Re: Soldering an ISA Port to a Mainboard

Posted on 2019-05-09, 18:18

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Nope, there are isa bridge controllers for "modern" boards like this. Some controllers are better than others - don't remember which though. Okay, sure, that's a fair point. That would be an ISA-to-PCI bridge then. But my point still stands that this board technically still has an ISA bus, although …

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Re: Soldering an ISA Port to a Mainboard

Posted on 2019-05-09, 17:59

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Look at the space in the top right of the picture above the first full length PCI slot. I'll bet you that is the space for the ISA controller chip. It looks like it was left out since the motherboard does not have the slot installed. ISA is completely different from PCI, so they won't use the same …

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Re: Dell P170S monitor with display issues

Posted on 2019-05-03, 05:23

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When it's cold (not used for a while) and I power it on, the first 5 or so minutes everything seems to be fine. Any time there are issues like this I'm thinking leaky/bad capacitors. Although your symptoms are a bit different than what I've experienced before, bad caps leading to intermittent …

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Re: List the CPUs you owned when they were new

Posted on 2019-05-02, 20:38

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1995: Intel DX4/100 1998: Intel Pentium II/266 [large gap where I starting around 2003 I used an AMD Duron 800 that I got really cheap from a friend, not new...] 2006-ish: AMD Athlon64 3000+ 2009-ish: AMD Athlon II X2 250 2012-ish: AMD Phenom II 965 BE That's it... ;) I still have no compelling …

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Re: Windows 3.11 FWG uninstall drivers

Posted on 2019-04-30, 12:37

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Windows 3.x era drivers had a bad habit of strewing files all over \WINDOWS and \WINDOWS\SYSTEM with no uninstall utility, so odds are there's no clean way to do this. For the Control Panel applets, there will be *.CPL files in \WINDOWS\SYSTEM that you need to delete. You should be able to figure …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2019-04-29, 15:45

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l33ch wrote: Is there something wrong with the photo, I seem to spot a widescreen presario?! That's edge distortion from the wide-angle lens, it's a normal CDS 510 😉

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Re: Post photos of your Rarest or Unique computers or components.

Posted on 2019-04-28, 21:05

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wiretap wrote: Dash OPS-1000 w/ integrated amber CRT - working https://i.imgur.com/QZwmLhIl.jpg […] Show full quote Dash OPS-1000 w/ integrated amber CRT - working What the actual. What. Why.

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2019-04-28, 21:01

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Oldish picture of half of my current computer cave, it looks a bit different now and has a few more systems (of course...): I switch out the systems on that table when I feel like it, in the picture there is a Power Mac G3, DX4/100, Siemens P2/233 and Pentium 90. 😀

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Re: Power supply woes. Can I do this?

Posted on 2019-04-28, 20:25

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That's unfortunate. 😢 Shouldn't be the power supply's fault at this point though. I noticed some bent headers in your photo earlier, looks like this board may have had a rough life..?

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Re: Games not detecting CD Rom ? Windows 98

Posted on 2019-04-28, 20:16

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Yamaha YMF744 PCI (new addition) Since this is the only thing that's changed recently, it is the prime suspect. I'm thinking IRQ conflict. Try removing the sound card. If that solves it, then try force assigning a different IRQ to the sound card or putting it in a different PCI slot. It would make …

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Re: Baby AT board in AT case?

Posted on 2019-04-28, 20:02

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Either way, to answer your original question, there should be no differences like this between Baby AT and full AT. Baby AT is strictly a subset of the AT standard and should have the same screw positions. Keyword: should. Stuff happens, you'll just have to make it work somehow 😉

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Re: BIOS image collection - requests, discussion etc

Posted on 2019-04-28, 20:00

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I was going to upload BIOS for the M Technology R418 486 PCI board, but I'd better check first how to best do it: There are four BIOS images for four board variations: Award or AMI BIOS and SMC or Winbond super I/O chip. The ones with Award BIOS are R418W2 and the ones with AMIBIOS are R418A2. There …

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Re: Power supply woes. Can I do this?

Posted on 2019-04-28, 19:42

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90skidJohnny wrote: 1F282505-C615-46D4-88B3-6BDFF100B4E0.jpeg Ok after sanding and cutting and sanding. I got it to fit. (ALS I really need to buy a rotary tool one day. How this look ? That looks good. Colors seem to be in the right order. Power it up! 😉 (and don't blame me if anything breaks)

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Re: Aspar K9J057A0A jumper settings

Posted on 2019-04-28, 19:37

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http://arvutimuuseum.ee/th99/i/I-L/51695.htm This ES688 card is not 100% identical to your card but extremely close. Going by the diagram only the CD audio connector looks physically different. Probably the same board, populated with slightly different components and sold under different brands. …

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Re: Power supply woes. Can I do this?

Posted on 2019-04-28, 19:30

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Here’s the issue. So the side with the lip would go towards the pins ! And cut that lip off ? Yes, on the cheapo kind of connector, the connector is secured by having the lip go under a wavy piece of plastic like on the left (I don't really know what to call it in English to be honest): https://i. …

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Re: Baby AT board in AT case?

Posted on 2019-04-28, 19:21

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Maybe the sheet metal in the case is ever so slightly bent? Maybe you can just geeently push on one of the standoffs and bend the metal a bit until it lines up, it doesn't look like it needs much convincing... Tolerances for stuff like this in the AT era was generally just kind of bad, especially …

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Re: Power supply woes. Can I do this?

Posted on 2019-04-28, 19:14

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That is it EXACTLY. The 486 mino im using the one you described in the top picture. thats whats on my motherboard. The PSU I want to use plugs into the one you describe as the cheap one. So the plug just will not fit into the top mentioned one. your saying it should tho? aka with violence? Or would …

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Re: mouse driver

Posted on 2019-04-28, 19:10

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If you didn't rely on a standardized driver, you would shift the responsibility of implementing the driver to software developers. Essentially every game or application would need to include the same stuff anyway. You absolutely can bypass the need for mouse.com and talk to the mouse directly if you …

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Re: Power supply woes. Can I do this?

Posted on 2019-04-28, 18:59

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Long story short. Using the case from a 386, to put a board for a 486 in. Case was not idea setup, a lot of modding the case to get things to line up and work. Want to use the power supply that is already in the 386 case, however, the way the PSU connects to the mother board, while both 12 pin …

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Re: Slowish VGA performance with 5x86 + Matrox Mystique

Posted on 2019-04-27, 22:18

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Hey all, DX4 specs (gets 67 fps): M Technologies VLB motherboard, SiS 471 chipset Intel DX4/100 (3x33) 16 MB FPM RAM 256K L2 cache S3 805 2MB VLB You know what, i found one of these SY-030H2 boards for 3 dollars that included an amd 100mhz cpu. it looks nice, PCI; ISA, not vLB tho. And no support …

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