Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 18:51

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Is lithium grease ok? Personally, I used grease spray. But lithium grease is a good choice too, just make sure it's clean. Lithium grease isn't good for electronic parts or anything made from plastic or rubber, its slightly conductive and will degrade plastic/.rubber overtime .. silicone grease is …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 15:20

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zuldan wrote on 2025-06-13, 21:09: dominusprog wrote on 2025-06-13, 19:22: Very nice and also clean. You should open it up and add a little bit of grease to the moving parts. Is lithium grease ok? Personally, I used grease spray. But lithium grease is a good choice too, just make sure it's clean.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-06-13, 19:22

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Bought this a few days ago and it turned up today. £4.69 delivered lol. Cleaned up nicely and despite being untested , it's working perfectly. PXL_20250612_174812327.jpg Now if anyone needs me, I'll be chasing down rebel scum and bringing peace to the galaxy. Very nice and also clean. You should …

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Re: Alaris NexGen 586er + Mainboard - no Boot

Posted on 2025-06-11, 20:58

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Some of these BIOS ROMs are very picky about the KB controller, have you flashed the right version.

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Re: Alaris NexGen 586er + Mainboard - no Boot

Posted on 2025-06-11, 14:06

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Well, you should try an ISA or VLB graphics card instead of that adapter.

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Re: Alaris NexGen 586er + Mainboard - no Boot

Posted on 2025-06-10, 22:23

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Remove the BIOS chip, clean the socket and put it back on. Also, the voltage on the regulator.

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Re: Heat Sink for Nvidia GeForce 4 TI 4600

Posted on 2025-06-07, 13:41

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Buy a 50x50x15mm heatsink and a 50x50mm DC fan. You can use thermal paster to permanently attach the heatsink or use 3M double-sided tape and thermal grease. You should also install small SMD heatsinks for the RAM chips. Filename 50x50x15mm.jpg File size 53.15 KiB Views 174 views File license CC-BY …

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Re: Need help with POD Gold on Voodoo3

Posted on 2025-06-07, 13:30

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Does this issue only occur in this one game? Have you tried a different game like NFS2?

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Re: Need help with POD Gold on Voodoo3

Posted on 2025-06-06, 20:39

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POD have different executables for different chips. I believe they stored in the installation CD.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-05-29, 14:06

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clownwolf wrote on 2025-05-29, 02:04: Got two packages today. One was a motherboard I sent back to its psychopath seller. The other one thankfully made my day, which is a cool boxed K6-2 350 Filename 20250528_185926.jpg File size 459.12 KiB Views 1714 views File license Public domain Filename …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-05-28, 12:21

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Sure, but finding a 16/24X working drive is very hard.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-05-28, 08:05

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PD2JK wrote on 2025-05-27, 13:49: I came relatively late to the cd burning party, a 32x speed Lite-On was my first burner. Good work on the retrobrighting. Thanks 🙂. Yes, these one along with those early 48X Asus drives still works great.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-05-27, 11:38

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Finish retrobrighting these. Also cleaned the CD-ROM, add silicon grease to the moving parts and cleaned the lens. I tried different methods for retrobrighting including UV light and direct heat but none of them come close to just put the plastic in mixture of water and hydroperoxide and placed …

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Re: Geforce 2 mx400 and Geforce 4 mx440 Help!

Posted on 2025-05-27, 09:04

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Try these MX400 http://m.old.vgamuseum.info/index.php/component/k2/item/download/431_f590e565686d6720112381eeb50090b5 MX440 http://m.old.vgamuseum.info/index.php/component/k2/item/download/1385_54202c64e396dfca67d4a8978e454088 MX440SE http://m.old.vgamuseum.info/index.php/component/k2/item/download/ …

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Re: Geforce 2 mx400 and Geforce 4 mx440 Help!

Posted on 2025-05-26, 23:47

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So why did you flash these ROMs in the first place?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-05-25, 12:24

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Bought this Chikony keyboard. It's came in a very good condition for the most part. I opened it up and give it a good wash and retrobright the cable using a pot and stove (thanks David 🙂). Also replaced two electrolytic caps and the green LEDs with matte red ones 😁. 20250525_153631.jpg 20250524_ …

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Re: Anyone have any of these AT style drive rails they will sell?

Posted on 2025-05-23, 22:29

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Well, you can make something similar out of two plies of aluminum sheet.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-05-21, 13:29

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Finished the work on the 486. Add two heatsinks on the graphics card DAC, retrobright the 1.44MiB floppy drive panel and remove the excess wire connected to the main switch. 20250519_181644.jpg 20250519_142113.jpg 20250519_175936.jpg Nice! That floppy looks new! Those connectors without the boots …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-05-20, 17:51

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Finished the work on the 486. Add two heatsinks on the graphics card's DAC, retrobright the 1.44MiB floppy drive panel and remove the excess wire connected to the main switch. Filename 20250519_181644.jpg File size 339 KiB Views 1000 views File license CC-BY-4.0 Filename 20250519_142113.jpg File …

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Re: AZTech BX II potentiometer

Posted on 2025-05-17, 15:32

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Put the potentiometer in vinegar for half an hour and use a brush to clean all the rust. Let it dry, then use a lubricant contact cleaner to clean the carbon resistive surface.

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