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

Posted on 2020-06-24, 08:39

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Did a lot of repairs and rust removal on the case for the Socket 7 rebuild. Bought some #8-32 x 3/8" screws and Rust-Oleum gel rust removal spray and it got rid of tons of rust. The FDD/HDD bracket has a bit of rust left, but after a good spray-down and wipe-down, it will look a lot better. I then …

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

Posted on 2020-06-23, 07:16

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by bjwil1991

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Currently in the middle of upgrading the Socket 7 system to a Super Socket 7. Currently hit a few snags: 1) the new Startech 230W AT PSU has the wires soldered to the push-toggle switch, which the PSU will be installed in my Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus in place of the old 195W AT PSU 2) cards, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-21, 18:35

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by bjwil1991

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Might've hit something on the way down or hit an edge of a piece of furniture. The inside is intact still.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-21, 08:01

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by bjwil1991

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On the 17th, I bought a Dell 1702FP LCD monitor to use on some of my retro machines that cannot go past 800x600 due to high refresh rates and see how it performs. Before I use it, I need to buy a new PSU for it since the one that came with the system has missing pieces of plastic or I can attempt to …

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

Posted on 2020-06-19, 06:56

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by bjwil1991

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@Stiletto: thank you for clearing all of the BS that was on here. You're awesome. As for retro activity, I attempted to repair the TI Extensa-Scholar ESS3/Acer Extensa E610CDT keyboard and it decided to not work at all (rubber contact pads on the domes were disintegrated and beyond repairs) and the …

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2020-06-16, 07:15

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by bjwil1991

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Must be the same person that got PO'd about the eBay thread being closed out years ago... AGAIN!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-16, 05:35

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by bjwil1991

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$39.99 + taxes and $9.64 S&H ($52.61 altogether). My Packard Bell PSU is 195W, which is not sufficient for 2 CD drives, dual floppy drive, tape drive, and SSD, along with every ISA slot used.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-16, 05:14

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by bjwil1991

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Bought a Startech 230W AT PSU for one of my machines (will be used in either my Packard Bell system or my Socket 7 system) and once another one appears, then another one will be purchased. Haven't used the rocker switch on my Socket 7 build in ages last time I had an AT PSU.

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

Posted on 2020-06-15, 08:12

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got 2 of the 3 issues squared away on my TI Extensa-Scholar ESS3/Acer E610CDT laptop and now know that a bad CMOS battery can cause the basic settings in the BIOS setup itself to lock up. 1/3 of the keyboard functions, but the rest does not, so either a new keyboard is required or repairing the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-12, 18:21

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yesterday, I bought a Pentium 4 system for $13. Case looks good, but the board has 2 caps that are blown and spewed its guts on top.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-11, 06:47

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by bjwil1991

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kolderman wrote on 2020-06-11, 02:46: bjwil1991 wrote on 2020-06-11, 02:28: Bought a Passport MIDI Interface card with the cable which has 3 MIDI outputs and a Dell Inspiron E1505 Core2Duo laptop today. Is that intelligent mode compatible? Only one way to find out.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-11, 02:28

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by bjwil1991

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Bought a Passport MIDI Interface card with the cable which has 3 MIDI outputs and a Dell Inspiron E1505 Core2Duo laptop today. Screenshot_20200610-110942.png IMG_20200610_140612227~2.jpg Mind the mess in the background in the laptop photo op. It's car parts, essential fluids, and other items for my …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-10, 07:43

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by bjwil1991

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I got a V3 3000 PCI and paid $60 for it back in 2017 (used). Only mod was the fan installation and still runs.

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Re: Apparently not all GS-only sc-55s are the same, some are GM

Posted on 2020-06-10, 06:43

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by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Some of the MIDI files I have, like RuneScape's original theme song or the second version of it, either don't hold the notes like it's supposed to or no rhythm is playing if the instrument style shows as unknown.

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Re: Apparently not all GS-only sc-55s are the same, some are GM

Posted on 2020-06-10, 04:39

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by bjwil1991

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Wish I could get my hands on an SC-55 MKII as that has 28 voice polyphony vs 24 the MKI (GS only) has. I updated the firmware to 1.21 and labeled both chips the firmware revision numbers.

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2020-06-10, 04:37

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by bjwil1991

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Is that Addams Family playing in the background? I dig the setup.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-06-09, 14:21

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by bjwil1991

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Not in bad shape. Slight yellowing or lots of it (where the turbo display, LEDs, buttons, and keyboard lock are at on the plastic cover) and some scuffs, but all in all, looks pretty cool. I always liked the 3 digit turbo display.

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

Posted on 2020-06-09, 03:58

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by bjwil1991

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Excellent. Testing a BIOS for my Abit AB-TX5 for bigger HDD support, CPU support, RAM, and so on. So far, no issues. Need to fix the LS-120 drive in my Socket 7 build and change the CMOS battery as the settings erased after sitting in storage for almost 2 years.

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Re: HardMPU, anyone?

Posted on 2020-06-08, 03:05

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ Sound

My MT-32 does that on a Music Quest MPU401 clone card as well if the CPU is quicker than 33MHz (386 speed) with King's Quest V and VI. With the CPU cache controlling software, it slows it down to a 33MHz 386 and the MT-32 runs happily without hiccups. And this is on my 486 with a CPU that runs at …

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Re: HardMPU, anyone?

Posted on 2020-06-07, 22:49

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ Sound

There are cache controlling software out there that'll slow down the machine or other software that'll slow it down to the right speed. Or run SoftMPU and a TSR removal software (mark before SoftMPU with delaysysex, and tsr-rem after the game exits in a batch file). Maybe that might fix it.

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