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Reply 18740 of 27171, by Horun

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chrismeyer6 wrote on 2021-04-18, 04:10:

That's a nice micron PC and the civ 2 CD is a nice bonus. Does it have the cylindrical micron heatsink?

Thanks ! Yes has the original Micron blue screw on heatsink. Here is the picture before going thru it before powering on, you can see the HS had slid part way off the cpu....(my phone takes fuzzy pics)
Someone had stored it very well. Am amazed everything works as new being that old AND not be used for so long.

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Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 18741 of 27171, by chrismeyer6

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That's awesome I loved the look of those and their performance was quite good as well. That system looks like it was just purchased new. The previous owner really must of taken good care of it.

Reply 18742 of 27171, by LewisRaz

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Recorded the Transport Tycoon Deluxe soundtrack from my SW60XG.

One of the best GM soundtracks in my opinion. Have not heard any versions better than the SW60XG yet either! (Subjective of course...)

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Reply 18743 of 27171, by Woody72

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I've been eBaying for SCSI stuff. I absolutely LOVE the crazy noises old SCSI drives make so I've ordered an Adaptec 2940UW, a SCSI HDD and a 68 pin cable - all for around £70 😁.

Modern PC: i7-9700KF, 16GB memory, RTX 3060. Proper PC: Pentium 200 MMX, 128MB EDO memory, GeForce2 MX(200).

Reply 18745 of 27171, by Jed118

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Horun wrote on 2021-04-18, 04:43:
chrismeyer6 wrote on 2021-04-18, 04:10:

That's a nice micron PC and the civ 2 CD is a nice bonus. Does it have the cylindrical micron heatsink?

Thanks ! Yes has the original Micron blue screw on heatsink. Here is the picture before going thru it before powering on, you can see the HS had slid part way off the cpu....(my phone takes fuzzy pics)
Someone had stored it very well. Am amazed everything works as new being that old AND not be used for so long.

I recently wrapped up selling four of those on eBay in similar condition.

Today I tested all my unknown P4 chips with this board I picked up yesterday

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Well, all the Socket 478 ones anyhow.

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Reply 18746 of 27171, by Jed118

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Woody72 wrote on 2021-04-18, 13:26:

I've been eBaying for SCSI stuff. I absolutely LOVE the crazy noises old SCSI drives make so I've ordered an Adaptec 2940UW, a SCSI HDD and a 68 pin cable - all for around £70 😁.

I recently got a new-in-box AHA-2740 and a 2 Gb 10k RPM IBM drive to go with it. Sticking all that into an EISA 486 soon enough.

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Reply 18747 of 27171, by fool

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Build a slightly overkill socket 939 Athlon 64 rig from components lying around:
-Asrock 939dual-sata2
-Athlon 64 3500+ Manchester @2700
-4GB DDR400
-Sapphire HD3850 AGP 512MB
-Windows XP 32-bit
-Seagate 200GB SATA
-Sony DVDRW Optiarc LightScribe SATA
-3D printed I/O shield

I categorize this my fastest retro build because of single core and AGP. Runs easily @2700. This board has an interesting future CPU port, card is not easy to find but I might get lucky some day 😀

There were some issues though. SATAII port didn't recognize HDD, I didn't try different drive so it just might be picky. Also couldn't hear audio from onboard AC97 Realtek 850 so I had to use SB Audigy SE what was next in line. I remember buying A64 3000+ when these were new, later it was upgraded with some Opteron 2x, probably 180. Too bad I sold those when upgrading to AM3 Phenom.

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Reply 18748 of 27171, by fosterwj03

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I built up a Sandy Bridge Core i3 in an old Dell case to experiment with BeOS R5. Here are the base specs:

Core i3-2120 (3.3 Ghz, 2 Cores, 4 Threads)
Asus P8Q67-M Micro-ATX Motherboard
4 GB DDR3-1333 RAM
Sound Blaster 64 PCI Sound
Generic NEC PCI-E 5-Port USB 1.1/2.0 (OHCI/EHCI)
2x 24x DVD+/-RW Drives (SATA)
KingDian 32 GB SSD (SATA)
Corsair CV650 Power Supply

This is turning into a bit of an idiosyncratic machine. BeOS refuses to boot if I specify a PCI or PCI-E video card as primary, but it will boot if I set integrated graphics to primary. If I have a Matrox Millennium installed (either in a PCI slot or PCI-E to PCI adapter), video on the integrated graphics freezes and BeOS switches to displaying out of the Millennium after the boot-up sound. It does this with my GeForce 6800 GS (PCI-E) as well, but the 6800 doesn’t put out a display (just a blank screen). I haven’t gotten any other PCI-E video cards to work at all.

I reprogramed the BIOS a couple of years ago to add a 1080p VESA mode to the integrated Intel graphics. It works with most generic VESA drivers in other operating systems, but it never displayed 1080p properly in BeOS when I used a VESA mode setting patch (it would only produce a 640x480 desktop in the upper left-hand corner of the screen). Today, though, I discovered that I can get a proper 1080p desktop (see screenshot) from the integrated graphics if I set “Use Fail-safe Video Mode” from a BeOS safe-mode boot menu. Weird!

Now, I’m waiting on a NOS PCI network card to arrive so I can get this modern BeBox online.

