Re: Replacement Silver Capacitors for Soyo SY-KT600 Dragon Ultra

Posted on Yesterday, 23:33

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by momaka

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Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I have used the JWCO LF series before to recap a sound card, and they work flawlessly. One more thing, you forgot to mention Elna. It's not opinion, it's a fact. The problem with the cheapo brands is that they don't (care to) maintain any quality control of …

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Re: Storage options for Windows 98SE?

Posted on Yesterday, 08:21

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by momaka

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I'd try out the existing IDE drives first, no point having them sit on a shelf and they are more durable then you think! +1 There are indeed quite a few IDE drives that have proven themselves to be reliable over the years. My personal favorite are the old(er?) Seagate Barracuda series, like 7200.7, …

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Re: Replacement Silver Capacitors for Soyo SY-KT600 Dragon Ultra

Posted on Yesterday, 07:57

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by momaka

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The polymer option is intriguing, but I would really need my hand held in order to spec out equivalent ratings compared to the existing electrolytics as I'm not familiar with polymer qualities at all. CPU VRM output (i.e. CPU V_core) side caps can be 2.5V or 4V or 6.3V -rated. Anywhere from half to …

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

Posted on 2024-09-11, 21:29

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by momaka

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Only retro activity I did today was assemble back together two IDE optical drives that I took apart and washed (plastics and metal case) on Monday. They came out looking pretty clean. Haven't tested them yet, though. One is a beige Sony DVD-ROM / CD-RW combo drive from 2005 with a gear-driven tray ( …

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Re: Its dead: T3200SX PSU

Posted on 2024-09-11, 21:00

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by momaka

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Post a picture or two of the power supply, and we might be able to tell. Generally, most PSUs either have a "main" supply and a "standby" supply (e.g. ATX PSUs), or they have one "always-On" supply and that's it (e.g. laptop power adapters, some smaller LCD monitors, and etc.) The latter are always …

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Re: Late 90s or 2000s games - CRT or flat panel (widescreen) ?

Posted on 2024-09-11, 19:04

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by momaka

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BTW, just something I though of mentioning... Last year (actually November 2022 according to pictures), I saved a 20" Sylvania CRT TV from getting crunched in the trash truck. It wasn't anything special, but it did have both DVD and VHS built-in, which I though was kind of cool (those got somewhat …

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Re: Enermax 495W PSU high pitch whine when connected to power: some capacitors on their way to PC heaven?

Posted on 2024-09-11, 13:52

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by momaka

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Under spoiler the video and five of the pictures I've took. If more are needed, I'll provide, the PSU is still outside the sistem and readily available. I've made sure to disconnect it and not touch anything inside. Just looking. OK, I just took a look at the pictures (and also viewed the video, …

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Re: Why do some disc drives stop opening when they get old?

Posted on 2024-09-08, 00:31

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I would like to know more about this. Send some pictures when you can. Your guide was a bit hard to visualize. OK, here they are (finally got back in town, the pics were on my camera.) I think these should be self-explanatory now. Again, I did it with 2 layers of electrical tape on my drive, but …

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Re: Enermax 495W PSU high pitch whine when connected to power: some capacitors on their way to PC heaven?

Posted on 2024-09-07, 23:56

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by momaka

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Post a picture (or a few) of the PSU with the top off once you open it tomorrow (today, now that it's early AM hours here? :D ) If the PSU has hot glue (which it probably won't, as I don't recall Enermax or any of the better-known PSU manufacturers to use for holding down components), then there's …

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Re: Cooling solution for an Athlon 1400C - Socket 462

Posted on 2024-09-07, 22:54

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by momaka

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Maybe it's time to learn how to replace capacitors, don't ya think? If you like to play with retro PC hardware, sooner or later it really does pay off to do it... unless you are filthy-rich and can afford to send every other piece of retro kit to someone else to recap for you. Should I worry about …

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Re: Late 90s or 2000s games - CRT or flat panel (widescreen) ?

Posted on 2024-09-07, 22:27

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by momaka

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CRT any day! Yes, modern gaming LCDs have kinda-sorta-maybe almost caught up to CRTs in terms of motion picture rendering (i.e. mitigating motion blur)... but they're still not quite there (and I doubt they would be, simply because of the physics behind the two technologies.) Just yesterday I popped …

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Re: Pentium3 on WinXP

Posted on 2024-09-07, 21:40

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Having ran many Pentium 3 and similar era systems in the late 2000's and well into the mid-to-early 2010's, here's my 2 cents. 1) Windows XP is more than FINE for a Pentium 3. Even the slowest P3 will actually perform just about as well under XP as it would under Windows 9x. Perhaps in games, there …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-07, 15:35

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Just opened it up during my lunch break. Looks like the mobo is an MSI MS-7184 v1.x . The machine also has a Bestec PSU, so from doing some searching looks like I may want to replace that before trying to power it on. If I had checked back on this thread two days ago and seen your previous post, I …

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

Posted on 2024-09-05, 12:11

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by momaka

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Retro activities today: - Washed an ASUS Radeon x600Pro and Ensoniq AudioPCI 3000 cards. They didn't come out as clean as I'd like, but good enough. The Ensoniq sound card looks as if black dust / sooth has burned onto the PCB and just won't wash off with regular dish detergent and water. But it's …

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Re: Why do some disc drives stop opening when they get old?

Posted on 2024-09-05, 11:02

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I troubleshooted this a bit more today and found that it works fine with the lid off. Investigating further revealed that the reason the tray isn't coming out is because the sled inside isn't lowering. This is due to the disc platform getting suctioned up to the lid and not releasing. I'm not …

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Re: Best AGP card for P4 2.8Ghz

Posted on 2024-09-04, 20:00

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by momaka

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Best card? Lets see here... That XFX 6800 XT will require a recap sooner rather than later. I have two of these and have seen countless more on eBay, most of which had blown caps already. Only a few like yours that didn't have blown caps (suggesting yours might be a low-hours card, which is good, …

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Re: Why do some disc drives stop opening when they get old?

Posted on 2024-09-04, 14:01

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by momaka

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There are many different reasons why this could happen, but indeed a marginal belt is the most frequent issue. A few weeks ago, I just repaired a few drives. For the first one, it was a belt issue. The original belt had disintegrated long time ago, so I had a conventional rubber band installed every …

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Re: Troubleshooting Geforce 3 TI500 after professional reflow - hanging due to too high temperature

Posted on 2024-08-30, 19:58

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I can't say if the GPU chip is damaged already or not... but it sure is degraded. The fact that you can keep the card from crashing with good cooling and a slight underclock is somewhat promising, though. My personal opinion is that most stock coolers/heatsinks are shit anyways and should be …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-08-28, 22:45

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Little update on my last post... The 19" LG LCD for $1 seems to work OK. Well, I only did a quick power up today, as that's all I had time for, and I didn't see any lines or any cracks on the screen. The "No Signal" message came through fine and backlight didn't do any funky stuff. I'll still …

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Re: Intel D865PERL cpu stuck in RESET, no post

Posted on 2024-08-26, 10:17

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It's better to measure conductivity of every VRM mosfet and also power supply rails to the ground. Often shorted mosfets and their driver are replaced at the same time. It is necessary to check gate resistors. So It will be a lot of measure of conductivity to check many components before trying to …

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