TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Greenslade · Sep 10, 2023

68Olds said:
I found the driver download for it. Don't know anything about it though.
Muse LT - Hercules - Support website

Thanks. 68Olds.

I take it must be a very basic card.

MSDOS Retro · Sep 10, 2023

Does anyone know a site where I can find a "last hour", original iso from Windows 7?
I have original key, and i want an ISO that contains all updates, so i dont have to go find every update from the internet, and take any risks.

I want it on my HP Z210, without going online with it.

RJARRRPCGP · Sep 10, 2023

Remeca said:
Pulled the old Dell Dimension 5150 out of the closet.
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Oh no. There's a bad cap on the lower right. It's got the classic dome-of-doom!

Remeca · Sep 10, 2023

RJARRRPCGP said:
Oh no. There's a bad cap on the lower right. It's got the classic dome-of-doom!

I didn't notice that. Hopefully it's not important. I did pull out the other old Dell last night (Inspiron 530), and installed Vista on it with the HD 4850. I can install XP on that too if I need to.

MaxiPro800 · Sep 10, 2023

Not gonna spoil more than a name for my potential upcoming project:

MSI.

Hints: green, 4x SDR.

lexluthermiester · Sep 11, 2023

Greenslade said:
I got these from the market today all for £5 along with a 80GB IDE HDD.Does anyone know about the soundcard ? I guess as it is going for £6 on eBaty ot can,t be much of a card.I think getting all that for a £5 poind is a barginAll though not tested yet.

Hercules Game Surround Muse Lt PCI Sound Card 819 5058977 i can,t see a utube video on it.

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The card pictured was a fairly good budget sound card for the day. It was better than onboard sound, but not as good as SoundBlaster offerings. Kinda inbetween. It did a good job for what it was and the price paid.

Greenslade said:
Have any of you had or got one of these?

I've seen one, it was a novelty and a nice one. Not greatly practical or useful though.

68Olds said:
I found the driver download for it. Don't know anything about it though.
Muse LT - Hercules - Support website

Nice find!

Greenslade · Sep 11, 2023

lexluthermiester said:
The card pictures was fair good budget sound card for the day. It was better than onboard sound, but not as good as SoundBlaster offerings. Kinda inbetween. It did a good job for what it was and the price paid.

I've seen one, it was a novelty and a nice one. Not greatly practical or useful though.

Nice find!

Thats what i thought a very basic card.I would have thought you would all have thought that the two Sapphire Vapor-X HD4890 Graphics Card 288-1E115-020SA HDMI VGA DVI-I DisplayPort that sound card and the 80gb was a very good deal for just £5 I certainly do.

How would you like to buy a fully new Windows 98 Pc well you can ,provoded you have loads of money

custum built PC ,s with new stock.

I have just done a speed test crystal Diskmark on Samsung Bar plus and shocked at the teribly results

I bought them
from ebay see the scores below. :rockout:

They have to be fake with scores like that

They were in the packagine.I think i only have the packagine for one of them.

The proce was a giveaway at less than £20 for two 128gb.I see one of them on amazon costs over £25.Have any of you neen caught out buying getting fake flash drives or sd cards?Why does the speed test take so long before it even starts?

Greenslade · Sep 12, 2023

See my post about *Fake flash drives and SD cards.*

The Krull · Sep 12, 2023

hi all, here is my contribution to tpu nostalgic hardware. a quantum scsi ultra 80 lvd. still working this pci card are autodetecteable for windows in installation. from a compaq presario not a comon card. pci pnp , from my collection , very large pci card

jallenlabs · Sep 12, 2023

Youre getting a Dell! J/K. Check out this old beast I have (dell dimension 4100). Running XP and it works great, slow, but great.

Here are another old piece of sweet gear. ATI FireGL.

