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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-10, 08:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, those are the only mentions of them. Still no jumper configuration. I'll try to fire one up to see what it says. Oh, and they are Socket 5. I have that spring circle board too, indeed socket 5 and it reacts strange to some overdrive cpu's I have made a note at home about what speeds I could …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-28, 08:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This card intreagued me, so couldn't let it pass: IMG_20201027_182526.jpg Disassembled: 16038204309220.jpg Nice Dream wavetable and some very re-marked (OPTi 930?) Chip on the card... What was it advertised as? "Mystery sound card with large mystery daughterboard attached"? "Retro / Vintage 16 bit …

Re: mSATA to IDE Trouble

Posted on 2020-10-20, 19:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally had time and both my msata to ide have the jm20330 controller on board..

Re: mSATA to IDE Trouble

Posted on 2020-10-11, 09:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Question before I dive into what you asked for nvm1, what kind of adapters are you using? Are they the cheap ones that come in plastic? Because I have been reading more that those , which are the ones I have, have compatibility issues due to their chipset, which is the JM20330. I have been doing …

Re: mSATA to IDE Trouble

Posted on 2020-10-07, 07:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have multiple IDE top mSata adapters in use with no issues, mostly for older laptops. The last one I used is now in use in an Asus L8400L with a 128GB samsung msata ssd. It has a win98 fresh install and runs very smooth. I just googled your specs and it seems your system is native xp so I would …

Re: Need help with laptop recovery IBM Thinkpad 765d

Posted on 2020-09-27, 19:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Disassemble the whole laptop and check if the standby battery has leaked onto the motherboard. Check for dried out caps in the power area of the motherboard. Sometimes leaving the system on the charger for a day does do wonders too. I suspect your motherboard has some issues which makes this happen, …

Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-08-18, 21:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks Red, I will use the new version for my next laptop I am fixing 😉

Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-08-17, 19:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And attached the new test results! The RAM speed and FSB:RAM seem to be correct. The multiplier of the cpu is still a tad off (8.25 instead of 8.5) but the rest seems to be correct now! If you have any more questions, let me know Red.

Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-08-17, 07:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello Red, I will test it (hopefully) this evening and post the results!

Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-08-16, 18:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I tested SIV on my Asus L8400L Notebook. As far as I could see everything except the ram speed and cpu multiplier seems to match. 184mhz seems a tad optimistic for 133mhz SDram 😉 Attached screenshot and .txt file!

Re: overwhelmed by motherboard and CPU selection for 486 build

Posted on 2020-08-11, 21:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I still play Total Annihilation and if you limit yourself to 500 units per player in the original game without extra units/other AI etc even a pentium 4 3.2 will come to a crawl at moments. My modern with a 3930k even slows down with the 5k limit with another AI and some other improvements …

Re: Has anyone tried mSATA to IDE adapters with older systems?

Posted on 2020-05-09, 06:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I use a few of these in laptops. They actually work well for this purpose, and since I had plenty msata drives left over they where a cheap solution for old laptops! 😉

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-28, 20:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bought this NOS ASUS MediaBus VGA/Audio card without even owning a MediaBus motherboard. It's just so strange that I had to have it for my collection: S3 Vision868 and Creative Vibra16 (and OPL3) on the same card. Maybe one day I'll build a system around it. IMG_9347.jpg I have this card and the …

Re: My 300Mhz Pentium Box

Posted on 2020-04-09, 07:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have one of those too, I even posted a picture of it once here on vogons. Didn't have the chance to test the cpu other then it booted on a S7 motherboard. I hope when life is a bit more normal again here that I then try it on several motherboards and see what is possible!

Re: help me with pinout of this AT PSU

Posted on 2020-02-26, 10:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Did you open up the AT psu to check if it was a fuse that blew up or if there is more visible damage? Perhaps only a fuse or some fuses blew and it is a very easy repair.. If you doubt about it post pictures here, there are some very smart guys around here that can easily identify if it is worth …

Re: A tale of two PSUs

Posted on 2020-02-23, 17:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So it wont kill my boards? And is it really 300w capable? The 240w hp psu that I cleaned and gave a new fan is alot more loaded with (bigger) parts. That is what worries me most.

Re: A tale of two PSUs

Posted on 2020-02-23, 00:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The remaining 2 pictures: IMG_20200223_000950.jpg IMG_20200223_001006.jpg If there is something that needs to have another picture taken to be clear then let me know. Only other observation I did was that the big caps are Fuhjyyu caps and as far as I know they aren't a good quality cap manufacturer

Re: A tale of two PSUs

Posted on 2020-02-23, 00:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I opened up a fairly "light" psu today. I am interested if this psu is usable for light loads in P3/ early P4 use without having to fear that it might kill off parts of the pc it is in. There was a handwritten note on it with "Bestec ATX" on it, but I googled it and they look kinda alive but I could …

Re: Troubleshooting Asus PCI/I-P54SP4 no boot

Posted on 2020-02-09, 19:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This board still has some tantalums on it. Check them, they like to fail/short without being visible or they go out with a loud bang.

Re: Upgrading Socket 4 L2 cache to 2048k (ECS SI5PI MB)

Posted on 2020-02-03, 15:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Perhaps read FGB his topic.. My Socket 4 Motherboard. The ultimate 486 replacement?

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