Tonight's project: Cleaning and restoring a Windows 98 era

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Front

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Much dirty.

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Eeww.

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Getting there...

good ole pentium 4

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Much shiny.

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Reassembly begins.

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Fresh thermal.

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Gainward air blasted.

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Testing...

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It lives!

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And so it begins...

>>714497932
Holy shit that legacy
:)))))))

Thats like one of the 1st gen 3d cards ever, tnt?

And upon reboot she no longer posts... fml.

>>714498855

It's old for sure.

>>714498962
pull the CMOS battery and try again.

>>714499137

Swapping video cards atm. Powers on fine, just no picture.

>>714499249
sounds good OP. If that don't work try hitting the cards with some heat. I've revived 7800GTs with a a heat gun in the past

>>714499616

Video card swap - no dice.
CMOS - no dice.
Pulling RAM does make it angry... but that's the only response I'm getting now.

Shit.

Suspense is killing meeeeee

Also anyone know good win virtual thibgies? I have win8 and nothing befire 2013 works on it :(

Anything like dosbox but for windows?

>>714500101

Sorry bro. Dunno what killed it. Was rebooting to start Win 98 install and it never came back. Still working on it.

>>714500201
I for one am here with you while I clean my kitchen and make some damn hot chocolate.

Im neurotic as fuck and have been in a slump all month, but this thread made me want to clean up so I can get on my laptop and play old ass games. Also I have random towers to check out.
(I dont touch my technology if the house is a mess, I like things perrrrfect)

ITS BACK, Swapped out the RAM.

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It lives again with a fresh memory infusion.

>>714500785
play some unreal tournament

>>714500885
it's awesome how fast that game ran back then, and the beautiful, beautiful graphics

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WOuld you believe the mobo disc was actually in the drive? Sweetness.

>>714500885

Gotta get windows on it first.

>>714501032
>>714500885
Deck16 Nigga !!!

Hmmm.... not booting again.

starting to think one of the RAM slots is bad...

Ok, back to Win98 Setup...

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#Nostalgia

>>714501361
low grav mods were the shit. either rocket launcher or flak cannon were great if you know how to lead the targets

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Key installed. Almost there...

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Got your rig beat. CoCo w/ 4 kB RAM.

>>714502986

You win, sir.

about the codes, who can finish this one:
FCKGW-RHQQ2-

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>>714497932
cool, I've been working on this Pentium 3 box
for a bit now. trying to see if It would still be usable
for shitposting on 4chan and basic internet use

>>714503272

I've got a P3 800 I use for some old games. It does "ok" on the interwebs. You won't be streaming Netflix on it or anything, lol.

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Driver time!

>>714503677
Kudos. I'm glad that there are a few people left out there reviving these old towers. I may have to do the same.

>>714503444
yeah I wouldn't expect much from it because it is only a 866Mhz P3
but I think with a lightweight web browser and then selectively disabling javascript I might be able to browse comfortably.

I am thinking about trying to hunt down something other than the TNT2 that it currently has in it as well
but I really wish I still had some of my old dual Slot 1 systems around

Downloading Geforce 3 drivers now. Last release: 2005.

>>714503932

I do this quite often actually.

Currently copying all the Win98 cabs to the HD so it's not asking me for the disk every 5 fucking minutes. Remember that shit?

I want to do the same. You can't play old MSDOS games on newer PCs. I was playing Crono Trigger on SNES9X in 1998.

>>714504053

I know the feeling. I think of how much stuff I threw away that I'd love to have now... ugh.

My pride and joy years ago was a dual P3 650 w/ a Geforce 4 TI. I rocked that thing forever.

>>714504426

Agreed. "DOSbox" and shit like that just isn't the same.

>>714504675
Remember bootdisks
Awwwww:))))

Remember having to change your config sys and getting grounded cause you fucked up the Family pc?

I do.

>>714497932
awesome OP!!! great care and love put into this... if you want, when you're done, I'll buy it from you. I'll give you 10 dollars.

>>714504880

Yes.... or deleting command.com. oops.

>>714504962

Lol... this will be sold in the hundreds. Sorry bud.

>>714505076
kek! no it won't. OK. I'll make it 20

>>714505187

I frequently get in the $2-$300 range for customized systems like this. You'd be surprised how many people want to relive their DOS/Win9x glory days - and they will pay for it because you can't just buy this shit off the shelf anymore.

>>714500101
there's not much out there with proper gpu support or at least there wasn't last time i looked and virtualized gpu tends to be unsupported

>>714505381
Worth every penny

>>714505381
no... but you can find the parts on Craigslist or some garage sale for single digit prices. it's not like buying an old neo Geo. with working controllers.

>>714505804

Indeed. I put a lot of work into these. When this particular one is done it will be a dual boot and imaged for recovery purposes.

I've got 2 more on the back burner ready to be restored.

>>714505381
I'll give you 22 for it anon

>>714497932
i had that pretty much that exact build back in the day. Ati Rage vs geforce though

>>714506216

I've got a couple rages laying around here myself :) But none of them have 64 MB of RAM, so I've got them reserved for some "lower end" retro builds.

Update: Video/sound/LAN installed. Updating to Directx 9.0c. Looks like I need a USB patch too.

>>714506216
yeah mine was a 32 mb version as i recall.
The geforce cards were too spendy for a poor high school freshman with miserly parents

I have random parts and towers i can access, do you guys, or op have email or shit I can write to for reference if stuck?

I trust you more than google right now.

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>>714506216
>there are children playing video games today who weren't alive when ATI and AMD weren't shit

>>714506902

I'm OP. What are you looking to do with them?

>>714506921
You meann before ati sold its soul to amd

-____-

>>714507026
Make functional pcs from their components.

I have tbe bulk of a late 2012 pc
A win 95 pc
And my old one I built that the videocard blew and now wont boot for I forget what reasons(built in 2008)

>>714507240

Your late 2012 pc will have virtually no value atm. The Win95 one would to collectors.

>>714507381
To be honest It's more to get back in the saddle. I bought a laptop this year for my pc usage...

I just feel so overwhelmed with all this new stuff. I build my pc in 2007/8 and I was on top of all the tech and now im just lost.

>>714507381
i sold a 486dx2 66 for 250 a few weeks back.
found it at a fleamarket for 15 dollars.

>could have gotten more but the guy was a retro gamerbro so i let it go cheap

>>714507761

That's a fair price.

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>>714497932
>>714497932

get on my level pleb!!

>inb4 hurr durr ram speed, google DDR
>inb4 cpu speed, speccy doesn't show overclocks

>>714507856

*facepalm*

>>714507699

I'd help ya out but I'm reluctant to put my email address on 4chan.

>>714507856
what the hell kind of shit ram you have in that thing.
>spends 600 on water cooler instead of 60 on decent ram

>>714508071
I appreciate the thought tho!
Hows the work coming along?

>>714508683

I'm starting to think the mobo is flaky tbh. Prolly gonna be swapped.

anybody wants to buy my 3dfx voodoo card?

>>714509276
that s what I had back in the day. worth 2 dollars now

>>714508317

there's always one

DDR = double date rate
1333 x 2 = 2666

carmageddon made me buy that card.
it was the bomb back then.
and also those flash screensavers make it almost worth it.

>>714497932
That machine is NOT win 98 era.

I had a Pentium III when XP was coming out