Re: Can anyone help identify this exact vintage PC?

Posted on 2024-04-21, 11:44

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by Grem Five

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That second drive is not part of the original machine (4863 is the monitor for the 4860 computer, like the 5153 is the colour monitor for the 5150), but is in an expansion chassis. I'm no PC Jr expert, but judging by the "Quadram" logo on the second FDD, I'd assume it's a Quadram Expansion Chassis, …

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Re: Headers on Aureal Vortex 2 SQ2500

Posted on 2024-04-20, 12:50

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Those extra headers were for the daughterboard of the SQ3500. https://www.anandtech.com/show/417/2 Re: Vortex2 OPL3 Project

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Re: Pentium III 1000mhz 100mhz FSB, Slot 1. How rare?

Posted on 2024-04-19, 16:29

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Rare and expensive. Its the sort of thing you find once or twice a year on ebay if youre lucky, and I would expect a price of £150+ (U$175+) Ive seen them on ebay a few times over the past few years with a £200 BiN price and decided not to. I think it was about 6 months ago someone on ebay beat me …

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Re: Puzzling Memtest86 error

Posted on 2024-04-17, 23:24

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by Grem Five

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I dont think old boards like that are effected but I had a socket 1366 system that got/gets memory errors using mixed manufacturers memory of same spec. Since its triple channel if I put 3 matched sticks from one vendor in it and 3 matched sticks from another vendor in the other 3 slots - all the …

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo Rush oldest drivers

Posted on 2024-04-12, 22:07

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by Grem Five

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I could give you a copy of my Intergraph INTENSE 3D Voodoo drivers but they have a date of 9/7/1997 and thats later then the 5/9/1997 of the Hercules disk listed above. There was other drivers listed 9/7/1997 and you said they were too modern. https://i.imgur.com/XSN9Yz3.jpg Actually there is …

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Re: How hard is it to find retro/vintage computer hardware where you live?

Posted on 2024-04-12, 14:11

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by Grem Five

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Where I'm at its close to impossible and has been the last 6 or 7 years and gateway systems use to be built here. I go 4 hours east there is a free geek and things are way more plentiful.

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Re: ATX PSUs with a single AT power connector?

Posted on 2024-03-31, 11:15

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by Grem Five

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Seeing that single 6 pin connector to me just means to double check the power supply that it isnt a dell oem unit. I have a couple power supplies that have that connector and are standard ATX pinouts but since dell used those to supply 3.3v to their motherboards instead of pinning their 20 pin using …

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Re: Compaq Deskpro EP (3 DIMM) Pentium II Slot 1 Motherboard

Posted on 2024-03-21, 20:58

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by Grem Five

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Having spent some time trying to work out the problem I decided to fit two floppy drives to the lead and set them both up. Both drives were recognised and worked flawlessly. That is quite interesting , didnt compaq design their own boards? I know the intel design and built BX boards I have only …

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Re: Dual Slot 1 440FX build

Posted on 2024-03-18, 14:14

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I don't know how much better the NEC usb card is I'm just going off this stickied thread in general. Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards System is looking very awesome.

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Re: Trouble installing Matrox G450 PCI on Win98(SE)

Posted on 2024-03-17, 15:45

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by Grem Five

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So, that settles the HiNT vs. PLX question. In fact, HiNT got bought by PLX in 2003 . The G450 PCI DVI I recently had at hand uses a HiNT branded PCI/PCI bridge. To get it run stable at 40MHz (e.g. for an 5x86 at 160MHz), I needed to add a heatsink to that bridge chip. Makes sense as my Parhelia …

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Re: Things I learned about fans

Posted on 2024-03-16, 02:44

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by Grem Five

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elszgensa wrote on 2024-03-16, 01:41: SScorpio wrote on 2024-03-16, 00:57: once you fix one noise you started hearing another Coil whine has entered the chat That one is simple get old enough where you remember using these machines and chances are your tinnitus are much louder than any coil whine …

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Re: Trouble installing Matrox G450 PCI on Win98(SE)

Posted on 2024-03-14, 22:16

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Was the problem consistent when trying the card in all of the pci slots?

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Re: Finally, a mid 90s build I am (somewhat) happy with!

Posted on 2024-03-14, 01:57

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That slim case reminds me of a P2-era Dell I have, but I like the Micron badging much more. It also appears to be a totally standard ATX case, not the proprietary stuff Dell was doing. I don't think I ever saw any Micron prebuilts, I've only read of them in old magazine articles. Yeah, it seems …

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Re: Matrox Parhelia 256 PCI-X Performance

Posted on 2024-03-13, 01:59

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Tryin to beat 9250 score on the same system. Sounds like by Feiopa’s account the 9250 is faster though. In which case I won’t bother, it’s a cool collection piece if nothing else. But if I have a better version, may give it a go. In this other thread https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=547384# …

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Re: Matrox Parhelia 256 PCI-X Performance

Posted on 2024-03-12, 02:50

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by Grem Five

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I cant compare my former test to Feiopa's test as it sounds like it was not done using default settings but https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1184830#p1184830 I believe what mzry was referring to was the agp versions like here but most of that was down to higher clocks on later versions. I know …

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Re: Super Micro 370DL3 Rev.2.0 Motherboard

Posted on 2024-03-11, 21:37

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Irinikus wrote on 2023-03-06, 14:06: Because I have a Voodoo5 5500 PCI that needs a home! (The Matrox card falls more into the P4 era!) That's an interesting card by the way! (I remember when it came out back in2002!) I see you settled on a card that falls more into the P4 era. (Quadro FX 3000)

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Re: Error with BIOS update Intel T440BX motherboard

Posted on 2024-03-10, 14:58

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by Grem Five

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Posts made by me edited to make links work on wayback machine in case anyone else needs these in the future. Was a bit early here and my brain copy and pasted the wrong lines.

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Re: Error with BIOS update Intel T440BX motherboard

Posted on 2024-03-10, 13:12

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by Grem Five

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Just to add, this is the last page I was able to find on wayback machine from 2004 that lists all the downloads for the board but of course the links do not work and is why I linked that other site which seems to have archived them before Intel took them down.

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Re: Error with BIOS update Intel T440BX motherboard

Posted on 2024-03-10, 11:31

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by Grem Five

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Last version I was able to find was P12 here (biosp12.exe). Intel recommends you flash the server management as well (tbxbmc57.exe) but I cant remember if that should be done before or after the bios is flashed, I think it says in the readme file. Not surprising you had to switch to on board …

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Re: Dual Slot 1 440FX build

Posted on 2024-03-09, 15:03

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@Bruno128 Thanks for that! I wasn't aware of the performance impact of USB2.0 cards. I ran some benchmarks, and got the following results: 3DMark 99 MAX 1. No USB 2.0 card plugged in 2323 3DMarks 2738 CPU 3DMarks 2. USB 2.0 card plugged in, nothing plugged in it 2291 3DMarks 2714 CPU 3DMarks 3. USB …

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