Re: A-Bit VP6 Dual PIII project

Posted on 2012-08-31, 09:29

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by stano

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I have a Abit Vp6 and love the board. It has 2x 1 gig coppermine pentium 3's, although the highest cpu that the board will take is a 1.13 ghz, but good luck finding them. Heatsinks I use the original intel ones although I would love a couple of themaltake orbs. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? …

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Re: My Dual Xeon PC

Posted on 2012-08-23, 09:49

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I will install mint next weekend and have a look. Will 2 gig of ram be enough to make it run smoothly?

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Re: My Dual Xeon PC

Posted on 2012-08-22, 11:46

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I thought about that but did not do it at the time. I can scrounge up a drive so which flavour of linux should I go with. I have an athlon mp 1900+ system with ubuntu at the moment so would like to do some other distro..

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Re: My Dual Xeon PC

Posted on 2012-08-22, 09:30

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I saw those yesterday...I am thinking of buying them..

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Re: My Dual Xeon PC

Posted on 2012-08-21, 09:28

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by stano

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did not know that newer xeons worked with the board! I need to do some reading...irwindale...hmmm!

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Re: My Dual Xeon PC

Posted on 2012-08-20, 09:23

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thank you guys! with pentium 4 not being everyones cup of tea (myself, I love them) I thought it would be a great idea to build another P4 but now with a xeon as a cpu. The only thing with xeons is that the heatsinks do not attach to the board but to the m/b tray underneath. So couple of M4 nuts and …

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My Dual Xeon PC

Posted on 2012-08-19, 09:36

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In my quest to own dual cpu boards(I find dual cpu boards sexy) I recently purchased a second hand Asus NCCH-DL motherboard. It came with 2 xeon cpu's specifically 800fsb 3.0 gig nocona's. I got myself some corsair pc3200 (2gb) ram and filled the board with them. Video is provided by an EVGA geforce …

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Re: "Upgraded" GPU, now recent bouts of stutter, help?

Posted on 2012-07-18, 10:50

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by stano

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what brand network card? I had issues with a realtek 8129, (i think) changed to a 3com905c issues disappeared.

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Re: Asus A7M-266D Geforce 6800 and 320gb WD issue...

Posted on 2011-09-15, 09:59

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I liked the board so much I went and bought another one. this one has slightly faster cpu's 2000+ athlon's (compared to the others 1900+) here is a pic of the board when testing:

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Re: Peculiar problem using Windows ME

Posted on 2011-09-14, 09:26

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by stano

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you are right format does not help. sometimes the boot screen flashes for a quarter of a second before it is replaced by the bios boot screen. I might try removing ram out of the pc and leave a 64mb stick in just to see if that is causing the issue (grasping at straws!)

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Re: Peculiar problem using Windows ME

Posted on 2011-09-13, 09:41

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F2bnp, I have the same issue. I thought it was a peculiarity with the abit st6/p3-1.4 ghz cpu computer that I have ME on. I have yet to find a solution. Hopefully someone has solved it.

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Re: insane ebay prices for old tech...

Posted on 2011-09-10, 09:24

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Tetrium wrote: It's not even THAT old. Heck, it's not even AGP 😜 if it was agp there would be atleast 25% premium on top of the price! after all agp is highly sought after pcie cards are a dime a dozen!!!

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insane ebay prices for old tech...

Posted on 2011-09-10, 09:02

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I was browsing ebay today in my usual quest to find obscure (but cheap) video cards, one of my latest hobbies. Now I am always interested in ati/nvidia's king of the hill cards that they produce with each generation i.e. 8800gtx, 580, 2900xt etc. Today I stumbled across the x1950xtx which I've had …

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Re: Asus A7M-266D Geforce 6800 and 320gb WD issue...

Posted on 2011-09-10, 08:42

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SiBurning thanks for your informative posting. In regards to the warm booting issue even with the new ram which is two infineon branded ecc sticks (of 512mb each) I can replicate the hardrive issue when I remove one of the sticks. i.e remove one stick to only have 512mb only. I went further and …

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Re: Peculiar problem using Windows ME

Posted on 2011-09-02, 10:02

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Hey RogueTrip thanks for your answer, these will come in handy :). Yes your problem is the LAN card, I remember that I had a fully working Win98SE setup once and then I decided to install a LAN card. After installing the drivers, it would just sit there and search for something, wasting its time. I …

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Re: Asus A7M-266D Geforce 6800 and 320gb WD issue...

Posted on 2011-08-27, 10:29

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by stano

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double post

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Re: Asus A7M-266D Geforce 6800 and 320gb WD issue...

Posted on 2011-08-27, 10:29

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I have found the solution to the problem above. If you want to read about the issue have a read of my first post. I am posting this for anyone else in the future that runs into the same problem. I recently changed my ram from 512mb generic pc2700 ddr to 1GB (2 x 512MB) Infineon DDR PC3200 400MHz ECC …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-08-22, 10:37

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theRobin, you have found a gold mine in that old store... love those pc's, so very retro..

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Re: How many video cards can you have?

Posted on 2011-08-19, 09:23

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sliderider I have a pc with a tnt2, voodoo2 sli and matrox m3d power vr card. pics of the pc are below: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2728/5705886609_4060c82111_z.jpg from top to bottom asus tnt2 nic matrox m3d diamond monster voodoo2 sli http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3400/5705883821_29c4329596_z. …

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Re: Howto: Star Trek TNG Interactive Technical Manual + Captain's Chair

Posted on 2011-08-15, 00:31

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thank you swaaye got the Star Trek TNG Interactive Technical Manual working with your guide!

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