TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Greenslade]

Damn. That sucks. Sometime that just happens. What brand was

Its a top brand one Transcend industrial 32gb the seller said it was new.but that must have been a year ago cost £15.I thought that was a very good price o got 2 of them the other one is fine.You with some you lose some that is life

 

[lexluthermiester]

What do you think of the Greaseweasle? I would not mind trying it.

Haven't seen it yet. Gotta read up on it.

Its a top brand one Transcend industrial 32gb the seller said it was new.but that must have been a year ago cost £15.

That sucks. At least you didn't pay too much for it.

 

[Greenslade]

Haven't seen it yet. Gotta read up on it.


That sucks. At least you didn't pay too much for it.

I have got this kit ,weather or not i get any of the 24 discs to work or not is another thond,after seeing that video with Micahal trying all thoise Windows floppy discs with only three working.I have seen thee
1 * GreaseWeazle with 3D printed case.
1 * 34-pin floppy data cable(Straight)
1 * 4-pin power cable(5V)
1 * USB Type-B cable
1 * Molex connector
GreaseWeazle-firmware-1.5 Programmed!
I just saw these 24 floppys for £15 the seller has sent ne a offer for £12.50 i think i will take a chance.Amiga/PC Floppy disks Bundle Of X23 *UNTESTED* Most of them are i official discs .Can you play demo discs?The Kit cost £22.There is only one copy on this bundle and a head cleaner,I have put a counter offer for £12 i am taking a risk none of them could work ,the seller said they were in the loft.

There is only one offical disc in the ones i have the one in the one photo.I have moved this to its own forum post as it is such a intresting subject.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I have got this kit ,weather or not i get any of the 24 discs to work or not is another thond,after seeing that video with Micahal trying all thoise Windows floppy discs with only three working.I have seen thee
1 * GreaseWeazle with 3D printed case.
1 * 34-pin floppy data cable(Straight)
1 * 4-pin power cable(5V)
1 * USB Type-B cable
1 * Molex connector
GreaseWeazle-firmware-1.5 Programmed!
I just saw these 24 floppys for £15 the seller has sent ne a offer for £12.50 i think i will take a chance.Amiga/PC Floppy disks Bundle Of X23 *UNTESTED* Most of them are i official discs .Can you play demo discs?The Kit cost £22.There is only one copy on this bundle and a head cleaner,I have put a counter offer for £12 i am taking a risk none of them could work ,the seller said they were in the loft.
View attachment 364691

View attachment 364690

There is only one offical disc in the ones i have ythe one in the one photo.

NICE! Man I hope you do get it all working so you can back those discs up to image files and enjoy them!

 

[masterdeejay]

Powercolor EvilKing IV (3Dfx Voodoo4 4500 32Mb)
3dmark01se tested with 1ghz celeron but later it gets P3 1.4S
256Mb SD133 CAS2 Crucial
Asus Tusl2-c
300w FSP
80Gb Samsung ATA
Windows98se
Opti USB 1.1 pci card
Realtek Lan
Creative SB live 5.1









Warning! This is not a real AGP 4x/8x Card! Only AGP 2x 3.3V supported!

 

[Greenslade]

i use mobile phone as recovery, but somehow it looks not work anymore

I know why it is happening, Microsoft has bought Hotmail they want us to change over to Microsoft which you have to pay £1.95 a month for 365,And the way i have it now is i am permanently signed it.

What was your bad experience with it? I have a VAIO that I mentioned a few pages back on this thread that ran Windows Me for a while (I upgraded it to XP but am tempted to revert it back cuz XP is a bit slow) and I didn't really have any issues with it.

What modal Vaio do you have?I have one myself its got XP on it .It only had 256 of ram which i thought was not much for XP, i upped it to 512 and now want to put ME on a second drive,

I don,t know weather this works on all Floppys

Anyone tried this?

 

[jak_2456]

What modal Vaio do you have?I have one myself its got XP on it .It only had 256 of ram which i thought was not much for XP, i upped it to 512 and now want to put ME on a second drive,

It's a PCV-LX700 slim top with a 733 MHz Pentium 3 and 512 MB of ram. I got it for free at the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest in the Chicago area earlier this month.

