TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Greenslade]

Bobby, Greenslade has a SATA HDD with an IDE to SATA adapter & an IDE only mobo. The SATA HDD seems to have an existing install of WinXP which was installed as a SATA HDD install. I'm guessing very few of us have ever tried doing such an install (I know I've never done that). Yes, I remember F6 to insert the floppy to load the SATA drivers. Things really are easier with newer hardware IMO, but it is still fun going back & reliving the pains we went through. I just installed WinME on an old Athlon XP 1700+, that was entertaining & a giant pita. lol

I have managed to get XP on but I have two problems see photo. Is there
a browser I can get on this Athlon 2400? And no internet connection there is no
light in the connecter. This was a very basic and quick install it was a new one I have never used before. I tried putting the os on a 3,5 drive it seemed to be a bad connection it showed as a Master but went off.

 

[MachineLearning]

I have managed to get XP on but I have two problems see photo. Is there
a browser I can get on this Athlon 2400? And no internet connection there is no
light in the connecter. This was a very basic and quick install it was a new one I have never used before. I tried putting the os on a 3,5 drive it seemed to be a bad connection it showed as a Master but went off. I don,t know why there is no light on the ethernet cabal.

Netscape Navigator
Old version of Firefox
Internet Explorer

You will probably need ethernet drivers. Find out if you have Realtek, Intel, Marvell, Qualcomm, Atheros etc. and get those drivers.

Or go to your motherboard's support page, and look for ethernet drivers.

Also Win key+r -> MSCONFIG -> Normal Startup, if it is not already.

 

[GreiverBlade]

I have managed to get XP on but I have two problems see photo. Is there
a browser I can get on this Athlon 2400? And no internet connection there is no
light in the connecter. This was a very basic and quick install it was a new one I have never used before. I tried putting the os on a 3,5 drive it seemed to be a bad connection it showed as a Master but went off. I don,t know why there is no light on the ethernet cabal.

Ethernet cabal???

oh dear...
cabal
/kəˈbal/
noun

a secret political clique or faction.
"a cabal of dissidents"



light browser for Win XP on an Athlon? mmhhh maybe the one i use on my Samsung N350 with his shitty Atom

Opera 36​

Pale Moon​

K-Meleon​

i mainly used Pale Moon and K-Meleon

 

[Trekkie4]

Ethernet cabal???

oh dear...
cabal
/kəˈbal/
noun

a secret political clique or faction.
"a cabal of dissidents"



light browser for Win XP on an Athlon? mmhhh maybe the one i use on my Samsung N350 with his shitty Atom

Opera 36​

Pale Moon​

K-Meleon​

i mainly used Pale Moon and K-Meleon

Ethernet cabal is especially a nasty one. Not to be confused with their counterpart phoney cabal, as they only share so much in common

 

[lexluthermiester]

Ethernet cabal???

Ethernet cabal is especially a nasty one.

Not as nasty as this Cabal..

 

[Trekkie4]

Not as nasty as this Cabal..
View attachment 252702

I'm afraid I'm not a fan of Tiberian's Sun, so this reference kinda backfired & I ended up Googling for the source pic

Nevertheless, judging by this guy's facial expression I would have to agree

 

[lexluthermiester]

I'm afraid I'm not a fan of Tiberian's Sun

You missed out!! C&C2 Tiberian Sun + Firestorm is one of the greatest games of all time, certainly in the RTS genre. It's been released as a free download by EA. It plays flawlessly on modern systems as long as you have DirectX9c installed.

 

[Ruru]

They really did.


No, they have a reason. A variety of voltages. It was a very good idea at the time they designed it.

True!

Also true!


That doesn't work with XP. XP never had USB installer support. So while an XP ISO can be written to a USB drive and XP install will actually start up, it gets stuck part way through with no option to recover.


For USB drives that would be your only option

Rufus does make working XP installers

 

[Greenslade]

Netscape Navigator
Old version of Firefox
Internet Explorer

You will probably need ethernet drivers. Find out if you have Realtek, Intel, Marvell, Qualcomm, Atheros etc. and get those drivers.

Or go to your motherboard's support page, and look for ethernet drivers.

Also Win key+r -> MSCONFIG -> Normal Startup, if it is not already.

Ethernet cabal???

oh dear...
cabal
/kəˈbal/
noun

a secret political clique or faction.
"a cabal of dissidents"



light browser for Win XP on an Athlon? mmhhh maybe the one i use on my Samsung N350 with his shitty Atom

Opera 36​

Pale Moon​

K-Meleon​

i mainly used Pale Moon and K-Meleon

It was just a typo. Thank,s, for that I will give them a try.I am new to all this Retro stuff, I had no idea It would be so hard to find a browser that worked with my CPU.I had no idea what they meant about the instructions they give about CPUs
SSE2/SSE3/SSE4 etc.

