Re: S3 Vision 968 VLB replica
Posted on 2020-10-01, 20:35
I thought people is saying IBM DAC is not good quality vs TI DAC?
Re: E-Wave : an ESS based waveblaster card
Posted on 2020-10-01, 20:31
What's the differences? Is it higher quality wavetable rom? Cheers,
Re: Fixing a basket case Dell 466/L
Posted on 2020-10-01, 19:47
The mice has hantavirus, very dangerous. I once received a compaq in that state too and saved the parts and disposed of the chassis, then purchased another. Priority one: Get commercial disinfectant that is specific to infectious stuff bottle and mix it up if label says and apply to everything, …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-10-01, 19:16
I do agree about those clear, pleasing look that you get from quality boards. I'm sick of black with texture quality. Cheers,
Re: Fixing/cleaning skipping optical drives
Posted on 2020-10-01, 19:14
Usually the bearing in the spindle wore out or laser had died. Nothing you can do with that. I like LG best as they has long lived laser than anything else I had. Cheers,
Re: ASUS TUSL2-C rear USB ports not working - voltage too low
Posted on 2020-09-30, 22:43
I always configure not to use 5Vsb if there's jumpers on the motherboards I come across. This was for waking up the computer from sleep using Vsb to keep usb device alive, which is taken from the Vsb wire from ATX power supply. Not enough current. Cheers,
Re: Compaq Deskpro EX Mainboard 203966-001 showing Error Messages
Posted on 2020-09-30, 20:11
What is the processor you are using with this board? Sometimes it is not supported if you are piecing together a computer from many sources. Find out about this computer what processors it can support. Cheers,
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-09-30, 20:08
Received Proliant 1500 board and power supply. Next purchase find the processor card. These are more simpler since the power supply has power switch. Just larger than normal. Cheers,
Re: EPoX EP-61BXA-M 440BX SLOT1 (Dead)
Posted on 2020-09-30, 04:52
Get these from digikey. Chinese sellers, these semiconductors are fakes. I bought few high freq ampifiers IC from chinese and they were junk. Cheers,
Re: Soldering struggle
Posted on 2020-09-30, 04:28
Coming from 40 years of soldering experience starting out when I was just a child and father building soldering together electronic kits all the way to current job fixing phones, game consoles, etc. Warmer the board is, works better. The 10 dollar soldering iron junk is your biggest causes of …
Re: Newly made ISA CL-GD5434
Posted on 2020-09-30, 03:52
Back then, when I had D945GCLF motherboard, One ATX power supply connector was missing a wire on the ATX connector so I soldered a wire from ATX 12V CPU connector so I don't get high density horizontal lines in video output. See if you can find the noise that get introduced that causes this vertical …
Re: Olivetti Modulo M4 40 with DX2 wont start
Posted on 2020-09-30, 02:42
Yay! Good! Enjoy! Cheers!
Re: Installing bigger harddrive in a 386 system
Posted on 2020-09-30, 02:37
I just chuck any IDE, PATA drive, and set up bios to use 528MB for DOS if motherboard only supports that. If Pentium board, I'd still do that with any large hard drive and set it as 2, 4, 6 or 8GB and partition them at 2GB each if I'm using DOS only machine. But if I have a special fondness for a PC …
Re: Need help with idntify 486 mainboard and some parts
Posted on 2020-09-29, 01:45
That 386 card is nice to have since it has 32K cache using 385 cache controller give nice boost to the 386DX. But that will not beat the 486 anyway but fun to play with. Cheers,
Re: info about "Am5x86-P75 AMD AM486DX5-133W16BHC Chip"
Posted on 2020-09-29, 00:25
This is 5V power plane with two wires soldered was for 5V fan to cool the chip and VRM. Cheers,
Re: Compaq SLT 286
Posted on 2020-09-28, 23:48
I had to repair the DC DC internal power supply on SLT 386s/20. One long capacitor had one lead break internally and is free to rotate around after desoldered that capacitor. Replaced the capacitor fixed it up. Cheers,
Re: Amstrad Mega PC
Posted on 2020-09-28, 23:44
So rare to see all WDC chipsets and video chipset. I wondered why computer makers didn't go for that. Cheers,
Re: ASUS TUSL2-C rear USB ports not working - voltage too low
Posted on 2020-09-28, 23:27
The resettable fuse is bad on these. Green medium size SMD package near these USB connectors. Turn off and no power, measure across these with meter set to ohms. Should be under 0.1 ohms. Another way to get 5V routed through is using powered USB hub. Cheers,
Re: SOJ to DIP adapter needed
Posted on 2020-09-28, 14:11
This is same issue with width also, I have compaq expansion memory card that is tight, have to look into making these but one problem is pins for dip has to be SMT on one side. Width of SOJ solder leads and DIP leads is very close. Cheers,
Re: Troubleshooting Hercules Dynamite VLB card (Tseng ET4000)
Posted on 2020-09-28, 01:13
Is video card jumpered? Might had lost the jumper block. Cheers,
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