JustRob wrote on 2025-02-03, 06:14:

It's kinda dumb, but it's a button that puts the PC in sleep mode. At least, I think that's what it's supposed to do. Can't find much info about it, so I hooked it up to the suspend mode header.

You are spot on with what that button was for. It was supposed to connect to the suspend or sleep front panel header. It was in theory supposed to save power but allow you to resume working faster than a cold boot.

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2025-02-03, 13:01:

JustRob wrote on 2025-02-03, 06:14:

It's kinda dumb, but it's a button that puts the PC in sleep mode. At least, I think that's what it's supposed to do. Can't find much info about it, so I hooked it up to the suspend mode header.

You are spot on with what that button was for. It was supposed to connect to the suspend or sleep front panel header. It was in theory supposed to save power but allow you to resume working faster than a cold boot.

Only thing is it doesn’t work right now in Windows 95. Actually, I can’t find a standby mode in Windows 95 whatsoever. Not sure it even had one

JustRob wrote on 2025-02-03, 21:49:

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2025-02-03, 13:01:

JustRob wrote on 2025-02-03, 06:14:

It's kinda dumb, but it's a button that puts the PC in sleep mode. At least, I think that's what it's supposed to do. Can't find much info about it, so I hooked it up to the suspend mode header.

You are spot on with what that button was for. It was supposed to connect to the suspend or sleep front panel header. It was in theory supposed to save power but allow you to resume working faster than a cold boot.

Only thing is it doesn’t work right now in Windows 95. Actually, I can’t find a standby mode in Windows 95 whatsoever. Not sure it even had one

I don't think windows 95 had a sleep or suspend mode. The later osr 2 might have but I think that started with 98.

Which is odd, because the motherboard in here is from 1997, so this PC would have come with 95.

Sleep/suspend/standby was supported in Windows 95.

https://www.jdfoxmicro.com/resource-center/ar … /windows-sleep/

Hi everyone, first post here. I have a few retro systems that I have collected over the years, which I will get around to showing individually down the track.
But here is my current XP setup:

AOPEN HQ08 Full Tower and 300Watt PS
Gigabyte 6VXC7-4X Motherboard and PIII933
256 GB PC133 SDRam
Creative GF2 GTS 32MB AGP
SB Live
Netgear 10/1000
4 port USB Card
AOPEN Slot DVD and Creative 12x10x32 CDRW
Iomega 100 IDE Drive and 1.44 FDD
Diamond View 17" LCD and Altec LAnsig Speakers

I would like to have them all setup, but alas, space doesn't allow it.
I'll add a pic of my other systems which include:
Pentium 200 with Voodoo 2 12MB (I have a second Voodoo card but not sure on how to setup SLI)
Pentium II233 with Voodoo III 16MB AGP
AMD K62400 Super Socket 7 with Voodoo III 16MB AGP
PIII 866
Compaq Pentium 100 All in one
And a broken 486 that I will get around to fixing.
In the cupboard are 2x17 inch and 1x19 inch CRT monitors

Cheers everyone. I am quite a creative fan when it comes to cd drives 😀

markstary wrote on 2025-02-04, 09:04:

Hi everyone, first post here. I have a few retro systems that I have collected over the years, which I will get around to showi […]
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Hi everyone, first post here. I have a few retro systems that I have collected over the years, which I will get around to showing individually down the track.
But here is my current XP setup:

AOPEN HQ08 Full Tower and 300Watt PS
Gigabyte 6VXC7-4X Motherboard and PIII933
256 GB PC133 SDRam
Creative GF2 GTS 32MB AGP
SB Live
Netgear 10/1000
4 port USB Card
AOPEN Slot DVD and Creative 12x10x32 CDRW
Iomega 100 IDE Drive and 1.44 FDD
Diamond View 17" LCD and Altec LAnsig Speakers

The HQ08 is a beautiful case (only its predecessor the HX08 is a more badass full tower). I have one, unfortunately mine is missing the left side (seen from the front)

markstary wrote on 2025-02-04, 09:04:

I would like to have them all setup, but alas, space doesn't allow it. I'll add a pic of my other systems which include: Pentiu […]
Show full quote

I would like to have them all setup, but alas, space doesn't allow it.
I'll add a pic of my other systems which include:
Pentium 200 with Voodoo 2 12MB (I have a second Voodoo card but not sure on how to setup SLI)
Pentium II233 with Voodoo III 16MB AGP
AMD K62400 Super Socket 7 with Voodoo III 16MB AGP
PIII 866
Compaq Pentium 100 All in one
And a broken 486 that I will get around to fixing.
In the cupboard are 2x17 inch and 1x19 inch CRT monitors

Cheers everyone. I am quite a creative fan when it comes to cd drives 😀

I'm not sure if setting up SLI should be too big of an issue, as long as you have an SLI cable, of course. I could however think that a P200 would limit their performance.

