Re: Tried to plug an IDE CD-ROM into my486's controller, now not seeing HDD or Floppy

Posted on Today, 04:13

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You should 1st undo everything you did, then next before u proceed plugging IDE cables look for pin 1 on the contoller card and pin 1 on the CF and IDE. Red wire on the ribbon cable goes into pin 1 both sides. Go into your bios and set all the HDD settings to default. Ignore the CD rom right now. …

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Re: Need help with laptop recovery IBM Thinkpad 765d

Posted on Today, 02:04

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you maybe able to take the floppy out of the laptop and take it apart and clean it. It sounds like a bad floppy drive. But I would get the floppy drive working 1st, and id remove the harddisk totally. Get to the point that it will boot from a floppy. After that you can trouble shoot the HDD drive, …

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Re: Fixing geforce cards

Posted on Yesterday, 18:36

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The 256 looked more like this but it did alternate some patterns of stripes.

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Re: Fixing geforce cards

Posted on Yesterday, 18:33

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Similar but the geforce 2 ultra looks more like this..

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Fixing geforce cards

Posted on Yesterday, 18:25

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So I have a few geforce 2,3,256 etc cards that display have vertical lines, or stripes. It varies in severity per card. I read this is usually because the vram has gone bad. But I do not know enough about fixing these cards to know any better. Would soldering new ram on a card with those kinda …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-24, 20:25

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Fake Artex 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-24, 20:10

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by Warlord

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MediaVision Thunderboard.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-24, 20:00

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Artex Disengaged

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-24, 19:59

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Artex Engaged

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-24, 19:58

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Initializing Artex...

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Re: How did the PowerPC G4 chips from 1999-2002 compare to Intel /K7 CPUs of the era?

Posted on 2020-09-24, 06:05

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kolderman wrote on 2020-09-24, 05:46: I'm pretty sure they were building worlds fastest supercomputers in the late 90s from PPC cuz they were so fast. fastest super computer of the late 90s was built by intel, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCI_Red

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Re: How did the PowerPC G4 chips from 1999-2002 compare to Intel /K7 CPUs of the era?

Posted on 2020-09-24, 05:10

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by Warlord

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pretty biased benchmarks and obviously when you are testing 2 different CPUs you use the same graphics card on both. But also I would of liked to see some productivity benchmarks, no one is buying a mac to game on. I saw the 2nd graphs and its beat by a P4 1.6ghz. so pretty much a 1.4 Tualatin would …

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2020-09-24, 03:36

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1 out of 4 know copies in the world still isn't bad. Thats still rarer than the most rare baseball cards.

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Re: PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2020-09-24, 00:31

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general consensus with these cards based on this thread and research was that becasue you cannot use 40.xx drivers with them than they are not considered viable for retro gaming. A few people think 40.xx drivers are even too new when it comes to direct3d compatibility on 9x. As Nvidia started …

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2020-09-23, 15:42

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No idea how much you paid for it, and its probably rude to ask. But any chance you might upload it to web archive someday.

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Re: Help needed: looking for someone in the US who can help me recover a DCA2 motherboard

Posted on 2020-09-23, 13:24

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by Warlord

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looks easy enough for a child to fix.

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2020-09-23, 00:18

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gratz. I only been able to find a couple games on web archive so I haven't used my card much since I got it. I try asking around but not much powervr interest lately.

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Re: Windows XP Driver for TITAN X

Posted on 2020-09-22, 21:32

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playing safe? there's no harm in adding hardware id strings to driver files its not even really driver modding. A 960 is the same thing as a 980 or a titan x its just low yield or low bin so nvida disable some feature or somthing. Microsoft killed XP, and thats why. Have nothing to do with anything …

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Re: Windows XP Driver for TITAN X

Posted on 2020-09-22, 21:15

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Ty Agent whatever the driver version that supports 960 on XP since that is supported just mod that driver for the titanx. It will absolutely work. Feel like I have to do everything. http://mattpilz.com/windows-xp-drivers-nvidia … 980-ti-titan-x/

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-22, 20:56

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I bought a NES-001 as is for $5 at a thrift store. I figure the shell goes for more than that.

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