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Reply 18749 of 27171, by furan

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A while back I bought this Evergreen AcceleraPCI Pentium III 1.0GHz upgrade card, but it was one of those "dream hardware" sales with no photo. When the unit arrived, the heat sink/fan assembly was hanging off of it and there was a loose capacitor in the box, with some other capacitors about ready to fall off. I desoldered and replaced the other loose capacitors. I then found that the CPU had been removed and jammed back in the LIF socket, with one of the pins bent (and broken off), so I swapped it for another P3 I had. I remember when I first got the card I'd tried using it in a machine and it wouldn't turn on. Now at least. the machine turns on, and executes the option ROM on the card. It has a configuration menu for enabling and disabling the accelerator, as well as setting bus speed, multiplier, and voltage.

Unfortunately I cannot fully test the card, possibly because none of the systems I have are "compatible" according to the compatibility test app. If I enable the accelerator, it fails with POST 00 on the system on the card. I would think even if it was incompatible with the motherboard chipset, it would get a little further than that.

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Reply 18750 of 27171, by chrismeyer6

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I remember seeing those back in the day in my Tiger Direct catalogs and always wanting one. I remember and episode of The Screensavers on techtv did a review on them.

Reply 18751 of 27171, by Zero_sugar

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I made a generic Midi enclosure for my DreamBlaster stuff.

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Reply 18752 of 27171, by bjwil1991

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That CHiLL II setup looks amazing. Gotta upgrade mine from the CHiLL to CHiLL II soon.

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Reply 18753 of 27171, by vmr_

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Finally I got the time to 'clone' a 540MB Maxtor 7540AV HDD with DOS 6.22 and Win 3.1 on a 4GB CF card.

Tried first CloneZilla Live CD- but it failed with strange errors - both on Socket 5 and Slot 1 motherboards. Maybe latest version is not supporting 1996-1998 motherboards, so not spending more time on this (for now).

Settled for a straightforward process summarised below:
- have both HDD and 4GB CF card with IDE adapter connected on IDE primary and secondary
- BIOS detects it both - mandatory 😀
- boot from HDD using DOS - drive C in this case
- use fdisk to create 2GB primary FAT16 DOS partition (drive D) and a second logical one for storage (Drive E)
- format D:
- transfer DOS system files to D drive (CF card) with sys D:
- use xcopy to copy all files from C drive to D drive - copy all data recursively, including hidden files
- disconnect HDD, and boot from DOS floppy
- use fdisk to activate the primary partition on CF card (as you cannot activate a second primary DOS partition once booted from HDD)
- run fdisk /mbr

After all steps above, 4GB CF card with IDE CF adapter successfully replaces the Maxtor 540MB.

This comes handy when testing 486/P5/P54C/Nexgen setups. 😀

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Asus K7M Athlon 1Ghz GDF | Abit SH6 Pentium III 1GHz SL4KL...

Reply 18754 of 27171, by schmatzler

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I cleaned up (most of) a really moldy Thinkpad 770 today. It works!

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Tomorrow I'll clean the absolutely horrible keyboard and try to install Windows 98 on it.

"Windows 98's natural state is locked up"

Reply 18755 of 27171, by bjwil1991

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Tested the newly acquired DMG-01 Play It Loud clear edition and no defects on the screen and everything works.

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Reply 18756 of 27171, by Jed118

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I sold a Dell Celeron 433 and prepared an HT 3.0 for sale, and then, something I've been wanting to do for a long time...

Preparing these:

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To be benchmarked here:

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They range from SX-20 (not sure if I'll be able to get the ISA-486SV2 to go that low - undocumented jumper experimentation FTW!) to the OverDrive.

I even have two 486 DX4s, one WB and one WT. I seem to recall most of these CPUs work - the VRM is under the giant 10k RPM server fan, under which is my WB DX4 out of my Siemens. Anything 3.3 3.45 4.0 will be passed through that one. The ones on the lower right are an AMD DX4-120, and a 486-133 (an early 5X86 P75)

I've even got an i487 there, which this board explicitly supports. The only thing I am missing is a DX(or SX)50 MHz - It would be nice to see if my Mach32 would be able to cope with that 😉

Can't wait to get started 😁

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Reply 18758 of 27171, by chrismeyer6

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Jed118 wrote on 2021-04-21, 06:09:
I sold a Dell Celeron 433 and prepared an HT 3.0 for sale, and then, something I've been wanting to do for a long time... […]
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I sold a Dell Celeron 433 and prepared an HT 3.0 for sale, and then, something I've been wanting to do for a long time...

Preparing these:

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To be benchmarked here:

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They range from SX-20 (not sure if I'll be able to get the ISA-486SV2 to go that low - undocumented jumper experimentation FTW!) to the OverDrive.

I even have two 486 DX4s, one WB and one WT. I seem to recall most of these CPUs work - the VRM is under the giant 10k RPM server fan, under which is my WB DX4 out of my Siemens. Anything 3.3 3.45 4.0 will be passed through that one. The ones on the lower right are an AMD DX4-120, and a 486-133 (an early 5X86 P75)

I've even got an i487 there, which this board explicitly supports. The only thing I am missing is a DX(or SX)50 MHz - It would be nice to see if my Mach32 would be able to cope with that 😉

Can't wait to get started 😁

ooohh!! This is going to be a super fun project to follow along.

Reply 18759 of 27171, by Jed118

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appiah4 wrote on 2021-04-21, 07:09:

Ah nice, you just seem to be lacking a Cyrix 5x86 😀

I didn't even think about that! Oh well, this ought to be enough. 😁

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