Re: Problems regarding ANOVO AIMB-865

Posted on 2024-05-09, 12:04

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Was a little unclear what i wanted to do, but i was thinking to try tinkering with the board with bad ram slots if something went poop with flashing modded BIOS. I have two other thats ok. All my three boards are v1.0S1.2, but since i wasnt eager and able to fork out $275 for a russian BIOSmod with …

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Re: Problems regarding ANOVO AIMB-865

Posted on 2024-05-07, 16:59

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Thanks and nice to see someone else also made progress on making theese boards usable. Maybe i will try to dig up one of mine that also have two unresponsive ram slots and flash your BIOS.

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Re: Are there any 3dfx Voodoo Cards which will fit in a HP DC7600 SFF PC?

Posted on 2022-12-06, 19:18

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PCI riser for dc7600 SFF is spare part 371921-001. That on eBay is for a USDT. https://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/c04 … 63768.pdf?ver=3

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Re: Do dual pentium 4 motherboards exist?

Posted on 2022-12-03, 18:10

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By looks of the netburst Xeons it looks like they slapped an P4 on top on an interposer. Have saved some Xeons after we scrapped some HP Proliant DL380 G3 servers and im curious if its possible to desolder/remove the CPU core from the s603/4 pcb.

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Re: The motherboard from Hell. Intel XBase DX50 server and no POST madness.

Posted on 2022-11-25, 19:53

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This is a little old now, but did you have any luck with this? These board are very rare, particularly models using Intel's cache module. This was designed specifically to work with the DX/50 for stability and performance purposes but not all manufacturers went for it because of the high cost. …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2022-11-24, 13:19

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Intel has made some CPUs for special tasks such as high performance computing where clockspeed was important. LGA 1366 Westmere EP based Xeon X5698 4.4GHz dual core was released in February 2011 to selected customers with a price tag of approx $20K. Maybe not extremely rare, but still expensive to …

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Re: Problems regarding ANOVO AIMB-865

Posted on 2022-04-18, 10:56

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In 2019 you had to buy a "Full Software Pack" to get the bios mod. I passed the offer...

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Re: What do you regret throwing out?

Posted on 2021-07-12, 10:58

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I always regret something after recycling at work, but we cant keep all so things have to go. We tried giveaways earlier but people are not interested and we dont ship. Most things in the dumpster now are business stuff like HP dc7700, 7800 SFFs and HP laptops like 6735b, 6930p etc. I salvaged a lot …

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Re: Retro PC without ISA. What sound would you choose?

Posted on 2020-08-05, 17:33

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If you want a P4 s478 system with ISA it think a PCIAGP/PXAGP should be considered. The PCI-ISA bridge card use an ITE 8888 chips that seem to work in DOS. The drawback is that this would cost atleast $250 for a 13 slot backplane and CPU card. Add to that you need an industrial case, but you will …

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Re: Compaq Deskpro M and XL models.

Posted on 2020-08-05, 15:37

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I managed to upgrade my XL even further, to a P200MMX PODP. Works great and so quick now... Remember we had at work 5 or 6 Deskpro XL 5100 that i upgraded with the Kingston Turbochip 366 (AMD K6-2) if i remember correct (may be 333) in 1999. Even used this upgrade on a Proliant 4500 and two …

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Re: 775i65G AGP beast

Posted on 2020-05-08, 17:53

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Zollex wrote on 2020-05-06, 22:03: Unfortunately the rev. 3.0 does not allow to use the E7600 cpu ... Maybe changing the bios ... And I can't dual-boot 98-XP. I also have the rev.3 .0 and tripple boot 98SE, XP and 7. Found a nice guide for how to do it, but didnt bookmark it..

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Re: VESA feature connector devices

Posted on 2020-04-16, 17:42

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Fortes controller/VIP card for the VFX1 VR headgear used the VESA feature connector.

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Re: Deskpro EXD-P800 w/ MX440-SE

Posted on 2020-03-30, 18:11

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We had a dozen of those at work and two were saved, but have not decided what to do with them. I remember this was the first Deskpro where the build quality felt seem to be substandard compare to the battle tanks that came earlier. They probaly saved some in materials and shipping costs. Anyway, …

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Re: DVI 34-pin Header on HP USDT Motherboard

Posted on 2020-01-01, 14:15

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Its an HP D530? Think spare part number is 326137-001. You can find some on eBay.

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Re: MINI-AGP to AGP adapter

Posted on 2019-12-25, 01:09

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VDDQ is basically the power voltage to the transistors in the output stage of a chip. The designation is also used for the power voltage to memory chips. It's not a signal itself but rather one of the power voltages to devices that process the signals. . Thanks for explaining that. Tried to …

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MINI-AGP to AGP adapter

Posted on 2019-12-24, 13:57

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The MINI-AGP or MICRO AGP connector was mostly used on some PICMG 1.0 SBCs from Comell, IPC, IBASE and maybe others. The MINI-AGP cards were rather limited and the only "real" graphics card i have found was based on the ATI M-10 chip that equals a Radeon 9600. I got on of those and a Comell FS-97A …

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Re: Socket 479 (Pentium M) Motherboard with DMA enabled ISA. Models?

Posted on 2019-12-21, 21:30

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I think maybe the only possible option you have to get ISA with ITE 8888 for s479 is to use a PICMG SBC such as the Commell FS-97A. This SBC also has a Mini-AGP slot, but cards are very few and very rare. ATI Radeon M-10 (Radeon 9600) is one of them. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=57020&p= …

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Re: The Compaq Systempro LT

Posted on 2019-12-16, 20:13

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Anyone here on the thread, except for me, with a Systempro/XL and both a 1.44 and 1.2MB FDD? I am trying to figure out how the 1.2MB drive was cabled to the MB. Usually the floppy cable has connectors for two drives and often one was for a 1.2MB drive. Since its a Compaq i would not be suprised if …

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Re: My "new" HP Z400 Workstation.

Posted on 2019-12-15, 15:08

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Errius wrote: X5698? Those are unobtanium. Where did you get yours? eta: I see they're currently selling for $1,500 each on eBay. I got them on from a Canadian seller on eBay 3 years ago. Paid $700 (CAD) inc shipping for the pair. Those were not ES versions that also floated around that time.

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Re: Compaq Prosignia 3080 / 486DX33

Posted on 2019-12-14, 20:50

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Happy to see more Compaq enthusiasts! I loathed Compaq earlier, but mostly because of their crappy home computer models, Got a new experince when i started in my current job in 1999 and got familiar with Compaqs business computers and servers. Yes the were proprietary and had their odd designs, but …

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