cobalt1959
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This is my first post and I hope this is in the right section. Mods, if not, feel free to move it to the correct section, but if you do please drop me a note via PM so I know how to find it as I am not familiar with the board yet.
I've been "dabbling" with old computers for a few years. The first one I did any work on, on my own, was an old Compaq Prolinea with a 1gb HD. I don't even remember the processor speed anymore. I am bad about picking up orphaned machines from friends or at thrift stores just to see if they work. I haven't always kept all the ones I had, much to my regret, as I never thought I would do anything with them. Shame on me.
Lately, I have been frequenting a little independent computer store not far from my house, and have been re-bitten by the "old computer" bug. At least, they are old to me. A couple of weeks ago, they had an HP 6640C mini-tower that they were giving away. It didn't take me long to get it up and running. But my latest acquisition has taken me 3 days to get going and it still has a few problems. It is the oldest computer I have so far. It is a no-name. There is no brand name on it anywhere, but it reminds me of the old Compaq Prolinea desktops meant to have the monitor set on top, although it's internal architecture is not the same. It has the paper tag for a local computer shop on the bottom, so I assume it was probably used in an office somewhere in town at one time. It did not have any memory in it and I put two 128mb sticks in it that I had laying around. It had a 2gb Quantum Fireball HD in it but I'm not sure it is any good. It would format but Windows 98SE would not install to it, it kept popping up an error message and would not let me continue. The specs:
Motherboard: Asus SP-98N
Onboard sound: Yamaha OPL3-SAx
2 PCI ports and one ISA port.
Slimline CD-ROM and one floppy drive. It has two USB port in the front and one in the back.
It has an on-board video card, but I put a Trident TGUI-9680 in it. This is where the problem comes in. It works fine, but in the Device Manager in Windows 98SE, it has the dreaded yellow question mark next to both the Trident Video card, and the on-board video card. I have disabled the on-board card and installed the Trident drivers, but it is still telling me that there is a port conflict. What next? I also tried installing a Creative ES1373 sound card in it. It would pick it up but I never got any sound out of it.
I gave $10 for it.
What is this thing?
I've been "dabbling" with old computers for a few years. The first one I did any work on, on my own, was an old Compaq Prolinea with a 1gb HD. I don't even remember the processor speed anymore. I am bad about picking up orphaned machines from friends or at thrift stores just to see if they work. I haven't always kept all the ones I had, much to my regret, as I never thought I would do anything with them. Shame on me.
Lately, I have been frequenting a little independent computer store not far from my house, and have been re-bitten by the "old computer" bug. At least, they are old to me. A couple of weeks ago, they had an HP 6640C mini-tower that they were giving away. It didn't take me long to get it up and running. But my latest acquisition has taken me 3 days to get going and it still has a few problems. It is the oldest computer I have so far. It is a no-name. There is no brand name on it anywhere, but it reminds me of the old Compaq Prolinea desktops meant to have the monitor set on top, although it's internal architecture is not the same. It has the paper tag for a local computer shop on the bottom, so I assume it was probably used in an office somewhere in town at one time. It did not have any memory in it and I put two 128mb sticks in it that I had laying around. It had a 2gb Quantum Fireball HD in it but I'm not sure it is any good. It would format but Windows 98SE would not install to it, it kept popping up an error message and would not let me continue. The specs:
Motherboard: Asus SP-98N
Onboard sound: Yamaha OPL3-SAx
2 PCI ports and one ISA port.
Slimline CD-ROM and one floppy drive. It has two USB port in the front and one in the back.
It has an on-board video card, but I put a Trident TGUI-9680 in it. This is where the problem comes in. It works fine, but in the Device Manager in Windows 98SE, it has the dreaded yellow question mark next to both the Trident Video card, and the on-board video card. I have disabled the on-board card and installed the Trident drivers, but it is still telling me that there is a port conflict. What next? I also tried installing a Creative ES1373 sound card in it. It would pick it up but I never got any sound out of it.
I gave $10 for it.
What is this thing?