Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-09-27, 08:28

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by m1919

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Are you running it at a 100MHz FSB? Or on 112MHz? Toying around with the XG-DLS rig, running into issue with a fairly consistent BSOD after booting into Windows. Currently running XP. Seems to be some kind of hardware conflict as the bluescreen is referencing IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error. Only …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-09-27, 07:58

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by m1919

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Toying around with the XG-DLS rig, running into issue with a fairly consistent BSOD after booting into Windows. Currently running XP. Seems to be some kind of hardware conflict as the bluescreen is referencing IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error. Only thing I can think of that may be causing the issue is …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-09-26, 17:11

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by m1919

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Toying around with the XG-DLS rig, running into issue with a fairly consistent BSOD after booting into Windows. Currently running XP. Seems to be some kind of hardware conflict as the bluescreen is referencing IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error. Only thing I can think of that may be causing the issue is I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-26, 17:04

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by m1919

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@SiliconeClassics OOOO!!! A HP KAYAK! Those are neat machines! Shame about the rest. Personally, I'd check for anything special and/or upgrades and recycle the remainders. Wonder what's inside? Maybe a dual slot-1 or dual socket-8 board? Definitely not a Slot-2 version as I think those actually …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-22, 08:52

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by m1919

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luckybob wrote: @m1919 & his asus p3c-d […] Show full quote @m1919 & his asus p3c-d Gonna need another case to put this thing in 🤣. Something in brushed aluminum with a nice window on it.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-22, 06:42

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What... have we here? Heh. A missing piece in one of the ram slots :lol: Yeah lol, probably not gonna be able to replace that any time. But, my board came with all the accessories, I can just plop a terminator card in there, although it apparently can run all three slots populated. Shouldn't be a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-22, 06:37

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What... have we here? Heh.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-09-22, 06:30

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Swapped in my replacement XG-DLS board. Redid all my bios settings. Bios version is 1008 so it's not recognizing my 700Mhz 1MB P3 Xeons, but I'm too lazy to update it. They appear to be running at the proper speed according to my jumper settings and are reporting correct speed of 784Mhz at 112Mhz …

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Re: My Ongoing Retro Rig Project - Xeon Prime

Posted on 2016-09-22, 06:25

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tincup wrote: Whatever it takes XO! Replacement XG-DLS board appears to be running fine. Hopefully the original board is repairable.

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Re: Standard ATX Pentium III Xeon boards

Posted on 2016-09-18, 21:02

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by m1919

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There are reports of Pentium III Xeon 900 outperfomring early Pentium 4 Xeons easily, a 900 Mhz P3 Xeon if i remember, could outperform an 1.7 GHz P4 Xeon. I would not be surprised if that's the case. I may have to build an early P4 setup just to bench against my upcoming S2DL3 build, only problem …

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Re: Standard ATX Pentium III Xeon boards

Posted on 2016-09-18, 06:36

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by m1919

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matze79 wrote: Can your Asus XG-DLS run 733Mhz ? Thank you, Matthias I ran a pair of 1Ghz procs at 112Mhz FSB for 840Mhz as a test. They're actually slower than 700Mhz 1MB or 2MB Xeons on 112Mhz FSB at 784Mhz.

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Re: Standard ATX Pentium III Xeon boards

Posted on 2016-09-17, 22:40

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by m1919

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Boards I have or will have soon that are "Standard" ATX or EATX: SGI M29A Asus XG-DLS (with another on the way) Freeway FW6400GX (I have two) Intel MS440GX (Gateway OEM, limited to 550Mhz Xeons) Intel SBT2 (NIB) Supermicro S2DL3 (on the way) Most of these are super rare. Also dick move on me for …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-17, 00:57

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I get the feeling I must be the only person in here to obsess about all computer parts EXCEPT sound cards :) I collect graphics cards and x86 CPUs, plus have at least a couple of dozen motherboards waiting for the right cases and PSUs to come along to build a bunch of test stations. Will have to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-15, 22:58

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Couple goodies on the way: Another XG-DLS board, with brackets, a 550 Mhz 1MB Xeon and the steel backplate, insulation sheet and I/O plate. This is to be a direct swap into my Xeon Prime rig; if that works properly I can narrow down the motherboard as the issue and hopefully a recapping will fix the …

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Re: My Ongoing Retro Rig Project - Xeon Prime

Posted on 2016-09-15, 07:44

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by m1919

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Every time I see that sexy aluminium WinFast card, it makes me want one even more! Shame about the 2MB Xeon stability. Super impressive 3DMark score though! What a bitchin rig. Board is unstable even with the 1MB Xeons right now. Going to play around with swapping memory out and see if that's the …

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2016-09-14, 04:12

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by m1919

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Oh, are we bragging about our hard drive access speeds? I'm game. Samsung MZHPV256HDGL 951 M.2 SSD (C: OS) Sequential Read (MB/s): 2,117 Sequential Write (MB/s): 1,193 Random Read (IOPS): 110,569 Random Write (IOPS): 77,958 Nice. I considered M.2 but I would need an adapter and I'm pretty sure my …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-13, 22:24

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Jumped on this XG-DLS board that just showed up on my ebay frontpage. http://www.ebay.ca/itm/182279108379?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Hopped on it immediately, was not going to chance submitting an offer and someone else grabbing it before me. It even comes with the …

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2016-09-12, 07:34

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Made a few changes to the rig. Removed the GT730 as I reduced to three monitors all running on HDMI or DVI, no longer running the old 17" on VGA. Sold the E5-2680s and plopped in a pair of E5-2690s, also rearranged my storage a bit. Corsair 800D Seasonic X760 PSU 2x Xeon E5-2690 v1 @ 2.9 Ghz (All …

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Re: Proper introduction w/ PIII-S 1.4 GHz system

Posted on 2016-09-06, 22:58

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by m1919

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Nice build! I like the black paintjob inside the case, really slick. Would look pretty nice with a lexan/plexiglass sheet in place of the side panel.

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Re: The time has come :(

Posted on 2016-09-02, 19:57

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I am still debating on whether or not to file a police report on this buyer as he was attempting intimidation by using my shipping address and finding out where I worked and asking if I was the owner of [business name] ( I just used my name and store address, which does not contain the name of the …

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