 

[68Olds]

I know why it is happening, Microsoft has bought Hotmail they want us to change over to Microsoft which you have to pay £1.95 a month for 365,And the way i have it now is i am permanently signed it.

Microsoft has owned Hotmail since 1997. Yes, MS would like for you to move to a pay account, but all they want with the notification you (& I) received is to enable two factor authentication. They either send a code to an alternate e-mail address or as a text to your phone. Hotmail isn't going away (or being changed to a pay service), they are just forcing everyone using it to be more secure with the login.

 

[lexluthermiester]

It's a PCV-LX700 slim top with a 733 MHz Pentium 3 and 512 MB of ram. I got it for free at the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest in the Chicago area earlier this month. View attachment 364756

NICE!! That is an easily upgraded model. IIRC that has 3 RAM slots and each can hold 512MB PC133 DIMMs. Additionally, that CPU can be upgraded all the way to a P3 1ghz, or anything inbetween that runs on the 133FSB. Put an IDE to SD adapter in it and you will have a bangin' retro PC!

 

[jak_2456]

NICE!! That is an easily upgraded model. IIRC that has 3 RAM slots and each can hold 512MB PC133 DIMMs. Additionally, that CPU can be upgraded all the way to a P3 1ghz, or anything inbetween that runs on the 133FSB. Put an IDE to SD adapter in it and you will have a bangin' retro PC!

It is a very cool and unique PC; I remember getting a lot of compliments from other people at the convention. Mine only has two ram slots and each one is populated with a 256 MB stick. Not that I'm complaining, though; 512 MB is a ton for such a PC. Having plenty of i.LINK (1394) ports is quite handy for DV camcorders, too. I'm keeping the original 20 GB Seagate hard disk, though; I like the sound of old HDDs. I might put in a PCI GPU, too, if I can find one cheap.

 

[Greenslade]

Why do i keep getting a blue screen message ,saying windows has to shut down due to the chance of it doing Damage to the PC? I have tried three different versions of XP.The fist one was with sp2 so i could get the legacy update Bob put on hereAll the discs burnet with no errors So what causes that message?

 

[lexluthermiester]

I might put in a PCI GPU, too, if I can find one cheap.

Allow me to suggest a couple;

EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 6200 (512P1N402LR) 512MB DDR2 SDRAM PCI Video Card for sale online | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 6200 (512P1N402LR) 512MB DDR2 SDRAM PCI Video Card at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

www.ebay.com

Geforce 6200 512MB, somewhat period correct and good performing match for that hardware.

PNY Geforce FX5200 VGA Card DDR 256MB PCI GF05200PUD25G | eBay

PNY Geforce FX5200 VGA Card DDR 256MB PCI GF05200PUD25G. Condition is Used. Shipped with USPS Ground Advantage.

www.ebay.com

Geforce 5200 256MB, also somewhat period correct.

NEW VisionTek AMD Radeon Xtasy 9200 SE 64MB DDR PCI VGA TV out DVI Video Card 784090023131 | eBay

Extra HORSEPOWER behind 4 rendering pipelines provides the fastest gaming performance in its class. HI-RES 32-bit, 3D gaming up to 2048x1536 for head-shooting, flesh-ripping, OVERWHELMING graphics power.

www.ebay.com

Radeon 9200SE 64MB, period correct good performance.

ATI RADEON GRAPHICS 109-85500-01 7000 32MB DDR PCI VGA DVI VIDEO CARD | eBay

ATI RADEON GRAPHICS 109-85500-01 7000 32MB DDR PCI VGA DVI VIDEO CARD

www.ebay.com

Radeon 7000 32MB, very period correct and reasonable price.

Additionally, that Geforce 6200 was one of the last cards to get Windows 9X support;

Driver Details | NVIDIA

Download the <dd~LanguageName> <dd~Name> for <dd~OSName> systems. Released <dd~ReleaseDateTime>

www.nvidia.com

Why do i keep getting a blue screen message ,saying windows has to shut down due to the chance of it doing Damage to the PC? I have tried three different versions of XP.The fist one was with sp2 so i could get the legacy update Bob put on hereAll the discs burnet with no errors So what causes that message?

