Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 31 minutes ago
Slightly undecided yet... half of me wants to go T-Bird + Voodoo 3 3000 with it, the other half wants me to go Palomino 2000+ with Geforce 4 Ti4200.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 50 minutes ago
My KR7A arrived today from Italy 😀
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-09-15, 10:47
I'm on a roll! Today's scores: - DFI CS65-TC + Celery 850 + some SDRAM of varying values - IBM 9GB SCSI 68pin HDD - Number 9 S3 Virge GX2 4MB AGP Really enjoy reading about your finds. Any chance you have a catalog of your collection or at least the specs on the machines you’ve built? :-) Y'know, I …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-09-15, 10:42
I'm on a roll! Today's scores: - DFI CS65-TC + Celery 850 + some SDRAM of varying values - IBM DNES-309170W 9GB SCSI 68pin HDD - Number 9 S3 Virge GX2 4MB AGP
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-09-14, 19:17
So far these mainboards have found their way to me in the last few weeks... with two more to come from the bay (and a TNT2 Pro, but that's another story.) - DFI CS32-TC w/ dead Realtek soundchip (not that it matters since I would drop a SB Audigy or Live card in it anyways, btw Tualatin support go …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-09-14, 17:36
smtkr wrote on 2024-09-14, 16:37: Is that a custom BIOS? I've never seen one show monitors during POST like that. Not at all. Fresh stock MSI BIOS from the TRW page, latest release because my 1000EB was showing up as " :00EB "
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-09-14, 15:49
Finished recap of my MS-6163.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-09-14, 10:51
Getting ready to polymod a MSI MS-6163 VER 1 (BX3).
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-09-14, 08:25
I'll try it this evening. I have an slightly older board than what I initially used (DFI CS32-TC + VIA C3 800A) that just came in today (MSI K7 Pro + Pluto 700MHz Athlon) and may check if that one works. EDIT: Tried and none work. Both flash utilities for Creative and Gainward (the latter being …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-09-13, 23:59
After a K7 board, indeed it is. Oh, and the K7 board I got is also MSI 😀 (K7 Pro, MS-6195 IR3)
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-09-13, 22:17
Bought another mainboard - a MSI MS-6163 REV 1. Not much fancy going on unlike its other revisions, but I personally dig the onscreen HW monitor during POST and the Host Clock notice.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-09-13, 13:49
I'll try it this evening. I have an slightly older board than what I initially used (DFI CS32-TC + VIA C3 800A) that just came in today (MSI K7 Pro + Pluto 700MHz Athlon) and may check if that one works. EDIT: Tried and none work. Both flash utilities for Creative and Gainward (the latter being just …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-09-13, 10:43
Worth attempting to flash it. Flash memory degrades over time, it might be blank by now. My understanding is that the bios itself should still be detectable by the flashing tool though. Voodoo 1 and 2 don't have a bios. They're simpler than banshee, v3+ There are several vids on yt of v3s being …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-09-13, 00:37
At least you stand a good chance of repairing a banshee, the TnT2 ...possibly depending on how good you are and have a steady hand and can figure out what broke. I will say that the TnT2 cards are pretty damn solid cards and I haven't seen too many of them DOA so they do have that going for them …
Re: Replacement Silver Capacitors for Soyo SY-KT600 Dragon Ultra
Posted on 2024-09-12, 16:31
Although I'm not sure if that's an option - audio grade caps usually come in more exotic colors, though I don't know if they come in 2200-4700 ranges.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-09-12, 16:03
After being stung by two dead Banshees (Gainward and 3D Blaster), I went ahead and bought a Medion branded TNT2 Pro. According to the PCB and a website I found, it might unlock into Ultra speeds. https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=201127 At least you stand a good chance of …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-09-12, 15:49
After being stung by two dead Banshees (Gainward and 3D Blaster), I went ahead and bought a Medion branded TNT2 Pro. According to the PCB and a website I found, it might unlock into Ultra speeds.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-09-11, 12:31
Another bay purchase! ABIT AB-BX6 R2.0, w/ SL3XK.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-09-11, 09:57
Let's see: - repasted an Pluto core Athlon 700MHz - tested an ASUS A7N8X-X and a Gigabyte 7N400E - both came from Shrek's swamp - tested an DTK PRM-0076I E1 - finished my Compaq Armada E500 rebuild - if anyone wants pics, feel free to ask! - sold an ASUS P8H61-M LX R3.0 + Celeron G530 kit - WD40'd a …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-09-11, 05:50
A lot of stuff is gonna arrive here one by one over the next period. I already got the CPUs I ordered: - Pluto Athlon 700 - had to discard its fans as they were fairly duds :( - Duron 1300 - ceramic MMX 200MHz - Athlon 1133 AXIA stepping I hope to get the K7 Pro and T-Bird 700MHz by tomorrow, as …
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