I retrobrited a Magitronic 14 inch CRT. The front part came out well, the sides of the bezel fair, and the rear cover not so good (lots of marbling) but from head on, I'm quite happy with the results. Funny thing is, the INSIDE of the monitor case was yellowed too!

Repaired a 286 motherboard..

..and got it fully working. Yay me!

So the fans on the Voodoo 5 5500 are going to drive me insane and that is a fact. So to remedy the situation I ordered some Noiseblocker BlackSilentPro fans 40mm. Now this would be a straightforward DIY but it seems people don't know how to count these days so I got only 7 rubber spacers instead of 8.

This is very easy to fix don't get me wrong but the fans were pricey and I want it to look good. I contacted Blacknoise and are now waiting for a response. Here are some pictures of the DIY

Connected the broken fan pwr leads to the Hypertech Max Pro 200(WinChip 200) cpu. Added new heat sink compound after cleaning the old stuff off and clamped it all together. I'm going to apply a small dab of Gorilla Grip adhesive on each of the fan/cpu corners to hold them together when it dries and I will remove the small plastic clamp.

I've been swapping my P4 and dos machines out with a slot 1 + slotket for the past 2-3 hours. My floppy cable was keyed the wrong way for the board so I got to run that upside down.

Still hate molex connectors to this day; dunno who designed something where the pins can shift around as you try to plug them together. Just praying the fan headers on the GA-6BXC actually spin the case fans up... Well, back to putting this stuff together and cleaning up so I can go to flippin sleep

Also my room's not always this messy I swear

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-09-08, 00:53:

Connected the broken fan pwr leads to the Hypertech Max Pro 200(WinChip 200) cpu. Added new heat sink compound after cleaning the old stuff off and clamped it all together. I'm going to apply a small dab of Gorilla Grip adhesive on each of the fan/cpu corners to hold them together when it dries and I will remove the small plastic clamp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHmw0u2G9kw - For your Bundaberg

Finally, got my Token-Ring running.
It's running with:

Olicom PCI Token-Ring card
IBM PCI Token-Ring card
Synoptics LattisRing 2702B-C hub

Ring speed 16 MBit/s
ICMP maximum unfragmented payload in Windows 2000: 4028 bytes

Still struggling with a 3Com TokenLink III 16/4 3C619

Nice. I only know token ring from my old text book in basic networking.

Installing Lubuntu 10.10 on my AMDk6-2 400 rig with 256megs of ram. Why? Because I bloody well can.....😉

Got my 486DLC and 4c87dlc installed 🙂👍

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR5W5K1R/

I removed and tested some caps.
A few tested better than ever even after 25 years. Others were KO I wonder how they hadn't burst yet...

One in particular had a strange reading, 7400µF 25V instead of 330µF. 20%vloss and 0.8 ohms.
That one was looking terrible and was bulging on both ends.

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-09-08, 18:41:

Installing Lubuntu 10.10 on my AMDk6-2 400 rig with 256megs of ram. Why? Because I bloody well can.....😉

Ubuntu, for the people who can't figure out Debian. 😉

xcomcmdr wrote on 2021-09-09, 07:10:

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-09-08, 18:41:

Installing Lubuntu 10.10 on my AMDk6-2 400 rig with 256megs of ram. Why? Because I bloody well can.....😉

Ubuntu, for the people who can't figure out Debian. 😉

Don't you mean Arch?
I understand you had issues with it despite the excellent documentation it has....😉

xcomcmdr wrote on 2021-09-09, 07:10:

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-09-08, 18:41:

Installing Lubuntu 10.10 on my AMDk6-2 400 rig with 256megs of ram. Why? Because I bloody well can.....😉

Ubuntu, for the people who can't figure out Debian. 😉

Ubuntu and Debian are not that far apart really.

That's why I use Xubuntu, to make Debian fanboys cry in the night.

xcomcmdr wrote on 2021-09-09, 08:12:

That's why I use Xubuntu, to make Debian fanboys cry in the night.

Because you can't handle Arch you don't you mean?

How do you know someone is an Arch user? They will tell you multiple times in one posting...😉.

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-09-09, 09:49:

xcomcmdr wrote on 2021-09-09, 08:12:

That's why I use Xubuntu, to make Debian fanboys cry in the night.

Because you can't handle Arch you don't you mean?

I use Arch, btw.

Finally arrived for my Atom PCI only system.. now it might run a RTX 3090... 😁.. no seriously it wouldn't even boot and I'll never get one but at least some <30W modern cards might still work. I don't know if I'll search for some x16 external riser cable-pcb to not stress the soldering point (because they didn't fix the plastic pci-e on the pcb) or use a low profile card directly on it.. I'll think about it. Quality is acceptable, on the back there's the usual PLX 8112 bridge chip we can find on others card too. Not the latest Zotac that used another bridge but as tested lately both bridges had good and less good points on the speed side. But I was thinking that I might use some GT1030 DDR4 or a GT1030 GDDR5 underclocked on that. The power wattage is the main limit here if I don't find a riser externally powered x16 adapter that also offload the 75W usual limit of the PCI-EX.
The idea was to use something like this: https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/cases/ac … -300mm/#gallery but still it doesn't come with external power for the possible 75W requirement of the video card. Now I suppose the bridge chip is connected to the x16 bus only @ x1 speed anyway so I imagine it might never need such power demand but still I don't know what might happen if the card had a peak requirement of even 50W on the low power PCI possibilities that also has to power the bridge adapter itself.

xcomcmdr wrote on 2021-09-09, 09:59:

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-09-09, 09:49:

xcomcmdr wrote on 2021-09-09, 08:12:

That's why I use Xubuntu, to make Debian fanboys cry in the night.

Because you can't handle Arch you don't you mean?

I use Arch, btw.

See what I mean...😉

You actually stated a while back you were an Arch fanboi but it got too much for you....

Slackware 14.2 installed on my AMD k6-2 400 without any bother at all btw. So that is version 4x kernal running on the thing

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-09-09, 11:27:

You actually stated a while back you were an Arch fanboi but it got too much for you....

Nah, an update broke my system. It didn't get "too much" 🤣

And just like that, Arch wasn't worth it anymore. My curiosity about "how GNU/Linux/Xorg" works was satisfied.