Re: Recent-ish mainboard with dual floppy support?

Posted on 2019-02-25, 21:41

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by Koltoroc

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floppies on anything recent aren't a thing anymore, like at all. The last ones I'm aware of are early 2010s, with some AM3 (not AM3+) boards being pretty much the last boards that still had them. Which of those support 2 floppies and anything besides 3.5" HD I have no idea.

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Re: Jumper manual needed for ISA IDE CD-ROM card - 74-1881A

Posted on 2019-02-24, 00:42

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by Koltoroc

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I have some Mitsumi drives, but the slowest is 8x. I also have 12x and 16x. Will the 8x work on this card? Or will it fry the card/drive? unlikely. IIRC the fastest proprietary mitsumi drives were 2x, maybe there were 4x but I don't think so. Easy way to tell is that IDE drives have Master/Slave …

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Re: Jumper manual needed for ISA IDE CD-ROM card - 74-1881A

Posted on 2019-02-23, 16:08

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by Koltoroc

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that mitsumi card is a for the old proprietary mitsumi interface, not IDE. It is from the same generation of non standard interfaces like the sony and panasonic one. It will work only with the earliest mitsumi cd rom drives, like FX001

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Re: Newest chipsets and PCI-E gen1 videocards compatibility?

Posted on 2019-02-21, 23:01

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by Koltoroc

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As far as I know, modern board will work fine with non-UEFI cards like GTX 280, so that's not the case. UEFI systems can work with non UEFI GPUs only if the Mainboards UEFI has A CSM (responsible for Bios backwards compatibility). The CSM has been deprecated and intel will phase out support in 2020 …

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Re: Need help to ID Geforce 2 GTS

Posted on 2019-02-16, 13:40

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by Koltoroc

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the memory clock is a bit low, should be around 166Mhz IIRC. Remember, DDR Memory transfers data 2 times for every clock cycle, so the actual clock speed is half of what it is marketed as. For example, a "266Mhz" DDR module only runs at 133 Mhz, but doubles the bandwidth so it has an effective data …

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Re: Intrest in new ISA cards?

Posted on 2019-02-07, 22:33

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by Koltoroc

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How about an ISA card with 1024Mb flash memory that would emulate ide controller and 2 x 512Mb ide hard drives for those old PCs with the hard drive size limitations? It would be convenient way to get hard drives to just put such isa card there. There could also be USB connector at back of the ISA …

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Re: Overclocked Pentium 3 Tualatin BSOD issues and other things

Posted on 2019-02-05, 18:29

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by Koltoroc

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so it should be a bit of higher quality than the CWT built Corsair CX500M Corsair does not make PSUs. And your current PSU might as well be rebranded Seasonic. CWT is Channel Well Tech, a PSU OEM and most Corsair PSUs are made by them. I believe they recently started designing their own PSUs but …

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Re: Overclocked Pentium 3 Tualatin BSOD issues and other things

Posted on 2019-02-05, 12:44

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by Koltoroc

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put the CPU back to stock to see if the problem goes away, something might have issue with the increased bus speed. The Radeon might really not like an overclocked AGP bus, it is technically a PCIe card that uses a converter chip to get an AGP interface and that chip gets really hot under normal …

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Re: How do I find good floppy disks?

Posted on 2019-02-02, 21:48

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by Koltoroc

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How on earth do I find good floppy disks? luck, thats about it. How do I know which ones are good quality and which ones aren't? you don't until you test them. Is anyone making new ones? I don't think so, AFAIK the last new ones were made in the early 2010s, The production quality of floppy disks …

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Re: Maxing Intel P45 memory

Posted on 2019-02-02, 17:50

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by Koltoroc

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I don't think that intel compatible 4GB DDR2 modules were ever produced. IIRC there were no DDR2 chips with the required capacity made.

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Re: Mac Performa 6200 not recognizing CD-Rom drives

Posted on 2019-01-28, 01:44

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by Koltoroc

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Windows9566 wrote: i didn't see any leaky electrolyte on the board They don't have to leak to have gone bad, capacitors can still look perfectly fine despite having failed. That is why a visual inspection is not sufficient.

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Re: Disable 2 cores Phenom II X4 965BE?

Posted on 2019-01-24, 10:42

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by Koltoroc

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there is no reasonable way to get the phenom II stock cooler quiet. I have used one temporarily on a 65W dual core Athlon 64 and it was just as obnoxious. If you wan't to make that system quieter you need to get a better cooler.

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Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2019-01-19, 17:33

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by Koltoroc

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in 2009 I had for most of the year still an Athlon 64 X2 6000+ and later the 125W Phenom II X4 965. Today I have a Ryzen 7 1800X.

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Re: "New" NV silencer 4 coolers.

Posted on 2019-01-16, 23:35

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by Koltoroc

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it can go bad, some separation of its contents can occur or it can dry out. I don't know the exact mechanics of how or why it dries out, but I have had that happen with the cheap white stuff, as well as an old sealed tube of original arctic silver. I normally I use enough to use it up way before it …

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Re: "New" NV silencer 4 coolers.

Posted on 2019-01-16, 15:39

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by Koltoroc

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I would replace the pads and paste, they are likely not in good shape. Thermal paste and pads typically have a shelf life of 5-10 years.

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Re: 32bit capable cards that support table fog and 8 bit paletized textures - aka is really only geforce4

Posted on 2019-01-15, 14:25

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by Koltoroc

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I'm not aware of a complete list, but it would be rather short anyway. ATI Radeons never supported those features in hardware, rage128 might have but I can't find any documentation. The emulation by radeon cards was removed in later drivers after the radeon 9700 release, early driver versions should …

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Re: Real Magic MPEG VGA Cards

Posted on 2019-01-14, 15:43

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by Koltoroc

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I thought there was a version of Wing Commander III that made use of these cards? I know there was a DVD release of WC3...but I still remember a requirement being an MPEG decoder installed in your computer? Never heard of that. However, there is a wing commander IV version on DVD that uses DVD …

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Re: Question about a HD4870x2 system build

Posted on 2019-01-11, 22:40

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by Koltoroc

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Wasn't frame pacing fixed though? Frame pacing issues were never addressed before Radeon 7990. By that time even Radeon 6990 was moved to legacy. oh, they were addressed before the 7990, most driver releases had a line somewhere about crossfire issues or "microstutters" It just took until the 7990 …

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Re: "New" USB mouse vs. Every 90's PS/2 mouse I have ever owned.

Posted on 2019-01-06, 17:11

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by Koltoroc

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I suspect that difference comes from the difference in polling rate. PS/2 has a default pollrate of between 60Hz and 100Hz (I find conflicting info, but I believe 60 was standard), while USB has a default poll rate of 125hz with a maximum of 1kHz (no idea how to adjust, didn't look into it, might be …

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Re: LS-120 driver urgently needed for Windows XP 64bit or higher

Posted on 2019-01-05, 21:18

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by Koltoroc

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I highly doubt that there even is any 64bit driver for the LS120. The LS120 was long dead commercially when 64bit windows came to market and XP 64 in particular had rerally dire driver support for even common hardware. 32 bit XP has a build in driver I believe, but that is as high as it goes for …

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