Greenslade · Sep 13, 2023

I just got this weird message from a Chinese seller on eBay ,
*Now it is served by chat robot.
Thanks for your kindly reply.
It is our honor to do business with you.
Anything I can do for you, please feel free to contact me.
You can reply "I need manual service" to ask the customer service girl to solve the problem for you.Usually they will reply you within 48 hours.If you can't wait, recovery robot.
from chatbot* ?

lexluthermiester · Sep 13, 2023

Greenslade said:
I just got this weird message from a Chinese seller on eBay ,
*Now it is served by chat robot.
Thanks for your kindly reply.
It is our honor to do business with you.
Anything I can do for you, please feel free to contact me.
You can reply "I need manual service" to ask the customer service girl to solve the problem for you.Usually they will reply you within 48 hours.If you can't wait, recovery robot.
from chatbot* ?

I've had that same experience with a few sellers on Ebay. Ultra lame.

Greenslade · Sep 14, 2023

Motherboard
GA-P55-UD3 £4
with upgraded X3450 £5
Sapphire HD 4890 Vapor-X OC 1 GB which must have cost £2 bearing in mind i git another one of thouse and a 80gb ide drive and the Hercules soundcard all for £5.
4GB.Crucial RAM,off a Msi 775 board that cost £5 that i Failed to get to work.
The ssd card is an old one as you can see from the speed test.
The Windows 7 pro disk came with the heavy old PC case i got for £5.It is only 32 bit though.
So i can say this one is done.
Now i will start on my other boards.

New from our old mate Phil.

.

I want to get Wndows ME on one of my Retro boards

boomstik360 · Sep 14, 2023

Open box BFG 9800 GTX+ (I remember having two or three in SLI at one point back in the day) lol

Sealed first Gen Core i7 975 Extreme Edition

Sealed AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ AM2

More to come!

lexluthermiester · Sep 15, 2023

Greenslade said:
I want to get Wndows ME on one of my Retro boards

WinME is easy to install. If you want some tips on making it run at it's very best, let me know when you're getting ready and I'll walk you through it.

boomstik360 · Sep 15, 2023

Worth while addition?

lexluthermiester · Sep 15, 2023

boomstik360 said:
Worth while addition?

Not only was that a solid GPU for the midrange sector, it was a very good version of that GPU. MSI did good work back then!

boomstik360 · Sep 15, 2023

lexluthermiester said:
Not only was that a solid GPU for the midrange sector, it was a very good version of that GPU. MSI did good work back then!

I’m thinking the same. I was always intrigued by MSI but hadn’t tried them until a bit later on. I’m trying to nab a 6800GT as well lol.

lexluthermiester · Sep 15, 2023

boomstik360 said:
I’m trying to nab a 6800GT as well lol.

Are you collecting? Or will you be using them for some retro gaming?

boomstik360 · Sep 15, 2023

lexluthermiester said:
Are you collecting? Or will you be using them for some retro gaming?

Collecting but both as well.

The retro gaming is easily done with an emulator so that’s not big of a deal. I just like the old hardware with original boxes. Super cool to have and look back when you have the storage space!

basco · Sep 15, 2023

my agp mobos:

Athlon 2200:

sparkle 8800gts 512:

gtx285 with EK waterblock:

Apocalypsee · Sep 15, 2023

lexluthermiester said:
WinME is easy to install. If you want some tips on making it run at it's very best, let me know when you're getting ready and I'll walk you through it.

I had nightmares literally with ME, need to reformat every week or so because its so unstable. This was way back then, I either downgrade to 98SE or upgrade to 2000.

lexluthermiester · Sep 15, 2023

Apocalypsee said:
I had nightmares literally with ME, need to reformat every week or so because its so unstable.

I've heard about those horror stories. Only ever saw it once. It was a combination of misconfigured drivers and misconfigured Windows settings, both easily fixed if you were aware of the problem.

Apocalypsee · Sep 15, 2023

lexluthermiester said:
I've heard about those horror stories. Only ever saw it once. It was a combination of misconfigured drivers and misconfigured Windows settings, both easily fixed if you were aware of the problem.

I was a teenager back then so idk whats the core problem of it, I try to restore via system restore (it was the first to have it iirc?) but its not working. You have any article/videos or something for me?

lexluthermiester · Sep 15, 2023

Apocalypsee said:
I try to restore via system restore (it was the first to have it iirc?) but its not working.

