Re: ati 9800 aiw pro

Posted on 2021-07-15, 00:35

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by Grem Five

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My 9800 all in wonder is missing some tiny parts on the back side of it. I am looking for some close up photos of the back of a ati 9800 all in wonder pro so I can see what all is missing. Is there any good sites for trading , selling and buying vintage Graphics cards. Most 9800 PRO cards have …

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Re: Modding old IBM 5160 case - Building socket 7 Retro station for games and Pixel art work

Posted on 2021-07-15, 00:22

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by Grem Five

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Sounds like an awesome project I wish you all the best of luck but it also can become a slippery slope... I started out wanting to build a unique looking HTPC using an old IBM PCJr case with new hardware inside it. Well a few years later I have about 4 PCJrs, 2 5160 XTs and large range of pcs that …

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Re: HP Vectra VE / XM repair

Posted on 2021-07-05, 05:01

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by Grem Five

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I'm glad you got it fixed. =) I'm not sure if I know that card but I have a SIIG card thats all kinds of picky which machine its in. I got fed up with it and its in a pile somewhere now.

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Re: Micron Millennia in a full tower case

Posted on 2021-07-02, 01:35

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by Grem Five

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The motherboard is on bios P02, I'm planning to upgrade it to intels P17, but am worried it will erase the Micron bios splash screen. I have the same micron board in one of my machines its running bios p12, it came with a 550Mhz P3 but right now I'm running a 800Mzh P3 no probs. I didnt want to …

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Re: Floppy disk killing 5.25 floppy drives

Posted on 2021-07-02, 00:46

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by Grem Five

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Could it possible be mold in the floppy disk ? I find it ironic the disk that kills drives is called "Life and Death II"

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Re: Micron Millennia in a full tower case

Posted on 2021-07-02, 00:12

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by Grem Five

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I'm glad it showed up in good shape.. thats an awesome case. Over a year ago I found a good deal on a Pionex machine and the seller shipped it via FedEX which made me shudder. I'm not sure how they did it but they manage to bend the case I had not ever seen before and it was packaged well. https:// …

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Re: Any mention or info about this card?

Posted on 2021-07-01, 23:18

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by Grem Five

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Pierre32 wrote on 2021-07-01, 23:15: Unboxing from OCAU member mwd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mugr9OhXAmA Yes that link was in the Tomshardware link I linked. (so much linkage)

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Re: Any mention or info about this card?

Posted on 2021-07-01, 23:16

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by Grem Five

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Well I shudder when I see current prices of 3DFX hardware now so I'm guessing this would be a double shudder? I'm glad I have my old hardware from decades ago.

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The Lost Joker 2 - A V3 3500 and PowerVR PCX2 on the same board

Posted on 2021-07-01, 22:55

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by Grem Five

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a very cool piece of retro-tech which includes a graphics card equipped with both a Voodoo 3 3500 chip and a PowerVR PCX2 chip https://www.tomshardware.com/amp/news/graphic … 00-powervr-pcx2

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Re: The Final Lan Party (My Windows Xp/7 rig) (Core i7 980x, GTX 480,DFI Lanparty UT X58-T3eH8,)

Posted on 2021-06-27, 11:41

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by Grem Five

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Is there an advantage running a I7 980X over say a Xeon X5675?

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Re: Micron Millennia in a full tower case

Posted on 2021-06-26, 11:38

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by Grem Five

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I was remembering back to when I bought my Millenia XRU PII 300 and not sure if that was an option why I would not have gotten that case. I have always preferred full sized towers as my previous system before that was a ZEOS Pantera 66 in that size case. Sad to say I got rid of the ZEOS when I got …

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Re: Micron Millennia in a full tower case

Posted on 2021-06-26, 02:53

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by Grem Five

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I was curious about that system as well, I noticed it sold pretty fast. I have seen alot of Micron cases but that one is new to me, in the pictures thats in a whole lot of case and very little in it.

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Re: Advantages of Dual Pentium3 or dual Pentium motherboards for retro PC?

Posted on 2021-06-25, 21:08

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by Grem Five

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Both of my dual systems were actually cheaper with the same features of most of my single systems so thats why I have them. Probably they only thing my Dual systems dont do well is overclock and I dont care to do that to my retro systems anyway. One is a 440GX P3 with coppermine support and the …

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Re: Beige-Beast

Posted on 2021-06-20, 10:33

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by Grem Five

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These 8 silver, really big capacitors on the Geforce 2 GTS... Do you if they are original or they have been replaced the last years ? They are looking little strange... They are all original, the PCB is a strange one compared to other variants especially around the the power delivery, also has the …

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Re: HP Vectra VE / XM repair

Posted on 2021-06-16, 20:58

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by Grem Five

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Nope, spoke too soon. Machine still hangs on boot at random, regardless of which of my 4 cache modules I try or whether or not there even is one installed. Boot log shows these are the last two items: [00027AD3] INITCOMPLETE = SBEMUL [00027AD4] INITCOMPLETESUCCESS = SBEMUL Any other thoughts? It is …

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Re: Dual slot1 vs Dual 370 : which one would you choose?

Posted on 2021-06-11, 21:56

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by Grem Five

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PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2021-06-10, 08:49: Errius wrote on 2021-06-10, 08:20: I think the 440GX was only used for Xeon systems? PII / PIII as well Yes my SUPER P6DGS is 440GX and runs PIIs or PIIIs

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Re: HP Vectra VE / XM repair

Posted on 2021-06-11, 20:55

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by Grem Five

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Are you sure the cache module is working good? I had alot of the same random strange errors like you are reporting on my Vectra VL/5 and they all go away and the system works perfectly stable when I remove the cache module.

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Re: Dell Dimension XPS R500 (i440BX PIII system): does it support 2nd floppy drive?

Posted on 2021-06-11, 04:06

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by Grem Five

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I'd be interested if the Intel branded board even supports 2 drives I have an Intel BX board that supports dual floppies but it is a T440BX board that is listed as a server board. The Intel SE440BX boards I have (Dell/Micron) both have a SMSC FDC37M707 Super I/O controller and according to the spec …

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Re: Hybrid Leadtek GeForce2 GTS/PRO?

Posted on 2021-05-13, 01:13

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by Grem Five

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Yes Leadtek would have been better marketing it as a GTS + or something, I guess in that article I linked from HotHardware the name of Enhanced Leadtek Winfast GeForce 2 GTS would be more appropriate instead of the name Enhanced WinFast GeForce2 Pro. They could have put the 5.5ns chips on it and …

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Re: Hybrid Leadtek GeForce2 GTS/PRO?

Posted on 2021-05-12, 08:59

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by Grem Five

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I see the original post is from almost 3 years but Leadtek did make some retail cards with the GTS pro chipset and 5.5ns memory. I have seen some of them labeled GTS and some labeled GTS pro cards although I dont think have have seen any with the early yellow PCB just the later green PCB. ( I guess …

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