Thread by @RetroTechChris

I have a bunch of things to test out! We won't get through all of them, but let's test what we can. We'll use the Pacman PC for our test rig. Let's go! Time for a 🧵

First, we'll test some PSUs. Yes, I know, this is risky, I am ok with that. The Antec ATX PSU that I tested had a "whine" to it, so I pulled it. The Enlight ATX PSU tested fine. I let the system boot into Hannah Montana Linux and set for a few minutes! Pass.

Let's test this Creative optical. The last time I did some testing, it tested bad, but I believe in second changes. Sadly, not even a lens cleaning could save it. Fail.

I have two Trident PCI video cards that I had tested in the Foto Fantasy PC. Let's make sure they still work after being in that unstable beast. And indeed they do. Good. Pass.

I have these two Cirrus Logic GD-5401 cards. Testing these in a Pentium III system feels wrong, we'll do it anyway. Look how slow the screen draws 😂. And the "snow" you see is the card attempting to go into an unsupported video mode. These cards are fine. Pass.

I have a Matrox MGA PCI card. Sadly, we're getting the beeps of death. I will try this on another PC later though just to confirm. Fail, for now.

I have two Adaptec AHA-2940AU PCI SCSI cards. We'll test these out with a 4GB Seagate Barracuda drive!

I had to go into the Adaptec BIOS utility to configure the card a bit. And the drive was not detected by my boot manager, so I formatted it. But even after that, it was acting weird. What's going on?

Well, I've actually been here before. This card has a buggy BIOS, but it is an easy fix. With a little BIOS upgrade, we should be good.

https://x.com/RetroTechChris/status/1830093029463470177

After flashing the new BIOS, we are now in business! Drive detected by my boot manager, so I installed a fresh copy of it.

I had also purchased this 50 pin to 25 pin SCSI slot adapter. Let's test it out with my Zip 100 plus drive

I'm happy to report it works great! I took the opportunity to verify the red Zip 100 disk that lives in this PC. And, not surprisingly, it had some bad blocks. But the SCSI utilities relocated them for us. Great!

I thought I would test this 3Com Etherlink III card. And unfortunately, it doesn't work in this PC. Perhaps my Ali Express mobo has ISA issues, so we will test again later in another system.

And finally I decided to test this SMC based ISA network card. It seems to have issues as well with MS LAN Manager in this PC, so we will test it elsewhere... later.

Anyway, that will do it for now, thanks for following along!

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