Keep in mind that before you make any investment, it's necessary to have a working floppy drive on these Compaq LTE Elite laptops if you ever modify the hard drive. The BIOS is on the disk partition, and if you swap it out, you must boot from a floppy to update the CMOS with the new configuration. The system will *NOT* boot, even if you swap in a working drive from an identical LTE Elite if the CMOS does not already have a matching configuration.

The floppy drive in these is the Citizen W1D which has a perishable belt. If the floppy drive isn't working, replace the belt very carefully! It's extremely easy to knock the heads out of alignment on this drive during maintenance, and realigning them blindly is excruciatingly difficult.

If you have a Compaq LTE series laptop with a broken floppy drive, check the belt!

keenmaster486 wrote on 2018-05-13, 04:27:

Errius wrote:

You have to be careful not to knock the drive heads out of alignment. Apparently you can only correct this with some complex juju involving exotic proprietary software and an oscilloscope.

I have prematurely greyed many hairs attempting to align floppy drive heads.

I can confirm this.

Terratec soundcards 512i PCI and 128i PCI, Axle GeForce 5500 PCI 256MB, Club3D Radeon HD 3450 AGP 512MB
New old stock, never open boxes

Nice, I'd have definitely have grabbed that 5500 PCI if I came across it in person.

BitWrangler wrote on 2023-03-09, 15:47:

Nice, I'd have definitely have grabbed that 5500 PCI if I came across it in person.

PM me 😉

Today I got those for free!
-A4TECH KB-26 Multimedia PS/2 keyboard
-a PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse to USB adapter
-a Audio CD cable
-a Delux ATX-400W P4 400W PSU
-Forsa NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 256MB 128BIT AGP 8X video card
-LG HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4521B 16x DVD-ROM/52x32x52x CD-RW combo IDE drive
-Kingmax 256MB DDR400 PC3200 Super RAM
-Kingmax 512MB DDR400 PC3200 TinyBGA
-possibly dead (?) MSI KT4AV MS-6712 VER:10A motherboard with a AMD Sempron 2600+ SDA2600DUT3D 1.83GHz CPU (Thoroughbred-B core) with Speeze EEA73B4 CPU cooler (unfortunately without I/O Shield)
-floppy drive cable

Any opinions?

Another pictures of the today's haul.

Just dropped some coin on a bunch of retro destined components and spares at Universal Solder, as they have bogo and btgo deals on sale until midnight. Might have cleared them out of CR2032 holders though, I wanted 10, but snoozed and losed I guess since I knew about this yesterday. Got some bags of electrolytics and stuff to have a bunch of random values on hand for all the little ones. Then a load of "only BitWrangler knows why he wants that crap" stuff, that might feature in posts down the road, but yeah if you keep tabs on me, you gotta have super patience 🤣

Great information, i have same Asus S370-D Slotket and soon i get p3 1Ghz/133fsb cpu, good to know this works together.

But are you still sure about this slotket support FC-PGA cpu’s?
I read some comments this support only PPGA cpus.

TrashPanda wrote on 2023-02-20, 09:00:

A pair of these little rippers 1.1Ghz 100FSB Coppermine (SL5QW ) arrived today, headed for my Asus P2B-DS, got a nice pair of sl […]
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A pair of these little rippers 1.1Ghz 100FSB Coppermine (SL5QW ) arrived today, headed for my Asus P2B-DS, got a nice pair of slotkets for them, should be the fastest 100FSB CPUs this Rev 1.06 board can support.

1.1Ghz 100FSB Coppermine.jpg
ASUS S370-D.jpg

Confirmed this slotket can handle FC-PGA CPUs and has the correct voltage jumpers.

Version really matters with the slotkets.

RetroPC_King wrote on 2023-03-09, 18:27:

Today I got those for free! -A4TECH KB-26 Multimedia PS/2 keyboard -a PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse to USB adapter -a Audio CD cable - […]
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Today I got those for free!
-A4TECH KB-26 Multimedia PS/2 keyboard
-a PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse to USB adapter
-a Audio CD cable
-a Delux ATX-400W P4 400W PSU
-Forsa NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 256MB 128BIT AGP 8X video card
-LG HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4521B 16x DVD-ROM/52x32x52x CD-RW combo IDE drive
-Kingmax 256MB DDR400 PC3200 Super RAM
-Kingmax 512MB DDR400 PC3200 TinyBGA
-possibly dead (?) MSI KT4AV MS-6712 VER:10A motherboard with a AMD Sempron 2600+ SDA2600DUT3D 1.83GHz CPU (Thoroughbred-B core) with Speeze EEA73B4 CPU cooler (unfortunately without I/O Shield)
-floppy drive cable

Any opinions?