 

[MachineLearning]

It was just a typo. Thank,s, for that I will give them a try.I am new to all this Retro stuff, I had no idea It would be so hard to find a browser that worked with my CPU.I had no idea what they meant about the instructions they give about CPUs
SSE2/SSE3/SSE4 etc.

If you check CPU-Z, it will tell you the instructions your CPU supports, for future reference.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Rufus does make working XP installers

Really? When did THAT happen?

 

[stinger608]

s there
a browser I can get on this Athlon 2400?

On the original post of this thread:

The 5 Best Browsers for Windows XP

Microsoft may have stopped supporting Windows XP but that is not to mean it is still in use But why would anyone still be using Windows XP? Well, for

appuals.com

 

[onemanhitsquad]

I think there was something worse than the 95 & 98 install wait...the "updates" downloading on 56K modem !...yikes ....leave it over night and lose connection half way through and get up the next morning pissed !

 

[stinger608]

I think there was something worse than the 95 & 98 install wait...the "updates" downloading on 56K modem !...yikes ....leave it over night and lose connection half way through and get up the next morning pissed !

Oh man, been there, done that. LOL

 

[Fangio1951]

Wait - there was something worse than WIN 95/98 installation = it was WIN 3.1 !!!!!! = a mountain of 3 1/2" floppy discs...........

 

[Greenslade]

Ethernet cabal???

oh dear...
cabal
/kəˈbal/
noun

a secret political clique or faction.
"a cabal of dissidents"



light browser for Win XP on an Athlon? mmhhh maybe the one i use on my Samsung N350 with his shitty Atom

Opera 36​

Pale Moon​

K-Meleon ​

i mainly used Pale Moon and K Melon

I have not tried Opera 36 yet, what versions of Pale moon and k-Meleon?

 

[GreiverBlade]

On the original post of this thread:

The 5 Best Browsers for Windows XP

Microsoft may have stopped supporting Windows XP but that is not to mean it is still in use But why would anyone still be using Windows XP? Well, for

appuals.com

aaaaaaannnnddd they list at least one browser i use for retrorigs! yay!

I have not tried Opera 36 yet, what versions of Pale moon and k-Meleon?

used the latest one most of the time (although the Samsung N350 runs Win 7 Starter, i did use it on my Barton build under XP SP3 ) if you mean the 32/64 bit then 32bits

 

[lexluthermiester]

Wait - there was something worse than WIN 95/98 installation = it was WIN 3.1 !!!!!! = a mountain of 3 1/2" floppy discs...........

It was only 7 floppy discs, not that big a deal to many people..

 

[Greenslade]

Really? When did THAT happen?

Rufus does not all ways work,It happened again the 3.5 drive showed for a second then went off weird stuff. I put the 2.5 one with the os in that works fine.I try another 3.5 drive that shows but that one is in its way out the health that os.Like you say the CF card is the way to go but is a 16gb one enough?I suppose i should go for 32gb.

 

[GreiverBlade]

It was only 7 floppy discs, not that big a deal to many people..

my Commodore AT clone, using DOS 1.0 later Win 3.1, used 5.1/4" drives 170.75kb disks it was ... errrr better not speak of it ...

 

[Greenslade]

On the original post of this thread:

The 5 Best Browsers for Windows XP

Microsoft may have stopped supporting Windows XP but that is not to mean it is still in use But why would anyone still be using Windows XP? Well, for

appuals.com

Thanks for that I will give them a try The first one would not download.
I did not realize it would be so hard to get a browser for ATHLON 2400 SSE
instructions only. I just hope I can get one to work with it. I had no idea what those instructions meant until now. It is a bit ironic that the Pentium 4 on the PC I found a couple of weeks ago has the sse2 instructions needed for a later browser. I just wish it was not an HP motherboard as I see I can,t put it in another case.I have a feeling if I was to put some Ram in there it would work.

This is the one I have what ram does it use?

 

[68Olds]

The HP Compaq D530 has DDR RAM.
Socket 478 Pentium 4 HT support.
865g chipset, supports dual channel RAM.
AGP 8x video card slot.

 

[Audioave10]

Something new...

 

[dorsetknob]

It was only 7 floppy discs, not that big a deal to many people..

Seem to remember you only needed disks 1 to 6 ( disk 7 was just the mirid of printer drivers )

 

[Trekkie4]

Celeron update!


There you have it guys, finally an explanation for all those LEDs from my previous post(s). This particular case uses strange & rather unusual method of indicating activities using the plastic lenses & dual LEDs but hey, it works...


And there she is guys, Asus P2L-B already mounted on the tray & ready to go inside the case.


At this point, all I have to do is to find a suitable CPU, get all the missing cables, sort out the cable management & I should be good to go.


Oh, and almost forgot ... this SiS 6326 will be my weapon of choice when it comes to graphics. I wonder if it could run Half-Life at 640x480?