Re: PS/2 keyboards to USB converter gives me some issue

Posted on 2022-07-26, 14:22

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by darry

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, apparently buying a no brand cheap as all hell converter solved all issues, it works like a charm. Good news! TBH, I am sure there are good unbranded ones around and you obviously got one. However, it is luck of the draw as to whether a random one of the Internet will work well or not. IMHO, …

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Re: What is your most hated/feard task in building a (retro)PC?

Posted on 2022-07-25, 03:21

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dont feel offended i was jooking arround. Did use some stereotype just for the fun. Most common spider in germany is a Webberknecht or a Zitterspinne both are very easy and dont cobweb. We say if you have one of these in youre house, you have a good climate at home so no mould or bad air.... They …

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Re: PS/2 keyboards to USB converter gives me some issue

Posted on 2022-07-25, 03:09

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by darry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had a crapton of trouble trying to use various unbranded cheapo adapters that I had lying around with an IOGEAR PS/2 KVM . I ended up sourcing Belkin F5U119vE1 and Tripp Lite B015-000 ones . These worked great for me .

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Re: What is your most hated/feard task in building a (retro)PC?

Posted on 2022-07-25, 03:03

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by darry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sadly? Did you ever watch this BIG SPIDERS videos of australians? Or Snakes and all other nightmarish stuff? Be happy you can pew pew pew them legal with youre .45 away. ^^ Australians like HMM do i use my didgeridoo or my Boomerang today... While we germans like singing itzi bitzi spinne... …

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Re: how install Windows 98 on a more modern computer?

Posted on 2022-07-24, 16:54

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by darry

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acer aspire 1690 ATI Mobility Radeon X600 64MB's 4G's RAM(yes i used a memory patch for work on Win98) CPU 1.8GHz(but not sure)(maybe i need another patch here too) Thank you for that info . This systems does not have any integrated ability to support any DOS era audio standards, except PC speaker, …

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Re: Which of three FX 5xxx cards to choose from?

Posted on 2022-07-24, 16:27

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by darry

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

+1 And, even on nForce chipsets, at least the substitute works in the form of SB16 emulation on Live! and Audigy cards. Sure, it's not much, but it plays and talks. Are you certain of this ? I read that even the Live!/Audigy NMI based TSR solution for SB16 emulation does not work on Nforce . I've …

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Re: 20th Anniversary of Vogons

Posted on 2022-07-24, 03:19

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Ouch, I've been on the internet since 1993, what does that make me, Pre-Cambrian, some horseshoe crab or ceolocanth? lol Pretty much. Any older, and you would probably be a unicellular organism in a primordial (digital) soup. ;) FWIW, my first Internet experience was around the same time, through a …

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Re: Cost of living strikes!!!!

Posted on 2022-07-24, 03:17

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by darry

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

A good idea. We anyway will not change something with such a discussion. If you have a balkony its maybe a good idea to lower your electric bill by buying some solarpanels and a small inverter. It certainly doesn't make you self-sufficient, but it does reduce the bill. If they can only cover the …

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Re: Rare 386/486 VLB Motherboard: Unstable in 386 Mode

Posted on 2022-07-24, 02:22

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by darry

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I always wonder if I can install 386 and 486 CPU at the same time and just use jumpers to decide which to use? That usually only works with a soldered cpu on a board meant to support Otherwise 7FCD8A9C-4CEA-43CB-9DCC-D88ACD75CEE1.jpeg It seems the image is no longer exists, can you re-upload it? It …

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Re: how install Windows 98 on a more modern computer?

Posted on 2022-07-23, 23:51

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by darry

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at least Prince of Persia 1 and 2 works fine. autoexec.bat: REM Added by SetBlaster on Sat Jul 23 19:05:22 2022 SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4 P330 mode con codepage prepare=((850) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi) mode con codepage select=850 keyb po,,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\keyboard.sys Mouse heres a question: …

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Re: how install Windows 98 on a more modern computer?

Posted on 2022-07-23, 19:03

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by darry

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i need the ms-dos midi driver... can anyone advice me? The ICH6 southbridge to which the AC97 codec is connected has no DOS game compatibility at all . This machine does not a have a Pentium 3 CPU, it has a Pentium 4 Pentium M (as confirmed by OP) CPU . The ICH6 variants were used only in Pentium 4 …

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Re: Flashing 3dfx bios

Posted on 2022-07-23, 04:52

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by darry

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Did you backup the original BIOS ? What size is it ? What size is the image that you tried to flash ? Also, what is the EEPROM brand and part number ? See also https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=77153 EDIT: If you tried flashing a 64KB BIOS image into a 32KB EEPROM, it might explain what …

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Re: Company names with abbreviations

Posted on 2022-07-23, 02:12

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Anybody know where the Zoltrix name came from ?

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Re: Cost of living strikes!!!!

Posted on 2022-07-21, 22:50

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in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Integrated graphics was HD9000, gt 1030 beats it hands down and at lower watts. Hp T730, AMD quad CPU, upto 3.6ghz, powered by brick, hence 30w as much as it can power, but does it all on less than 90w, horizon zero dawn can run just about playable. Around 25fps, older games gen around 60 FPS Short …

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Re: Cost of living strikes!!!!

Posted on 2022-07-21, 20:35

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Ok. Curiosity sake. For Them AMD fanatics can recommend as a replacement for my NV gt 1030, restraints are half height and max 30watts A few extra FPS for casual gaming No disrespect, but are you joking ? EDIT : If you have PCIE 4.0 ( not sure if still worth it for PCIE 3.0 , as card is x4 ), an …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-21, 15:43

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by darry

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought some new small sized Compact Flash cards 2x512Mb, 2 x 1Gb and 2x 2 Gb plus a few Dual bootable CF adaptors, going to move a couple of spinning rust systems to CF and leave the HDD in there to retain the noise. (I guess some might say that these cards are not small ...but when you have an 8tb …

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Re: Beepblaster 1.0 Wavetable Module

Posted on 2022-07-21, 15:39

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by darry

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Cool concept. Curious to hear a demo.

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Re: Intel 440BX, any way to add more CPU support?

Posted on 2022-07-21, 15:37

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by darry

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

you run it at 1.8V :) Intel's datasheet specified max is 1,775V so its barely past official limit if that really bothers you there are VRM 8.4 specced voltage regulators still available, pin compatible with old VRM chips. There was a thread here of someone repairing BX board and buying newer spec …

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Re: Intel 440BX, any way to add more CPU support?

Posted on 2022-07-21, 07:17

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by darry

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You dont need powerleaps. Original Pentium 2 VRM specification supported 1.8-2.8V https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/computing/intel_cpu_datasheets/VRM%208.1%20DC-DC%20Converter%20Guidelines.PDF Every single Coppermine in existence runs fine at 1.8V. All you need is either a slotket with voltage …

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Re: Intel 440BX, any way to add more CPU support?

Posted on 2022-07-21, 05:31

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by darry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here is my experience with a board that officially topped out at 450MHz, AFAICR . https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=48967 I don't know if parts (especially the 370 pin ZIF sockets) are still available, but if they are, designing/building/selling a Tualatin capable interposer (either socket …

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