Recent content by MrFabulous

No I think it died from overheating. When I was cleaning everything I noticed that I had put way too much thermal paste on the unit. I had put so much paste that when the cooler was taken off it looked like a mound of dried thermal paste. It even was in the socket itself. I know better now but...

MSI 970 Gaming AMD FX-8320 Black Series 32 Gigs of DDR3 Corsair Vengeance MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT

I have a 7 year old Socket AM3+ PC that I plan on giving to my son to enjoy. However the computer stopped turning on. I replaced the PSU with a new one and it still wouldn't turn on. Base motherboard would turn on though. I then checked the motherboard with each part until just the CPU was left...

Thank you for telling me the difference. I'll.make sure to distinguish between the two in the future. Also I appreciate showing me the ide to sd adapter. I'm going to get one of those to replace the HDD.

Yeah it works. It has Windows 98 SE on it. It was running really slow but after uninstalling a bunch of unusual software and running DeFrag it is running at the speed I remember as a child.

I have acquired a eMachine eMonster 550 from an estate sale. I like to pretend my 90s knowledge is superb but it's actually severely lacking. I know the machine has 128 MB of RAM, a Pentium 3, a 15 GB HDD, and a Nvidia Vanta. My goal is just to play games made from the 1993-1999 time period. I'm...