Retro build: Pentium 200 MMX

Well I thought I'd post an update. I've been tinkering about with this PC and done a few more things to it, here is a pic of the internals as I think I've added all I want to it now:

7IMUeDe.jpg

The cards are (top to bottom):

PCI:
Matrox Millennium
3dfx Voodoo2
Promise IDE controller

ISA:
Realtek NIC (8019)
Opti 924 soundcard, incl. S2 wavetable

Before anyone asks, I got the voodoo2 as it was cheap and if/when I put Win98 on its there ready, for now its idle of course.

The S2 wavetable was an excellent purchase, and the sound it produces is very good and clean.

Windows 3.11 is installed and works fine, which I'm using just for a reasonable MIDI player, the Matrox drivers work fine too and makes for a nice image quality.

Transferring files to the PC was a bit of a bind being DOS only, so that's why I got the NIC and managed to get it connected via mTCP to my main PC and XP on a VM. Works a treat and saves so much time and hassle.

ZOat9UB.jpg

I can also use this to copy the whole file structure back to my main PC as a backup too, which I can then zip up in case the HDD fails.

Everything that can be updated has been: video, BIOS & controller. Drivers all seem stable and pleased the BIOS update sorted out the RAM issue.

I'm pretty happy with it.
 
ketma said:
Well I thought I'd post an update. I've been tinkering about with this PC and done a few more things to it, here is a pic of the internals as I think I've added all I want to it now:

7IMUeDe.jpg

The cards are (top to bottom):

PCI:
Matrox Millennium
3dfx Voodoo2
Promise IDE controller

ISA:
Realtek NIC (8019)
Opti 924 soundcard, incl. S2 wavetable

Before anyone asks, I got the voodoo2 as it was cheap and if/when I put Win98 on its there ready, for now its idle of course.

The S2 wavetable was an excellent purchase, and the sound it produces is very good and clean.

Windows 3.11 is installed and works fine, which I'm using just for a reasonable MIDI player, the Matrox drivers work fine too and makes for a nice image quality.

Transferring files to the PC was a bit of a bind being DOS only, so that's why I got the NIC and managed to get it connected via mTCP to my main PC and XP on a VM. Works a treat and saves so much time and hassle.

ZOat9UB.jpg

I can also use this to copy the whole file structure back to my main PC as a backup too, which I can then zip up in case the HDD fails.

Everything that can be updated has been: video, BIOS & controller. Drivers all seem stable and pleased the BIOS update sorted out the RAM issue.

I'm pretty happy with it.
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Did you have to enable SMB1.0 on your Win10 / Win7 machine to get file transfer working? As soon as a realised that, I stuck with a USB 2.0 card
 
No, as I said I have not modified any SMB settings due to security. The RetroPC is the fileserver, I'm just using a client to connect to it.
 
phatboy said:
@ketma Out of curiosity, where did you find that copper heatsink?

Edit- Just managed to read the badge on the front, that a startech fan370u?
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Yes, that's correct, although the clip it came with was too large to fit between the two heatsinks near the socket so used a clip from another cooler.
 
LewisRaz said:
Its a fairly clever workaround that people have been doing. Host an FTP server on the old machine and then you can use almost any modern machine to FTP into it and drop files :D
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Do do this would be slower than USB2.0. 10/100 NIC ~12.5MB/s, USB2.0 60MB/s
However no headache with drivers and disabling adapters to get things like DOS apps launching due to USB adapter conflicts.

So, install something like Filezilla or CuteFTP, set it up then connect from NIC on Win98 machine to NIC on Win 10 machine? I would need a shorter network cable, at the moment I only have a huge (30 / 50meter) Cat 6A reel of cable. I dont want to arse around making a shorter cable from it as dont have the tools. Bearing in mind the USB 2.0 adapter card was something like £7 inc delivery
 
Guest2 said:
Do do this would be slower than USB2.0. 10/100 NIC ~12.5MB/s, USB2.0 60MB/s
However no headache with drivers and disabling adapters to get things like DOS apps launching due to USB adapter conflicts.

So, install something like Filezilla or CuteFTP, set it up then connect from NIC on Win98 machine to NIC on Win 10 machine? I would need a shorter network cable, at the moment I only have a huge (30 / 50meter) Cat 6A reel of cable. I dont want to arse around making a shorter cable from it as dont have the tools. Bearing in mind the USB 2.0 adapter card was something like £7 inc delivery
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True about the speeds but its mostly used in older PCs where USB isnt even an option and file sizes are not big enough to care about the speed :)
 
Guest2 said:
Do do this would be slower than USB2.0. 10/100 NIC ~12.5MB/s, USB2.0 60MB/s
However no headache with drivers and disabling adapters to get things like DOS apps launching due to USB adapter conflicts.

So, install something like Filezilla or CuteFTP, set it up then connect from NIC on Win98 machine to NIC on Win 10 machine? I would need a shorter network cable, at the moment I only have a huge (30 / 50meter) Cat 6A reel of cable. I dont want to arse around making a shorter cable from it as dont have the tools. Bearing in mind the USB 2.0 adapter card was something like £7 inc delivery
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I just run ethernet to a powerline adapter on the retro PC, granted its not super fast but it does the job of moving stuff about nice and easy. I either use an FTP server in DOS and connect to it from a Filezilla client on my main PC or if in Win98 use an XP VM on the same workgroup which works ok too and poses no risk to anything else.
 
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