Re: 8GB of DDR1 in a socket 939 system

Posted on 2016-08-22, 02:32

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by shamino

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I have found in what a problem , you were right - CPU Stepping D0 =( , my CPU stepping E6 and it's working. Interesting. Well I think that's good news - this explains what's going on and at least I know that if I get a different CPU then it can be solved. I'd rather it be a CPU problem than a board …

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Re: Motherboard Asus P2B with coppermine or tualatin cpu?

Posted on 2016-08-21, 08:33

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by shamino

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It might be an early adapter that only works with Mendocinos. Was a Mendocino one of the CPUs you tried in it? Have you confirmed this board works with an actual Slot-1 CPU? Re the motherboard jumpers - they just need to be set appropriately for whatever CPU is in the adapter. Set them for 66FSB …

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Re: Is anyone else running a celeron mendocino

Posted on 2016-08-19, 02:16

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by shamino

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The K6-2's lack of integrated L2 cache also kept it from scaling much in that speed range. It was really an obsolete architecture at that point. Cranking them up to 550MHz doesn't hurt but they can't compete with CPUs that were more designed for that clock range. It seems like both AMD and Cyrix …

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Re: Looking for confirmation - is my LS120 drive faulty?

Posted on 2016-08-18, 14:03

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by shamino

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Thanks. On my systems Win98SE and 2k are allocating B: to the drive, but in any case it's clearly not working. I received an external USB drive in the mail and I found the exact same IDE model inside. This one works without issue on the same 98SE and Win2k setups, so the first drive was definitely …

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Re: Another IBM damaged!!

Posted on 2016-08-18, 08:00

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by shamino

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When buying items that are heavy and prone to damage, I try to check their other items and their selling history to see what experience they have. The people I trust the least in these cases are amateur sellers who have hardly ever sold anything, who might just be some guy cleaning out his garage. …

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Re: Radeon 9500 info

Posted on 2016-08-18, 07:30

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by shamino

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I'd look for a 2nd hand PSU from the era personally. Sometimes you can find some that have little to no use. Some of them do need recapping though.

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Re: Radeon 9500 info

Posted on 2016-08-18, 07:27

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by shamino

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http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/graphics/display/ati-powercons.html This article doesn't test the 9500 or 9700, but it does test other members of that family so it gives a good idea. Wow... its amazing to think about how power consumption numbers have changed over the years. A 75W TDP GPU like the …

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Re: Radeon 9500 info

Posted on 2016-08-17, 14:51

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by shamino

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http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/graphics/dis … -powercons.html This article doesn't test the 9500 or 9700, but it does test other members of that family so it gives a good idea.

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Re: How to repair a toshiba laptop floppy drive ?

Posted on 2016-08-16, 14:08

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by shamino

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I remember back about 15 years ago tracking down a shop that had belts like this to repair a car cassette player. The hard part (even then) was finding such a place, but once I got referred to the right shop they quickly found a belt that fit. If you know of any electronic repair shops that still …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-08-16, 07:38

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by shamino

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Try to get a Panasonic/Matsushita drive rather than a Mitsubishi. I have both and the former are much faster. Not something as daft as a dodgy cable, is it? With windows 7, formatting the disk doesn't work. windows will format it as it would a usb drive. this is unreadable by other floppy drives. …

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Re: Looking for confirmation - is my LS120 drive faulty?

Posted on 2016-08-16, 07:35

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by shamino

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I originally posted a short comment about this in the "bought new hardware" thread, and there were some responses there so I'll reply to them here. Try to get a Panasonic/Matsushita drive rather than a Mitsubishi. I have both and the former are much faster. It appears to be a Matsushita (I didn't …

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Looking for confirmation - is my LS120 drive faulty?

Posted on 2016-08-16, 07:27

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by shamino

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I recently bought an LS120 "Superdisk" drive on eBay. It seems not to work, but I've never had one of these before so I want to check if I'm doing anything wrong in testing it. All my testing has been with 1.44MB HD floppies. I don't have any LS120 disks yet. My primary goal is to use this drive to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-08-15, 14:44

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by shamino

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Received an LS120 drive from eBay. I don't have any LS120 disks but any known working 1.44MB floppies always get reported as "not formatted". Even if I tell Windows to format them, it fails to do so. When I put the disk back in a normal floppy drive the original contents are still intact. It makes …

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Re: Building a Super 7 for 'Younger' gaming, suggestions, and new to site.

Posted on 2016-08-15, 12:47

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by shamino

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I was really hoping to have DVI as the LCD I'd like to use has no VGA input. I would have liked to get a PCI Voodoo but can't seem to locate one. I looked and It seems I have a power supply that has -5 .5A output, I'd imagine that's enough. So get an active vga to dvi agapter It might not even need …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-08-13, 15:21

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About a week ago I checked in a Goodwill and came out with more junk than I've ever bought there at one time. 1) As I went in, I saw a couple rummaging around looking for something in the electronics area. One of them roughly grabbed a Matrox Mystique 220 retail box and moved it aside. I was …

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Re: If a game has a clicking/popping noise on game startup with CT1600, is it also likely with CT1330A?

Posted on 2016-08-13, 02:11

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by shamino

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I had a CT1330A back then and it certainly is not a quiet card. I know it makes a lot of background noise for sure. I'm pretty sure it made pop sounds when starting some games, but I haven't used it in many years so I'll just put my certainty at about 90% confidence. I've never played the game you …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-08-13, 01:45

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by shamino

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The Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) were the late 90s version of something like a WD Blue--cheap, slow but lots of storage space. I've got two of them myself (somewhere between 8-20GB), both are in perfect health. :) I've fired them up once or twice and run SpinRite on them occasionally to keep their health up …

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Re: How do YOU ship things?

Posted on 2016-08-11, 09:40

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by shamino

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It's been a long time since I shipped a motherboard, but they used to have some Priority Mail boxes that fit a full ATX board pretty well. They give those boxes away for free but you have to use them for Priority Mail. Your local post office will give them out, or you can browse the available boxes …

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Re: How is this mobo for win98/dos gaming?

Posted on 2016-08-04, 05:07

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by shamino

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Unless you really need more speed, I'd look at Pentium 3s. They commonly have ISA slots which were still intended for mainstream consumer use (including legacy sound cards) and didn't rely on 3rd party bridges. A P3 should still be very fast for anything from the 90s, but it depends how late of …

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Re: Old laptop LCD

Posted on 2016-08-04, 04:03

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by shamino

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I don't know the answer, but I've swapped panels in desktop LCD monitors a couple times. They were 1280x1024 TFTs. With one swap it worked, but with the other swap the screen didn't turn on and I could smell that it burned something. So I'm only 50/50 doing swaps like that. Apparently there can …

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