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Ahhh the Golden Orb heatsinks. That brings back some memories!! The computer repair shop I used to work at in the early 2000's still had/sold those for even the Athlon Thunderbirds and Pentium IIIs. Part of me misses having a K6-2 system. Love the build, and glad to see someone else realizing...

Oof, I missed this thread so I'm coming in super late. @dgveedubbus89, if you have the DOS ASPI drivers for the card, I can add them into the pre-made DOS images on the BlueSCSI WiKi. Looks like it's a Xilinx chip on the card. Older non-Adaptec cards sometimes do have weird quirks. I have a...

I totally understand the Windows thing and hope it doesn't seem like I'm complaining or demanding. My only modern Mac is my 14 M1 MBP that isn't always where I'm at when I'm tinkering/working with a retro machine. More often than not it's my Windows gaming rig or Linux Bridge Box that I need to...

Is there a chance the Windows version can get updated? I realized today it's still lagging behind at version 1.5. 🥺

Good grief, I've let this lament way too long. I finished the bigger uplift with cleaning some sections up, removing old/no longer relevant menu options, and adding greatly expanded SCSI card/CD/removable drive support and have been using it for a little while now. Here it is in all its glory...

Closing thread, this is already in the proper place under Powerbooks and isn't a software related question. It's hardware related.

I wasn’t aware of the hardware checks but the P90 system I was using definitely does not have a Plug and Play BIOS. I have to set which ISA slots the PCI ones can share with.

It took me forever to find this, thanks to Adaptec having removed it from their website before they were shutdown/absorbed. While at that point everyone was already using the Windows SPTI mechanisms for 32-bit apps, some of us may still want/need the SDK for writing older 16-bit DOS/Windows...

I had a PB3400 who's power distribution board was ruined because of this. The leaking electrolytic from the batteries wicked right up and through the connecting wire. The laptops I've picked up since that's the first thing I do, yank the CMOS battery.

It's odd that the nforce4 board has a PCIe 4x lane but with a clip for a 16x card. Why not just use a 16x slot? #WeirdOEMDecisons My med-clouded humble opinion is go with the Opteron 170 for dual core and better IPC than the original Athlon 64s.

People - we're going to lock this thread for now - there's plenty here for the Board to ruminate on, lots of valid points both ways however we don't want the thread to degenerate into something that may cause an argument. Please refrain from continuing this via other means as well - best to just...

Moved this thread as I figured it was better suited to the Lab->Software section. I'm also debating now if "ADHD scope creep" might be worthwhile here. A lot of the features are pretty self-contained or easily chainable, like IDE/SCSI booting to a command prompt with CDROM drivers loaded. It...

Ohh, I see how it goes. "Hey does anyone have any suggestions for THING-X?" "Oh sure, do this!! *snicker snicker snicker*" :P I am kinda curious what tools are out there though, and it's not like I won't need to investigate boot chain loading anyways.

Do you have a favorite you like to use?

Hey fellow PC users! A long time ago, two decades at this point, I took the time to put together a bootable CD with the world's most convoluted series of nested DOS config.sys/autoexec.bat menus to get access to some commonly used utilities, speed up loading an OEM install of...

Sooo, I did finally get my PCI NIC working and managed to get NetDrive working. I ran into a couple of challenges. In MSDOS, SYS.COM just does NOT want to work on the netdrive. I can treat it as a plain storage volume, even format it, but thoughts of having it be a bootable/system drive to copy...

Some low/medium-density foam should do the trick. You need something mildly abrasive to help clean them but not scratch/gouge/wear out the rollers.

Ahh that's good then. Some older controllers really didn't like 1.44Mb drives and would result in data loss/corruption. Re: the solder job, it may not be pretty but if it works, it works. That's what counts in the end. :)

Oh and as for why you were getting speed errors, 720K disks are spin at a slower speed than 1.44MB disks, so yes the speed will be different and not match if you try to use a 1.44MB drive.

Judging from the photo, those two pads are already situated on two major buses. You should be able to scrape away some of the solder mask to use for the capacitor like so: