u/IchRocke

After DAYS of tinkering.

It's finally alive and working perfectly fine on windows 98SE.

The culprit was ...

A dust bunny in the AGP slot.

PC would boot up just fine, but as soon as I tried to install the Nvidia Detonators it crashed.

Also crashed during the Windows XP install.

Ended up buying a Radeon 9200SE AGP and a NVS280 PCI to test everything, but when I saw the Radeon not booting I knew something was up...

Specs are :

AMD Athlon Slot A 700Mhz with Alphapal radiator (waiting for some noctuas...)

Ninja Free speed Pro (Not currently installed)

MSI 6167

3*128MB od SDRam PC133 @ 100Mhz

MSI GeForce 2 MX 400 64MB AGP / ATI Radeon 9200SE AGP 128 MB / Quadro NVS280 PCI 64MB

Sound Blaster Live 5.1

Maxtor 40Gb 7200rpm HDD (have some others I will try)

LG DVD Burner & CD Burner

Realtek network card

Via USB2.0 Card

iCute case with Noiseblocker S2 Fans

New Gigabyte P650SS power supply

Gateway 2000 Vivitron 1572 15" Monitor.

Cheapo "Amarina" keyboard from 15years ago at the supermarket.

Microsoft Intellimouse 3000 (had an white USB intellimouse, but every part broke when I disassembled it for retrobrihting... I'm looking for a good PS2 mouse now)

Even if it was stored in a binder, climate and water damage in the house was too much for this XP SP2 cd.

On holiday at my parents, I can finally take home my old CRT (15" Gateway Vivitron 1572)

For now it is plugged using a cheap HDMI to VGA adapter I *amazingly* found at the local supermarket (small coastal town) on my normal rig.

And I'll be bringing back my almost complete AMD Athlon slot A "gaming" rig (fingers crossed everything works)

Need to take better pictures, this one was mainly for the lolz

Show me your biggest lenses !

It's a Makinon 400mm for Pentax K with a Makinon Doubler and a K&F Concept K to E Mount adapter !

I only use it for Moon Shots in one take.

Show me your biggest lenses 🤣

This is a Makinon 400mm for Pentax K with a Doubler and the adapter from K to E.

I use it for astrophotography especially moon shots in one take.

Blue Joycon and Wiimote not included but I liked the combo !

Bought a pair for like 10$ including shipping, NOS.

Have been playing House Of The Dead Overkill, it's quite fun.

My beloved VCI400 started melting recently, the center cap that is used for tightening or loosening the jog is made of this awful rubbery plastic that was hype in the 2000's that melts ... (Think about laptop housings...)

But I had a feeling that the VCI 100Mk2 had the same center part in "hard plastic" given the silver color, so I bought one that was quite cheap (50€, at least cheaper than a 400..)

I'm now happy to say that the center caps are fully swappable !

I don't like the idea of stripping the 100mk2, but it's a temporary solution until I either 3D print the part, or find a junk unit !

The more you know !

My Vestax VCI400 center cap is almost gone (was checking if I was on the lightest setting)

Looking for spares ... But I'm almost tempted to unscrew everything and have a friend try to 3D Print the part.