Archive.org has old computer shopper magazines scanned.

These fans have a dead spot under the hub anyway. I wouldn't sweat it.

Got some good stuff in the mail today! Old and busted 20181020_115247.jpg Removed 20181020_115600.jpg New hotness 20181020_120807.jpg And what is this?! 20181020_120858.jpg ($12 GF2 GTS 32MB from eBay) But what happens when I hit the power?! 20181020_121624.jpg Hey, it's a 1GHz?! Sweet! I had no …

About 8-9 years ago, I bought a 32U 4 post rack, and it had three 4u servers in it. I'd gutted two of the servers and repurposed them as homes for Kentsfield Xeon machines, one as a storage server and the other as a VM host. The old hardware wasn't useful to me and I didn't have much interest for …

There's been some really awesome stuff posted here lately. I guess I'll add a few things to it that I've found in the last couple months... ohdear1.jpg Asus V6600 Deluxe Geforce 256 Geforce 3 Ti 500 Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM (Vision968) Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 (Virge VX) Creative CT6750 Voodoo …

What was that modified athlon ? The company Step Thermodynamics had overclocked hard-modded Athlons for sale. Mine was an Athlon 500@650 . I basically spent most of QuakeCon 2000 fighting graphics corruption issues on my system, after reinstalling Win98 multiple times. The board was too much …

I kind of tried to map out the x86 PC specs for my years of active gaming, mostly based on the highest model released by the end of that calendar year. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/179KefXohVEk4ik5xdmtYYt_oZlhch2rX_nwZyFNp7k4/edit?usp=sharing I don't know if it would be helpful for anyone. …

I hope you have good luck with that SD11. I had one when they were new, with a Step-Thermodynamics modified Athlon, and it was nothing but an intolerable stream of problems for me. I switched to an ABIT board and life was much better immediately. If it acts up, it's not just you.

I ordered a Dell GF2 GTS 32mb for $13.50 shipped. It should be here Tuesday.

Getting some beeps now after ESCD resets, one long three short - might be RAM, could still be the PSU being garbage. It did power off immediately when I pressed the power button and then it bumped the power about every 1.5 seconds. Replaced the cmos battery and now I get nothing :lol: Pulled the …

My first suspicion was a bad BIOS EEPROM, but a re-flash on a different known-good EEPROM gave identical results. New CMOS battery didn't help either. Regardless, if it doesn't boot for you, try repeated CMOS clear & ESCD resets. Getting some beeps now after ECSD resets, one long three short - …

I found a 4U server with an unknown chip on a Tyan S1854 Trinity 400 w 512MB of RAM. I reset the CMOS and still nothing. I'm going to pull the NIC and sound card tonight to see if that helps. I'll probably order a new PSU and a GF2. I don't have any other vintage gear after my fire, but I hope it …

I wonder if the product was available as part of the EZ-SCSI package, or it was only available as retail product under contract for high enterprise market only, because if it is, chances to find a copy to test it are low. Don't know about FreeBSD, but Solaris servers have an LSI Fusion-MPT …

I would like if you could explain us how OP is supposed to accomplish this. While i'm aware that this rare configuration is possible (connect 2 HBAs and make one of them work as SCSI target i mean), only a few Macs and some HBAs like LSI Ultra320 MPT allow to be used in this way, and in LSI HBA …

That stuff was hard to find even when it was being made! I remember I was pretty enamored with the concept at the time and I liked the idea more than RAMBUS or DDR.

I was thinking about this exact issue a few days ago. I came up with a possible, but high complexity solution, that I intend to try: If you could get an Adaptec 1542 or 2940 into them, you could make a SCSI target on another, more modern PC. You'd need to present an appropriately sized LUN from the …