Re: 3DMark2001 Advanced Pixel Shader test restarting pc?

Posted on 2022-08-22, 17:57

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you haven't already then be sure to remove your northbridge cooler and use new thermal paste and lubricate the fan bearing. Very important to insure the this chipset is cooled well also and properly assembled with good paste, not the no-name pastes that is worth 1w/mk? Did you lightly lap the …

---

Re: What's "VX" in Geforce2 Ti VX?

Posted on 2022-08-21, 21:43

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Thank you, that helps. No issues with overclocking to 250 from 225 if cooling is taken care of? Cheers,

---

What's "VX" in Geforce2 Ti VX?

Posted on 2022-08-21, 21:27

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Sometimes I see these online auctions. What's Ti "VX" stands for? Cheers,

---

Re: Help troubleshooting an NCR 286 single board computer

Posted on 2022-08-21, 21:05

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is this onboard ram 128K? Looked like 64K x 1 chips? Cheers,

---

Re: Why DOS4GW games lead to higher system requirements + slower performance on 386sx

Posted on 2022-08-18, 14:35

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not getting the hint that fact is 386*SX* is 16 bit data path even the processor core is 32 bits. Any execution of any 32 bit instructions imposes big penalty on extra cycles due to transferring 16 bits twice to do a 32 bit execution then 2 times on 32bits data again then again. , Again. If you had …

---

Re: Debugging a Micronics W6-LI POST failure

Posted on 2022-08-18, 00:52

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You are welcome, wow bad jumper!? I usually search around and buy bag of quality jumper blocks. I was glad I suggested checking the clocking. Cheers,

---

Re: Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi 2MB or 64MB (SB0460) ?

Posted on 2022-08-16, 23:14

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

The EMU2K20 xxx are hardware acceleration, while ones that are not, relies on CPU for processing. That is significant. Also there is some that are 16MB versions. Cheers,

---

Re: Are these worth anything?

Posted on 2022-08-16, 23:09

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Raccoons are known rabies carrier and very mean creature that you don't want to make them used to you feeding them, don't do that. Not cuddly. They are very nimble with their hands getting into things and so much trash had been gotten ripped apart, raid bird nests, etc. Best leave them alone, and if …

---

Re: Substitute Capacitors?

Posted on 2022-08-16, 19:00

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The linear power supply cared less but they tolerance large range of capacitors used but the old age solution was use very large uF capacitor or several to exchange to help with power demands surges due to low frequency ripples (60hz or 120hz due to rectifier bridge for lack of technology that we …

---

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-08-16, 17:55

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, nForce2 is certified utter shit so no surprises there.. What kind of shit statement is that ?!?!? Are there better boards then nForce i wonder ? Oyy yeah the SiS ones, and the VIA ones, and i think there was even Uli boards as well.... Errr.... nVidia nForce and nForce2 Chipset used ULi IP …

---

Re: Debugging a Micronics W6-LI POST failure

Posted on 2022-08-15, 22:53

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Did a re-read and see now, an guess the fault game, aha. If the chipsets or TTL ICs are active, you should see activities and signals strong and clean even somewhere is in error. The one that is not doing the correctly will have odd signal or distorted or not responding to the inputs. As a …

---

Re: Already programmed OTP EPROM?

Posted on 2022-08-15, 21:21

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had no issues reusing flash bio chips from old junk boards as EPROMs. I did this with hot swap on a motherboard to flash in two pieces of firmware and installed on a cache spock scsi controller. BTW: buying silicon ICs; be cautious about pieces from Chinese sellers, they were substandard. Cheers, …

---

Re: Already programmed OTP EPROM?

Posted on 2022-08-15, 21:20

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had no issues reusing flash bio chips from old junk boards as EPROMs. I did this with hot swap on a motherboard to flash in two pieces of firmware and installed on a cache spock scsi controller. Cheers,

---

Re: A7N8X-E Heatsink options

Posted on 2022-08-15, 19:24

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Alpha PAL8045 was central to silencing that athlon rig I had. Back in the day, PWM and voltage varying to adjust RPM of fan were not in the cards with many boards. This was very close to start of implementing the quiet features to the boards in the near future, but mine does not have these necessary …

---

Re: Debugging a Micronics W6-LI POST failure

Posted on 2022-08-15, 19:17

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The sequence of reads in series of addresses is stuck in start up mode trying to read or moving the bios firmware to memory? Make sure the reset circuit works that does reset all the chips including processor. When processor is reset, processor will loop all the addresses over and over if there is …

---

ATI 9100 or not?

Posted on 2022-08-14, 22:16

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I was tempted to buy one but is anything that is useful with it besides the feature of TruForm? Is there suitable alteratives that will do well eg: 9600 XT, and my current collection of GPU cards? Cheers,

---

Re: Cost of living strikes!!!!

Posted on 2022-08-14, 21:46

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Actually SIMMs themselves with chips like these were pretty good, PCB and soldering quality is very good, but authenticity of trust guarantee of quality, condition of chips (was it from failed batch or sub-par chips sold on open market or not?), is not there since there are evident of duplicated …

---

Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2022-08-14, 20:04

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

ph4nt0m wrote on 2022-08-14, 20:00: I have also replaced all 0805 ceramic capacitors with 10uF ones. They were 100nF originally. Made a difference. You can see them in the photo above, they are taller. Which photo? Cheers,

---

Re: Cost of living strikes!!!!

Posted on 2022-08-14, 16:25

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I had few cases where bad memory happened, once on video card (then repaired), and on several computers. Hence my preference for ECC for my main computers, again OEM memory modules. For other computers that does not support ECC, I use OEM brand memory modules, the ones with genuine brand and part …

---

Re: Cost of living strikes!!!!

Posted on 2022-08-13, 21:35

by

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Thank you so much for tips. Even with row hammer, I appreciate the ECC memory as I have a Z220 as my daily driver with windows 10, for almost 5 years and hiccups is very rare. Before this, all my computers had issues before that, even well behaved optiplex 780 with windows 10 had bit more crashes. …

---