Re: The growing pains of ALI chipset and AGP cards - Geforce 2 edition
Posted on 2021-04-17, 20:21
Hm, maybe it has something to do with the inofficial K6 plus BIOS?
Re: ATI All-In-Wonder; Should It Be This Loud? Also...
Posted on 2021-04-17, 17:31
Are you saying that the bearings and lube could be bad on an unused item due to entirely to age? Yes. Some bearings contain non-metallic parts that can age and even if they don't the oil deteriorates over time.
Re: Help Compaq LTE/286 Motherboard REV E
Posted on 2021-04-17, 14:45
Colored in the different places where to rework/replace pads/traces. Also clean up the solder where the yellow arrow points. Not too sure wether the orange via needs to be reconnected to the trace. Likely it's fine and just looks funny in the picture. I hope this helps! :-) Oh, and welcome to the …
Re: Help Compaq LTE/286 Motherboard REV E
Posted on 2021-04-17, 14:38
From the picture it looks like this is pretty straightforward. Unless I simply don't understand what happened. That's always a possibility as well. 😅 The missing pads from the capacitor seem to connect directly to the vias next to them. The one trace that melted at the lower boarder or the red …
Re: Aopen AX5T (i430TX) HDD performance
Posted on 2021-04-17, 14:33
Sorry, I'm out of ideas.
Re: Aopen AX5T (i430TX) HDD performance
Posted on 2021-04-17, 13:22
Did you enable DMA for your HDD in Windows? Edit: And did you clear CMOS after flashing the BIOS?
Re: 486-era Gimmicks PC
Posted on 2021-04-17, 09:00
Too bad the case only has two 5.25 inch drive bays. A CD changer would be a nice gimmick as well, especially on a desktop case where the drive is always easily accessible.😄
Re: Win 98se crash
Posted on 2021-04-17, 08:56
Awesome! Have fun with it! 😁
Re: Heatsink and/or fan for Voodoo 3 3000
Posted on 2021-04-17, 08:56
I don't how is removed from the chip, we'll se tomorrow. Yeah you are right, the screws are at different places. I will check it and buy another type of heatsink. Worth it to buy for V3 3000's memory cells self-adhesive heatsinks? They are cheap. The memory chips don't usually need heatsinks, …
Re: 486-era Gimmicks PC
Posted on 2021-04-16, 20:18
I approve! 😁👍 Especially the extra amp in the desktop case with integrated speakers. 😄
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2021-04-16, 19:04
The original Vortex really isn't that great. SBlive! also does A3D as well plus EAX in hardware. Only Vortex2 cards are capable of A3D 2.0, so I'd recommend to only get a Vortex2 card if you want an Aureal chip.
Re: Heatsink and/or fan for Voodoo 3 3000
Posted on 2021-04-16, 18:21
You're welcome! 😀 I think even though the Diamond Banshee has its cooler glued on there are mounting holes for a cooler on the pcb but they're exactly diagonally across. The heatsink you linked probably won't fit those holes. 🙁 I don't know how far they're apart, sorry.
Re: Heatsink and/or fan for Voodoo 3 3000
Posted on 2021-04-16, 17:45
This is my modefication..... As the original heatsink has 4 holes, and only 2 are used to mount it to the pcb, there are 2 holes left for zip-ties. You only need to find ones that are thin enough, in order to have them go through the holes and underneath the heatsink. What wide has those zip ties? …
Re: ATI All-In-Wonder; Should It Be This Loud? Also...
Posted on 2021-04-16, 16:17
Hello and welcome to the forum! :-) It isn't unusual for old fan bearings to be worn out or missing lubrication. you can try removing the sticker on the back of the fan and lubricating the bearing with silicone oil or sewing machine oil (I hope this is the right term). For extra poits disassemble …
Re: The growing pains of ALI chipset and AGP cards - Geforce 2 edition
Posted on 2021-04-16, 12:32
Matze79 had similar problems and found a fix: ALI Chipset vs AGP Card - K6-2 Commate S7AX He disabled Sideband Adressing (and repaired broken solder joints on his board). Given going into PCI mode disables Sideband Adressing as well you should try that.
Re: Voodoo 1 CPU & VGA Limitations
Posted on 2021-04-16, 10:05
Different card models using the original Voodoo Graphics chipset behave differently on different machines with different drivers and different applications. At PIII performance levels even the best combinations start glitching. All of this has been discussed numerous times. This thread is from 2012. …
Re: killer nic m1 32 bit drivers
Posted on 2021-04-16, 09:01
rikukos wrote on 2021-04-16, 08:45: I still got my K-nic sitting in box with all the contents it originally came with. Should have a driver cd too, don't know about the version though. If you could make an image of that disk and upload it to vogonsdrivers you would probably do some people a favour …
Re: Best pci NICs by lowest cpu usage/ highest bandwidth
Posted on 2021-04-16, 08:54
I'm getting more confused. Asking those who are more knowledgeable if my understanding of the terminology is correct: kilobyte = kB (or kByte) kilobit = kb (or kbit) megabyte = MB (or MByte) megabit = Mb (or Mbit) 1 megabyte = 1000 kilobyte = 8 megabit = 8000 kilobit 1 megabit = 1000 kilobit = 0, …
Re: Win 98se crash
Posted on 2021-04-16, 08:40
SD cards aren't that great for use as system drives. Doesn't mean they'll always give you trouble though. With Win9x make sure to disable write-behind caching for SD cards since they (usually?) do not have an integrated cache and using the feature on them will often cause the system to stutter.
Re: Best pci NICs by lowest cpu usage/ highest bandwidth
Posted on 2021-04-16, 08:27
Sorry, I've amended my post - I claim lack of coffee. It's the capitalisation of the b that is particularly significant. 'B' for bytes and 'b' for bits. Thanks for the quick reply!👍 I'm never too certain about those things. 😅 Especially with lower case k for kilo but capital letters for all the …
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