Re: K6-2 Software coolers

Posted on 2012-08-05, 19:13

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Back in the day I used one of these software CPU coolers, can't remember which but it had specific options for my Athlon XP1700+ and it did lower the idle temps quite a bit - but it caused graphical corruption with my SAA7131 TV capture card. For years I never put 2 and 2 together and just assumed …

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Re: My first 5x86 build (also motherboard component level repair)

Posted on 2012-07-21, 04:25

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After a long time of messing around with older systems and other stuff I got back to this one. I swapped the LG 52X CD-ROM drive for a Creative Infra 1800 (with remote) that a friend gave me recently, I think it fits a lot better than the 'modern' LG drive. It just needed a lens cleaning and it's …

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Re: new setup = PC Linux

Posted on 2012-07-18, 21:15

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I use NUSB33.EXE on my Toshiba Satellite 4010CDT with Windows 98 (actually NUSB33ES.EXE since it's the Spanish version of W98 ) and it works flawlessly with all of my thumbdrives and external drives (FAT/FAT32) just like a real Win2k/XP would. This laptop serves as my portable ambassador between …

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Re: My first 5x86 build (also motherboard component level repair)

Posted on 2012-07-01, 21:34

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Thanks to everyone for your kind comments! I'm glad to see I sparked a discussion about the 4DPS motherboard! :happy: I haven't replied earlier because I've been messing around with some older builds (a 386 and a 286) and the 286 in particular is giving me a hard time (soon you'll see me asking for …

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Re: Need BIOS image for MD-4DUVC socket 3 mobo

Posted on 2012-06-28, 22:51

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Speaking of exploding batteries - does that coin-cell in your photo have a hole in it, or is it just dirt? :) Neither, it's solder! One of my friends who is a fellow electronics tech actually has the nerve to solder on lithium coin cells! (at least he wears eye protection while doing it). He gave …

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Re: Need BIOS image for MD-4DUVC socket 3 mobo

Posted on 2012-06-28, 01:03

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I checked out the file in a hex editor and it's correct, just repeated twice. UNIFLASH couldn't detect the EPROM and probably dumped blindly using the settings of the previous 128KB Flash chip - hence you get mirrored data. I programmed the file directly to a 128KB Flash ROM and it worked perfectly, …

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Re: Need BIOS image for MD-4DUVC socket 3 mobo

Posted on 2012-06-27, 02:29

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In the meantime I've tried all 5 UM498* BIOS images and they all work with the exception of one (which is 65537 bytes long so I guess it could be bad), even the AMI ones with the AMI WinBIOS™ work, those bring back memories. They all have different options and none of them correspond to this board …

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Re: Need BIOS image for MD-4DUVC socket 3 mobo

Posted on 2012-06-26, 22:12

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Thanks for linking me to that page! So I started following your plan of trying every UM498* BIOS image in there, starting with UM498-4W.ZIP, it's a 64KB image so I doubled it to fill a 128KB Flash ROM chip, slapped a 5V 486SX-33 CPU, RAM, POST card, ISA video card, PSU... powered it up and I got …

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Need BIOS image for MD-4DUVC socket 3 mobo

Posted on 2012-06-26, 09:13

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I found this Socket 3 motherboard, it seems to be in good condition but it's missing its ROM BIOS chip so I can't test it. http://133fsb.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/dscn0670_s.jpg Model no. is MD-4DUVC VER 2.1 and it seems to correspond to this th99 entry . I wasn't able to find a BIOS update file …

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My first 5x86 build (also motherboard component level repair)

Posted on 2012-06-26, 08:54

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A bit of story... as a (geeky) teenager in the early 2000s I used to make a bit of money building and repairing PCs in my spare time, usual stuff. People would donate their old hardware to me or I'd just pick it up from the curb, anything good would go to upgrade the PCs in my house first, and the …

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2012-02-08, 03:49

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Topic 31289 user Swarovski (24747)

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Re: 600 Ko FRAMEWORK III file cannot be uploaded

Posted on 2012-02-07, 03:40

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Dominus wrote: Ko? What's that supposed to be? Kilobytes? The French language uses the word 'octet' for byte, so Kilobyte (KB) becomes Kilo-octet (Ko) and so on. Disclaimer: I don't speak French. 🙄 That's pretty much the only thing I could understand from what the OP wrote 🤣

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Re: Trashpicked IBM PS/2 Model 25 Restoration

Posted on 2012-02-06, 01:33

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Thanks for the kind comments! :happyhappy: I'm wondering, was there a little more to it than "these are about the same size tubes"? Yes, but very little actually. :dead: I'm thinking along the lines of the electron gun itself, what guarantee is there that the pinouts, voltage, current, etc are the …

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Re: Embedding "zoomable" images?

Posted on 2012-02-06, 00:43

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I guess I got a bit upset because I've been doing it like that for years on several different forums running on different platforms and it never failed before, so I had my pictures uploaded and my whole post nicely formatted as usual, everything ready to go but when I clicked preview for the final …

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Trashpicked IBM PS/2 Model 25 Restoration

Posted on 2012-02-06, 00:19

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The following events took place at the start of March 2010, about a week after the 2010 Chile Earthquake which swept the nation. I had just moved to a larger house closer to downtown barely a month before which fortunately held up pretty well. I've never shared this restoration project because of my …

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Re: Embedding "zoomable" images?

Posted on 2012-02-05, 21:37

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I know it's Wordpress doing the resizing when I pass the "?w=" parameter after the filename, and I do the linking to the full-size image manually by using the resized img tag inside a url tag pointing straight to the same file without the resizing parameter, so that the small image itself becomes …

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Embedding "zoomable" images?

Posted on 2012-02-05, 19:06

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I was writing kind of a long post with a lot of pictures in it when I noticed that my usual method of embedding large images in BBCode forums didn't work here, for example: [url=http://133fsb.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/dscn1340.jpg][img]http://133fsb.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/dscn1340.jpg?w=600[/ …

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Re: Monochrome TFT

Posted on 2012-01-31, 19:10

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I still don't get this. Why would you want to use an LCD monitor instead of a nice bright green analog tube with no physical resolution and long-persistence phosphors which also functions as a central heating system? These are meant for legacy industrial machinery that cannot drive anything other …

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Re: Alley Cat on Hercules Video Adapter (CGA Emulator)

Posted on 2012-01-28, 02:57

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Damn, almost a week after I asked but I finally got some time to try this out on my XT clone... it works perfectly! The timing might be a bit different because of the 50~60 Hz difference between Hercules and CGA but between the somewhat laggy CGA emulation and the high persistence screen phosphor I …

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Alley Cat on Hercules Video Adapter (CGA Emulator)

Posted on 2012-01-20, 04:37

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Hello everyone! Back in the day I had a 386 with a Hercules video card and an amber monitor on which I used to play some DOS games thanks to a CGA emulation TSR. I remember Alley Cat (one of my favorite PC games) not working correctly, the clotheslines never moved and the windows never opened making …

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