Re: Intel 440LX vs VIA Apollo Pro

Posted on 2017-11-11, 14:43

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by lazibayer

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Nope. All Apollo Pro 133 chipsets have 133MHz FSB support. OP's board is a regular VT82C691, so it's the non-133 version. The regular Apollo pro 133 is VT82C693A, and the 133A version is VT82C694X - the difference between the two is AGP 4X support, witch the 133A has and the 133 non A does not . …

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Re: Socket 7 Motherboard not assigning drive letter to CDROM

Posted on 2017-11-11, 02:46

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by lazibayer

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You need to load CDROM driver before using it.

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Re: Intel 440LX vs VIA Apollo Pro

Posted on 2017-11-10, 21:13

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by lazibayer

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LX is a very good and stable chipset limited by a slow 66Mhz FSB. Apollo has support for 133FSB and some other nice stuff, but from what Ive read there are issues with the AGP bus in certain motherboards. Only Apollo Pro 133A has official support for 133MHz FSB. Apollo Pro only supports 100MHz, but …

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

Posted on 2017-11-10, 01:48

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by lazibayer

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Install win7 on a P5A-B platform -> move hard drive to a SiS530 platform -> success Install the same win 7 on the SiS530 platform -> move hard drive to the P5A-B platform -> infinite reboot I have tried installing standard IDE driver but didn't work. Windows 7 on P5A-B? Why? Is that useable? I like …

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Re: ATI RAGE 128 GL

Posted on 2017-11-10, 01:30

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by lazibayer

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Did you try it on older boards? It could be a Mac version.

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Re: 32pin Ram? Is that normal? Can i use 30pin in its place?

Posted on 2017-11-09, 06:20

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by lazibayer

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Could you please take some pictures of the RAM and mobo? I only know old macs use 32pin SIMMs.

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

Posted on 2017-11-09, 04:06

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by lazibayer

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Install win7 on a P5A-B platform -> move hard drive to a SiS530 platform -> success Install the same win 7 on the SiS530 platform -> move hard drive to the P5A-B platform -> infinite reboot I have tried installing standard IDE driver but didn't work.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-08, 22:40

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by lazibayer

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I did not know. Sounds quite promising to pair it up with an unlocked Klamath CPU for a DOS box. Here's a pic of the audio chips on the AL440LX. Looks like OPL YMF715-S and GM YMF721-S. https://i.imgur.com/eWaUMBrl.jpg Both chips have OPL3 capability. Can you choose one of the two as OPL …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-08, 19:21

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by lazibayer

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ATI Rage 128 pro! P_20171108_195543[1].jpg EDIT: who's gonna get to 1000 pages first? :lol: ATi was lazy at naming their chips back then. Rage I and II were terrible 3D decelerators and Rage Pro was true albeit slow 3D accelerator. Rage 128 and 128 Pro were much better than Rage Pro, but still …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-08, 17:55

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by lazibayer

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c0keb0ttle wrote: Bought these beauties on a local trading site: […] Show full quote Bought these beauties on a local trading site: IMG_2339.JPG I haven't tested it yet, but I think that's a 24MB memory module. Both are in near mint condition. Them's 1M x 16bit EDO chips and you got 12 of them, so …

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Re: Which Packard Bell model is this?

Posted on 2017-11-08, 03:41

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by lazibayer

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Found it! http://web.archive.org/web/19991013114622/htt … dels/mm5951.asp http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/pb/mb/880.htm Well it's a Celeron... I thought the bottom left logo was a pre-MMX Pentium because it lacks the MMX banner...

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Re: Which Packard Bell model is this?

Posted on 2017-11-08, 02:41

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by lazibayer

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This computer has a PCI modem installed at the top slot and has pre-MMX pentium. According to http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/pb/mb/pbmb1.htm it's most likely a 850. 992 has similar motherboard but I couldn't find a picture of 992's chassis.

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Re: Which Packard Bell model is this?

Posted on 2017-11-08, 02:18

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by lazibayer

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Ask the seller if it has a label on top of the chassis, and take a picture if it does.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-07, 19:37

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by lazibayer

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Got this AL440LX Atlanta motherboard for cheap. Unfortunately, it's a Micron OEM (not Intel retail). Weird enough, it came with a Pentium II 450 Deschutes CPU (of course it booted up to 300 MHz) along with 2x 32MB of some DIMM memory. https://i.imgur.com/ZMel7c0h.jpg The DIMM looks like EDO or FPM …

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Re: 3DLabs Oxygen VX1 32MB AGP opinions

Posted on 2017-11-03, 20:31

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by lazibayer

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Have it as a spare since my TNT2 M64 needs a new VGA connector that I'm planning on purchasing (5 of them to be safe) so that I can have a fully functional AGP card for my Windows 98 machine. That, and for a computer that'll be used as a firewall. Well if not for gaming VX1 will do just fine. And …

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Re: 3DLabs Oxygen VX1 32MB AGP opinions

Posted on 2017-11-03, 19:54

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by lazibayer

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feipoa had done benchmarks on this card and it performs worse than TNT in most cases. Topic 35051 What are you going to do with this card?

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Re: No man's jumper

Posted on 2017-11-03, 18:12

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by lazibayer

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You don't mean that there are actual, physical, plastic jumpers on the IDE1/Serial2/LPT/USB2/etc pin headers, do you? I'm not sure I'm understanding this correctly. I have the same question, too. JPx -> jumper Jx -> connector The jumper could also be from your IDE devices or video card or sound …

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Re: How do you recognize if Memory is FPM or EDO

Posted on 2017-11-02, 01:06

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by lazibayer

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A lot of Socket 5/7 boards will report the memory type in each row.

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Re: 486 MOBO BIOS Update

Posted on 2017-11-01, 22:51

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by lazibayer

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Cga.8086 wrote: interesting. so you dont need to buy an external flasher at all i will read how it works..thanks External programmers do come handy. They can program a much wider range of chips.

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2017-11-01, 21:31

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by lazibayer

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^^ on that note: http://www.usedvictoria.com/classified-ad/MOVING-HAS-TO-BE-GONE-BY-NOV-8_30846870 Actual quotes from the ad: "the tower does not have a mother board since I couldn't get into the computer so I destroyed it." "It's going to be recycled unless someone would like it." ...and then he …

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