Re: The Ultimate Hardware 2019 project- a new, modern TH99

Posted on 2020-06-17, 22:06

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by waterbeesje

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Cap values are certainly handy when these have to be replaced! By placing values right on top of an image will be sufficient for these older boards of the are not too many caps... Would this also work with lots of caps clustered together?

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Re: IBM Aptiva 2137 - IBM theme files found!

Posted on 2020-06-17, 11:31

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by waterbeesje

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Don't know about the ThinkPad series... But since IBM did reuse some of its images, slightly modified for the drivers, they may have been using them I guess? It's not unlikely...

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Re: Rebuilding "Bakbeest" (486 Intel Ninja)

Posted on 2020-06-16, 19:23

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by waterbeesje

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Seems strange to have such a big case for what a standard case could support. Usually these full towers had SCSI and multiple HDD's If it was me I'd use the onboard IDE and attach the CD drive off the soundcard especially if your keeping it more or less a 95 build. But I also feel like working to …

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Re: What is your oldest working Brand name computer ? - ( Challenge ).

Posted on 2020-06-16, 08:37

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by waterbeesje

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I have in my possession a Tava Flyer. I just can't find the photo's I have of the thing, It is in working condition however, I do not have any fitting floppy or other drives so its just something I have in storage and do not use it, the screen isn't very fresh. For pictures I can refer to: http:// …

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Re: Rebuilding "Bakbeest" (486 Intel Ninja)

Posted on 2020-06-15, 11:12

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by waterbeesje

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All of your graphics cards are faster than the PCI host of the mainboard. You might want to check if you have options like "PCI write buffer" and/or "PCI burst writes" in the chipset setup, and enable them. Early Intel chipset PCI performance is not the great . I wonder if something like FASTVID …

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Re: Rebuilding "Bakbeest" (486 Intel Ninja)

Posted on 2020-06-15, 08:13

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by waterbeesje

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Chipset options contains two options: one involves memory usage by ISA stuff, the other one gives me 0.4fps higher performance on 3D bench and PC player Vesa. No changes in other benchmarks. This system being not the fastest is correct as even my IBM PS/Valuepoint with S3-805 onboard (VLB) gets …

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Re: Rebuilding "Bakbeest" (486 Intel Ninja)

Posted on 2020-06-14, 22:32

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by waterbeesje

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And took a little time to benchmark some graphics cards. Bios settings: stock, as there is nothing to change at all... Same 70ns memory Good old LAN card 64MB compactflash, loaded with MS-DOS 6.22 and Phills benchmark compilation. VGA cards tested: - Video Magic pci-V864 (V864 1MB) - Diamond Stealth …

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Re: Rebuilding "Bakbeest" (486 Intel Ninja)

Posted on 2020-06-14, 20:55

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by waterbeesje

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First things first, the Dallas was dead and was in need of repair. Without it, there's no way the bios can save it's config. I took out the motherboard (again) and got my cutting tools to expose the Dallas' leads to the internal battery. As I explained before, I did not want to resolder the whole …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-13, 11:32

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by waterbeesje

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Perhaps not the most exciting find ever, but for almost nothing it's basically ok 😀 The two lower ones match perfectly with almost any Pentium 2 without onboard sound.

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Re: Rebuilding "Bakbeest" (486 Intel Ninja)

Posted on 2020-06-13, 09:37

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by waterbeesje

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ooooh, full AT enermax PSU, don't see that every day ^^ do you plan to use the EEPROM programmers eventually? also 486 boards with intel chipset seem to be a rare breed too. A bit of an odd system indeed, that's what decided me to create a building in the first place. Intel boards always do seem to …

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Re: IBM Aptiva - which graphics card?

Posted on 2020-06-13, 09:25

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by waterbeesje

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No bad caps on the Kt3? Impossible. I recently recapped my KT3 Ultra2 and hald the 1000uF 16V Teapo caps were dead.. As far as i have 'tested' that is. By looking at the caps I did not spot any leakage and none had been swollen. Windows 98 and several practical programs did install without issues …

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Rebuilding "Bakbeest" (486 Intel Ninja)

Posted on 2020-06-12, 21:36

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by waterbeesje

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A few weeks ago I bought this cute little 486 computer. Well, not quote that little. It's huge. When my wife saw it, she immediately called it "Bakbeest". In simple English it means something like colossal, but a step further. That's why I gave this computer a name. My only one with a name, and it …

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Re: IBM Aptiva - which graphics card?

Posted on 2020-06-12, 17:49

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by waterbeesje

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So the PCI TNT2 wasn't working with my Aptiva. Yesterday I tested it on a MSI socket A board and it worked like a charm. Well, ok, its performance was about 25% of the AGP TNT2 that was on it before in every test I threw at it (all tests from Phills bundle and 3D mark 99). So this proves the Aptiva …

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Re: IBM Aptiva 2137 - IBM theme files found!

Posted on 2020-06-12, 06:51

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by waterbeesje

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Looks nice! Great to see these files became helpful 😀

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Re: IBM Aptiva 2137 - IBM theme files found!

Posted on 2020-06-11, 10:59

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by waterbeesje

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All right, here it comes: I got my Aptiva running Windows 98SE with these sources The attached ZIP one contains these files: - c:\startlogo.oem (Win 95 startup screen; not sure what it does or if it is special at all) - c:\windows\IBMBLUE.BMP (nice low res background) - c:\windows\OEMLOGO.BMP (full …

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Re: Mitac MSC-242 Isa motherboard manual / jumper settings?

Posted on 2020-06-10, 19:37

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by waterbeesje

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Please note my card is untested, also because I find have a backplane. I managed to identify the CPU as DX/2-66 looking at a a tag on the bottom of the CPU. Here is my jumper config. Starting at "conn2" next to the cpu going down: J8: on J7: 1-2 J7A: 1-2 J12: 1-2 J15: 1-2 J16: 2-3 J17: off J19: off …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-10, 18:48

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by waterbeesje

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Me too. Saving old he from the scrapheap mostly is worth it. That's why I've got about twelve Pentium 4/c2d s775 machines stored: at work they were throwing away old hardware about a year ago, asked my boss if I could have it and he was fine with it. All working and complete, he didn't even care for …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-10, 17:27

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by waterbeesje

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cyclone3d wrote on 2020-06-10, 16:17: Have these on the way now: cards 1.jpg cards 2.jpg motherboards.jpg […] Show full quote Have these on the way now: cards 1.jpg cards 2.jpg motherboards.jpg ...jackpot... 😀 Gonna take some time to test it all! But honestly, who does this, who stores their …

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Re: Mitac MSC-242 Isa motherboard manual / jumper settings?

Posted on 2020-06-10, 14:23

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by waterbeesje

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That nos board may be a good one to start with ;) it seems the manual for this board is quite rare as well. The other way around would be to reverse determine what jumpers and connectors might do. You have made a nice start with the 8 pin connector. I'll go and look into which jumpers are set at my …

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Re: The Ultimate Hardware 2019 project- a new, modern TH99

Posted on 2020-06-10, 14:16

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by waterbeesje

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Nice! It's getting somewhere I like! Would it be possible to link drivers for chipset/audio/... As well? I have no doubt most of them will be somewhere at Vogonsdrivers. I understand this can be time consuming but this may be community driven :) Oh and I saw the processor platform is mentioned as " …

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