Hi all ! I own an old Zenith Z89 (dating back 1981 !), still powering on and working (CPM 2.2 and HDOS). But it has a small display issue. When the machine is heating on, the display starts moving left and when reaching left side of the screen, it wraps and double width to the right. After a few minutes on, the first columns become unreadable. I guess it's a component getting old and failing, but I wonder which one. If anybody here has an idea, it would be appreciated !

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Hi everyone, first post here.

I recently started tinkering with a really old PC in order to get it back in shape and transform it into a battle station of sorts.

I didn't really run into any issues but one: fan speeds.

My Motherboard is a Jetway 695AS, and as of now I have no idea how to control the fan speeds.
This PC has two 3-pin fans installed by me +1 for the CPU. All of them always go to the max from the start (4500ish RPM).

What I tried until now:

- Tried to find some options to change the fan speeds from Bios only to find menus that give me temperatures and speeds, but no control over them;
- Installed SpeedFan and HWMonitor only to discover I can't control them from the program itself;
- Found a Motherboard Driver CD from archive.org that didn't really do anything, so my guess is the CD didn't get burned well enough.

The PC used to have Windows ME installed from stock, but at some point it got updated to XP. I have no idea on how to proceed with this, honestly.
Do you have suggestions on how to change fan speeds on this motherboard? Google has not helped until now.

is there a way to emulate the special keys of the pdp-11 keyboard

Got this machine for free from a friend, hard drive still works and sound healthy. With original copy of Compaq branded Windows 3.1

wondering if anyone running a samtron has any links to a vga to hdmi adaptor that works for their monitor? mine doesnt seem to read the port but it does recognise the connection just wont show the image on the monitor (flashing light) cheers!!!

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I love the look of sleeper pcs but i dont own a dremel, nor do i want do. Does any company make a modern case that looks 80s/90s-y? I need something BEIGE

The original, first to 1GHz K75 Athlon Orion. It’s running on an Asus K7V with the finicky Via KX133 chipset. Believe it or not it runs 4x AGP to an original GeForce 3 and also runs 3 interleaved Crucial 256MB pc133 cl2 sticks. Machine currently runs windows 2000 sp4. Sound blaster live gold (original 4 channel). Two Netac 120gb SATA SSDs on the onboard ATA 66 with two Seagate 1TB drives in RAID 1 off the highpoint rocket raid 133 controller. A 1Gb Intel PCI NIC rounds it out. It constantly changes but it’s nearing its final form.

Got some from my old PC's and from broken PC's at work and started sticking it to my work screen.

I've recently acquired an old Monterey K104 mechanical keyboard, and I've had some trouble getting it to work on my modern Windows 10 machine.

I have it plugged in with an AT to PS/2 Adapter, with the AT/XT switch on the bottom set to AT (it also has an S option, haven't found what this means yet). It's detected in device manager as a standard PS/2 keyboard, and the NUM/CAPS Lock lights light up when I press them on my regular keyboard, but nothing happens when I press any of the keys. I've also tried a PS/2-USB adapter, but I think the keyboard part of that has been busted for at least 10 years and the lights don't even light up. I'm plugging it in only when the computer is off, too.

I even tried a registry editor trick I found on google, setting the "Start" DWORD in Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt to 1 or 0 and restarting, but that didn't help either.

I have plenty of retro systems with PS/2 and AT that I can test it with, but I won't have access to them for at least a few days, and I'd like to know if there's anything I'm missing. For reference, my motherboard is an ASRock Fatal1ty X470 Gaming-ITX/ac.

Hello wonderful people, I'm nearing my computer build, but I was trying to find a CPU fan that is compatible with my CPU.

I notice there are a couple Startech CPU's that are compatible with the Socket 370, I was wondering if any of you wonderful people had any experience and see if they work?

I see the TX3 Size and the TX3 & LP4 sizes.

Any of those do you think would work? Or do you have other preferences I should look into.

Thank you.

Hi,
I'm sick of the classics Windows 95 wallpapers. So i wanted to change it. But, windows 95 seems to only accept bitmap pictures. And all the old websites with a collection of wallpaper only have jpeg pictures.

Then i deciced to convert files from jpeg to bmp. This is easy, with tools online or software to download. But all my new bmp files have been refused by windows 95 to be wallpapers !

So, is there some tricks to convert a proper bmp file for Windows 95, or a library online with wallpapers ready to use for Win95 ?