Re: Compaq cds 524 - upgrade info [help]

Posted on 2015-11-18, 21:55

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by brostenen

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I found that Danish magazine, though it is online on the internet archives and not my pc. And it is sadly not the 524. It is the 520 model. Just download and go to page 18. Numbers are generic, so you won't have a problem reading the spec's. I for some reason believe the only differences are the CPU …

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Re: What is this gpu?

Posted on 2015-11-18, 12:03

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by brostenen

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Googling "vga dml-1628" came up with a lot of pages, referring to Radeon 9000's

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Re: RTC Fun

Posted on 2015-11-18, 11:57

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by brostenen

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Just thinking, if it would be more wise to buy a socket and a couple of new batteries? That way, it can be changed really easy, if it dies. Ebay should have a lot of RTC batteries. The coincell is cheaper for shure. Though a new Dallas would look better I guess.

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Re: Please help me identify this AGP graphics card!

Posted on 2015-11-18, 11:44

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by brostenen

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Or looking it up at this place too: http://pcidatabase.com/ http://pcidatabase.com/search.php?device_search_str=agp EDIT: Look's like HighTreason came before me, as I did not look at the link he posted.

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Re: Planning on Pentium 1 build... Suggestions?

Posted on 2015-11-18, 11:40

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by brostenen

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Might be because it has MMX. No MMX here, no problem running 133mhz on MVP3-Chipset. I feel it is running better on my SS7 board than my S7 board. (Or it could just be me) It could be the newer IDE controller, more cacheable memory, etc. That too... Yeah... I was mostly thinking in terms of getting …

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Re: Planning on Pentium 1 build... Suggestions?

Posted on 2015-11-18, 11:12

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by brostenen

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Might be because it has MMX. No MMX here, no problem running 133mhz on MVP3-Chipset. I feel it is running better on my SS7 board than my S7 board. (Or it could just be me)

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Re: Praying for Paris

Posted on 2015-11-17, 22:01

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by brostenen

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And again, one last time: if the moderators believe that the forum should be clear of any discussions which can be considered political, controversial, or just plain get ugly - let them delete posts and lock threads as they see fit to maintain the peace. But suggesting that someone should be banned …

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Re: Praying for Paris

Posted on 2015-11-17, 21:52

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by brostenen

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All religions have been using religion as an excuse for hurting other..... History-fact. Now please get over all this ideoligy question, as we are on a tech-forum and we really do not need any excuse whatsoever to dislike each other. Do it over PM please..... Anything else is disrespect towards …

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Re: Planning on Pentium 1 build... Suggestions?

Posted on 2015-11-17, 21:31

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by brostenen

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My personal favourite chipset for P1 build is i430TX / i430HX, preferably on ATX-format MB... MVP3 and Aladdin V chipsets doesn't really offer anything useful for Pentium / Pentium MMX. Well, unless you really want to run AGP videocard. Or can not find any boards older than SS7-Boards, though they …

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Re: Please help me identify this AGP graphics card!

Posted on 2015-11-17, 20:11

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by brostenen

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Look's like eighter an M64 or Vanta. "NV-777.0" and "M64AGP16" seems to point to it. It is most likely an TNT2-M64 with 16mb of ram. The misplaced ram chips are to be found on other M64's. Especially Leadtek Winfast cards... Like this one here. http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/46506-2/Leadtek+WinFast+ …

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Re: Planning on Pentium 1 build... Suggestions?

Posted on 2015-11-17, 20:05

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by brostenen

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My personal favourite chipset for P1 build is i430TX / i430HX, preferably on ATX-format MB... MVP3 and Aladdin V chipsets doesn't really offer anything useful for Pentium / Pentium MMX. Well, unless you really want to run AGP videocard. Or can not find any boards older than SS7-Boards, though they …

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Re: Planning on Pentium 1 build... Suggestions?

Posted on 2015-11-17, 20:04

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by brostenen

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I have a nice P1-133 machine with 16mb of ram and the usual stuff like CL-5446-PCI. The machine is build, using the following part's: P-133 (non-MMX) Epox MVP3-C 16mb PC-100 16gb HDD. Yeah, the partitions are 2gb each, (because of MS-Dos-6.22) Cirrus Logic 5446 PCI 2mb SB-AWE64-Gold Runs great and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-11-17, 19:48

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by brostenen

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Dreamcast was GDROM I think, so you'd have no choice unless you were exceptionally lucky. I certainly had no problem running backups or homebrew from regular CD-ROMs on mine anyway. I did that using just a normal burner, for backups, on the DC I had back in the day's. Just normal cd's. Nothing that …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-11-16, 00:41

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by brostenen

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soviet conscript wrote: And this months haul from the local electronics swap meet Is that ISA-SCSI by any chance a SCSI card with Floppy controller too? I think it looks like a Floppy connector besides the SCSI connector. It will do so nice in a 386 machine.

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Re: Anyone else questioning the point of retrorigs?

Posted on 2015-11-16, 00:29

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by brostenen

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Actually funny... Starting out with something, then getting a complete different collection in the end. I have sold some SS7 stuff off, because I wanted to have older systems. Now it's all about having one system of each CPU platform (generally speaking) with the main focus being Intel. Man... I …

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

Posted on 2015-11-16, 00:13

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by brostenen

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It's Socket-A testing time here at my place. I tested an ECS K7SEM and did some testing on my Asus A7V266. Both were given new BIOS batteries, and the ECS went well through mem-test. (1x512mb Kingston PC-133) The Asus went through the memtest without any trouble as well. Now I need to let them rest, …

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Re: OS/2 hangs during boot

Posted on 2015-11-15, 18:41

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by brostenen

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How does the BIOS settings look? Check if "Memmory hole" is enabled and "Boot to Os/2" is enabled.

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Re: Praying for Paris

Posted on 2015-11-15, 15:54

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by brostenen

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Thought's go out from here. I condole.

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Re: OS/2 hangs during boot

Posted on 2015-11-15, 13:50

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by brostenen

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Did you get to the GUI-Installer? It sounds to me, like a sort of hardware related issue. Perhaps removing the V2?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-11-15, 13:35

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by brostenen

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kanecvr wrote: http://i.imgur.com/2QaUbmrl.jpg […] Show full quote Love it... 😜

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