Nice collection!

markstary wrote on 2025-02-04, 09:04:

Hi everyone, first post here. I have a few retro systems that I have collected over the years, which I will get around to showi […]
Show full quote

Hi everyone, first post here. I have a few retro systems that I have collected over the years, which I will get around to showing individually down the track.
But here is my current XP setup:

AOPEN HQ08 Full Tower and 300Watt PS
Gigabyte 6VXC7-4X Motherboard and PIII933
256 GB PC133 SDRam
Creative GF2 GTS 32MB AGP
SB Live
Netgear 10/1000
4 port USB Card
AOPEN Slot DVD and Creative 12x10x32 CDRW
Iomega 100 IDE Drive and 1.44 FDD
Diamond View 17" LCD and Altec LAnsig Speakers

very nice - the closest i have is a Duron 800, 320mb ram, similar gf2 but onboard sound and an old 40gb hdd

it runs XP well considering its a budget cpu from year 2000, though i don't use it much for games it is fine with most from circa 2000

Very nice setup! I like that its specs are realistic to what people would have had back then.

What's the model number of the Compaq?

markstary wrote on 2025-02-04, 09:04:

Hi everyone, first post here. I have a few retro systems that I have collected over the years, which I will get around to showing individually down the track.

Great looking builds. Welcome to the forum. I think perhaps your XP build may be better suited to Win98 though. I think most XP games would struggle

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"The HQ08 is a beautiful case (only its predecessor the HX08 is a more badass full tower). I have one, unfortunately mine is missing the left side (seen from the front)"
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I worked for an Aopen reseller in the early 2000's and liked their cases. When you mentioned the HX08, I remmebered I had it's baby brother around here somewhere 🤣. So I checked the garage and found a PIII800EB in a HX45 case, it boots, but really needs a clean. The HX08 is def a badass case 😀

devius wrote on 2025-02-04, 21:13:

Very nice setup! I like that its specs are realistic to what people would have had back then.

What's the model number of the Compaq?

Presario 5222. It works fine, running the original WIN95 insatllation. i picked it up a few years ago, still with all the owner's data on it, she was into some strange stuff 😀

RetroPCCupboard wrote on 2025-02-04, 22:13:

markstary wrote on 2025-02-04, 09:04:

Hi everyone, first post here. I have a few retro systems that I have collected over the years, which I will get around to showing individually down the track.

Great looking builds. Welcome to the forum. I think perhaps your XP build may be better suited to Win98 though. I think most XP games would struggle

Thank you mate, and I agree WIN98 would be better, the PII233 and AMD K62 are running win 98SE so I thought an XP machine would be nice to have. I think down the track I will build a better XP machine, I
have a Intel Quad CPU , RAM and MB in the spares bin that I could use.

markstary wrote on 2025-02-05, 00:56:

Thank you mate, and I agree WIN98 would be better, the PII233 and AMD K62 are running win 98SE so I thought an XP machine would be nice to have. I think down the track I will build a better XP machine, I
have a Intel Quad CPU , RAM and MB in the spares bin that I could use.

Sure, if that's all you have then it makes sense to use for XP. If you have the space for a more powerful machine though, I think it will make for a better experience and will open up more game options.

Love the HQ08 build, very cool!! I had an HX08 back in the day, spray painted black with extra fans of course. Love those AOpen cases, wish I could find one now.

RetroPCCupboard wrote on 2025-02-05, 04:46:

markstary wrote on 2025-02-05, 00:56:

Thank you mate, and I agree WIN98 would be better, the PII233 and AMD K62 are running win 98SE so I thought an XP machine would be nice to have. I think down the track I will build a better XP machine, I
have a Intel Quad CPU , RAM and MB in the spares bin that I could use.

Sure, if that's all you have then it makes sense to use for XP. If you have the space for a more powerful machine though, I think it will make for a better experience and will open up more game options.

Of course, there's no reason to restrict Windows XP to a single computer. I have it installed on everything from a K6-2 to a Core 2 Quad alongside a multitude of other operating systems.

Something different, industrial. The goal was smaller and thin to not take up much space on my desk, along with the main PC.
Will paint it military green, RAL6003, it looks like bullet case to me...😀 Some old-school stickers will be nice and retro.

PIII-S 1.4GHz Tualatin
ADLink NuPRO-760 SBC with VIA PLE133T
512MB PC133 Ram
BFG GF 6200A 256MB 64bit PCI
Voodoo 2 SLI 12MB
Creative AWE64 Gold with 8MB upgrade ram module
80GB Exelstor HDD ATA 100 (will change it for CF 32GB card, the case has 3.5" drive bay at the front and will be convenient to change CF cards)

I try to view your pictures but site goes into a loop and won’t load the image.

Too bad, wanted to see the SLI up close

POSTIMG.CC

AndrettiGTO wrote on 2025-02-10, 17:41:

I try to view your pictures but site goes into a loop and won’t load the image.

Too bad, wanted to see the SLI up close

POSTIMG.CC

Same here.

Interesting, it works on PC but when try to load them from mobile device it loops as you said. Crappy site.

May be now;