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So I'm attempting to restore this neat little PIII laptop I picked up in a thrift store last year. The original HDD was on its last legs, so I have replaced that with a PATA SSD. I loaded a WinXP image on the SSD that was cloned from a different system. Annnnd... that won't boot. So I decided...

You mentioned having security software "installed", does that mean on the hard drives/operating system? I'm wondering if doing everything to bypass the security and get it to post might be the way. It seems like there should be possible to boot in an unsecured mode just to get a post screen or...

Well Asus is the gift that keeps on giving. While finding a bag for this gateway I found a PSU from an Asus EEEPC. I had about 6 of these PSUs and they've worked on everything from multiple laptops to LCD monitors. Plugged it in, gateway booted right up on it. I now have a bag and a power supply.

Well after a fresh win98 install and some fiddling with the driver CD, the system is ready in all respects. I do still need to open it up and replace the CMOS battery, remove it if its a VARTA, and find a permanent power supply for it. There's a red line through the screen and a few cracks. All...

Dirty but might actually be a better solution. Letting the computer 'see' the cf card as an external HDD sounds in my head at least more reliable.

Mind posting some pictures of the full machine? It looks cool. Otherwise, tried standard troubleshooting procedures yet? Take out everything except CPU minimal ram graphics and see if it'll post.

Thats pretty good. I gotta grab a pcimcia cf adapter. I have a tone of PCI to pcmcias.

I'm somewhat less concerned with speed as I am reliability, both in terms of the sometimes lengthy read/write cycles and in not having to replace my stuff every six months. For example, I make fairly routine backups of the 64GB CF card in my win98 PC. This takes an age and if it cuts out due to...

Do there exist any other mediums for connecting readers besides USB and FireWire? And obviously the CF to IDE adapters, though those aren't so useful in this application.

All right, going slowly nuts here. A while back I bought a really nice USB 3.0 multi-card reader. It died. Then more recently I bought an older internal/extern multi-card reader. It does not appear to work(I should really send it back). Time and again I find myself falling back on a cheap, slow...

I have a sneaking suspicion my "inherited" windows install from a dell PIII is not jiving with this system particularly well. Right now it loads all the way into windows but when I try and open My Computer it freezes. The mouse still works but the clock stops advancing. I think since I have a...

Today I plugged the original HDD in using a USB adapter, to my surprise it came up without issue. I mentioned before that the battery on this machine had been replaced/recertified as late as 2009. The hard drive reflects a very minimal win98 install, with only 1 piece of software, something...

Awesome! Thanks!

If I had a nickel for every time a cute girl in high school asked me to remove a virus from her computer.... But this was the early 2000s when viruses were common and the specialized knowledge of how to remove them wasn't. Well that and I was a volunteer on my school's tech squad and the girls...

300mhz. Seems to also have a port for RCA capture, which is cool. You wouldn't happen to have an image file for the restore CD or at least just all the drivers in on convenient package?

The battery is definitely dead. There's also plenty of space in there for a varta, so probably wise. I did get it booted up. Gotta find drivers next. Could only get it to stay in windows for about ten minutes at a stretch.

Well win98 is booting off a CF card! So we have progress. This is turning into a fun afternoon.

Well I found the hard drive. Yes there is one. Looks like its profoundly dead. Time to go find my CF adapter.

I finally have a Pentium II for the Pentium II forum! Found this Gateway Solo 9150 a an estate sale. No power supply, but it was $16. It had a recertified battery from 2009, so someone was still using this thing as late as then. I attached my universal PSU. At first I couldn't get it to post...

Made a great find at an estate sale today. Guy had a whole closet full of games and old PCs from the XP era. The towers were dramatically over-priced($200 /ea and none of them had decent graphics cards). But I bought a whole stack of games for my collection and a few old sound blaster cards...