Ironically, that was part of the problem. WinME's System Restore was broken and needed to be disabled right after install. The Network config also needed help. Then the chipset, network and display drivers required WDM versions for stability. VXD drivers could be used for other hardware, but it was best to use the WDM's if available.

System Name	HP Z400
Processor	Intel Xeon X5687
Motherboard	Z400 6 DIMM Version
Cooling	Stock High Performance
Memory	6 x 4GB 1600MHz (Total 24GB)
Video Card(s)	Nvidia Quadro K4000 3GB
Storage	Samsung 830 256GB - Patrion Burst 128GB - Crucial MX500 1TB
Display(s)	3 x HP EliteDisplay 241i
Case	HP Z400
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Stock 475 Watt
Mouse	Logitech M500 Corded
Keyboard	HP KU-0316
Software	Zorin OS PRO 16.3 / Fedora 38

System Name	KHR-1
Processor	Ryzen 7 5800X
Motherboard	ASRock B550 PG Velocita
Memory	16 GB A-Data XPG Spectrix D41
Video Card(s)	Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6750 XT
Storage	Western Digital Black SN850 1 TB NVMe SSD
Display(s)	Samsung Odyssey G40B 27-inch
Case	Corsair 275R
Audio Device(s)	Technics SA-EX140 receiver with Polk VT60 speakers
Power Supply	eVGA Supernova G3 750W
Mouse	Logitech G Pro (Hero)
Software	Windows 11 Pro x64 22H2

System Name	myPC
Processor	i5-11600k @ stock
Motherboard	Asus TUF Z590 Gaming Plus
Cooling	Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB DDR4 3200
Video Card(s)	Asus Dual RTX 3060 ti
Storage	Boot: WD Black SN770 1TB - Game Storage: WD Black SN770 2TB - Other Storage: 4TB
Display(s)	Samsung Odyssey G5 curved 27" 1440p 144hz
Case	Thermaltake v100 perforated
Audio Device(s)	Some headphones and some speakers
Power Supply	Gigabyte UD750GM
Mouse	Logitech G203
Keyboard	Redragon K509
Software	W11 Pro

System Name	Star Platinum
Processor	Intel Core i5-3470 3.20GHz
Motherboard	Gigabyte B75M-D3H
Cooling	EKL
Memory	16GB DDR3-1600
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte GTX650 1GB GDDR5
Storage	2x Seagate ST31000340NS 1TB SATA II
Display(s)	Samsung 32 inch
Case	Delux MG760
Audio Device(s)	Realtek High Definition Audio + X-Fi XtremeGamer SB0730
Power Supply	FSP Bluestorm II 500W
Mouse	Marvo KM400 Mouse
Keyboard	Marvo KM400 keyboard
Software	Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 1809

System Name	Core
Processor	Intel 12700k
Motherboard	ASRock z690 Extreme
Cooling	Artic Cooling Freezer 420 AiO
Memory	GSkill 32GB 3600mhz Cas 18
Video Card(s)	Nvidia RTX 3090 FE
Storage	Optane 900p x1, SK Hynix p41 Pro
Display(s)	ACER 250hz 1080p 25" IPS display
Case	Phanteks Evolve X with all Noctua Redux fans
Audio Device(s)	Schiit Dac, SMSL and Yamaha amps with Polk Audio speakers and Altec Lanzing THX sub
Power Supply	EVGA 1300w Plat.+
Mouse	Corsair Sabre Champion
Keyboard	Corsair mech
Software	Win 11 Pro
Benchmark Scores	3dmark TimeSpy 20240

TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Greenslade

MSDOS Retro

RJARRRPCGP

Remeca

MaxiPro800

lexluthermiester

Hercules Game Surround Muse Lt PCI Sound Card 819 5058977 i can,t see a utube video on it.

Greenslade

Thats what i thought a very basic card.I would have thought you would all have thought that the two Sapphire Vapor-X HD4890 Graphics Card 288-1E115-020SA HDMI VGA DVI-I DisplayPort that sound card and the 80gb was a very good deal for just £5 I certainly do.

