Not today... But a few days ago. I have a grab bag of AGP graphics cards which I didn't know the state of. Stuff I got over the years that went into storage before I moved. I went ahead and tested them now that I have a universal AGP motherboard.

TNT2 M64 32M - Gets to Windows desktop, good image. A nice spare. I haven't load tested it yet but I feel lucky.
Radeon 7000 32M DDR TV out - Dead as a doornail, my post card doesn't even give me a code 😉 Why would that be?
9600 XT 128M - Boots, gets to desktop, load tested in Doom 3.... Sweet!
FireGL X1-128 - Load tested in Doom 3... Sweet!!! I thought this one was toast when I packed it up, but that was years ago. No idea why I thought that.
X1050 256M - No luck, code for no video adapter. Too bad 🙁
HD 2400 Pro 256M - Boots, gets to desktop, not load tested yet. I'll do that tomorrow.

The 9600 working makes me think I will build a Socket A machine for Christmas.

Today I started a long process of preventing bit rot of my collection. I flashed a Leadtek FX 5700LE, pretty straight forward process with nvflash through DOS environment. My goal is to take care of 1 card every day, so I might be finished within a year or so 😀

Shader_BiH wrote on 2026-11-10, 22:45:

Today I started a long process of preventing bit rot of my collection. I flashed a Leadtek FX 5700LE, pretty straight forward process with nvflash through DOS environment. My goal is to take care of 1 card every day, so I might be finished within a year or so 😀

What's the approximate volume it takes up to store them all?
Nice project there. 😀

Nexxen wrote on 2026-11-10, 22:53:

Shader_BiH wrote on 2026-11-10, 22:45:

Today I started a long process of preventing bit rot of my collection. I flashed a Leadtek FX 5700LE, pretty straight forward process with nvflash through DOS environment. My goal is to take care of 1 card every day, so I might be finished within a year or so 😀

What's the approximate volume it takes up to store them all?
Nice project there. 😀

It's a project that is primarily motivated by fear actually, because I just learned about this bit rot thing few days ago...

Concerning the management of the collection, well I have two tall cupboards where I hold the cards, motherboards, and other stuff. One of them is only for video cards. So about 1 cubic meter, a bit less probably. The challenge is wanting to avoid packing every card in separate box. That practice takes up way too much space. So what I did in the end, is leave only boxed cards that way, all other are in bubble wrap or ESD bags, and than I put about 7-8 of them in 1 cardboard box, put a sticker on it so I know what's in there.

So my goal will also be to upload as many of these BIOS files as I can in the archive, so community might have some use of it as well. For me personally, it's all the same, I have to deal with them anyway 😀

Shader_BiH wrote on 2026-11-10, 23:07:

It's a project that is primarily motivated by fear actually, because I just learned about this bit rot thing few days ago... […]
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Nexxen wrote on 2026-11-10, 22:53:

Shader_BiH wrote on 2026-11-10, 22:45:

Today I started a long process of preventing bit rot of my collection. I flashed a Leadtek FX 5700LE, pretty straight forward process with nvflash through DOS environment. My goal is to take care of 1 card every day, so I might be finished within a year or so 😀

What's the approximate volume it takes up to store them all?
Nice project there. 😀

It's a project that is primarily motivated by fear actually, because I just learned about this bit rot thing few days ago...

Concerning the management of the collection, well I have two tall cupboards where I hold the cards, motherboards, and other stuff. One of them is only for video cards. So about 1 cubic meter, a bit less probably. The challenge is wanting to avoid packing every card in separate box. That practice takes up way too much space. So what I did in the end, is leave only boxed cards that way, all other are in bubble wrap or ESD bags, and than I put about 7-8 of them in 1 cardboard box, put a sticker on it so I know what's in there.

So my goal will also be to upload as many of these BIOS files as I can in the archive, so community might have some use of it as well. For me personally, it's all the same, I have to deal with them anyway 😀

It's a good idea to backup the ROMs (esp. obscure variants), but I don't think flashing them for the sake of it will reduce chance of a future corruption and there is a finite number of times the chip can be flashed.

Added wooden skis to my old AM2 board I was evicting from the case to live in a tote. Heh it's just kind long feet to give it the height to keep card brackets up in the air. The spacers are dollar tree small cube beads. Yes I did use woodscrews, it's wood. On the bottom of those go double sided sticky foam pads, but it's not stuck down in the tote yet. Figured I'm not gonna touch it again for a year or so, so may as well leave the envelope unpierced and cut the holes when I want it halfassed setup. Though I can run it kind of in there without, got enough clearance to plug some things in.

Pics tomorrow if someone is interested but really not all that clear what I was doing.

Anyhoo, eviction successful now it all happens in modern as I install Ryzen board.

I probed ISA slots and other ISA related stuff, one by one.
Isn't there a 16bit card project for this that would display addresses and speed up the process?
I found Necroware's 8-bit only.
Tony's riser isn't what I'm looking for.

Anybody knows anything?