Re: Building a socket 7 pc from scratch

Posted on 2018-04-21, 00:56

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by tanasen

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Solution is quite simple really - if you have a Voltage meter. "+5V" is exactly what it sounds like. So if you check the pins one by one measuring between the pin and a known ground, you should find the two +5V pins easily enough. If they're at the same end of the block, you have the new pinout and …

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Re: Building a socket 7 pc from scratch

Posted on 2018-04-20, 17:20

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by tanasen

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However, if I'm not mistaken, it also doesn't mean that you can just use modern ATX power supplies. Supposedly, they don't provide enough power over the 5V rail that some older hardware needs. I've never tried a modern PSU though, just noticed a lot of discussion of 5v rails whenever the topic of …

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Re: Building a socket 7 pc from scratch

Posted on 2018-04-20, 15:23

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by tanasen

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You can use USB2 brackets on USB 1 headers so long as the pinout is the same. Almost all newer headers & brackets use: 5V D- D+ GND NC 5V D- D+ GND KEY/NC Some older boards however have: 5V D- D+ GND NC NC GND D+ D- 5V If you attach a modern header to that, one of the two ports won't work. …

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Re: Building a socket 7 pc from scratch

Posted on 2018-04-20, 15:04

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by tanasen

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Thanks for your advice, you've been very helpful! I don't think you need a separate DOS 6.22 installation. Pure DOS does not support FAT32, so it won't be able to properly work with the partition that you'll have Windows 95 on. You can just use FAT16, but that means that you can't have partitions …

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Building a socket 7 pc from scratch

Posted on 2018-04-20, 10:55

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by tanasen

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Hey everyone. I have no experience in socket 7 machines and I'm trying to find ways to build one on the cheap. About a couple months ago I found a socket 7 motherboard. It is a Soyo SY-5EAS and came with a Pentium MMX 200Mhz cpu and 2 sticks of EDO ram (32mb total I guess). The chipset of the board …

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Re: Celeron 433 + Voodoo2 combo

Posted on 2018-04-06, 19:13

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I did a little experiment and compared the performance of the Voodoo2 with my Pentium3 1000mhz pc and the Slot1 one. The gaming results were pretty encouraging for the celeron at 800x600. However at 640x480 the celeron struggles to keep up with the P3 as expected (with the more demanding games). The …

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Re: Celeron 433 + Voodoo2 combo

Posted on 2018-04-02, 18:24

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by tanasen

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I did the job with AFLASH as the manual recommended and now the celeron works perfectly! I'll do some benchmarks and post the results here. Thanks everyone!

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Re: Celeron 433 + Voodoo2 combo

Posted on 2018-04-02, 10:21

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by tanasen

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Then that's your problem. Check the relevant pages of the manual, it not only tells you you need pflash2, but also why... I was looking at the wrong manual! However you also might look the wrong one too. This manual https://www.asus.com/supportonly/P2L97-S/HelpDesk_Manual/ refers to AFLASH so I'll …

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Re: Celeron 433 + Voodoo2 combo

Posted on 2018-04-02, 10:12

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by tanasen

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Without clear identification of the card or jumper documentation we can't say how the various jumpers need to be set. Is there anything written on the back of the card that could help identify it? That said: 1) you don't need to worry about the multiplier as all Celeron Mendocino chips (other than …

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Re: Celeron 433 + Voodoo2 combo

Posted on 2018-04-02, 09:24

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by tanasen

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The whole black plastic unit of the pentium 2 IS the CPU, you cannot remove any chips in there. Except for the pentium II overdrive, none of the pentium 2s were made for sockets. The main chip is soldered on the cartridge ant it won't work either without the L2 cache soldered nearby. As for the …

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Re: Celeron 433 + Voodoo2 combo

Posted on 2018-04-02, 09:19

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by tanasen

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Thanks for your reply. So it might not need a bios update? This celeron is a Mendocino and the "slocket" is a PGA370. Here is a picture of it: https://i.imgur.com/4Ij3aKK.jpg (Ofcource I also have a heatsink, just removed it) What jumpers do I have to alter in order to make it compatible? If you …

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Re: Celeron 433 + Voodoo2 combo

Posted on 2018-04-02, 00:50

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A few days have passed since my buddy bought the retro-pc, I've set it up with win98se on a 15gb IDE WD Protege, and installed the Voodoo2 and everything seems fine but now I need your help in order to upgrade the cpu. The system has a Pentium2 266mhz with the classic black plastic adapter. I don't …

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Re: Celeron 433 + Voodoo2 combo

Posted on 2018-03-16, 01:35

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On Tuesday we might have the system. I have considered overclocking to 500mhz. I hope that motherboard has some overclocking options.

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Celeron 433 + Voodoo2 combo

Posted on 2018-03-16, 00:23

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by tanasen

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A friend of mine found a cheap retro pc in great condition but hasn't purchased it yet. It has an Asus P2L97-S slot1 motherboard with a Pentium2 (not sure which one), but I have a spare Celeron 433 that suits this board. To be exact that celeron is the fastest cpu for this board. The fastest …

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Re: PINNACLE SYSTEMS IAGO ASSY 172320 REV.E3

Posted on 2018-03-12, 10:33

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by tanasen

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Update: I used SiSofware Sandra and found out the product id https://i.imgur.com/83GvMPr.jpg Then I downloaded the Pinnacle DV/AV 32bit driver installer and also used the DriverMAx utility but nothing worked. I've also contacted with Corel and they told me this product is unsupported and sent me a …

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PINNACLE SYSTEMS IAGO ASSY 172320 REV.E3

Posted on 2018-03-10, 10:11

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by tanasen

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Today I went retro hunting to a technical school and found this particular PCI video card. I inserted it in my win98 pc and was recognised as a PCI VGA adapter, but I couldn't get a signal out of it, so it must be some kind of video accelerator. I cannot find any info about this card anywhere or any …

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Re: Split Screen and co-op Games

Posted on 2017-12-19, 01:26

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This page may be of interest: https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Big_List_of_Local_Multiplayer_Games Hey thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for. I managed to play with a buddy a few days back NFS Hot Pursuit and Moto Racer 2 on split screen (and felt like a child again cause we used a single …

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Re: Split Screen and co-op Games

Posted on 2017-12-13, 08:47

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Tyrian's got a 2 player coop mode (one on keyboard, the other on mouse, and the ships are special and can fuse together) Doom Legacy is probably the only Doom source port that's available for dos while supporting split screen play. It's a very rough and outdated source port though Jazz Jackrabbit …

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Split Screen and co-op Games

Posted on 2017-12-12, 16:56

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by tanasen

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I've ordered an old Trust Predator joystick with gameport and I was wondering what games from the era 1996-2002 have the split-screen support in order to play 1 on 1 with a joystick and keyboard. I believe most racing games support that. Also what games support co-op? Expendable maybe?

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Re: Halo CE on Geforce2 Ti

Posted on 2017-11-15, 20:59

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by tanasen

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candle_86 wrote: honestly id say anything over a Geforce 3 Ti 500/ Ti 4200 is overkill, you can however crank all settings past this point as long as the gpu can handle the load Ok, thanks. I'll look for these then.

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