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Greenslade

Sapphire HD 4890 Vapor-X OC 1 GB which must have cost £2 bearing in mind i git another one of thouse and a 80gb ide drive and the Hercules soundcard all for £5.
4GB.Crucial RAM,off a Msi 775 board that cost £5 that i Failed to get to work.

The ssd card is an old one as you can see from the speed test.

The Windows 7 pro disk came with the heavy old PC case i got for £5.It is only 32 bit though.

So i can say this one is done.

Now i will start on my other boards.

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boomstik360

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lexluthermiester

boomstik360

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lexluthermiester

boomstik360

lexluthermiester

boomstik360

basco

Apocalypsee

lexluthermiester

Apocalypsee

lexluthermiester

System Name	Always changing
Processor	Always changing
Motherboard	Always changing
Cooling	Always changing
Memory	Always changing
Video Card(s)	Always changing
Storage	Always changing
Display(s)	Always changing
Case	Always changing
Audio Device(s)	Always changing
Power Supply	Always changing
Mouse	Always changing
Keyboard	Always changing

System Name	ibuytheusedstuff
Processor	5960x
Motherboard	x99 sabertooth
Cooling	old socket775 cooler
Memory	32 Viper
Video Card(s)	1080ti on morpheus 1
Storage	raptors+ssd
Display(s)	acer 120hz
Case	open bench
Audio Device(s)	onb
Power Supply	antec 1200 moar power
Mouse	mx 518
Keyboard	roccat arvo

Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
Motherboard	Gigabyte B450M-S2H
Cooling	Scythe Kotetsu Mark II
Memory	2 x 16GB SK Hynix OEM DDR4-3200 @ 3666 18-20-18-36
Video Card(s)	Galax GTX 1070 Katana 8GB
Storage	250GB WD BLACK SN750 M.2 + 4TB WD Red Plus HDD
Display(s)	AOpen 27HC5R 27" 1080p 165Hz
Case	Tecware Nexus M white
Audio Device(s)	Creative X-Fi Titanium HD + Kurtzweil KS-40A bookshelf
Power Supply	Corsair CX750M
Mouse	Razer Deathadder Essential
Keyboard	Cougar Attack2 Cherry MX Black
Software	Windows 10 Pro 22H1 x64

TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Hercules Game Surround Muse Lt PCI Sound Card 819 5058977 i can,t see a utube video on it.​

Thats what i thought a very basic card.I would have thought you would all have thought that the two Sapphire Vapor-X HD4890 Graphics Card 288-1E115-020SA HDMI VGA DVI-I DisplayPort that sound card and the 80gb was a very good deal for just £5 I certainly do.​

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New Member

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Sapphire HD 4890 Vapor-X OC 1 GB which must have cost £2 bearing in mind i git another one of thouse and a 80gb ide drive and the Hercules soundcard all for £5. 4GB.Crucial RAM,off a Msi 775 board that cost £5 that i Failed to get to work.​

The ssd card is an old one as you can see from the speed test.​

The Windows 7 pro disk came with the heavy old PC case i got for £5.It is only 32 bit though.​

So i can say this one is done.​

Now i will start on my other boards. ​

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Hercules Game Surround Muse Lt PCI Sound Card 819 5058977 i can,t see a utube video on it.

Thats what i thought a very basic card.I would have thought you would all have thought that the two Sapphire Vapor-X HD4890 Graphics Card 288-1E115-020SA HDMI VGA DVI-I DisplayPort that sound card and the 80gb was a very good deal for just £5 I certainly do.

Sapphire HD 4890 Vapor-X OC 1 GB which must have cost £2 bearing in mind i git another one of thouse and a 80gb ide drive and the Hercules soundcard all for £5.
4GB.Crucial RAM,off a Msi 775 board that cost £5 that i Failed to get to work.

The ssd card is an old one as you can see from the speed test.

The Windows 7 pro disk came with the heavy old PC case i got for £5.It is only 32 bit though.

So i can say this one is done.

Now i will start on my other boards.