Found a Nvidia archive on my ISP's FTP. I grabbed the Windows folder, 7 GB of drivers. I've attached a tree output if anyone is interested. I might start putting up some on my website, focusing on the older stuff first. I've got a 100MB file limit, so I can't put up newer ones, but that's not a big deal.

EDIT: Forgot to link the FTP 😊

http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/nvidia/Windows/

They didn't have anything for AMD 😒

I got six 486/pentium motherboards in for $50 shipped. One of the 486 boards had the ODIN chip on it, dead...and wouldn't let me go past the BIOS boot screen. Even rebooting it, it would only allow me into the BIOS, and not further.

So, I did the ODIN battery hack, and put on a spare lithium battery.

And taped it up so it wouldn't cause a short......

Its a messy noob job, but works just fine now.

Looks great! Different that others I've seen, they usually go from the top. Yours looks neater. Did you go in from the side? Any tips?

philscomputerlab wrote:

Looks great! Different that others I've seen, they usually go from the top. Yours looks neater. Did you go in from the side? Any tips?

Thanks! I didn't want to go in from the top, as I just wanted to attach the battery leads to the side and make it look a bit neater than just a coin battery ontop. I figure this battery will outlast the motherboard, so why put on the coin cell? Besides, i didn't have a coin holder handy and going in from the side is MUCH quicker and easier than dremeling off the entire top or searching for the dead battery . I just used a small drill about 1/3rd the way up from the bottom of the battery until i hit the + and - areas and soldered. I don't have a fine tip anymore, so had to use a big one (thats why it looks a bit messy).

I'm not sure where I got the Eternacell battery, but works just fine. 😎

Very nice. Do you happen to have a full-size image of the first photo? That might come in handy one day. I usually put a socket it, and then fit second hand replacements, but they will also die one day...

philscomputerlab wrote:

Very nice. Do you happen to have a full-size image of the first photo? That might come in handy one day. I usually put a socket it, and then fit second hand replacements, but they will also die one day...

and thats not spilled solder below on the motherboard....that's where the drill slipped.

Thank you, very helpful!

I was thinking about doing a socket in there, since this is a nice socket 3 write-back 486 motherboard with a GUI BIOS (MSI marking sticker on the back...haven't looked for the manual/bios/etc yet). However, i don't have the proper equipment to do a nice job of putting the socket in there.

This took all but 5 minutes to drill, add solder and hook battery leads. If I had put a socket in...well, it might have ruined this motherboard with my crappy equipment and my noobness with soldering fine circuitry.

OH...this is OFFTOPIC....but my TRIPLETS are coming home in a WEEK! They've been in the NICU for over 2 weeks now. Its difficult to only see them once a day for only an hour, so it'll be very nice to have them home!

Found this in the trash today! Haven't tested it yet because it's totally grubby but holy crap, An IBM Model M for free? Yes please. 🤣

King_Corduroy wrote:

Found this in the trash today! Haven't tested it yet because it's totally grubby but holy crap, An IBM Model M for free? Yes please. 🤣

Dang, man. We're years past when you could hope to find an M in the trash. That's just amazing.

dogchainx wrote:

OH...this is OFFTOPIC....but my TRIPLETS are coming home in a WEEK! They've been in the NICU for over 2 weeks now. Its difficult to only see them once a day for only an hour, so it'll be very nice to have them home!

Congrats X 3! It must have been hard on all of you with them being in the ICU, it'll be a great day when you have them home happy and healthy. All the best.

dogchainx wrote:

OH...this is OFFTOPIC....but my TRIPLETS are coming home in a WEEK! They've been in the NICU for over 2 weeks now. Its difficult to only see them once a day for only an hour, so it'll be very nice to have them home!

Triplets?!? I hope you weren't planning on sleeping for, oh, the next several years 🤣

Just kidding, this is awesome! I wish you all the best.

dogchainx wrote:

OH...this is OFFTOPIC....but my TRIPLETS are coming home in a WEEK! They've been in the NICU for over 2 weeks now. Its difficult to only see them once a day for only an hour, so it'll be very nice to have them home!

Congrats! Glad they're all healthy and ready to come home. 😀

And on another note, King_Corduroy, my envy should be a tangible entity by this point.

Im having a Kafkaesk issue with my Gigabyte BX2000+

The board dosnt like the combination of high multipliers and 133 MHz FSB, multipliers 6.5X< works just fine with 100 MHz FSB but not with 133 MHz FSB.

The board posts but hangs before the memory test, the board works fine at 133 MHz and even 153 MHz with lower multipliers, 6x153 MHz is Prime95 stable with a PIII 800EB. Its probably a BIOS issue as the release BIOS is from late 1999 when the P3 800 was the fastest (Intel) CPU in existence and consequently the board fails to identify the P3 933 and P3 1000 when running 133 MHz FSB but identifies them as the then existing PIII 700/750 at 100 MHZ FSB.

Its a bit hard to understand why the board needs a BIOS update though as it shouldnt need BIOS support just to run a higher FSB with CPUs that are working correctly at 100 MHz FSB. The board has the PCI/4 divider and as Im not using the AGP-slot nothing runs out of spec, well the chipset does but as I wrote its stable at 153 MHz FSB with lower multipliers...

To update the BIOS in the middle of my benching isnt optimal 😒

It's early in the day yet, but this morning I powered up a Seagate ST-251 (removed from my Wyse 286 for stiction remediation) for the sole purpose of hearing the awesome self-test sounds it makes. 🤣

Well, perhaps not for the "sole purpose". It did also serve as a functional test to see if it would spin up under its own power after sitting unused for several days. It did. 😀 I'm trying to see if I can find a threshold where stiction kicks in, so I can get an idea of how often I'll need to power up the system to keep everything running happily.

Tried repairing a Model M keyboard I found next to a dumpster.

Failed though,as it didn't match the pinout and color coding from my old Microsoft Basic Keyboard 1.0A 🙁

PcBytes wrote:

Tried repairing a Model M keyboard I found next to a dumpster.

Failed though,as it didn't match the pinout and color coding from my old Microsoft Basic Keyboard 1.0A 🙁

This might help:

Replacing a Model M's cable (Part No. 82G2383) - any tips?

Took 4 weeks for the Athlon XP to arrive from Belgium 😐

But it's all working well:

Using this PSU:

Voltages under Prime load:

Been installing my voodoo2 12mb sli into my pII-350. Finally after all those years i have the dream setup i wished i had back then.
Making the sli cable took me 2 floppy cables. Since the taps kept breaking.

Also been installing the awe32 i also got in the same deal as i got the 2 voodoo2 cards. Got those cards in a trade with a fellow forum member who was nice enough to hook me up with the stuff i needed.

The awe32 i installed into my p133 dos gaming pc.

seob wrote:

Been installing my voodoo2 12mb sli into my pII-350. Finally after all those years i have the dream setup i wished i had back then.
Making the sli cable took me 2 floppy cables. Since the taps kept breaking.
The awe32 i installed into my p133 dos gaming pc.

I need to make me one of those, could you tell me what guide you used?