Motherboard cleaning

Posted on Today, 02:59

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What techniques are you following for cleaning old motherboards? I normaly just use a small brush and nothing else for cleaning the dust, but sometimes the motherboard is just too dirty. I have tried IPA with a small paint brush in those cases, it cleans a lot but there there is still residue of …

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Re: Voodoo 3 Fan Solution

Posted on 2023-09-27, 04:02

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always wanted to see a 3dprint design for this

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Re: Soyo Brand Used the worst capacitors in the world!

Posted on 2023-09-27, 03:27

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PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2023-09-27, 03:13: Same with my Dragon Platinum edition - when I do get round to the recap am hoping to use suitable spec polys to maintain the aesthetic Soyo SAC OFF.jpg that board is a beauty what replacement brand and series are you going to buy?

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Soyo Brand Used the worst capacitors in the world!

Posted on 2023-09-27, 02:22

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Soyo Was a popular brand where i live, it was one of the good brands, not like ASUS but it served well. They made some good SLOT1 motherboards, some good Super socket7 motherboards. And they continued releasing even motherboards in the Athlon XP era where they even released white pcb motherboards. …

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Re: FiC PA-2013 mosfet problem

Posted on 2020-06-15, 05:54

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so i totally forgot and in a box i found another of these pa2013 boards, but my second one is rev 2.1 and only 1mb cache. (the one with heat problems is rev 2.0 and 2mb cache) used the same cpu, same jumper configuration and there was no heat problem i checked the mosfets of the second board and …

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Re: FiC PA-2013 mosfet problem

Posted on 2020-06-15, 01:37

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Hi guys, thanks all for the reply on this topic i was able to finally buy replacement capacitors for this motherboard, and because of the pandemic i managed to have time and exchange 5 caps, which are the ones that are near the mosfets. The result was still ..BAD on the image i posted, the mosfet on …

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Re: FiC PA-2013 mosfet problem

Posted on 2020-03-11, 13:11

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Cant remember if it was set to auto, The caps looked fine but i will replace them since probably those are 20 years old already. I was testing it with a k6-2 500. i hope i can fix it because ss7 boards are not easy to find here, and the 2mb version is way more difficult

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FiC PA-2013 mosfet problem

Posted on 2020-03-11, 05:05

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Hi guys, i have a fic-pa2013 mothertboard, very hard to find , and its the 2mb version. I know these boards are very expensive. The problem i have is that one of these 2 mosfets gets hot like crazy, im talking about more than 176 degrees F. with such high temperature you can even touch the back of …

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Re: Mini ATX motherboards for old PC?

Posted on 2019-11-28, 00:50

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i have one of these SOYO and i love it 440bx , agp, pci, isa and supports up to 600mhz only pentium3 its my main pentium3 retro pc.

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Re: Intel is purging drivers for EOL hardware starting Oct 29,2019

Posted on 2019-10-19, 20:27

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i hate when this happens specially on old compaq pcs from the 90s we have lost so many things, abit, epox, soyo now intel

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Re: The risks of using period correct power supplies

Posted on 2019-10-19, 20:11

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the sad part about this is that athlon xp era PSUs with high 5v amps are not produced anymore but for older AT power supplys there are converter cables on ebay that make your ATX power supply into AT power connector so you can just use a brand new one and don´t fear burning your old loved …

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Skywell magic 3d Rush drivers?

Posted on 2019-10-13, 20:04

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hi i got this card and i want to know some things because i never had a voodoo rush 1. can i use generic voodoo drivers with voodo rush skywell mgic 3d? or i need to find online the drivers made by skywell? 2. these cards only worked in windows 3.1 and win95 ? or can be used on win98 also? 3. i read …

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Does anyone use Geforce 6800 or 7600 with Win98 drivers?

Posted on 2019-09-29, 15:20

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i was looking for win98 AGP drivers and they support up to a point where cards like: geforce 6800xe AGP geforce 6800xt AGP geforce 7600gs AGP are not listed anymore as supported on the nvidia last win98 drivers. I know there was an BFG edition of 7800 GS OC AGP that they made it work with windows98 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-08, 22:04

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where is processor? Below the empty (FPU) socket. Yeah... because it's 386SX-16 And this mobo... Everything works perfectly fine... Yikes... a barrel battery... :-S Already desoldered... And today's batch from last of the PCs from this haul... i have been trying to find one of those baby TX boards …

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Anything good for removing RUST on old hardware?

Posted on 2019-08-15, 05:07

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i have seen: Rust on inside the pc case Rust on outside of pc case Rust on Video card vga connectors. Rust on speaker grills and so on my question goes to anyone who has worked on restoration . What are the best ways to remove rust? Vinegar? Ketchup? after that if it is exposed to air it will rust …

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Re: Radeon 9800 XXL. anyone got one?

Posted on 2019-07-06, 23:04

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i found the drivers for it on the medion website, but i think those are for windows XP. are there win98 drivers for it?

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Radeon 9800 XXL. anyone got one?

Posted on 2019-07-06, 22:47

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i found one of these cards..radeon 9800 XXL before trying it out, i wanted to know this ... on the top there is a floppy drive power connector. -For universal agp it needs power connected? -For agp 8x it also needs power connected to it? in terms of performance this card is below 9800pro? https://i. …

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MacMini G4 top cover turned yellow

Posted on 2019-06-10, 20:34

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hey guys, i bought a Macmini G4 fastest one (first model) for 20 bucks i found out that the dvd drive is broken, no big deal for me since i connected a normal laptop dvd drive and it works. The reason for this was to install a modified version of MacOS 9, for some retro gaming on a mac. Everything …

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Tualatin confirmed working on qny Slocket on slot1 ?

Posted on 2019-05-27, 23:20

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just wanted to check if there are 1.4ghz tualatin ( not celeron tualatin) compatible slot1 slockets out there that are not the powerleap one. i have seen quite a few models online, i even saw an aopen one but i can´t find information if there is actually one that is compatible with 1.4ghz tualatin. …

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Re: De-yellowing of plastics by only leaving them under the sun

Posted on 2019-05-22, 01:04

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As the "sunbrighting" is becoming popular, the same happens for posts expressing concerns https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/bp8wda/a_warning_about_lightbrightingsunbrighting/ https://imgur.com/gallery/0SdpDJ6 (image from the reddit post shared here for convenience, not mine) TL; …

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