Re: Do you have a backup motherboard for your build.

Posted on 2023-12-20, 07:07

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by shamino

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I don't explicitly have backups of identical boards for a specific build, but I have so many motherboards overall that there's plenty of overlap in what they're good for. If I can think of anything unique about a particular board, or I just think I might use it in a build, then I end up wanting to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-12-09, 21:07

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by shamino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've complained about the lack of electronics/computer parts at thrift stores around here in FL, but on my last trip I found this: box1.jpg Not terribly exciting, but it was a novelty to find any old computer part that's not a monitor. I don't like laggy "high speed" CD drives, but inside the box I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-12-09, 20:35

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by shamino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yesterday I bought a carton of 500 floppies... individual packs of ten 1.44MB 3.5" diskettes, new old stock that's still sealed! They appear to be fairly ancient relics, the blurb on the back of each pack proudly proclaims that they are factory formatted "for IBM PS/2's and other systems (model 30 …

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Re: Pentium CPU Game Changer that Helped Build the Internet and USA.

Posted on 2023-12-06, 22:13

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by shamino

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I was a bit fixated on FSB speed back then, so I was put off by the very existence of the P75. If I was getting a Pentium back then I'm sure I would have preferred a P66, just because the faster bus would make me feel smarter or something, but I would have been wrong. I realize now that the lowly …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-12-05, 20:27

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by shamino

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At a thrift store I got a Brother MFC-7420 laser printer, thinking it should be a good emergency backup for my DCP-7020. They seem to be essentially the same printer. Turns out the linux driver is different and broken with the 7420. Guess if I need to swap the printers I'll have to boot Windows to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-12-02, 19:12

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by shamino

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At a thrift store I got a Brother MFC-7420 laser printer, thinking it should be a good emergency backup for my DCP-7020. They seem to be essentially the same printer. Turns out the linux driver is different and broken with the 7420. Guess if I need to swap the printers I'll have to boot Windows to …

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Re: please take it upon yourself to list your oldest computers

Posted on 2023-12-02, 18:43

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by shamino

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About a year ago I bought an Atari 800XL. I didn't have an A8 back then but it got me interested ever since I learned about them in the 2000s. I adapted a PSU for it and connected the SVideo signal, but the keyboard is unusable and needs to be replaced. It's a common problem with them. I haven't …

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Re: Suggest CPU Between Pentium200 and Pentium4 1700

Posted on 2023-11-14, 23:03

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by shamino

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I never saw a 1GHz/100 at all, I've only seen their existence on the Intel site which *used* to have a conveniently searchable database of all their CPUs. They do exist - I have one, I got from some scrap lot ... will post an image later - can't get that to work from my phone for some reason ... …

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Re: KT7A missing IC

Posted on 2023-11-14, 22:35

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by shamino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sorry it took so long for me to respond - I got my board out today (KT7A-RAID v1.1) I can confirm the above - the resistor you circled at R49 is marked "103" on my board, so should be 10K ohms.

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Re: quirky Abit BE6 II repair

Posted on 2023-11-09, 23:19

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by shamino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Agreed, if it only freezes on that screen then I'd dismiss it as a BIOS bug. I have a BE6-II somewhere, not sure where, I'm curious if it does the same thing. Also don't take the readings on that screen seriously - it's very common for the voltages shown on motherboard sensors to be inaccurate. A …

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Re: Can a 4x CD-Writer write on 12X CD-RW?

Posted on 2023-11-09, 22:54

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by shamino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wiki says no, but I need confirmation: "Unlike a CD-R, a CD-RW has a minimum writing speed under which the discs cannot be recorded, based on the phase change material's heating and cooling time constants and the required laser energy levels. Since the CD-RW discs need to be blanked before …

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Re: Searching for a good and fast LCD 4:3 (vintage gaming)

Posted on 2023-11-08, 02:35

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by shamino

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Thanks for your suggestions. I think in my case it is better to take a 20 - 21 inch 1600x1200. So i started searching for a 20 inches 1600x1200 LCD, but damn they are pretty rare.... ). I found a refurbished items store which had two HP LP2065.....unfortunately with some problems at the screen >.<" …

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Re: Searching for a good and fast LCD 4:3 (vintage gaming)

Posted on 2023-11-02, 14:26

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by shamino

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1360x768 (1366x768? whatever) 19" monitors are essentially the same as a 15" 1024x768 with added pixels on the sides. They can display 1024x768 with bars on the sides and there won't be any upscaling. Advantage with these is that they're a little newer than 15" 10x7 displays, so the panels are …

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Re: Flightstick Pro in DOS

Posted on 2023-11-01, 05:43

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by shamino

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It's been a very long time since I ran that game, and I didn't have the "Pro" version of that joystick back then. But I'm pretty sure 2 of the buttons and the joystick work like a standard joystick and should just work without any extra fiddling. The "throttle" slider signals an axis from the 2nd …

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Re: Suggest CPU Between Pentium200 and Pentium4 1700

Posted on 2023-10-31, 22:59

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by shamino

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A long time ago (maybe 15 years?) I bought a bulk lot of Slot-1 CPUs. Among them was one P3-850E. It was the best CPU in the lot but they were going for $50 on eBay at the time so I sold it. So even back then they weren't easy to come by, I imagine they're a lot harder to get now. I never saw a 1GHz …

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Re: Slot A: Aiming for the stars

Posted on 2023-10-31, 00:25

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by shamino

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This is nothing special but just happens to currently be inside my retro box so here goes: 100Mhz FSB 700Mhz Thunderbird 256MB RAM GF2 MX 32MB @AGP 1x TB700 GF2MX 256M AMD750.png [A001's score was 4047 - screenshot apparently doesn't appear here] Same 700Mhz Thunderbird and GF2MX on an Asus K7M …

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Re: Man builds his own 80s VHS store in the cellar

Posted on 2023-10-29, 10:21

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by shamino

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A long time ago, my sister brought home a large trash bag (the big ones you'd use for raking leaves) full of Blockbuster VHS tapes that the store didn't want anymore. They were moving to DVDs. Over time I think all those tapes disappeared, got thrown out, etc. Nowadays it might be cool to have a …

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Re: KT7A missing IC

Posted on 2023-10-29, 09:56

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by shamino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As you said snufkin, it was actually not the FET at the Ram slots, but a torn resistor next to the clock IC! But either way everything is done and the board is now running again! However, I'm still not completely worry-free... After some time, so about an hour of operation, mouse and keyboard say …

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Re: CPU Upgrade Options

Posted on 2023-10-27, 13:00

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by shamino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Be careful with shopping for the late P4 CPUs - the cheaper ones are usually LGA775, not mPGA478. That listing doesn't seem to specify, so you'd have to try to figure it out from the Dell part number.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-10-27, 08:54

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by shamino

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Bought a 6GiB Asus GTX1060 for the kid, to build him a more gaming-appropriate rig than his laptop, which has integrated GPU in an 11th gen i5 :) Cost a hair's width more than US$100. Going to put it in a Lenovo Workstation with a Sandy Bridge Xeon E3-1270 and 12 GiB of DDR3 memory. All which I had …

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