Thermal issues? Start a thread in the troubleshooting section of the forums and show some photo's of the error message.

 

[jak_2456]

Allow me to suggest a couple;

EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 6200 (512P1N402LR) 512MB DDR2 SDRAM PCI Video Card for sale online | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 6200 (512P1N402LR) 512MB DDR2 SDRAM PCI Video Card at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

www.ebay.com

Geforce 6200 512MB, somewhat period correct and good performing match for that hardware.

PNY Geforce FX5200 VGA Card DDR 256MB PCI GF05200PUD25G | eBay

PNY Geforce FX5200 VGA Card DDR 256MB PCI GF05200PUD25G. Condition is Used. Shipped with USPS Ground Advantage.

www.ebay.com

H

NEW VisionTek AMD Radeon Xtasy 9200 SE 64MB DDR PCI VGA TV out DVI Video Card 784090023131 | eBay

Extra HORSEPOWER behind 4 rendering pipelines provides the fastest gaming performance in its class. HI-RES 32-bit, 3D gaming up to 2048x1536 for head-shooting, flesh-ripping, OVERWHELMING graphics power.

www.ebay.com

Radeon 9200SE 64MB, period correct good performance.

ATI RADEON GRAPHICS 109-85500-01 7000 32MB DDR PCI VGA DVI VIDEO CARD | eBay

ATI RADEON GRAPHICS 109-85500-01 7000 32MB DDR PCI VGA DVI VIDEO CARD

www.ebay.com

Radeon 7000 32MB, very period correct and reasonable price.

Additionally, that Geforce 6200 was one of the last cards to get Windows 9X support;

Driver Details | NVIDIA

Download the <dd~LanguageName> <dd~Name> for <dd~OSName> systems. Released <dd~ReleaseDateTime>

www.nvidia.com

Here's the 3DMark99 score with the iGPU, a SiS 630:

I have a GeForce 6200 PCI, it's just in a different PC. I might try using that and seeing what kind of score I get. Honestly, I'm a bit of a cheapskate when it comes to old hardware. If I were to buy something, I'd want it to be less than $15.

 

[Greenslade]

Allow me to suggest a couple;

EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 6200 (512P1N402LR) 512MB DDR2 SDRAM PCI Video Card for sale online | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 6200 (512P1N402LR) 512MB DDR2 SDRAM PCI Video Card at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

www.ebay.com

Geforce 6200 512MB, somewhat period correct and good performing match for that hardware.

PNY Geforce FX5200 VGA Card DDR 256MB PCI GF05200PUD25G | eBay

PNY Geforce FX5200 VGA Card DDR 256MB PCI GF05200PUD25G. Condition is Used. Shipped with USPS Ground Advantage.

www.ebay.com

Geforce 5200 256MB, also somewhat period correct.

NEW VisionTek AMD Radeon Xtasy 9200 SE 64MB DDR PCI VGA TV out DVI Video Card 784090023131 | eBay

Extra HORSEPOWER behind 4 rendering pipelines provides the fastest gaming performance in its class. HI-RES 32-bit, 3D gaming up to 2048x1536 for head-shooting, flesh-ripping, OVERWHELMING graphics power.

www.ebay.com

Radeon 9200SE 64MB, period correct good performance.

ATI RADEON GRAPHICS 109-85500-01 7000 32MB DDR PCI VGA DVI VIDEO CARD | eBay

ATI RADEON GRAPHICS 109-85500-01 7000 32MB DDR PCI VGA DVI VIDEO CARD

www.ebay.com

Radeon 7000 32MB, very period correct and reasonable price.

Additionally, that Geforce 6200 was one of the last cards to get Windows 9X support;

Driver Details | NVIDIA

Download the <dd~LanguageName> <dd~Name> for <dd~OSName> systems. Released <dd~ReleaseDateTime>

www.nvidia.com

Thermal issues? Start a thread in the troubleshooting section of the forums and show some photo's of the error message.

It is wotking with Vista I have no udea why none of the XP disks did not workI am goung get 7 on the ssd to so dual boot.

