Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 23:09

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It POSTs happily, although the cheap looking little SFX PSU seems to make a really piercing whine the moment it is connected to a socket, even before it boots. I'm guessing that is just being cheap and nasty from the start? Or would it be worth opening it up to clean out and check for failing …

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Re: Turning on printer causes other printer to wake up across the room

Posted on 2023-12-05, 16:51

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You have a poltergeist living in the 5152 !

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-11-29, 23:53

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One question - the RetroWeb lists this board as compatible with Katami PIIIs (and PIIs and Celerons) and I understand these go up to 600Mhz. However the manual gives switch combinations for "Pentium III with 100Mhz FSB" up to 800Mhz. Does that mean the board can supply the correct lower voltages …

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Re: Transplant ps/2 ports from one motherboard to another

Posted on 2023-11-27, 21:46

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Are you sure the ports are the problem, and not the controller? The ports should be transferable.

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Re: Were low prices a part of the fun?

Posted on 2023-11-25, 22:08

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Only you can say whether it needs to be cheap to be fun for you. I like cheap, as, I expect, most do, but I have been known to pay high prices for high end kit that's only going to increase in price, because high end for any particular era is also fun, and because at the time of purchase I had …

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2023-11-25, 06:56

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I'm most interested in drives smaller than 1 GB, and could probably afford the shipping for just the 850MB if you're happy to ship that separately. Got a DOS build coming up that could use that.

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

Posted on 2023-11-24, 02:29

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I'm a Noctua fan as well. Got 5 x NH-D14 and an NH-D15 cooler for systems from 775/AM2 and later. Need to buy fans for the coolers on older systems. Worth the expense to me.

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2023-11-23, 21:33

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I'll have to pass if it's that high, thanks

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2023-11-23, 21:32

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pshipkov wrote on 2023-11-23, 21:29: Working hard drives must go as a bulk. How much to ship to the UK? I'm interested in them.

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2023-11-20, 14:45

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Bunch of cards and a CPU must go for a shipping price as a bulk. Intel DX2-66 (fan is a bit stale) Everything worked the last time i checked. Actually, not 100% sure about the GF2 PCI anymore. I used to have 2-3 of these at some point. One of them didn't work, but which one is on the short list …

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

Posted on 2023-11-19, 02:51

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What are these CECH**? It's not a familiar name to me

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-11-18, 23:53

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I've just received my ISA graphics card, it is based on a Yamaha V6363 and can do Hercules MDA and CGA. Hopefully if it works I'll be using it as a backup video card on my P200 build (which at the moment is non funtional). Technically I did not buy it. I forgot about it many years ago and retrieved …

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Re: Updated Awdbedit to modern compilers (windows) and updated to allow reading of 4.50PG bios

Posted on 2023-11-15, 18:05

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consp wrote on 2023-11-15, 03:21: debs3759 wrote on 2023-11-14, 19:17: What BIOS revisions does it work with? Originally 4.51PG, 6.0 and 6.0PG. I've added 4.50PG. Reading works (which was what I needed for the INTA-D values), altering I have not tested yet. Great, thanks

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Re: Updated Awdbedit to modern compilers (windows) and updated to allow reading of 4.50PG bios

Posted on 2023-11-14, 19:17

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What BIOS revisions does it work with?

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Re: Minimum hardware specs to enjoy Doom and Doom2

Posted on 2023-11-14, 17:44

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I remember a friend on my software engineering class in '95 coming in with a P90 laptop and showing off how fast it was with Doom. The lads on the course were in awe of it, as pretty much the whole class was still stuck with 486 class CPUs. The offending classmate got the latest tech all the time, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-11-10, 21:43

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This surprised me by turning up today, projected date was Xmas Eve lol just under 2 weeks actual though, I've had stuff ordered in US or even from other coast of Canada take longer. I sent a 9 Kg package from the UK to Oregon that arrived in 3 days! That was shipped with UPS, who were the cheapest …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-11-09, 13:40

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Brings a new meaning to "hand drill" 😀

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Re: Socket 423: Aiming for the Stars

Posted on 2023-11-05, 04:08

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A reverse adapter to 478 would be cool. 423 cpu in a late 478 mobo Pretty sure I have one in one of my unsorted boxes. Bought it thinking it was the reverse - run 478 in a 423 board (I wanted to see if a 64-bit Prescott would run in a 423 board, and try installing XP64 on it). I really need to sort …

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Re: "Floppy disk(s) fail (C0)" error message at boot.

Posted on 2023-11-04, 20:03

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Did you also try different floppy drives? Or is that what you meant when you said drivers?

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Re: The Retro Web project - a better stason.org/TH99 alternative

Posted on 2023-10-31, 21:09

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As the maintainer of the database for gpuzoo.com (admittedly I've not done any work on that in a year and a half, due to poor mental health), I can tell you all that even if I had a team of fellow volunteers, sites like TRW take a lot of work, and I for one appreciate that the team do as much as …

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