Help: what was the most surreal thing you had to do in a nightmare to survive?
I might steal it, though, since I recently played another horror game where I thought the concept is great but it could have been done so much better.

And I think that's a good thing.
May they spend their whole sorry ass racist lives in a bad mood while we normal people simply live in a big world full of different people.

I figured it would be something around that amount; too bad our countries don't have proper trade deals like within the EU.
Still, that would be totally acceptable even if the card turned out to be defective.
Anyway, I'll DM you in a bit, thank you for reaching out and the kind offer!

So it would have been okay to fatally shoot the driver, right?

But can you please also burn a tree for each of those prompts

You only have to be less dumb than he is, I have confidence in you 😬

I am an ugly potato but I sleep really well knowing I still intelligencemog, educationmog, personalitymog and confidencemog this guy.

Haven't installed an OS yet, that was supposed to go on that SATA SSD.
I hope it's not just broken, that "unknown PCI device" during POST is definitely the Silicon Image SIL3114, though, according to vendor ID and model.

It's probably an issue with the firmware of the PCI SATA adapter, but luckily the board is so modern it lets me boot from USB.
I should then be able to flash another firmware to the adapter, then have it appear as a 120 GB drive in IDE mode to install W98 to it. Will try that later.

Hm so the good news is the system seems to boot just fine, the bad news is the PCI SATA adapter isn't showing any signs of life, at the very least it looks like it has no BIOS of its own for booting from it.
I set he motherboard's first boot option to SCSI which is usually necessary but no luck.

It really wasn't him, though, it's technically not different from fan art.

Because it's eccentric and I got a Peltier cooling set new in box from a stock clearing seller for 15€ and I just had to try that.
It promised excellent temperatures, too although they are actually just average.

I would have preferred the Hamburg because I used to live there and still visit regularly, but you can't always get what you want.

A Thermaltake Berlin.
They had a series named after german cities: from 430 Watt (Munich) via 530 Watt (Hamburg) to 630 Watt (Berlin).
The PSUs have motives typical for their cities.

Listening to an almost 40 year old concept album and within seconds I had started making a face and headbanging without even noticing it.
The falsetto back then had some room for improvement. But I don't care, this is pure metal.

Found the missing PCI SATA adapter!
Now, what to do with the actual system?
I'll attempt to start it in the evening, and see what happens.
Could also run W98 I guess. At least games of that period shouldn't glitch out.

It's a cool curiosity in my opinion but realistically speaking there is absolutely nothing that you would do that needs an ISA slot but also a CPU of the GHz or even more era.
All DOS games run just fine on way slower hardware, if anything the 3 GHz make some games unplayable.

I on the other hand one day got this board from someone who thought it was defective because no he tried it with several different graphics cards but got no picture.
You guessed it, he tried AGP graphics cards only, which could not work in it. The board itself was 100% working as intended.

Together, these provide:

AdLib/FM
ESS ESFM
Sound Blaster
Sound Blaster Pro
Sound Blaster 16
General MIDI (.sf2 and .94b sound fonts)
MT-32 (via wavetable daughterboard or external real one)
Gravis Ultrasound

In theory there is one faster motherboard with working ISA slots but it's >400$ USD.

PCI SATA adapter is still somewhere in a box, I'll use it once found to go along with the SATA SSD.
Combination of sound cards:
Guillemot Maxi Sound 64 Dynamic 3D
PicoGUS
Creative AWE upgrade card a.k.a. CT1920 Goldfinch

Peltier-cooled Intel Pentium 4 3.06 GHz and 3 ISA sound cards, ticking ALL the important DOS sound boxes.
Sadly what looks like an AGP slot is actually ADD and does not support graphics cards, so I'm limited to PCI in that regard, and using a Geforce FX 5200 because I have nothing proper.

I'm a bit late following up, but if the offer still stands I'd be happy to e.g. buy the shipping label or something like that.
If you prefer another approach that would also be fine, I just thought that's the easiest way.

And there is already an issue: the IDE connector is full size 40 pin.
Which means whatever I want to connect will need an adapter not only to that but also to a power source.
At least the power source exists.

However, if it is at least as compatible as an S3 graphics card is in DOS games, that would at least let me play early W9X games and enjoy a wide variety of stuff before that.
Also no idea how much RAM is on this double sided module, but I'll find out tonight after dinner.

In fact, the Nehemiah could be clocked at 1400 MHz, a Pentium 733 equivalent at least.
While I hope for the Geode to be at least a Pentium MMX 166 equivalent, but that's not granted.
And the onboard GPU? I have no idea what it is, but it certainly won't be as fast as an S3 Savage 4.

Found this in my lab, it's the forgotten inferior replacement board for my first Neoware CA2 that I accidentally killed when I had, after a long series of swapping expansion cards, forgotten to pull the power plug and promptly caused a deadly short.
This 333 MHz Geode is much slower than the VIA C3.

That's not drawn by Amano, is it?

if you see this post an image you saved because it made you laugh.

Catholics and their weird magic trinkets lol