Accessory cards Uncategorized B.G. Micro Vocal Synthesizer Card February 17, 2024 / August 3, 2025 by mark | 2 Comments on B.G. Micro Vocal Synthesizer Card Our PC’s Limited (Dell) 286 computer came with a B.G. Micro vocal synthesizer card, which lets the computer “talk” in 1980s robot style. Two tantalum capacitors had failed on the board, so all were replaced. We showed it functioning in this restoration video: Photos Resources Resources we found related to this card components How it […] Read more » bgmicro dos synthesizer
Compaq PXE booting & NT install on the Compaq Deskpro February 7, 2023 / February 7, 2023 by mark | Leave a Comment After we recently added the Compaq Deskpro EN (Celeron 300A) system to our collection, I was eager to do a new OS install since the system seemed completely functional in original form. The machine came with both Windows 95 & NT badges, and we obviously decided to install NT since this was a business-class machine. […] Read more » compaq nt domain nt workstation windows nt
Dell PCs Pro200n power supply restoration January 2, 2023 / February 10, 2023 by serialadmin | Leave a Comment Ensuring that power supplies in vintage hardware are reliable and safe is extremely important. If voltage regulation in the supply were to suddenly fail, or even slowly fail over time, this can cause damage to downstream components that may be much harder to replace than the power supply itself. To that end, we’ve been working […] Read more »
IBM IBM ThinkCentre A30 8198 – Power on repair December 8, 2022 / April 14, 2023 by mark | Leave a Comment Some progress has been made on the IBM ThinkCentre 8198 PC. When I recently pulled the PC out of storage, it would not power on. At first I thought just the PSU (HIPRO HP-A2307F3P / IBM FRU 74P4300) was defective, since the PC would power on when connected to a modern Corsair PSU. However, the […] Read more » hipro thinkcentre
Packard Bell PCs Packard Bell Master Restore CD October 26, 2022 / January 29, 2023 by mark | Leave a Comment After installing a new 4GB CF card as HD replacement in the Packard Bell Platinum 2220, I’m attempting to restore the original Windows 95 OS with Packard Bell extras from the Master CD Archive.org has a great collection of original Packard Bell install discs, the Windows 95 group is here: https://archive.org/details/windows95mastercd My first attempt is […] Read more » Packard Bell PB Master CD Platinum 2220 Windows 95
PCs IBM ThinkCentre A30 IDE to SATA adapter August 14, 2022 / April 14, 2023 by mark | 1 Comment on IBM ThinkCentre A30 IDE to SATA adapter One thing people don’t miss about the “old” PC days is the old and slow mechanical hard drives. When we started working on the IBM ThinkCentre A30 system, its original Hitachi Deskstar 40GB IDE drive was particularly noisy. Windows XP was pretty slow to boot up as well. We purchased the NFHK SATA Disk to […] Read more » ibm thinkcentre ide to sata sata adapter ssd
