ubiq wrote on Yesterday, 16:51:

Been spending some time checking out early 00's demoscene output. Interesting time of rapidly changing hardware. Surprisingly a lot of early Win2k adoption. Early 3d accelerated experiments as well as software rendering holdouts. Not too much 3dfx/glide stuff, but a lot of OpenGL. Which reminded me of the existence of GLSetup. I remember that being a pretty sweet util/driver back in the day, but can't remember what exactly it did. Can anyone refresh my memory - when did it make sense to use GLSetup, and is there any reason to care about these days in retro systems?

It never made any sense to use it, it was used by those too lazy and/or ignorant to install graphics drivers themselves. I suppose there is probably some edge cases where a user has only modem access, isn't going to waste time downloading drivers or doesn't recognize that they need to and is amazed when they run glsetup on their game CD and their games magically work or are faster. Probably the same people that went searching for those Nvidia drivers that emulate glide.

Today my 2 motherboards I bought on eBay came in. Sold as a lot, a Socket 939 and a Socket AM2, both with Athlon 64 X2 3800+ CPU. Would of been awesome test rigs to see the difference between the two. Well, I am not very happy. Yes they were sold as-is/untested as is a lot of the older hardware, which I've never had any problems with.... Neither of the boards work. The AM2 system will turn on, but no beep codes. Tried no ram, different CPU, different video cards, nothing. Took the heatsink off the CPU and you could feel it slowly getting warm. The 939, no beep codes or anything. It would turn on just long enough for the fans to start spinning after you turned the power to the power supply on. Then after it turned off, you would have to kill power to the PSU for a minute or so before I could try to turn it on again. Took the batteries out of them just to make sure settings were cleared, and still nothing.

Very disappointing as I was looking forward to having a 939 system again.

Stick a FAT bootable USB in and turn them on, if they start flickering the light on it, then they're trying to do a BIOS recovery. Then have fun times with rufus making a 32mb partition DOS boot device on a stick to flash proper BIOS.