Made this build today. Everything (besides the CD-drive) was from the hoarders stash, including SB pro 2. 😊

Now this is funny, Speedsys also claims Y2K bug.

Nice clean looking case.

Time for some Wing Commander 😎

sf78 wrote:

Made this build today. Everything (besides the CD-drive) was from the hoarders stash, including SB pro 2. 😊

Good looking system you got there. SpeedSYS is known for the Y2K bug. What does it say for the file names when you do the dir command?

Y2K bug is old news. It was only a problem when going from 31.12.1999 to 1.1.2000 (DD.MM.YYYY). On the systems with Y2K bug it would go to some other older date then 1.1.2000. So it doesn't apply any more.

That's not correct. Y2K bug means that the RTC can only store 2 digits instead of 4. So everything 20xx becomes 19xx. But who cares anyway. I haven't seen many PCs really suffering from that problem.

That is weird since I've seen many programs reporting a "y2k" bug on some of my machines, but these were still able to store the actual date.

That's because the bug was mainly a big hype and as written, not many PCs really suffering from it.

Been going through my systems to see whats still work and what is not. Did my RiscPCs yesterday and now the x86 stuff. First up was the Compaq Presorio 5522. It booted to windows 95 ok as you can see.

So I have a Video 7 8-bit VGA card in my 286. I turn it on and it posts fine, but if I turn it off and then on again no screen. If I wait a few minutes it sometimes comes back again and posts fine. Ran the Checkit util and it passes, but in certain graphic modes I see lines through CGA and EGA graphic boxes on Checkit's video test. Does this sound like a video memory issue? Sad because 8-bit VGA cards are hard to come by in the wild and pricey on Ebay.

liqmat put in a 16-bit isa video card in it to see if the same thing happens.

Yeah. No problem with a Cirrus Logic 16-bit card in the 8-bit slot. Just trying to keep the machine as period correct as possible. It's basically an XT board with a 286 6MHz CPU.

sf78 wrote:

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Now this is funny, Speedsys also claims Y2K bug.

I always see that message when launching NSSI from the Ultimate Boot CD.

A couple days ago, I went to the Living Computers Museum and toured the retro computer exhibit, was pretty exciting since it was my first day there, and boy how Monster Truck Madness crawls on a 486DX-33. 😵

I'm looking forward to the Vintage Computer Festival that'll be happening in the next 2 months.

Also, at home I worked on getting my C433 build situated with its new additions (the Voodoo2, Ethernet, and USB Mass Storage drivers), I used a separate (6.4GB Quantum Fireball) hard drive for testing everything just in case it wouldn't work so that way I wouldn't hose the Windows installation on the main drive should something go wrong. Since everything went as it should I carried the changes over to the main (13GB Maxtor) drive and am a happy camper with a fully loaded Windows 95OSR2 machine with things that an ordinary Win95 system wouldn't normally have.

derSammler wrote:

Restored an ASRock K7S41GX Socket A mainboard from the pile of scrap mainboards I got lately. Has a Duron 800 now, 512 MB DDR RAM, new coolers etc. May use it in the future for a ME/XP build.

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Asrock K7S41 and K7S41GX brings back memories. I must have build like 8 machines with those boards, each day during 2005. The worst part of them are the dreaded low quality cap's. Else they are kind of the boards, used for budget machines during that time period.

I don't consider this very retro but still, happily building my "ultimate XP" machine... got this cpu for $7 shipped..

Sure runs XP fast.

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Been going through my systems to see whats still work and what is not. Did my RiscPCs yesterday and now the x86 stuff. First up was the Compaq Presorio 5522. It booted to windows 95 ok as you can see.

What CPU? It has been over 20 years, but I'm pretty sure I upgraded one of those with a Pentium Overdrive when I worked for a PC repair shop.

Yesterday I have received a Logitech Series/2 PS/2 mouse from the USA, today I've plugged it in my Pentium 3 system, everything works as it should. I only had to replace the ball since the old black rubber one was too light and did not track very well. I replaced it with a grey metal ball coated in rubber and tracks way better and super smooth.

brostenen wrote:

Asrock K7S41 and K7S41GX brings back memories. I must have build like 8 machines with those boards, each day during 2005. The worst part of them are the dreaded low quality cap's. Else they are kind of the boards, used for budget machines during that time period.

Caps on that one are still good, fortunately. There was another ASRock Socket A board in the pile, which has bad caps. I may restore that one next.

Had Memtest 2.11 running on the overclocked Pentium60 and then Quake, DoomII and WarcraftI/II. At one instance, in Quake "The Necropolis" the PC rebooted. All other tests ran fine so I would see the system as "semi-stable".

I have added a CT2290, via Riser, and this system since its oscillator-upgrade, is slowly becoming my favorite albeit it is not as sleek as the SI5PI-AIO which has better memory performance.

it lives! https://imgur.com/gallery/l93TE

The Claasic II is actually a smart little machine.

Just repaired a Diamond Multimedia Stealth 3D 2000 (ViRGE 325). Not sure if it was worth the effort... 😊