Bringing an old PC back to life!

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 5:51 am

quake 1 doesnt need a real pentium cpu, it might say so, but i ran it on a 486 (stock speeds 50 mhz, Oced to 66) true the framerate was useless, but it worked

anyway, i wouldnt bother with a 486, go find yourself a P1 or P2, those machines have PCI slots, and that will allow for much easier upgrades then those ISA slots

if you lived anywhere near here (holland) i would have some EDO ram, a 200 meg hdd and a 16 bit creative soundblaster for you

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 6:16 am

25mhz? I wouldn't bother unless you can find a faster CPU.

SuperMegatron · Post by **SuperMegatron** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 1:03 pm

quzar wrote:I have never seen a stick of ram under 1MB, so that is probably 8mb.

my old 386 has 4 ram slots filled for a total of 2 megs of ram lol Way back in the day (8086/88) you had to push the individual chips directly into the motherboard I had a 8086 with 256k ram and I upgraded it to 640k by hand that was a job.

Firthy2002 · Post by **Firthy2002** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 2:01 pm

If it's a 486 machine you probably have EISA slots.

I'd use it for old games, but that's me.

MKE · Post by **MKE** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 2:32 pm

flea market's are gonna be your best friend finding part's for it.....

Post by **Quzar** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 4:25 pm

SuperMegatron wrote:
quzar wrote:I have never seen a stick of ram under 1MB, so that is probably 8mb.
my old 386 has 4 ram slots filled for a total of 2 megs of ram lol Way back in the day (8086/88) you had to push the individual chips directly into the motherboard I had a 8086 with 256k ram and I upgraded it to 640k by hand that was a job.

sticks != chips. I know that before EDO was standard there were smaller individual chips, but no sticks. I was gonna say a pair of sticks under 1mb since edo was pairs and i have seen sets labled as 1mb although i was unsure if it meant 1mb total or each =P.

spaghetti · Post by **spaghetti** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 5:30 pm

I'm surprised you'd go through so much work for an old machine. You could at least get into the Pentium-era for pocket change.

I had stacks of 486 machines I eventually just threw out because it just didn't seem worth the time or effort to get them running or get some money out of the parts.