FX5500 and FX5600 are both legit scams of a card. They are both OC'd FX5200s. To call them DX9 class cards is ridiculous. Good for 9x though.

Bought this Compaq V50 CRT monitor. It is (was) in excellent shape. Of course the bezel had to crack during shipping. Other than that, it looks almost like new. Managed to inject some glue in the crack and then push it back together. It looks fairly good now. Interior is very clean. I took it apart to clean it, but there was no need for it. Only the anode cable surroundings have some black fine dust, other areas are just spotless. It is made in 1997, but I think it will look nice paired with my 486 Prolinea 😀 Paid 35€ + shipping.

edit: https://web.archive.org/web/19961225084659/ht … ors/sumv50.html

Yah I think some ranges of stuff compaq had plastic that turns to cheese with age, got one monitor that makes distressing noises just moving it across the room in a careful hug, wouldn't wanna ship it at all, no matter how.

I recently received a Visiontek HD 6850 card (stock image). Though the seller wrapped it in foam wrap rather than anything anti static, it works fine (to my great relief). This is for my XP machine that had an HD 7850 in it. One of the primary reasons I built this machine was for Jane's WW-2 Fighters, which doesn't work properly with Nvidia cards and drivers (it might be okay with a GeForce 4 with older drivers, but I've never found a satisfactory workaround for later Nvidia cards) and the HD 7850 worked great for that. But when I played an older version of Half-Life 2, you would get weird issues when using the flashlight. Swapping in a GTS 250 cured that issue, but Jane's was unplayable. So I thought I'd try one of these since they are so cheap now ($21.00 shipped), clearly at the bottom of their depreciation curve. My thinking was that I'd have years of drivers to try since the 6850 came out in 2010 while the 7850 came out in 2012 with the EOL for XP looming on the horizon. To my surprise XP installed the 13.9 driver that I had tried with the 7850, and it worked fine with Half-Life 2, and Jane's also works perfectly now. It's nice when the hoped for outcome is also the actual outcome.

Repo Man11 wrote on 2023-03-10, 00:15:

I recently received a Visiontek HD 6850 card (stock image). Though the seller wrapped it in foam wrap rather than anything anti static, it works fine (to my great relief). This is for my XP machine that had an HD 7850 in it. One of the primary reasons I built this machine was for Jane's WW-2 Fighters, which doesn't work properly with Nvidia cards and drivers (it might be okay with a GeForce 4 with older drivers, but I've never found a satisfactory workaround for later Nvidia cards) and the HD 7850 worked great for that. But when I played an older version of Half-Life 2, you would get weird issues when using the flashlight. Swapping in a GTS 250 cured that issue, but Jane's was unplayable. So I thought I'd try one of these since they are so cheap now ($21.00 shipped), clearly at the bottom of their depreciation curve. My thinking was that I'd have years of drivers to try since the 6850 came out in 2010 while the 7850 came out in 2012 with the EOL for XP looming on the horizon. To my surprise XP installed the 13.9 driver that I had tried with the 7850, and it worked fine with Half-Life 2, and Jane's also works perfectly now. It's nice when the hoped for outcome is also the actual outcome.

Doesn't WW2 Fighters support both software rendering and Glide (which you can emulate with nGlide)? I'd just switch to Software ngl, any remotely modern CPU will be up to the task.

BitWrangler wrote on 2023-03-09, 19:09:

Version really matters with the slotkets.

Yup version matters ...but so does accurate information ...both of which are in short supply the two received will need to be modded to work with the 1100 P3s I have, its odd as the cards don't actually change voltage so in theory if the motherboard is only supplying 1.75v then im failing to see why they wont work. I will likely end up modding these slotkets to work, its an easy fix.

They are only 100FSB CPUs so again another thing the slotket doesn't have an effect on, I have a couple of other 100FSB FC-PGA CPUS .. might throw them in and see if they will work as the motherboard can supply the correct voltage and FSB.

