What retro things have you done today?

Cyber-Mav · 2 Dec 2022 at 16:36

Hmm i didnt check to see if the pc has a pcie slot in it. It is socket 775. Iv got few cpus for it, pentium 4 531 i think and a 820 and a 925 pentium dual cores.
I think the pentium 4 dual 820 model is 130w tdp lol, the 925 is less maybe 95w

phatboy · 2 Dec 2022 at 16:58

If you have 2 slots and a free PCI port I can donate this x1550. It's been sat in my garage for ages in it's box

LewisRaz · 2 Dec 2022 at 20:55

Ive got one of those SFF black office PCs in my loft. Believe its a HP. All I can remember is it was a P4 with HT.
Might try putting 98 on it and do that troll listing and see if it sells :cry:

phatboy · 2 Dec 2022 at 21:01

LewisRaz said:
Ive got one of those SFF black office PCs in my loft. Believe its a HP. All I can remember is it was a P4 with HT.
Might try putting 98 on it and do that troll listing and see if it sells

Tell me when and I will buy the popcorn

phatboy · 2 Dec 2022 at 21:04

Was reminded this evening I have a full HP system inc 4:3 TFT in my parents garage my brother bought home from a job along with a set of Dell Harman Kardon 2.1 speakers. Need to collect it and give a look over, not sure if that is 478 or 775 pentium....

almoststew1990 · 2 Dec 2022 at 21:14

My cheap and nasty 478 W98 PC is taking shape. I've got my Advent SIS648/963 board for £11.50 and now a Pentium 4 2.4B for £5.50.

I bought an £8.50 ALS4000 PCI sound card but then also this thing for £17 delivered without realising it was the same chip. moron.

LewisRaz · 2 Dec 2022 at 21:16

Just grabbed it out of the loft.. HP Compaq DC5100 SFF. No windows 98 support, socket 775

Does have windows 2000 drivers available.. Might install that if the PSU does not explode once its warmed up. (Last time I took a PC in from the cold and booted it it was covered in condensation and exploded)

phatboy · 2 Dec 2022 at 22:29

almoststew1990 said:
My cheap and nasty 478 W98 PC is taking shape. I've got my Advent SIS648/963 board for £11.50 and now a Pentium 4 2.4B for £5.50.

I bought an £8.50 ALS4000 PCI sound card but then also this thing for £17 delivered without realising it was the same chip. moron.

Tell you what you have to love the box on that eBay win though. Man I miss old box art!

I feel I should run the spare parts express P4 build on 98 too.....a bit of me still fancies putting myself through ME though

phatboy · 2 Dec 2022 at 22:30

LewisRaz said:
Just grabbed it out of the loft.. HP Compaq DC5100 SFF. No windows 98 support, socket 775
Does have windows 2000 drivers available.. Might install that if the PSU does not explode once its warmed up. (Last time I took a PC in from the cold and booted it it was covered in condensation and exploded)

Upside down mainboard and cripplingly low GPU space by any chance?. That seems to be a HP calling card

Cyber-Mav · 2 Dec 2022 at 23:00

phatboy said:
If you have 2 slots and a free PCI port I can donate this x1550. It's been sat in my garage for ages in it's box

Will take all the donations i can get

LewisRaz · 2 Dec 2022 at 23:49

phatboy said:
Upside down mainboard and cripplingly low GPU space by any chance?. That seems to be a HP calling card

Well its a desktop so not really sure on the oreintation of the mobo, there is only an pci x4 slot and old PCI so no real options for a GPU!

LewisRaz · 3 Dec 2022 at 12:09

Booted up that HP and it is not the specs I found online and there are windows 98 drivers for it on philscomputerlab

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Not sure about the soundcard mind. Its one of those soundmax ones. I have had them working in 98 before but it wasnt easy.
Perhaps 2000 is the better bet.

LewisRaz · 3 Dec 2022 at 12:27

£20 SW60XG has arrived

phatboy · 3 Dec 2022 at 12:34

LewisRaz said:
£20 SW60XG has arrived

That's a complete result. That looks in good kick from that pic. All working?

LewisRaz · 3 Dec 2022 at 14:43

phatboy said:
That's a complete result. That looks in good kick from that pic. All working?

Yep, working great

Duke · 3 Dec 2022 at 16:05

Cleaned up some Commodore speakers. A mark on the grille to sort but apart from that came up well.

andy223uk · 3 Dec 2022 at 16:50

Duke said:
Cleaned up some Commodore speakers. A mark on the grille to sort but apart from that came up well.

I had the same speakers back in the day. Under the trust brand though as Trust Soundwave 240. Good speakers.

drakulton · 3 Dec 2022 at 17:20

Still not sure about the alure of the old nvidia GPUs

LewisRaz · 3 Dec 2022 at 18:00

Surprised how many of my games run on 2000. Never really used it properly before.

rare · 3 Dec 2022 at 20:39

drakulton said:
Still not sure about the alure of the old nvidia GPUs

Madness. I still remember when these came out and the absolute bashing Nvidia received. The hair dryer!