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Hi there, I'm totally confused about the PCI to PCIe adapter card, what is this intended use on this TX chipset motherboard? Does that works? If true, this would open up to using old PCIe video card used by early quadro video cards. Cheers,

Re: Journey of a Unisys Aquanta HS/6, aka ALR Revolution 6x6

Posted on 2021-01-13, 20:55

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Youtube premiere on the Unisys Aquanta HS/6 (aka ALR 6x6) @ 6:00PM tonight Eastern time. I take you through a quick tour of these monster Pentium Pro systems. https://youtu.be/zU-0T9m3apU Hope you enjoy! What is your model number of this 19 or 20" LCD monitor with front buttons on bottom right side …

Re: AST Bravo doesn't like the cold

Posted on 2021-01-10, 23:27

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have hair dryer or heat gun? Gently warm the power supply then try again, if not, Heat one chip at a time on the motherboard and try. If not, heat another chip then try. So on. Cheers,

Re: Pentium II with no active cooling - OK to run?

Posted on 2021-01-10, 23:23

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

These were ducted to rear fan venting out. Dell does with this type of heatsink. Cheers,

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

Posted on 2021-01-10, 23:21

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What on earth why no information on these twin computers? Are they intel-made servers? Have some time taking these pictures and describe them in detail what are they? Web search is thin and your extra information will help big time. Cheers,

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

Posted on 2021-01-10, 21:59

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I did some retro activity for the time in a month or so. My main PC has had some issues so my retro area has been used for general computing with an i7 860 system whilst I sort out my main PC. But that's all fixed so I put together a retro PC. It's a 3.4GHz Pentium 4 with 1GB of DDR 400 RAM and a …

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

Posted on 2021-01-10, 21:56

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Actually what I meant focus on ESR for health of the capacitors being checked, your tool has this feature. Do not worry about farads. Polymer capacitors has very low ESR allows them to work even the farads is less than the normal electrolyte low ESR types. Cheers,

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

Posted on 2021-01-10, 16:38

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The MSI /Fujitsu board with one visually bad cap by the AGP slot. MSI 845 Ultra (fujitsu version) with a bad cap by the AGP-slot.jpg The visually bad cap was really bad but I desoldered a few more of the same type and they all seemed fine, back on the board they went! Bad cap.jpg In this case I …

Re: Intermittent Write Errors on Compact Flash

Posted on 2021-01-10, 03:15

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

DX2 100? Are you running 50MHz? This could be the problem. Try 40MHz which will be DX2-80. Might be more reliable. Cheers,

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-09, 01:09

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought vintage ATX case with few goodies. Been looking for that particular case for nearly 5 years. Happy now, waiting for it to come here, had to pay bit cost for UPS shipping but case and goodies were $30 USD. I had this case when bought one for my old work. Back in the day, this case was only …

Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2020-12-30, 15:28

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The surface has several chipped spots that's overlaid over original surface and remarked. Fake. I have one was 120MHz but remarked for 133MHz, fake. Cheers,

Re: PS/2 Vs. USB for Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2020-12-30, 02:09

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I prefer gamer laser mouse for reliability and comfort. The plain LED optical mice I had back then was mis-tracking once in awhile that made pointer shoot off in opposite direction unexpectedly annoys me the most. Cheers,

SAS controller which one is good for booting?

Posted on 2020-12-29, 03:27

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have plenty of PCIe lanes in this HP Z420 PC I bought while ago so x4 or x8 SAS controller is fine but which controllers and what brands that is considered decent? Reason is, I see decent SAS SSD drives out there to play with on ebay. I know I need to get SAS cable splitters or two. Cheers,

Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2020-12-29, 01:48

by pentiumspeed

in Marvin \ System Specs

I looked and purchased set of two 3ware 2 pata raid card just exactly like yours. This has 2 chips that is memory cache chips meant well designed feature. Thanks for trying them out for us! Cheers,