder structure in order to make them easy and acessible for those in need.

Actually wanted to do it for a looooong time, and had them filling up my harddrive for no reason other than to upload.

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Reply 2476 of 27182, by Splinter

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ODwilly wrote:
Splinter wrote:

Managed to clean up the old 230W psu which I tested on another mobo (PII 200) but it won't fire up this Athlon mobo.
Maybe it needs 300W.

I think you are right, as the pair of Voodoo2's can suck up a lot of extra power. Usually with a simple system I go with around a 250watt and something with lots of expansion slots gets a bit of extra wattage just to be safe.

Well that's odd. I hooked up a Compaq 100W PSU and it fires up just fine. Even runs HL perfectly, whilst the 230W PSU fires up other P2 machines with no problems.

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Reply 2477 of 27182, by Stiletto

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brostenen wrote:

Scanned the manual for an EDOM-486VL3H-Cache-Mainboard manual, and uploaded it to Vogons Drivers through FTP.
Sorry for not making it as a pdf, as I have no program to do it with. The scan was 600dpi Color though (hope it helps someone)

There's plenty of options. One I've been using on Windows for probably the last five years is called PDFill PDF Tools (Free): https://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html
although there may be better options these days, I haven't been keeping up.

My personal preference is to not upload raw scans to VOGONSDrivers, but it's not my call to make. 😀

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Reply 2478 of 27182, by saturn

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Sutekh94 wrote:

Went through a closet looking for clothes, wound up finding some old computer stuff along the way. Most interesting find was a Panasonic JU-475-2 5.25" 1.2MB floppy drive that I'm probably gonna stick in my 486 tower. Also found a couple boxes of floppy disks, including

Now I'm wondering how many of these are in my house. 🤣

Give it a try, funny if it still works.

Reply 2479 of 27182, by brostenen

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I will just upload as it is. Leave it the way it was scanned. It is 600dpi color for a starter, and not some shitty scan. 🤣

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