Now I remember, definitely someone had imported the Time PC into Saudia Arabia's market. It was a beautiful mall of PC shops, of which 90% of the shops have closed. We also had the PC Zone magazine, I took courage and bought one issue in 97, featuring Destruction Derby2 on the cover. Thanks for your work.
Yes i would like to see the original board working with the onboard rage chip- hey and thanks for the XLR8R - in all my years ive never seen that demo before - and its the first one on the futuremark website - cheers
Great video. I have two Time PCs from 1999 though one of the reload discs is unfortunately corrupted. Cant seem to find the reload discs you found in the archive. I'm hoping some people might upload some reload cds after seeing this video if they still have them 🤞
Cool, I saw some time stuff on archive.org. Might not have been right. Since foung Vogons.org definatley have the restore for the k6-2 though not tried it - vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=2116&menustate=0
Ah thank you. Almost the one I was looking for my corrupted disc is for J03GB2. The Ghost image file may even be identical to the one on my disc as the file size is the same. I'll give that a go. Thanks again.
I have one of those Compaq Camaro boards, and the MiTAC/TRIGON 5114Vu BIOS will flash using Uniflash. Unfortunately it brings up some corrupted BIOS settings under IRQ, but it's stable in windows. There are many jumpers on the board to configure for the K6 2-550, the documentation can be found on the Retroweb. The Compaq BIOS unfortunately isn't online, nobody has uploaded it, so if you decide to flash be sure to make a back-up of the original.
This could be related to my comment about some prebuilts " Tagging " the motherboard to the modem causing it to not boot if it wasn't installed . The 1st thing these machines did on 1st boot was usually to ( xall up & " register " your warranty ) on there system .
this was like the first pc I got but was windows xp and amd 2600 I think anything before this is before my time though had use pcs at collage before 2004
Cool, sounds like your machine was a few years later, this would probabably have been the generation before and even then k6-2 was stretching the generation before that!
Might be worth trying the K6-2 550 at either a higher voltage or 500MHz. Apparently they could run unstable at stock in some boards (especially if the board has bad Vdroop).
you probably need a better heatsink for that cpu anything over 233mhz runs pretty hot, i remmember going to a computer store to buy a asaka silver mountain (copper heatsink that was silver plated with a beefy fan on top) cpu cooler for Cyrix MII 300 to make it run better and thats just a PR rating actual speed was only 233mhz.
If it helps I've had both " Time " & some "Tandon" machines the were " tagged " to the original modem card so they wouldn't boot unless it was installed .
Now I remember, definitely someone had imported the Time PC into Saudia Arabia's market.
It was a beautiful mall of PC shops, of which 90% of the shops have closed.
We also had the PC Zone magazine, I took courage and bought one issue in 97, featuring Destruction Derby2 on the cover.
Thanks for your work.
Thanks for watching! Cool to hear about pc history in other places😁
Turned out pretty nice, considering the state of the case. Well done sir. 👍🏼
Thankyou 😁
Interesting system
Yes i would like to see the original board working with the onboard rage chip- hey and thanks for the XLR8R - in all my years ive never seen that demo before - and its the first one on the futuremark website - cheers
Hopefully can get it going.
Interesting. The pc case cover opens just like a baby AT case but the case itself is an ATX
Yes, seems specifically made for micro atx!
Great video. I have two Time PCs from 1999 though one of the reload discs is unfortunately corrupted. Cant seem to find the reload discs you found in the archive. I'm hoping some people might upload some reload cds after seeing this video if they still have them 🤞
Cool, I saw some time stuff on archive.org. Might not have been right. Since foung Vogons.org definatley have the restore for the k6-2 though not tried it - vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=2116&menustate=0
Ah thank you. Almost the one I was looking for my corrupted disc is for J03GB2. The Ghost image file may even be identical to the one on my disc as the file size is the same. I'll give that a go. Thanks again.
Freddy Krueger's sweater 👍
Haha, yes😁
My first thoughts was Dennis the Menace from the Beano
Could be that too!
I have one of those Compaq Camaro boards, and the MiTAC/TRIGON 5114Vu BIOS will flash using Uniflash. Unfortunately it brings up some corrupted BIOS settings under IRQ, but it's stable in windows. There are many jumpers on the board to configure for the K6 2-550, the documentation can be found on the Retroweb. The Compaq BIOS unfortunately isn't online, nobody has uploaded it, so if you decide to flash be sure to make a back-up of the original.
Cool info, thanks! I'll give it a go!
This could be related to my comment about some prebuilts " Tagging " the motherboard to the modem causing it to not boot if it wasn't installed . The 1st thing these machines did on 1st boot was usually to ( xall up & " register " your warranty ) on there system .
I remember them well. Leonard Nimoy was the face of Time computer's for a while. I wonder if all of their secrets are buried with him? 🤔
Haha, it rings a bell. Probably😉
this was like the first pc I got but was windows xp and amd 2600 I think anything before this is before my time though had use pcs at collage before 2004
Cool, sounds like your machine was a few years later, this would probabably have been the generation before and even then k6-2 was stretching the generation before that!
Might be worth trying the K6-2 550 at either a higher voltage or 500MHz. Apparently they could run unstable at stock in some boards (especially if the board has bad Vdroop).
Cool, I will give it a go!
My first build was a k6-2 400, on an MSI board, i've forgotten what model number the board was but I still have it and the processor somewhere.
Cool, build something with it😁
@@66mhzbrain I'm actually thinking of doing a reverse sleeper build, I still have a copy of windows 98 and an old Riva TNT 2. 😁👍
Sounds perfect to me 😁
you probably need a better heatsink for that cpu anything over 233mhz runs pretty hot, i remmember going to a computer store to buy a asaka silver mountain (copper heatsink that was silver plated with a beefy fan on top) cpu cooler for Cyrix MII 300 to make it run better and thats just a PR rating actual speed was only 233mhz.
Was the heatsink that came with the machine. The piii has a coolermaster
@66mhzbrain that might fit, I remember some socket piii socket Coolers where backward compatible with socket 7
Yes its the same catch
I remember the Akasa Silver Mountain cooler. However that was a cooler for AMD K7 (XP) CPU's among others. Overkill for socket 7
If it helps I've had both " Time " & some "Tandon" machines the were " tagged " to the original modem card so they wouldn't boot unless it was installed .
Cool, thanks for the info. This still had the original modem🤔 I will try🤞
what 3d benchmark was that?, ive never seen that one before
Xl-r8r from mad onion. Its online if you google, I downloaded it a while back, first time I've used it too!
dont think you should advertise cd key's least its only windows 98 i geuss
Really, win 98, that I got off google?