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Post Pics of Old School Hardware "hard to find on the net"

Just Curious how long it takes to boot Vista on a P2 w/512 ram? 10 minutes?
 
Not very long honestly.

Getting past all the SCSi stuff takes longer.

But this has 1Gb of ram:)
 
Well I wonder if Windows 7 would work better than Vista. Seeing that it handles video cards more like XP as as far as I have heard.

So this evening a reinstall of 7 shall B done.:)

Then all post some SS of the "LOL Event"
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In vista you do want to turn off all the BS searches it's always doing. That really slows you down on the old CPU. So turn off super fetch/windows search/windows defender. It will just make you wait for stuff all the time.
 
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I'm surprised you even manage to get as far as you did DaMulta, good work.
 
DaMulta said:
Well I wonder if Windows 7 would work better than Vista. Seeing that it handles video cards more like XP as as far as I have heard.

So this evening a reinstall of 7 shall B done.:)

Then all post some SS of the "LOL Event"
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In vista you do want to turn off all the BS searches it's always doing. That really slows you down on the old CPU. So turn off super fetch/windows search/windows defender. It will just make you wait for stuff all the time.
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No kidding!! What, have you got a beta release of Windows 7?
 
Will have soon:)
 
cough cough cough torrent.

did i just say that?;)
 
binsky3333 said:
cough cough cough torrent.

did i just say that?;)
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:roll::roll::roll::roll: Well yea, I knew that LOLOLOL, I just figured that there was a link to somewhere on MS or something LOL
 
http://www.microsoftpdc.com/

Any of you going to hook up an old machine as well?>

I may go back down to 2k because it's lighter than XP is, and most of the drivers are really for that o/s......Also my XP CD is a Auto install Corp copy and I can't install raid drivers. I would have to install the O/s on a IDE or SATA(Sata depends on the motherboard)then copy the image to the raid drive after I installed the working raid driver inside windows.

Yep it's mess, but it just takes longer to install than win 2k :)
 

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Is that one yours?

Any cool games?
 
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Is that one yours?

Any cool games?
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Sadly not, wish it was, one in working order is worth a fair bit these days, and about the coolest games you could get for them were ones with little matchstick men trying to kick a ball into a goal! These were the pre pre pacman days lol
 
Hey Damulta, you should try cutting down Vista with vLite: remove the language packs and random crap you're not going to use and it'll be much faster.
Good luck with your project!
 
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Hey Damulta, you should try cutting down Vista with vLite: remove the language packs and random crap you're not going to use and it'll be much faster.
Good luck with your project!
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It's not bad how it is. I swear.

Just type services in the start menu and turn off the things that are always working when your working.

Also msconfig kill off all programs that start with vista. It's not like they are not going to work when you go and use them.
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I found some more old cards to post(very long), and I found 2 FM Hard Drives.

Post them in a few.




Tatty_One said:
Sadly not, wish it was, one in working order is worth a fair bit these days, and about the coolest games you could get for them were ones with little matchstick men trying to kick a ball into a goal! These were the pre pre pacman days lol
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Text games and IMO are still teh bomb.
I go look online every once in a while when I get bord for one to play, but you can't find any good ones like the old ones. It makes me want to hook the radio shack pc I have, and see what kind of games it has.


Hmmmm
 
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DaMulta said:
It makes me want to hook the radio shack pc I have, and see what kind of games it has.


Hmmmm
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Holy crap! An old Trash 80?
 
this thread has given me a huge semi :eek:

well im on the lookout now for all old hardware as thats going to be my next case mod, basically im going to stick on my soprano all kinds of cool and old hardware in an arty kind of fashion to the outer of my case.

ive started by taking the front face off an old hdd to reveal the arm and disc and proceeded to stick it on my soprano and it might just be the 8 cans of stella ive drink, but i think it looks mighty fine and has given me the basis of a cool pimped out case :D (obviopusley seeing it sober i will pass further judgment :p)

am looking further than the hdd and am aiming to glue/epoxy all sorts of hardware to this case to make a unique case mod. obviousley its not going to be the most lan party friendly but will defo be a talking point, and i welcome any ideas
 
stinger608 said:
Holy crap! An old Trash 80?
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Not sure which one it is, but it looks like this. It has all sorts of mods seeing that's what my dad did for fun when he bought it.
I think there are two 5 1/2 drives, and two cases of disc for it.




The one I have is buried under all sorts of boxes. It will take me a little bit of work to get it out. + I can't see in the attic at night:roll:I'll post it when I get it all together.
 
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The one I have is buried under all sorts of boxes. It will take me a little bit of work to get it out. + I can't see in the attic at night:roll:
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Who needs tri sli when you've got a 128k colour computer
 
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DaMulta said:
http://www.microsoftpdc.com/

Any of you going to hook up an old machine as well?>

I may go back down to 2k because it's lighter than XP is, and most of the drivers are really for that o/s......Also my XP CD is a Auto install Corp copy and I can't install raid drivers. I would have to install the O/s on a IDE or SATA(Sata depends on the motherboard)then copy the image to the raid drive after I installed the working raid driver inside windows.

Yep it's mess, but it just takes longer to install than win 2k :)
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Use nLite to slipstream the card's drivers into an install disc. It's not hard to do.
 
LOL when I seen this!!!

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OK....I didn't have the tri-pod family sleeping in that room....if they need to be retaken let me know.



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LOL not "1" PCI slot on that motherboard.

everything that was in the box
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This ONLY a CD-ROM card/CD Only Audio!!!!
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No game port only external CD-ROM support
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SB16 drivers

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Dont have the system......dont know why


not mine
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My stuff

:rockout:
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:rockout::rockout::rockout::rockout:
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Lots more to come/:toast:
 
I think I still have a stack of 5 1/4" floppies around here somewhere.
 
Lol, worryingly I just had flashbacks of a former computing life :eek: I have just been getting some Christmas stuff down from the loft for "her indoors" and found two Sega master systems II, I thought, ahhhh these arent too old, then I looked at the box and saw 1989....thats nearly 20 years old and these babies are in mint with some games, might see if they will fetch something on fleabay :wtf:
 

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I'd test if the games work since I assume they've already been out the box right? Left my dreamcast alone for 2 years, came back to it and it freezes up after 10 minutes playing/ it won't recognise any discs. Awesome bits of hardware btw.
 
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