Re: Super Socket 7 issues with agp cards

Posted on 2021-01-31, 15:26

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by canthearu

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Necroing an old thread, because I've had a chance to test one of these super socket 7 AGP boards myself. Got myself a TOMATO TM-586 AL100B motherboard with AMD K6-2. This is an ALI Aladdin V chipset motherboard. I plonked in 128meg RAM and started testing it. First card I tried under Windows 98 SE …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2021-01-31, 12:01

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by canthearu

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I wasn't able to find the SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI drivers here on vogons: (also marked as SMC 1211TX on the back) IMG_1031.JPG I found the driver disks for them on one of the dodgy driver sites. As usual they put a try to get you to use their malware driver installers, even including one in the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-18, 13:41

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by canthearu

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One of the final updates for the nforce 2 board. Perfectly stable with Prime 95 --- 50 something hours later. After I put the voltage at 1.75V as noted in last post. Filename nforce prime95 - 40many hours.jpg File size 1.02 MiB Views 405 views Next, I might chuck windows xp on it and do 3d …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-16, 02:58

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by canthearu

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But then I remember throwing out and smashing so many of those old ones and I end up closing the tab. This particular board was stripped out of an old computer grabbed off the classified (gumtree). Its a way to get stuff that hasn't been excessively fondled with ... but with the provision that some …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-16, 01:57

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by canthearu

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ok, quick update on the nforce 2 motherboard. it got through 50h of memtest86, just fine: nforce2 - 50h.jpg So onto prime95. Unfortunately, at first it was unstable, with prime95 reporting hardware errors. Since I am actually overclocking the CPU, that isn't too unexpected. So I've bumped up core …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-13, 11:05

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by canthearu

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mtgmackid wrote on 2021-01-13, 09:37: Didn’t find any more 3dfx this time but I bought the following from ewaste again for a few bucks each. MSI MS-4138 is the board. Geeze this is such a great haul, especially the VLB 486 motherboard!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-13, 11:04

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by canthearu

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Frankly I'm amazed it hasn't screwed up (that said every one I've been hands on with fails over the course of a weekend, as in 2-3 days), if you could run the prime95 blend test for a long time I'd like to see if it can survive that too. You definitely have the most reliable nforce2 board I know of …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-12, 22:16

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by canthearu

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hah no. It does sound like you have the only good nforce 2 motherboard on earth though. EDIT - If you have the time I'd love to see how it does running memtest86 for 2-3 days straight. Literally every nforce 2 board I ever tested over a weekend failed. I upped motherboard frequency to 200mhz ( …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-11, 22:25

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by canthearu

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The couple of hours of testing simply isn't enough, those boards like to fuck up after they've been on for a while. Leave it for a couple of DAYS and see what happens. I'd be very surprised if you don't have errors then. I had it running for 10 hours, 5 passes of memtest86, no errors. Do I need to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-11, 12:34

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by canthearu

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I haven't had these huge problems you are speaking about with nforce based systems. I had an nforce 2 system for my Athlon XP 2000 system, then a nforce 3 system for my Athlon 64-3000 system. Didn't really have any problems. But that said, I like the VIA based systems more these days, better Win98/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-03, 12:34

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by canthearu

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Its a lot of work recapping the antec PSUs, but they are pretty good if the after the bad capacitors are replaced.

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Re: Let's fix some PS/2 floppy drives!

Posted on 2021-01-03, 01:06

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by canthearu

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Yep, I've had to replace the electrolytic capacitors on multiple different floppy drives. Some of them are non-polarized, so make sure you get the right ones. The most notable replacement was for a HP PC-305 XT class machine. It uses a custom 1.44 floppy drive along with a special version of MS-DOS …

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Re: Finally, someone is testing GPU power usage with VSYNC enabled

Posted on 2020-12-30, 15:39

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by canthearu

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You may be right, but I do remember having my system connected to a watt meter and watching it while using my system with VSYNC locked to 60 fps and I do not recall the watt meter showing any power spikes, but that doesn't mean they aren't happening. Mains side power meters do not update at 60hz or …

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Re: Finally, someone is testing GPU power usage with VSYNC enabled

Posted on 2020-12-30, 14:10

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by canthearu

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Last year when I was shopping for a GPU that would work well in my system (325W PSU), I settled on the 1650 Super as it was the fastest card available with a 100W TDP. These new results now show which more powerful GPUs will work well in my system with a 60 fps cap, including several RTX 20xx and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-30, 01:49

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by canthearu

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Xicor wrote on 2020-12-29, 16:46: Found this BTC sound card @21€. BTC_ESS1688F.jpg Does anyone knows why it has a 27c256 OTP eprom ? Is it possible to find an ES689F or is it unobtainium ? That one time EPROM is likely a lookup or program table for the 3d effects processor on the ES968F. Programmed …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-29, 02:30

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by canthearu

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Hakeshu wrote on 2020-12-28, 22:08: This beauty arrived today. Will make some tests on my Pentium 200 (atm with a Trident 3D 9750). Have my fingers crossed for you. Some S3 Virge cards have OK display output, others are totally blurry and crap.

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Re: Socket 775 system revival story. Bonus: In-place upgrade of a 12-year old Vista install *PICS*

Posted on 2020-12-20, 02:26

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by canthearu

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Concerning the Pentium4 being "marketing oriented", I'll continue to play devil's advocate here and say that not all the fault lies with intel, in general the consumer is fairly ignorant and equates frequency with performance :shrug_tone3: You could argue that the Athlon XP was more "marketing …

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Re: Pentium 75 machine not POSTing, is the lack of a Dallas RTC the problem?

Posted on 2020-12-19, 13:55

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by canthearu

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great to hear you are getting it going. Regarding ebay sourced RTC modules, just be aware it is a bit of a crapshot. You may get an RTC with years of life in it, or one that is virtually flat, you just don't know.

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Re: Socket 775 system revival story. Bonus: In-place upgrade of a 12-year old Vista install *PICS*

Posted on 2020-12-19, 13:52

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by canthearu

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I currently use my core 2 quad box as an overpowered windows XP machine as well. But, it certainly has some legs, and would still do a surprising amount of the stuff I need to do today with OK performance. Running Vista or Windows 7, or even windows 10, really isn't bad at all on it. Likewise, …

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Re: Pentium 75 machine not POSTing, is the lack of a Dallas RTC the problem?

Posted on 2020-12-14, 10:42

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by canthearu

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Get new RTC modules in Australia from RS Online. https://au.rs-online.com/web/p/real-time-clocks/1898609 $20 delivered, not cheap, but they are new, and shouldn't take 3 months to turn up.

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