 

[Ruru]

Found an Asus Z170-K, i5-6600K & GTX 960 4GB from the trash bin. Currently installing Win10 for that and need to check does the GPU work in 3D.

Sucks that the board doesn't have pins for TPM module, that could be a good media PC platform, though I guess that I'll just bypass the requirements for Win11.

 

[Greenslade]

Found an Asus Z170-K, i5-6600K & GTX 960 4GB from the trash bin. Currently installing Win10 for that and need to check does the GPU work in 3D.

Sucks that the board doesn't have pins for TPM module, that could be a good media PC platform, though I guess that I'll just bypass the requirements for Win11.

That was the one i was giving free just the board though with the bent pins I have not got round to doing it yet ,i am not confident doing it.Wow thats a find ,and with the cpu and graphics card two.Or was it just the board you found?

Microsoft has owned Hotmail since 1997. Yes, MS would like for you to move to a pay account, but all they want with the notification you (& I) received is to enable two factor authentication. They either send a code to an alternate e-mail address or as a text to your phone. Hotmail isn't going away (or being changed to a pay service), they are just forcing everyone using it to be more secure with the login.

They are trying to get you to update ,i am not paying 1.99 a month just to read my emails.I will change my email if they do.

 

[Ruru]

That was the one i was giving free just the board though with the bent pins I have not got round to doing it yet ,i am not confident doing it.Wow thats a find ,and with the cpu and graphics card two.Or was it just the board you found?

Yup, found all them from the trash. It had a 6600K preinstalled, most likely its previous owner's combo since day one. The pins were in perfect shape and the GPU's cooler was never removed.

Still installing Windows updates since I don't have a spare SSD so I need to use a HDD, hella slow progress..

 

[jak_2456]

Yup, found all them from the trash. It had a 6600K preinstalled, most likely its previous owner's combo since day one. The pins were in perfect shape and the GPU's cooler was never removed.

Still installing Windows updates since I don't have a spare SSD so I need to use a HDD, hella slow progress..

It surprises me and yet it doesn't surprise me of the amount of computer hardware that people toss out without realizing that said hardware could be useful to someone. I once ran across a Dell XPS 410 desktop from 2007 with a Core2 Duo that someone had put on the curb for oversize garbage. It was easy to see why someone would throw it out; it was artifacting and one of the hard drives was clicking. Aside from a failing GPU (a GeForce 7900 GS I think) and a bad hard disk (it had two), everything else worked completely fine. I found a replacement GPU (an HD 6850), a cheap 120 GB SSD, and a Core2 Quad Q6700 and was able to sell it for $60 US locally. I got good use out of that PC and I'm sure the person who bought it did too; he told me that two of his other laptops were refusing to boot and he just needed a PC.

 

[lexluthermiester]

It surprises me and yet it doesn't surprise me of the amount of computer hardware that people toss out without realizing that said hardware could be useful to someone.

Doesn't surprise me much. A lot of people are thoughtless slugs that often fail to see the big picture. The ones that do have a reasonable amount of sense are often ignorant to certain perspectives for reusablities & such things and thus end up doing much the same as the others.

 

[MaxiPro800]

Restored a lot of mobos. So far these are restored, and there's a few more to go thru.
Restored:
- ABIT BH6 V1.02 (thanks @soggi for the latest BIOS)
- Azza PT-5VMD
- ABIT AB9 Pro
- HP Brio OEM mobo w/ i815E
- Luckystar 6VA694 ver1
- Intel D815EEA
Unrestored yet:
- Gigabyte GA-6VA
- DFI P2BLX
- Soltek SL-65LIV-T
- MSI H61M-P20 (G3)

 

[jak_2456]

Restored a lot of mobos. So far these are restored, and there's a few more to go thru.
Restored:
- ABIT BH6 V1.02 (thanks @soggi for the latest BIOS)
- Azza PT-5VMD
- ABIT AB9 Pro
- HP Brio OEM mobo w/ i815E
- Luckystar 6VA694 ver1
- Intel D815EEA
Unrestored yet:
- Gigabyte GA-6VA
- DFI P2BLX
- Soltek SL-65LIV-T
- MSI H61M-P20 (G3)

Jeez! How long did it take you to restore all of those?

