Vintage Computers

Gozzy said:
In my personal experience.

Most blue screens in order:
Windows 98 (non se)
Windows ME
Windows 95
Windows 98 SE

Since NT based Windows, I don't really count them anymore :p
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For me it was between 2000 or Me.

I lost 2 drives due to blue screens, want to avoid it.
 
My_King said:
For me it was between 2000 or Me.

I lost 2 drives due to blue screens, want to avoid it.
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Not sure why 2000 was such a bad experience for you, I have fond memories of it and generally it was quite a solid OS, I remember during the telkom R7 weekender days (cant rem 56k or isdn now), I could stay connected without much hassle compared to 98 where I had quite the opposite as my OS would crash quite a few times during the weekend....and I remember my Telkom bill was much less with Windows 2000 :D
 
My_King said:
For me it was between 2000 or Me.

I lost 2 drives due to blue screens, want to avoid it.
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Yeah, I had no problems with 98 SE.

I kept mine in tiptop shape for over a decade with no issues. Then I had the big brain idea to re-install one day and some drivers had advanced so far that they no longer wanted to do a clean install.
 
Interestingly, I had a client using ME. I cursed it for its lack of a proper DOS environment.

It never bluescreened on me though.

Neither did Vista.

But 95, 98, NT4, W2K, XP and 7 (and 10) also bluescreened on me. Win 8/8.1 slipped past me, never used it that much.
 
Is an AMD Sempron 3400+ too new to be called vintage? I have such a PC and its motherboard Is starting to give in and I'm busy getting the data off it and will have the CPU and memory available to flog soon.
 
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AnimateX said:
Is an AMD Sempron 3400+ too new to be called vintage? I have such a PC and its motherboard Is starting to give in and I'm busy getting the data off it and will have the CPU and memory available to flog soon.
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It's 20 years old, it's vintage. Just remember 20 years before it was 286.
 
Received video card from @Mike Angelo

It looks in good condition, but there are 4 caps that need to be replaced, which I'm going to do before powering it on. Don't want to risk damage to the card.

As it is, I will be replacing all 7 capacitors, just to be on the safe side.

edit : I have thanked him for this, and I appreciate it very much.

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Anyone need an S3 Trio 3D/2X AGP card? Found one in my stash and it is labelled as working but I can't test it currently.

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PCWARITM said:
I recall those well. I installed many in the 90s and IIRC owned one. Ook would probably want that!
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I just realised I got it confused with the S3 Trio 64V2 cards which were PCI and this one is AGP, apparently released in 1999. Yeah the S3 cards were quite popular back then, I still remember the S3 Virge cards back when 3D acceleration was being introduced.
 
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