I have a pair of Slotket III adapters I guess I can use if these don't work, they are rare as hell so I don't like to use them.

ATI Graphics Xpression (Mach64 DRAM). Need to find a donor card with 4bit DRAM chips to fil the bus before testing.

Xcellent... I just found one in the ignored systems pile last week, so will want to see how you do with yours.... and if it's worth sacrificing a Trident to fill the holes.

CrFr wrote on 2023-03-09, 20:10:

Bought this Compaq V50 CRT monitor. It is (was) in excellent shape. Of course the bezel had to crack during shipping. Other than […]
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Bought this Compaq V50 CRT monitor. It is (was) in excellent shape. Of course the bezel had to crack during shipping. Other than that, it looks almost like new. Managed to inject some glue in the crack and then push it back together. It looks fairly good now. Interior is very clean. I took it apart to clean it, but there was no need for it. Only the anode cable surroundings have some black fine dust, other areas are just spotless. It is made in 1997, but I think it will look nice paired with my 486 Prolinea 😀 Paid 35€ + shipping.

IMGP2268_.jpg

IMGP2267_.jpg

IMGP2266_.jpg

IMGP2269_.jpg

edit: https://web.archive.org/web/19961225084659/ht … ors/sumv50.html

Giving the risks of shipping CRT monitors, I'd say a minor bezel crack is an optimal outcome!

Nice looking monitor, too.

RetroPC_King wrote on 2023-03-09, 18:27:

Today I got those for free! -A4TECH KB-26 Multimedia PS/2 keyboard -a PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse to USB adapter -a Audio CD cable - […]
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Today I got those for free!
-A4TECH KB-26 Multimedia PS/2 keyboard
-a PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse to USB adapter
-a Audio CD cable
-a Delux ATX-400W P4 400W PSU
-Forsa NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 256MB 128BIT AGP 8X video card
-LG HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4521B 16x DVD-ROM/52x32x52x CD-RW combo IDE drive
-Kingmax 256MB DDR400 PC3200 Super RAM
-Kingmax 512MB DDR400 PC3200 TinyBGA
-possibly dead (?) MSI KT4AV MS-6712 VER:10A motherboard with a AMD Sempron 2600+ SDA2600DUT3D 1.83GHz CPU (Thoroughbred-B core) with Speeze EEA73B4 CPU cooler (unfortunately without I/O Shield)
-floppy drive cable

Any opinions?

Wow ! What a keyboard !
Is that a wheel on the left side ?

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote on 2023-03-09, 19:25:

RetroPC_King wrote on 2023-03-09, 18:27:

Today I got those for free! -A4TECH KB-26 Multimedia PS/2 keyboard -a PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse to USB adapter -a Audio CD cable - […]
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Today I got those for free!
-A4TECH KB-26 Multimedia PS/2 keyboard
-a PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse to USB adapter
-a Audio CD cable
-a Delux ATX-400W P4 400W PSU
-Forsa NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 256MB 128BIT AGP 8X video card
-LG HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4521B 16x DVD-ROM/52x32x52x CD-RW combo IDE drive
-Kingmax 256MB DDR400 PC3200 Super RAM
-Kingmax 512MB DDR400 PC3200 TinyBGA
-possibly dead (?) MSI KT4AV MS-6712 VER:10A motherboard with a AMD Sempron 2600+ SDA2600DUT3D 1.83GHz CPU (Thoroughbred-B core) with Speeze EEA73B4 CPU cooler (unfortunately without I/O Shield)
-floppy drive cable

Any opinions?

FX5500 and FX5600 are both legit scams of a card. They are both OC'd FX5200s. To call them DX9 class cards is ridiculous. Good for 9x though.

Oh !
I hope RetroPC_King will not take it personally. The last time i said something similar about the Radeon 9250 he bought.
😅

Well. I was probably a bit too harsh in my last post about the Radeon.
I don't really hate Radeon 9250. I just consider the naming to be deceiving.
Just like with the FX5500... being a slightly higher clocked FX5200.
Renaming and repacking of previously released cards is a bad practice from manufacturers.
That does not mean that the cards are bad on the technical point of view.
(I Actually like the FX5500, even if it's a rebranded 5200, and its performances are ... what they are)

Last purchase for this year. I promise. Really.