Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on Today, 06:32

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by bjwil1991

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My Socket 7 system: contains a TMC AI5VG+ Rev. 2.00 [100MHz FSB support], AMD K6-2/400, and 320MB SD-RAM PC-133 OS: Windows 98SE Front end: Lite-On CD-RW drive LS-120 IDE drive 4x USB 2.0 3.5" bracket (connected to an ALi USB PCI card) (not pictured: Maxtor 6Y200P0 200GB HDD (32GB partition size …

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

Posted on Today, 06:00

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by bjwil1991

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Replaced the Socket 7 board from the capacitor plague Gainward motherboard to a TMC AI5VG+ Rev. 2.00 100MHz FSB support and got everything all sorted out. Had issues with the CD drive not getting recognized, so I connected the LS-120 drive to the same cable the CD drive is connected to and it works. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 12:07

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by bjwil1991

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Man, those batteries. I cannot tell you how lucky I was twice when I received a Soyo SY-4SAW2 board that also had a leaking battery and only had 3 traces that needed to get repaired, but no other damage and the 386/486DLC board also had a battery leakage, but minimal damage. On your board, looks …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 11:45

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by bjwil1991

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Bought another i386 DX-33 that has double-sigma symbols (ΣΣ) SX211 and 8MB SIMM-30 70ns FPM Parity RAM for my 386 machine.

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

Posted on 2020-07-08, 09:25

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by bjwil1991

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Changed the CPU from the 486DLC-33GP Cyrix to an Intel i386 DX-33 SX366 and the himem.sys XMS driver went south. Says the memory is unreliable at address 00113884 and the driver isn't installed. Ran HWiNFO and found out the CPU has the POPAD bug (instruction set miscalculates), so I'm not sure if …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-06, 20:12

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by bjwil1991

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Bought some RCA to BNC adapters for my Sony PVM-9L1.

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

Posted on 2020-07-06, 07:11

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by bjwil1991

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Fixed my PVM's BNC video issue using a capacitor, some 22 AWG wire, alligator clips, and a reflow of the solder on the transistor and diode SMTs. Tested it with my Commodore 64 and it got a picture, but my Sony DCR-TRV260 wasn't working with the A/V cable it came with it, but I believe it's because …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2020-07-06, 06:57

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by bjwil1991

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The $10 386/486DLC before: IMG_20200625_151310547_HDR.jpg The $10 386/486DLC after: IMG_20200703_235445303_HDR_2.jpg Differences: 1) FDD has been swapped as the original is due for an alignment 2) HDD has been swapped to 4.3GB from 203MB (the old 203MB still works, but I archived all of the files a …

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

Posted on 2020-07-04, 06:53

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by bjwil1991

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Tested the Passport MIDI PC card in my 386/486DLC and the card only works with LucasArts titles and SoftMPU won't work with it. Ah well, the card was cheap anyways. Going to order another MPU-401 card sometime and look for a Tandy 3-voice card to insert it into the machine since I use the Tandy 3- …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-07-04, 05:10

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by bjwil1991

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Well, that's good to know. They must be using FAT32 partitions for storing files. Jk, however, the Windows 9x FAT32 had a limit to 4GB, so...

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Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2020-07-04, 03:22

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Attempted to run SoftMPU on my 386/486DLC machine with a Passport MIDI PC card and says card not detected at port 330. So I'm not sure if it's because the card is incompatible, which it could be in my case (got the card on eBay) or something went wrong. No conflicts, though. However, without the …

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Re: Tulip pc compact 2

Posted on 2020-07-03, 07:25

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by bjwil1991

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Was that particular bracket mount standard for the battery compartment or was that a mod by somebody? Great design, though.

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Re: List of Free Games

Posted on 2020-07-03, 07:05

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by bjwil1991

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Free yesterday (my time zone): Hue on EPIC store.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-03, 07:03

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by bjwil1991

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Nice.

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

Posted on 2020-07-03, 05:55

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by bjwil1991

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Got my 386 all sorted out this time. Changed the battery from the CR2032 (voltage to the RTC was 2.42V-2.5V, which was too low) to 3x AA using an old DMG-01 bottom chassis that has seen better years and it works perfectly. Also got the SAAYM card to work as well after changing the HW address on the …

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

Posted on 2020-07-02, 17:20

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by bjwil1991

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Trying to figure out the 386 motherboard here. Apparently, the clock won't stay in sync and after a while, it loses the settings. Not sure if the RTC chip is acting strange or if the battery connections are bad. Is it a Dallas? Negative. It's a Hitachi HD146818P RTC and the battery is separate from …

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

Posted on 2020-07-02, 08:43

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by bjwil1991

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Trying to figure out the 386 motherboard here. Apparently, the clock won't stay in sync and after a while, it loses the settings. Not sure if the RTC chip is acting strange or if the battery connections are bad.

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

Posted on 2020-07-01, 06:02

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by bjwil1991

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Did more progress on the 386/486DLC machine. Soldered the wire from the positive terminal (underside of the board) to D2 for the external battery and that worked out well. Tested it to make sure the RTC chip was getting the appropriate voltage and to make sure the settings are saved and everything …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-07-01, 02:48

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by bjwil1991

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Uploaded the BIOS for an RTP InterGroup Int'l Ltd. LB386DX (SiS 85C460/461 single-chip) board

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

Posted on 2020-06-30, 09:00

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Added the 4.3GB HDD and the file system got wiped somehow. The only issue I'm facing is the HDD limit up to 528MB (504MB in DOS language) and to make things not work right, the XT-IDE Universal BIOS I had installed in my 3Com network card was having issues as the drive wasn't detected properly. …

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