 

[MaxiPro800]

Well, I started at around 2 or 3 PM, and have been going since. Most of them didn't have much to fix:

- ABIT BH6 - someone lost the original BIOS chip, and the fellow that sent me the board mistook a MXIC 29F001TQC BIOS chip as 2Mbit, when it was 1Mbit. I dropped a Winbond W49F002 off a dead Syntax mobo, flashed with the SS BIOS, and all is well. I might try a similar approach with a FIC PA-2013 I recently got that won't work properly.

- Azza PT-5VMD - works although spotty. Might need a recap. This one had missing BIOS IC, reflashed one from a dead DFI K6BV3.

- ABIT AB9 Pro - nothing wrong with it except I think it doesn't take E6xxx C2Ds with the original BIOS it ships with. I had to use a P4 631 to get it running.

- HP OEM i815 mobo - also nothing wrong with it, autostarts for whatever reason but I don't really mind.

- LS 6VA694 - had a dead SL52R (post card would get stuck with 4 dashes). Dropped my test SL5DV chip, POST'd without issues, has the funny PhoenixNET BIOS interface.

- Intel D815EEA - had a dead Celeron as well (SL5XT). Also POST'd once I replaced the CPU with my test SL5DV.

- GA-6VA - no POST unfortunately, only 4 dashes. Nothing out of the ordinary getting excessively hot on the mainboard.

- DFI P2BLX - POSTs fine after flashing a 1Mbit BIOS chip. Needs a recap as all Tayeh 1000uF caps are blown.

- Soltek 65LIV-T - needs a BIOS reflash, mismatched chip which I suspect is the original BIOS for the 6VA.

- MSI is still untested.

 

[jak_2456]

Well, I started at around 2 or 3 PM, and have been going since. Most of them didn't have much to fix:

- ABIT BH6 - someone lost the original BIOS chip, and the fellow that sent me the board mistook a MXIC 29F001TQC BIOS chip as 2Mbit, when it was 1Mbit. I dropped a Winbond W49F002 off a dead Syntax mobo, flashed with the SS BIOS, and all is well. I might try a similar approach with a FIC PA-2013 I recently got that won't work properly.

- Azza PT-5VMD - works although spotty. Might need a recap. This one had missing BIOS IC, reflashed one from a dead DFI K6BV3.

- ABIT AB9 Pro - nothing wrong with it except I think it doesn't take E6xxx C2Ds with the original BIOS it ships with. I had to use a P4 631 to get it running.

- HP OEM i815 mobo - also nothing wrong with it, autostarts for whatever reason but I don't really mind.

- LS 6VA694 - had a dead SL52R (post card would get stuck with 4 dashes). Dropped my test SL5DV chip, POST'd without issues, has the funny PhoenixNET BIOS interface.

- Intel D815EEA - had a dead Celeron as well (SL5XT). Also POST'd once I replaced the CPU with my test SL5DV.

- GA-6VA - no POST unfortunately, only 4 dashes. Nothing out of the ordinary getting excessively hot on the mainboard.

- DFI P2BLX - POSTs fine after flashing a 1Mbit BIOS chip. Needs a recap as all Tayeh 1000uF caps are blown.

- Soltek 65LIV-T - needs a BIOS reflash, mismatched chip which I suspect is the original BIOS for the 6VA.

- MSI is still untested.

Impressive! Where do you find these boards?

 

[MaxiPro800]

Impressive! Where do you find these boards?

Local classifieds and a few trades with a member from another forum. I also got the K7 Pro/T-Bird 700 combo and Gigabyte 7VR from him. In this case I traded my Soyo 6BA+IV, a QDI Legend 5 (P6I440LX), ABIT NF7 v2 w/o SATA, Chaintech 7NJL6, ASUS CUSL2 and a DFI CS65+Tualatin 1200 combo.

 

[Ruru]

Doesn't surprise me much. A lot of people are thoughtless slugs that often fail to see the big picture. The ones that do have a reasonable amount of sense are often ignorant to certain perspectives for reusablities & such things and thus end up doing much the same as the others.

My best guess is that some are simply too lazy for selling their old stuff so they just throw them out.