Re: SOYO 5XAE and AMD k6 II
Posted on 2017-10-12, 12:06
If you set it to 2x it will run 6x
Re: Socket 462 mATX build: modern, silent, and future proof
Posted on 2017-10-12, 11:58
Sorry, couldn't find any reliable references, think there used to be, but being "out of date" now seem to have dropped off the web... however embedded in this older online calculator are values for older stuff https://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator Also yes most socket A were 5V thirsty... …
Re: IDE to Compact Flash as MS-DOS boot drive.
Posted on 2017-10-12, 01:30
Edit: I recommend to run Spur0Kill ("track zero kill") to get away with any spurious MBR and paritition data. And boot viruses, like LiLo . It was written by German(?) author Dirk Arnold in '93 and works very well under plain DOS. As far as I know, all access is done solely via the BIOS. This makes …
Re: Socket 462 mATX build: modern, silent, and future proof
Posted on 2017-10-12, 01:23
Photos? Seems nice. Mainly I wonder how much of a speed bottleneck conventional PCI places on your USB 3.0 card. Well it is and it isn't a bottleneck, PCI does just over a gigabit per sec while 3.0 is 5Gbit, however, a lot of the first crop of non-enthusiast stuff only does about a gigabit, like …
Re: Getting around that soundcard mess
Posted on 2017-10-11, 22:48
In the actual 90s, I only got the cheap cards, Aztech, Crystal, ESS etc, and had very few problems, one game had some weird probe routine where it pushed the PnP settings around, one game insisted on irq 5 for SBPro emulation... so as the years go by creative labs stuff turns up dirt cheap, SB16s, …
Re: Weird Win98 boot failure
Posted on 2017-10-11, 19:03
Should be completely unrelated... Though you're not quite clear how you rebooted that time. There's a mistake to make where you go from win98 to dos mode, but it's actually just a full screen command prompt with win98 still running, then if your dos stuff locks up, or you forget and ctrl-alt-del out …
Re: Socket 462 mATX build: modern, silent, and future proof
Posted on 2017-10-11, 18:53
I don't think you have to go to a much later GPU before they were munching off the 12V and you've got 100s of watts of that untouched.
Re: Zida 4DPS (Tomatoboard) Socket 4 SiS PS/2 mouse not working
Posted on 2017-10-11, 18:37
This could be some incompatibility triangle between the KBC, Mouse and Keyboard... and sometimes those go away if you turn off typematic in Advanced CMOS Setup.... sometimes you just have to give up on an older keyboard, or confine it to slower machines.
Re: Is there any point in building a DX2/4 instead of a P54C?
Posted on 2017-10-11, 17:25
Last time I ran a U5SX the doom performance was pretty dang good I assume that is a 33MHz CPU. On a 486 VLB with good memory and cache timings you would get around 19 FPS in Doom, on average, with one level of green border. It does not matter much whether the 33MHz CPU is from Intel, AMD, Cyrix or …
Re: Is there any point in building a DX2/4 instead of a P54C?
Posted on 2017-10-11, 17:05
Trying to make some similar decisions... My thoughts though, I don't know why but always thought of the dx2/66 as a sweet spot, some games targetted around it before pentium took over. Last time I ran a U5SX the doom performance was pretty dang good, it's the lack of the FPU that holds it back for …
Taming the pile, specs to target?
Posted on 2017-10-11, 14:57
Hi all, So, not trying to boast here, but I have a huge amount of vintage PC parts and systems scattered around the basement and closets. All of which is extremely disorganised, and was stored with various amounts of "care"... some boards just piled in box, some wrapped in AS bags and bubblewrap. …
Re: Help me pick parts for Socket 3 486 rig (HDD controller, graphics)
Posted on 2017-10-11, 13:28
For those that want to go the hardware way, have an eprom burner and want to sacrifice an ISA slot. Then it's a great project. Me on the other hand, want to use as few cards as possible, and I never use netcards in any of my builds. As I have no need for network cards at all in my builds. Actually, …
Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online
Posted on 2017-10-11, 02:44
Not sure it is, look at the pic of the bottom, no depth to it. Fairly sure I once owned a similar one and it was rubber dome. Edit: Also don't think they were doing mechanical into win 9x era as denoted by windows keys and purple plug indicates PC97
Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online
Posted on 2017-10-11, 02:10
cliffclaven wrote: "Excellent Condition" Does the seller do crime scene cleanup? I feel like that was maybe a murder weapon.
Re: Tualatin missing pin, would it work?
Posted on 2017-10-11, 02:00
Yup, voltage and ground pins widely duplicated, it might put a current ceiling on it for overclocking (Which it might not have hit anyway due to other considerations.) but generally they will still work.... ... however, to fend off Murphy, particularly if it works in one board, but not the one you …
Re: my amiga shrine
Posted on 2017-10-11, 01:49
Cool... In the day, I had my A1200 set up with a Panasonic Midi System, I was more into dance remixes than sceney scene stuff at the time. Still got the A1200, also grabbed a 500 and some bits and pieces that I have never fully played with. Playing at Amigas feels more like a long term goal at the …
Re: Help me pick parts for Socket 3 486 rig (HDD controller, graphics)
Posted on 2017-10-11, 01:28
I always liked the later CL chips, 5429 upward, 5426 and 5428 had a couple of bugs/glitches... and didn't like high bus speeds... 26 and 28 you may get them playing nice with VLB i/o at 33mhz but 40 is lucky and 50 is dreaming. Whereas sometimes with the others you can do 40 without even setting …
Re: Pentium 233 MMX vs AMD K6-2-233
Posted on 2017-10-11, 01:22
The best argument for a P-MMX 233 vs a K6-233 is K6-233s are power hungry and hot. Some are 3.2V core though there was also a 2.9V version IIRC. Some boards may not cope with them without extra cooling on the voltage regulators, and some, while they could boot one in their prime, may now not, due to …
Re: CMOS INOPERATIONAL. SYSTEM HALTED
Posted on 2017-10-11, 01:05
So many systems think the battery is dead if the CMOS RAM is full of random data, and that doesn't go away until you go into setup and restore system defaults. Or use a setup program on disk (Compaq etc...) I'm not even sure you needed to replace the battery unless it was leaking, leaving it sit …
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