I tested out a bunch of my favorite DOS games with Win ME on my P3 800 with a V3 and Live! card. They all worked flawlessly, I just had to guess my sound blaster settings (which I nailed first try! 😎), and off I went.

I tried Doom 2, Strife, Ultima Underworld 2, Dark Forces, and Chasm: The Rift.

I still want a dedicated DOS 6.22 system, but I'm really happy with how well Win ME handles itself, especially over 98SE.

IIRC the LS-120 can read and write 800k/400k mac floppies. I don't have mine available for testing right now, but I remember making a 800k boot disk for a mac plus (before this one I recently got)

As far as my own activity:

Recapped a MSI K7T Turbo2. Honestly no idea why I did it. I have no plans to use it. I just found myself buying caps from Mouser, blasting some Meshuggah, and recapping it.

luckybob wrote:

IIRC the LS-120 can read and write 800k/400k mac floppies. I don't have mine available for testing right now, but I remember ma […]
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IIRC the LS-120 can read and write 800k/400k mac floppies. I don't have mine available for testing right now, but I remember making a 800k boot disk for a mac plus (before this one I recently got)

As far as my own activity:

Recapped a MSI K7T Turbo2. Honestly no idea why I did it. I have no plans to use it. I just found myself buying caps from Mouser, blasting some Meshuggah, and recapping it.

I have one right here. An internal IDE model. I'd love to test it out too if anybody knows how.

I remember having to use a special program to emulate a mac file system on windows. i think it was an old version of macdrive pro. I assume you have actual 800k disks handy?

luckybob wrote:

I remember having to use a special program to emulate a mac file system on windows. i think it was an old version of macdrive pro. I assume you have actual 800k disks handy?

Some program disks I don't want to mess up and one blank. I use TransMac, I know it can do HFS+ and I think HFS, but i've only used it for CD/DVD and HD disks/images.

JidaiGeki wrote:

WildW wrote:

This week I have bought and received two Radeon 9800 cards. . . and both had horrible artifacts and had to be returned. As I recall the same thing happened to the 9700 Pro I had over a decade ago. Is it just me or are they really bad for reliability?

I've had a few 9800s, a couple were flakey, but recently AGP 3850s have been unreliable for me (3 out of 4 dead, of which 3 were NOS), and 8800s are notorious too. Had a slight stress over 9800 reliability myself recently as well, after buying one that was artifacting on first test, on the VGA port. Auto adjust on the LCD fixed that, but there is still very faint snow. DVI was OK though, rock solid signal. It doesn't like an nForce4 board I have but that could be the PSU in that machine. How much testing did you do on your 9800s?

Testing? . . . in both cases about this much. . .

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JidaiGeki wrote:

WildW wrote:

This week I have bought and received two Radeon 9800 cards. . . and both had horrible artifacts and had to be returned. As I recall the same thing happened to the 9700 Pro I had over a decade ago. Is it just me or are they really bad for reliability?

I've had a few 9800s, a couple were flakey, but recently AGP 3850s have been unreliable for me (3 out of 4 dead, of which 3 were NOS), and 8800s are notorious too. Had a slight stress over 9800 reliability myself recently as well, after buying one that was artifacting on first test, on the VGA port. Auto adjust on the LCD fixed that, but there is still very faint snow. DVI was OK though, rock solid signal. It doesn't like an nForce4 board I have but that could be the PSU in that machine. How much testing did you do on your 9800s?

Testing? . . . in both cases about this much. . .

🤣 fair enough. I see your 9800 checkerboard, and raise you my FX5900 Asylum alternating stripe patterns

JidaiGeki wrote:

🤣 fair enough. I see your 9800 checkerboard, and raise you my FX5900 Asylum alternating stripe patterns

Most definitely would save that for your next rave party.

JidaiGeki wrote:

🤣 fair enough. I see your 9800 checkerboard, and raise you my FX5900 Asylum alternating stripe patterns

Arrghh, my eyes. You win 😜

Decided to test out My Abit VP6 board today. I've had it for months but never got round to testing it. Turned out to live up to its reputation regarding the caps 🤣

It has 2 1Ghz Coppermine CPUs installed, 512mb ram and Elsa Gladiac 920 (GF3).

Set the board up and powered it on.

Heard two cracks and a nasty smell! 2 caps popped within 20 seconds of powering the board on hahahaha. Those high quality Jackon Caps.

Fortunately the board still posts fine. I won't mess any more with it until i get chance to fully recap it.

