Re: Windows 95 or 98 Pentium Box
Posted on 2018-02-23, 20:21
win95 was pentium 1 era win98 was pentium 2 - pentium 3 era, because everybody used win98 instead of Millenium error edition
AWE32 memory expansion ?
Posted on 2018-02-23, 20:19
I have an AWE32 one is CT3600 and another awe32 is CT3670 i think the ct3670 is PNP and i think it is better than the other one. I checked the card and has 2 simm slots that must be 30pin. Checked on Ebay and there is people selling different 30pin simm ram, and some of them got sticks of 4mb that …
Re: Help me fix a RIVA128 card.
Posted on 2018-02-22, 21:44
thanks all i think i found a broken tnt card diamond. with caps that are orange with the same numbers 10 16 i will use the tnt for parts. i really want this card because it is an nvidia dinosaur
Help me fix a RIVA128 card.
Posted on 2018-02-22, 00:08
Today i had luck. I have not seen one of these for many years and i bought it for $5 dollars. It is a riva128, from the good old days where Diamond Viper V330 was very well known, this one is STB brand AGP. The card has only one little broken component, the component is also on many other places in …
Cheating On Good old DOS games.
Posted on 2018-02-19, 20:45
It was 1998 i was playing some games, biomenace or duke nukem, and i learned how to memory hack some DOS games BUT I can´t remember the program name nor how it worked, wanted to know if you remember it. From what i remember of it was something like this: you enter the game with lets say 5 lives, and …
Re: Replacing IDE hard drives with something more modern
Posted on 2018-02-16, 20:19
there are many ways - Sata to IDE adapter (but some of them dont work, there is one with a jumper for master-slave that works) + a seagate HDD - IDE To CF card (mostly used but CF cards are not that common) - IDE to SD card, costs very cheap and sd cards are available everywhere i like the adapter + …
Re: Socket7 gigabyte memory compatibility
Posted on 2018-02-14, 14:16
The problem with terms like "low density" and "high density" are entirely relative so not very useful. The GA-5SMM has a SiS 530 chipset. This chipset supports a maximum memory density of 128Mb (same as the i440BX). In 1998 this was 'high density' (as opposed to 64Mb chips), by 2000 this was 'low …
Socket7 gigabyte memory compatibility
Posted on 2018-02-14, 11:27
i have a socket 7 motherboard gigabyte 5SMM it has 3 dim slots. i have a bunch of different dims (like 50 of differet brand) and most of the 256 are detected as 128 only 2 stick of ram were detected as 256....bOth in reality were 512mb sticks pc133 is that normal or gigabyte had poor memory suport …
Advice on Bios USB flasher to buy
Posted on 2018-02-13, 11:41
i want to buy a cheap external usb flasher just in case i ever have a bios problem with my boards i can replace the bios and flash a bin file. but im not sure what model you all use and what extra accessories you need to buy
Re: Do you have SoYO branded motherboards?
Posted on 2018-01-17, 23:09
I sifted through my archives to find the files that I have for the SY-7VBA133U and managed to find links in the Wayback Machine: SY-7VBA133U https://web.archive.org/web/20040325124844/http://www.soyo.com.tw:80/dl/drivers/via-pro/via4in1443v(a).zip akula many of those links were dead even in the …
Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...
Posted on 2017-12-15, 21:56
what about sound blaster audigy 1 and what about aound blaster audigy 2 audigy1 includes DOS drivers on its cdrom and audidy2 has hacked drivers taken fron audigy1 and both carda are even newer tha aureal vortex2 any idea on how they respond on newer motherboards?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-12-09, 23:32
i bought a soundblaster 64 Gold for $25 and im waiting it to be shipped
Re: Socket 370 Motherboard
Posted on 2017-12-09, 00:42
thanks for the list where i live i was able to grab a soyo 7vba133U fantastic board with universal agp and isa slot. and very rare too because normally you can only find the version without the " U" at the end. i love it for my retro PC. i was able to get it with a 1.4ghz CPU but when i boot it it …
Re: This M912(v1.7) jumper config for Intel DX4 seems right?
Posted on 2017-12-06, 16:52
.legaCy wrote: Well im will use a intel dx4 100 with the s3 805 hopefully it will work.[/quote] good luck because this guy had the same issue as me Need help: VLB S3 Trio64 "rainbowing"
How many years until Capacitors go bad?
Posted on 2017-12-06, 01:24
1. What is the expected life in years of a motherboard capacitor? 2. Can a capacitor be bad even if it looks fine when you look at it? or always needs to be bulge? 3. Ever had a favorite motherboard and wanted to re-cap it with newer caps just in case? 4. Motherboards are full of 22uf capacitors …
Re: This M912(v1.7) jumper config for Intel DX4 seems right?
Posted on 2017-12-06, 01:03
Nice board i have one of those m912 without cache chips + one M919 + one M915i + one M921 that refused to work, never saved bios nor let me boot and one leg of UMC chip was broken. but i never liked pc chips feels like the motherboard has the devil inside and will boot when it wants to. the m919 i …
Re: This M912(v1.7) jumper config for Intel DX4 seems right?
Posted on 2017-12-05, 18:55
Nice board i have one of those m912 without cache chips + one M919 + one M915i + one M921 that refused to work, never saved bios nor let me boot and one leg of UMC chip was broken. but i never liked pc chips feels like the motherboard has the devil inside and will boot when it wants to. the m919 i …
Re: Do you have SoYO branded motherboards?
Posted on 2017-12-05, 03:30
http://www.filewatcher.com/b/ftp/78.46.141.148/mirrors/ftp.mdscene.net/soyocd-0.html inside each cd there is a cdrev.txt with whats supposed to support each cd SOYO CD rev-20000501 7VBA133 m7vba13310.pdf 7VCA m7vca10.pdf 7VCM m7vcm10.pdf 7SBB V1.0 m7ssb10.pdf 7SBB m7ssb10.pdf 7IZM m7izm10.pdf 7IZB+ …
Re: Do you have SoYO branded motherboards?
Posted on 2017-12-05, 03:24
I have the SY-7VBA133U driver disc. It has disc label SOYOCD20031101 so I guess the drivers on it are from 2003. It is rev 20031101, not rev 20030902 EDIT For some reason I can't access my dropbox account anymore -- the Dropbox Login link is grayed out and I don't want to use Google to log in. So I …
Do you have SoYO branded motherboards?
Posted on 2017-12-03, 14:13
Is soyo a good brand for old motherboard or it is bad quality as PCCHIPS? I have 2 motherboards that are soyo and i saw that many capacitors are in very bad shape on both of them some orange on the top, Strangely the motherboard still works. Motherboard Soyo pentium3 : SY-7VBA133U (universal AGP) …
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