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WTB Pentium 3 Laptop

VCFed about 3 months ago

Looking for a decently high spec (or at least upgradable) pentium 3 laptop on a budget, doesn't need to be in great shape. Hell as long as it works on an external display I don't care if the screen works. I expect a machine of this vintage to have a bad ba …

What is the fastest compatible Pentium 3 370 socket for motherboard jetway J-618AF (I have FP-i815 rev 2)

VCFed about 7 months ago

What is the fastest compatible Pentium 3 370 socket for motherboard jetway J-618AF (I have FP-i815 rev 2). Just picked MOBO 370 jetway J-618AF (I have FP-i815 rev 2) and noted it has a 400mhz celeron processor but my limited knowledge/research indicates i …
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Fujitsu Stylistic 3400

VCFed about 8 months ago

Well it seems one vintage portable escaped the culling. I found this while moving and finally pulled it out. Without the case: This is a Fujitsu Stylistic 3400, a pentium 3 tablet that ran windows 2000. I actually bought this while it was not …

General Old Hardware • Athlon motheboard recommendations

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi vogons I want to move the discussion about the athlon sytemPentium 3 1 GHz Tualatin or P3 1 GHZ Coppermine for Voodoo 3 200 agp cardhere in this very own thread. I want to build a althon system for late windows 98 gaming from 99 to 2001/2002. For …

General Old Hardware • To upgrade cpu or not to upgrade this is the question (pentium3)

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi guys I am back with another question ?.While researching for a neat cpu for my Gigabyte 586HX mb to move my planned second dos build forward I come across some offers for pentium 3 coppermine.Upgrading the cpu of my first rig (soc …

General Old Hardware • Motherboard with ps/2 keyboard connector somewhat broken.

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hello i got a motherboard QDI Legend Advance 9 with a Pentium 3, everything works as intended, except the keyboard ( ps/2 ). It does not respond, the three LED at the keyboard just randomly flash at the same time, and that's it. I tried with another keybo …

General Old Hardware • Pentium 3 1 GHz Tualatin or P3 1 GHZ Coppermine for Voodoo 3 200 agp card

Vogons about 10 months ago

I could not resist and pulled the trigger for a Voodoo 3 2000 AGP card. I want to build a second glide-only gaming rig with that cardThe main ingredients are rather certain for me already. I am going to use a socket 370 motherboard with either a fast p3 C …

General Old Hardware • My testing motherboard jumped some sparks at the RAM slot and died.

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hello everyone, i have no knowledges about fixing hw / electronics / soldering / replacing things and whatever.Anyway that happened, my motherboard Acer S61 ( Via Apollo Pro 133 + Pentium 3 500 mhz ) broke. I used that as test bench for months, i used to …

General Old Hardware • Dell Dimension XPS b733r Pentium 3 graphics

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hi,I wasn’t sure whether to post here or in the Video section as this question goes to both.I have the Dell mentioned in the subject line, but cannot find the CPU/Socket specs as I think that will play a role in upgrading the included Gforce 256 32mb 4x …

General Old Hardware • socket 370 i815 pentium 3 1 ghz coppermine or Athlon Xp 1600 for windows 98 gaming system

Vogons about 11 months ago

My previous plans lead to nowhere unfortunately but now I found someone who could build me my first Windows 98 with some spare parts left and I need some help again from your guys. The main field of use is games from 97 to 2000.The individual in question …

General Old Hardware • Windows 2k Sp3 vs SP4

Vogons about 11 months ago

I have aGigabyte ga-6vxe7+ pentium 3 coppermine 750mhz1.5GB 133MHZATI 9800 PRO 128mgAdaptec Array1000 "13 1u2" 3x scsi 9.3gb drives80gb IDEI was getting the old girl going agen I installed w2k sp4 and omg it was dog slow playing quake III Arena unplayabl …

Strange BSoD issues on a ThinkPad A22p

VCFed about 11 months ago

Snagged a ThinkPad A22p from the recent swap meet as untested for $5. If I can get it working it would make an amazing pentium 3 laptop as it’s got a 1.0GHz chip in it and an incredible 1600x1200 display. I found it missing its hard drive, RAM, and ultra …

General Old Hardware • Is there something like the ideal cpu for a specific gaming era

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hi vogons,As some of you might already know I am going to build late dos and early windows 98 pc soon.The mainboard for that build ( ASUS P2B with Pentium 2 400mhz) is already on the way to me via mail.My main gpu is either going to be a geforce 2 gts ( …

Sound • SB16 + GUS Classic + PCMIDI/MT-32 for DOS/Win3.11 - should this "just work"?

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hi all,I'm building a Pentium 133 MMX box for DOS (and occasional Windows 3.11) gaming, and have been buying components for it left and right. In the sound department, I've got a GUS Classic rev 2.4 coming in from eBay, and am about to bid on multiple SB …