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Decided to test out My Abit VP6 board today. I've had it for months but never got round to testing it. Turned out to live up to […]
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Decided to test out My Abit VP6 board today. I've had it for months but never got round to testing it. Turned out to live up to its reputation regarding the caps 🤣

It has 2 1Ghz Coppermine CPUs installed, 512mb ram and Elsa Gladiac 920 (GF3).

Set the board up and powered it on.

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Heard two cracks and a nasty smell! 2 caps popped within 20 seconds of powering the board on hahahaha. Those high quality Jackon Caps.

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Fortunately the board still posts fine. I won't mess any more with it until i get chance to fully recap it.

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I have the same board and the same problem. A full set of caps is quite expensive though. Mine is on the to-maybe-do pile.

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Decided to test out My Abit VP6 board today. I've had it for months but never got round to testing it. Turned out to live up to […]
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Decided to test out My Abit VP6 board today. I've had it for months but never got round to testing it. Turned out to live up to its reputation regarding the caps 🤣

It has 2 1Ghz Coppermine CPUs installed, 512mb ram and Elsa Gladiac 920 (GF3).

Set the board up and powered it on.

Heard two cracks and a nasty smell! 2 caps popped within 20 seconds of powering the board on hahahaha. Those high quality Jackon Caps.

Fortunately the board still posts fine. I won't mess any more with it until i get chance to fully recap it.

Woah, that's a really nice card to be using for MB testing. Always good to have a couple M64s to sacrifice if necessary.

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Woah, that's a really nice card to be using for MB testing. Always good to have a couple M64s to sacrifice if necessary.

It was just a card that I had to hand at that moment. Didn't fancy going through my box of cards. Thinking about it, your right - i should of used one of the spare MX's or Rages i have just in case the board took out the card!

Today I have taken home a small audio controller I'm using to control the volume of my headphones for my Pentium 3. At least now I finally have working sound, without bothering anyone at home. I've also snatched a SATA controller card, a Silicon Image 3112A, that I've already tested and works well, in case someday I decide to put a SATA hard drive without adapter. The only drawback is that it slightly increases POST time, but it's something expected, given that the card comes with its own BIOS. After testing, the card has been put back into storage.

Another thing I've done was installing Local Load on Firefox and Decentraleyes on Palemoon SSE. Web browsing on a Pentium 3 is not as bad as it seems. 😊

WildW wrote:

JidaiGeki wrote:

🤣 fair enough. I see your 9800 checkerboard, and raise you my FX5900 Asylum alternating stripe patterns

Arrghh, my eyes. You win 😜

Well, I'll see your plain lines and raise you sparkly jailbars on a TNT2 Ultra

xplus93 wrote:

WildW wrote:

JidaiGeki wrote:

🤣 fair enough. I see your 9800 checkerboard, and raise you my FX5900 Asylum alternating stripe patterns

Arrghh, my eyes. You win 😜

Well, I'll see your plain lines and raise you sparkly jailbars on a TNT2 Ultra

I see your TNT2 Ultra jailbars and raise you an overheated V3 2000 with artifacts.

I got a V3 3000 PCI card that has a bigger heatsink and I installed a cooling fan on it using screws and it's working without issues. In all of seriousness, it didn't look half bad, but my system would lock up.

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I got a V3 3000 PCI card that has a bigger heatsink and I installed a cooling fan on it using screws and it's working without issues. In all of seriousness, it didn't look half bad, but my system would lock up.

I see your artifacts are in text mode as well. I don't get any in text mode. Is there a possibility it's something fixable then?

Ground up restoration.
Dead on arrival, took a leak and needed a diaper.
HD monitor television
2004 Samsung hdcp

I plan on using this with my current pc.

Fish mouths on the side face convergence. The thing was running so hot the fresnel was stretched out bow inward sees in 3D and poor depth perception.

I should of took a picture before touching it. Had an out standing bill due at the dog pound and the owner didn't pay up. So I bailed it out of the dumpster section for my collection.

weighs 80 or so pounds. Just got Sanyo/JVC class E amplifier convergence semis yesterday.

I had a nvidia 5700fx ultra that started a computer on fire and the heat sink and fan disappeared.

And the gpu tried to dock with the sound blaster audigy gold and squealed like a stuck pig.

I still remember the gut wrenching ear burning yell for help it made.

Installed the Aztech Nova 16 Extra sound card in my XT, working perfectly in an 8-bit ISA slot 😀