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IBM PC300GL 6563 Bios Update

Posted on 2014-12-29, 19:02

in Milliways

i need the bios update for this PC. I cant find it, been searching for 2 hours already... I need to switch from a Katmai 550Mhz to a Coppermine 1Ghz/100Mhz FSB the name of the update is pjjt41a.exe any ideas?

Re: Building High-End PC 2004

Posted on 2014-12-28, 15:53

by Living

in Marvin \ System Specs

Back in the day i had that MSI. GREAT motherboard BUT... DONT use the dual channel, its unstable and u will get Bsods every 1 or 2 hours.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2014-11-19, 13:23

by Living

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

RacoonRider wrote: Got married, does that count? More retro everiday, ppl nowadays tend to not marry Aniway, congratz 😀

Re: Best Printers for 90's computers.

Posted on 2014-11-10, 19:32

by Living

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Any love for Epson? I had the stylus 300 back in 98 (super slow and the ink was extremely cheap, 5 dollars tri color cartridge and 3 black) Then in 2000 the stylus 480 (same above) Then in 2005 the stylis 777 (cheap but this one came with chips in the cartridge) And finally in 2007 the Cx3900 wich …

Re: Artex's Build of the Week: 1998 was great!

Posted on 2014-11-08, 15:35

by Living

in Marvin \ System Specs

Where do u store all the computers? 1 each week, that means 52 per year...

Re: IBM PC-300PL - Diamond powered!

Posted on 2014-11-01, 11:53

by Living

in Marvin \ System Specs

I had the spaceOrb 360 and believeme, i couldnt find any game that took full advantage of that weird controller, it just felt akward the whole month i tried it... BTW, there's no point on having a voodoo 2 sli when you can use a v3 2000 and play all the games that can run in a pentium 2 (even a TNT2 …

Re: NFS Porsche problem

Posted on 2014-10-26, 17:46

by Living

in Windows

same here with k6-2 500 + Voodoo 3 2000. i remember back in 2000 i had a K6-2 500 with Aopen PA3000 32MB (TNT2 M64) and it ran just fine even in 1024 x 768...

Re: Your favorite retro apps?

Posted on 2014-10-17, 02:00

by Living

in Milliways

Photo Finish 3.0 (I don't like the changes made to version 4). hands down, the best retro photo editor EVER and my favorite program in my first computer http://s23.postimg.org/nbq06frbv/pf31.jpg http://s23.postimg.org/nczxzut5n/pf231.jpg combined with this http://www.tcocd.de/Pictures/Peripheral/ …

Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2014-10-09, 13:25

by Living

in Marvin \ System Specs

http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w515/laxdragon42/2011_newman_mancave3_zps5b39de4c.jpg My current Gamer Rig: MSI ZH77A-G43 ATX motherboard (LGA1155, Intel H77) in custom built system Intel Core i5-3570 [22nm Ivy Bridge Quad Core, 3.4GHz, 6 MB L1 cache] 16.0 GB of GSkill DDR3 1600 RAM (4x 4GB) …

Re: Upgraded cache but...

Posted on 2014-10-07, 15:59

by Living

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cant see that boost here

Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-09-30, 19:45

by Living

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Did u try an ssd in that pc? That p4 has one of the worst performance per watt

Re: Efficiency clock per clock

Posted on 2014-09-29, 03:22

by Living

in Milliways

i did'nt include pre coppermine processors because Feipoa did some benchs about those and its very clear. Besides im interested in processor's that can actually outperform something that is selling new (atom for example) im saying in general use. Several times i wondered how the f*** an AIO can come …

Efficiency clock per clock

Posted on 2014-09-29, 01:42

by Living

in Milliways

how its compared today's processors clock per clock with the processors from 10 years ago? i mean, wich is faster? i need to know some order for the arquitectures / Core names, i get lost since Bulldozer came out really, i dont even know how the Apus actually perform (a4, a6, etc)... this is what i …

Re: What were your first computer(s)?

Posted on 2014-09-14, 02:29

by Living

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

my first computer and Family's computer was a 2nd hand custom made PC back in august 1998 when i was 12. Ciryx/AMD 486 DX-2 66Mhz 8MB Ram Pcchips M919 Conner 100MB Oak Oti077 1MB ISA Olivetti Black n White VGA monitor OS: Windows 3.11 in the next six months "upgraded" to: AMD 486 DX-4 100Mhz 32MB …

Re: Old harddrives -- any love?

Posted on 2014-09-13, 20:56

by Living

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

why? just make an image backup of the whole Hard drive once you done.

Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-09-11, 17:04

by Living

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No one mention GTA 3 GTA 4 Both had poor optimization o none Gta 3 had that famous problem with geforce and Windows xp that required a patch Gta 4 couldnt even run decent in a quad core with 8800gtx 320mb

Re: Does this look like a murder weapon?

Posted on 2014-08-21, 05:07

by Living

in Milliways

Internet? Multimedia? Gaming? With the new super programmable 9 button Master Mouse System you can even use it as a telephone! More memory than your average 80s home computer! Hell, you could even rig an monitor to this sucker and use it to play some Bomb Jack 2! 8200 DPI Super Ultra Laser Sensor! …