Two board combos have been selected for 98SE and ME builds.

- ConRoe865PE/C2D E6850 - Windows 98 SE - GPU Radeon 9800
- AM2NF3-VSTA/Phenom X4 955BE - Windows ME - GPU Geforce 7600

Today, my FIC motherboard got socket for easy DALLAS removal.

Someone must have really insisted on making the ’made in Taiwan’ marking not visible… 😆

Did the initial LOGI PC88XT motherboard inspection
The board has clearly seen better days and shows signs of an unsuccessful past repair, but I’m going to try to bring it back. I started with the obvious: severed traces are restored, questionable ones reinforced, and I’ll reuse the alternative capacitor pads that are in better shape. As you can see it looks not great but most of the pads are good.
Will post an updates here.

Susanin79 wrote on 2025-10-25, 20:34:

Did the initial LOGI PC88XT motherboard inspection
The board has clearly seen better days and shows signs of an unsuccessful past repair, but I’m going to try to bring it back. I started with the obvious: severed traces are restored, questionable ones reinforced, and I’ll reuse the alternative capacitor pads that are in better shape. As you can see it looks not great but most of the pads are good.
Will post an updates here.

Good job!

DarthSun wrote on 2025-10-25, 01:03:

Dan386DX wrote on 2025-10-25, 00:51:

Full reinstall of Windows 98SE on the Socket 7 machine. […]
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Full reinstall of Windows 98SE on the Socket 7 machine.

Opening 'My Computer' was causing a full on freeze; at first suspected the CD-ROM as the issue went away when it was removed. But drive didn't cause issues in other machines.

Full reinstall solved it.

But thinking about it, I'm suspicious that the culprit may have been Daemon Tools. I had only recently installed it when the issue began. Possibly caused a driver conflict with real optical drive?

Yes, DaemonTools sometimes caused problems for me too.

Glad I'm not the only one - I've started using a program I hadn't heard of before; Virtual Clone Drive. Version 5.1.1.1 works on Win 9X and is very lightweight, so far no conflicts or issues!

Locutus wrote on 2025-10-25, 17:57:

Today, my FIC motherboard got socket for easy DALLAS removal. ...

Wow .. looks like your Dallas RTC hasn't had to be delided yet!

I've had to grind the top off almost all of mine (RTC & SRAMs) to replace the internal bettery.

Is it retro updating BIOS on a Lenovo M900 motherboard with an i7 6700 to support TPM2.0? I mean, it's from 2016 so 9 years old 🤣

Repairing an ASUS TX97-E

I'm working on a MyCPU build, which is a complete computer with TTL-based CPU and peripherals. Here's some eye-candy:

More eye-candy:

All credit should go to Denis Kuschel and his wonderful project, I'm just trying to collect the parts and make it work.

inspired a bit by this post/thread: Re: DOS Shareware Collection CD

I'm trying to program a simple game in Quick Basic and DirectQB (DQB), not with the aim of making a great game o to have nice graphics or anything, but something complete with a few features

it's a throwback to earlier times 😀

Fixed my LG Flatron F900B's VGA cable. It sure was a pain in the ass, but at least it no longer pisses itself anymore 🤣
I do, however, get the impression the signal isn't quite as clean now, so I'll probably have to revisit it soon. Still, not bad for a first time replacing a VGA plug

Unfortunately no dice for the repairing of the TX97-E so far. No beeps and no POST either.

I know as retro geeks we love Matrox because they are a bit of a rarity compared to the BIG 2, but I had a hell of a time with this Matrox Millenium P650, the Parhelia core was the last chance grasp the Matrox took into the 3D Graphics market, video review below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x40aLdJUsDU