Re: Pentium MMX time machine - Experiences + Questions

Posted on 2023-09-18, 19:08

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by SETBLASTER

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ill take some of my pentium CPUs, take pictures of all of them side to side, and maybe you can tell me just by looking at them, which are fake and which are the real deal.

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Re: Resurrecting a Compaq Presarrio 4110

Posted on 2023-09-18, 03:18

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by SETBLASTER

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wow more info. It looks like , in the scenario of loosing the floppy disc you can still create one using an exe found on the recovery CD. I was able to find a recovery CD of presario 4100 series but for LATIN AMERICA, where the owner had a presario 4164 (pentium 150mhz). it was nice to look at the …

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Re: Resurrecting a Compaq Presarrio 4110

Posted on 2023-09-18, 01:28

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by SETBLASTER

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just heads up on some crazy investigation i did for people that end up having the same issue. and Because It might be possible to USE other recovery discs with other versions of the 4100 hardware/languages, work with different 4100 models. For example we know some bomIDs because of this link …

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Re: Fake painted Pentium CPUs

Posted on 2023-09-17, 20:40

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by SETBLASTER

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i still cant find a reliable tutorial on how to detect fake cpus from that era with pictures and everything for example on this topic it is mentioned that the fake cpu had a darker color ceramic while the original has like a light color ceramic while other people say that the light colores ceramic …

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Re: Resurrecting a Compaq Presarrio 4110

Posted on 2023-09-17, 18:37

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by SETBLASTER

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a lot of more info from someone that got your problems before https://www.ssterling.net/comp/retro/presario/ Oh my goodness, what brilliant information - the final piece of the puzzle! And it's a real eye-opener, thinking of what it was like for non-techy families getting computers in the 90s and …

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Re: Resurrecting a Compaq Presarrio 4110

Posted on 2023-09-17, 14:46

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by SETBLASTER

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a lot of more info from someone that got your problems before https://www.ssterling.net/comp/retro/presario/

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Re: Resurrecting a Compaq Presarrio 4110

Posted on 2023-09-17, 14:08

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by SETBLASTER

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the serial number is also on the chasis, i think its on one of the sides. ok so your problem i think its this, and post#1 has some bomID codes. https://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1139882 Regarding your inquiry, please note that Compaq does not support hard disk drive upgrades for Presario …

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What modern PSU can be used with high end Athlon XP retro build ?

Posted on 2023-09-11, 21:38

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by SETBLASTER

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So you are building a high end athlon XP retro machine. You have your ati 9800xt ? or nvidia fx 5900 XT ? you put 3 or 2 DVD drives or cdrom drives because more is better. you put an athlon xp 3200+ cpu you buy some old stock cathode tubes you buy at least 6 or 7 fans that are 80mm with leds Is …

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Re: Gigabyte GA-6BA motherboard not good for voodoo3

Posted on 2023-09-04, 03:23

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by SETBLASTER

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Your board should easily support a 100MHz FSB skt 370 coppermine on a decent slot1 adapter, to at least 800MHz (possibly 850MHz too) - beyond that (1.0 / 1.1GHz) it may work but with increased chance of instability. I'm currently running an 800MHz cpu + ABIT SlotKET !!! adapter on my revision 2.5A …

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Re: Gigabyte GA-6BA motherboard not good for voodoo3

Posted on 2023-09-03, 14:55

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by SETBLASTER

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1) how did you figure out the correct regulator is that one in the picture for AGP?, (and not the one on the left of the Orange heatsink ). 2) (thanks for telling to remove the regulator completely and soldering a cable to the middle pin), Did you have the same board with the same problem in the …

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Re: Gigabyte GA-6BA motherboard not good for voodoo3

Posted on 2023-09-03, 05:47

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by SETBLASTER

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This is the revision 2.9 motherboard, sadly those 2 jumpers were added by gigabyte on revision3. Gigabyte engineers had a clouding of their minds. Two voltage sources are not connected in parallel, only current sources are connected in parallel. :-( For normal operation, it is necessary to remove …

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Gigabyte GA-6BA motherboard not good for voodoo3

Posted on 2023-09-03, 04:13

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by SETBLASTER

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Gigabyte GA-6BA is a very nice motherboard, sadly gigabyte back then had issues with some video cards like the voodoo or TNT. A lot of models from gigabyte with this problem, that is why some just avoid it. I happen to have one gigabyte GA-6BA revision 2.9 motherboard and the board is bad for using …

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Re: Socket A (462) motherboard recommendations

Posted on 2023-08-30, 21:43

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by SETBLASTER

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used an asus a7n8x-e back in the day to play Half Life 2 when it launched good looking board: MSI K7N2 Delta2-Platinum abit boards for overclocking and if you like the red color pcb

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Need help with Broken videocard with Missing Caps on GPU dye

Posted on 2023-07-28, 18:07

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by SETBLASTER

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A friend gave me an ATI radeon 9800PRO for free. He told me the card was working long time ago , but he took the heatsink off and it stopped working. I was looking for big capacitors, maybe some of those is bad, and those look ok. Then i removed the thermal paste and noticed: 1) The corners of the …

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Motherboard Recap - Questions Before buying - How are you choosing replacements?

Posted on 2023-07-05, 20:54

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by SETBLASTER

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So, i am opening this topic since i have a couple of motherboards (and video cards) that i really wish i could bring them back to pristine condition, and i don´t want these to break. Both motherboards are from the AthlonXP era/Pentium4 era. And you know how capacitors were bad during that time (like …

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Re: What makes (or made) WinME so horrible?

Posted on 2023-06-11, 01:57

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by SETBLASTER

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i will be completely honest and try to explain this with how i felt back then when i was young. from win98 i started using windows2000 and that was a beast ; rock solid. when ,win ME was released i installed it a couple times and just to find that it was looking great in the UI but after installing …

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Re: ASUS P4P800 holocaust

Posted on 2023-06-10, 22:28

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by SETBLASTER

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I have this general observation about s478 motherboards, ASUS or any other M/B brand - boards with a BGA socket 478, that in the past used a stock intel cooler with a death-clamping force, either failed or are about to fail soon due to cracking BGA joints, this fault can be simply diagnosed by …

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Anyone got a DFI Lanparty LP NF4 SLI-DR ?

Posted on 2023-06-10, 06:28

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by SETBLASTER

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I have this big box motherboard, box is bigger than a regular motherboard but its incomplete, it is missing cables, brackets, a 5 1/4 bay that i don´t know what it is for, and CDROM driver disc. reading some old reviews it looks like it even came with a yellow cable sleeving kit. does anyone have it …

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Re: What's your absolute favorite piece of retro hardware?

Posted on 2023-06-10, 06:09

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by SETBLASTER

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Hey guys. I was wondering what your favorite piece of retro hardware is - be it in your collection or not - pictures are encouraged! For me it would be the Geforce 4 Ti4600 - specifically the Leadtek Winfast A250 Ultra TD. The reason is probably pretty boring - it was in most tech and PC gaming …

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Re: PC tower cases by year

Posted on 2023-05-26, 04:19

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by SETBLASTER

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can anyone tell if lian li pc-60 is one of the first cases they released? wikipedia mentions they started in the 80s but i have never seen older lian li cases

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