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

Posted on 2014-12-19, 01:13

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by ReeseRiverson

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Anyone know or can determine a good capacitor replacement for this AWE64 Gold I got? The one for the right (red) channel had a broken leg, and no matter or what, I can't get solder to attach. So I think it's best to just replace the thing. But being a little square cap... I can't really tell. I wish …

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Re: AWE64 Gold weirdness

Posted on 2014-12-19, 01:05

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by ReeseRiverson

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Which AWE64 Gold model is this card?

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Motherboard Identification?

Posted on 2014-12-19, 00:16

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by ReeseRiverson

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Well, sometimes it seems difficult to identify a motherboard, so maybe someone can help me out here! This is one of the few boards that don't seem to have numbers that pull anything up with a Google search. What one result came was about a modern-ish server board, but that didn't have any relevance …

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Re: CF Card on a 486

Posted on 2014-12-18, 21:56

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by ReeseRiverson

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How do you currently have it hooked up? Cable wise?

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

Posted on 2014-12-18, 17:32

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by ReeseRiverson

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Ditto. I have a few cards that need to be repaired. I've looked at You Tube, went through a few trials, but my "skills" at soldering leave a lot to be desired. My wonderfully cheap Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 card started to boot only blue. I took it out, and noticed a small crack on the holder of a …

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

Posted on 2014-12-18, 13:43

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by ReeseRiverson

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My project of rebuilding my 440BX machine came to an abrupt halt last week, as I inadvertently fried the new ASUS P3B-F. I had another one, but it was already dead when I got it. I bought a POST card from China, hoping it would provide any clues. Terrible quality by the way, but for €3 I'm not one …

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

Posted on 2014-12-18, 04:35

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by ReeseRiverson

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MS-DOS LAN Manager Client works great and still works to connect to modern windows file shares. I even got my IBM XT 5160 on the network with a 3Com Etherlink II card. No more floppies or LapLink for me. And even with the use of ftp access over the network with ethernet cards in DOS, I try to fit a …

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Re: Reese at it again? Another Intel Pentium build!

Posted on 2014-12-17, 17:29

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by ReeseRiverson

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LS-120 is supposed to be compatible with standard floppies, and I've seen the LS-120 option in the boot menu on some BIOSes. I never actually knew what a LS-120 was until I read this thread though. Now that you brought that up, that sounds vaguely familiar, I may have seen that in some BIOS options …

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Re: Reese at it again? Another Intel Pentium build!

Posted on 2014-12-17, 17:12

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by ReeseRiverson

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Probably a SuperDisk LS-120 drive, which is itself very interesting (never had one of those myself). Yeah, I believe that's it there! I just never got to play with it. :lol: You could unplug the standard floppy drive and plug in the LS-120 instead, just for kicks :lol: Makes me wonder if I can use …

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Re: Reese at it again? Another Intel Pentium build!

Posted on 2014-12-17, 16:34

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by ReeseRiverson

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🤣 Well, the lights were part of the built in speakers, like a LED level meter. That always made that case so cool to me. 😎

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Re: Reese at it again? Another Intel Pentium build!

Posted on 2014-12-17, 16:27

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by ReeseRiverson

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I had a similar case with speakers, though mine had a turbo button, LCD display with three digits, 1/4" headphone out and two 1/4" mic ins (with separate level controls), from about 1994. Anyone know about these? Would love to have one again. It sounds like you are talking about something like this …

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Re: Reese at it again? Another Intel Pentium build!

Posted on 2014-12-17, 13:11

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by ReeseRiverson

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Though I was also curious to try the second floppy drive, specifically because it's an actual IDE drive. :cool: Wait...an IDE FLOPPY DRIVE? Probably a SuperDisk LS-120 drive, which is itself very interesting (never had one of those myself). Yeah, I believe that's it there! I just never got to play …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-12-17, 13:02

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by ReeseRiverson

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Not quite hardware: https://twitter.com/RetroSwimAU/status/544998056924422144/photo/1 Why am I just now finding about your Twitter account? :lol: Well I am not sure what resolutions are supported by the Belkin 8-Port F1D108-OSD KVM switch, but I just bought one. I hope this is a good start. :lol: …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-12-17, 03:52

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by ReeseRiverson

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Hmm, looking at that KVM switch, makes me realize I need to get a nice switch for all my systems. Especially if I want to try to use the same monitor and keyboard for a lot of systems. :lol: Yes, they come in very handy...it's nice to have everything connected, so you don't have to mess around with …

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Re: Reese at it again? Another Intel Pentium build!

Posted on 2014-12-17, 02:18

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by ReeseRiverson

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Robin4 wrote: Nice build, but why 2x 3.5 floppy drives? The second was just a filler until I get a bay cover. Though I was also curious to try the second floppy drive, specifically because it's an actual IDE drive. 😎 but I didn't have an extra power cable for it. 😵

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Re: Reese at it again? Another Intel Pentium build!

Posted on 2014-12-17, 01:08

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by ReeseRiverson

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With this talk of hooking the PC speaker through the audio card, I thought I'd give it a shot. What's nice is the same speaker cable on the amp has a disconnect that hooked to the AWE 64 just fine. So now PC speaker sounds are routed through. Well... First of all. That is some nice build you did. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-12-16, 20:47

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by ReeseRiverson

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fyy wrote: No fan? My little 9600 XT had a fan! I have the same All In Wonder card he does, and there is no fan on mine either.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-12-16, 17:28

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by ReeseRiverson

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Hmm, looking at that KVM switch, makes me realize I need to get a nice switch for all my systems. Especially if I want to try to use the same monitor and keyboard for a lot of systems. 🤣

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Re: Reese at it again? Another Intel Pentium build!

Posted on 2014-12-16, 17:12

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by ReeseRiverson

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Great build! Very cool case. I agree with AlphaWing about knocking out those serial\parallel back-plates, and moving the ports from the slot brackets. I would also maybe go with a 5.25 floppy drive on the bottom since you already have a 3.5" FDD on the top. I did consider a 5.25" floppy drive, but …

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Re: Reese at it again? Another Intel Pentium build!

Posted on 2014-12-16, 17:05

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by ReeseRiverson

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I'm actually surprised your case has vents on the sides of the cover being AT. That is a good thing for a desktop case. Good luck with it! Yeah, if you look at this picture closely, to the right, you will see the cover on the floor. The side that is where the motherboard is, is fully vented: …

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