Re: List the CPUs you owned when they were new

Posted on 2017-10-14, 18:47

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by lazibayer

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1997 - K5-PR133 1999 - Celeron 366 2001 - Celeron 566 2002 - Celeron 1.0A Can't remember things in between, maybe an Athlon XP or two 2015 - Evergreen AMD-X5-133 2015 - A10-7800 2016 - A10-7860k

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Re: SOYO 5XAE and AMD k6 II

Posted on 2017-10-13, 19:48

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by lazibayer

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It looks very convincing! I guess shorting Pin 11 and 12 would engage the "auto-detect" function?

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Re: Rendition Verite V2100 too slow? Games too demanding?

Posted on 2017-10-13, 16:59

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by lazibayer

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According to my years of experience in ebay browsing I find Banshee PCI rarer and usually more expensive than Voodoo3 PCI. I would like to rank the PCI cards in the following order based on their price and popularity in retrogaming: 3dfx > TNT/TNT2 > G200/G450 > Rage128/Savage4 Geforce2 MX and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-12, 18:58

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by lazibayer

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aop wrote: I instantly jumped on it and bought the entire pile. Reason: https://i.imgur.com/1ZqhGk1.jpg I wish it works, I just need to order an adapter online to test it out. Just FYI you can use a P&D -> VGA adapter if you don't need the audio ports.

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Re: SOYO 5XAE and AMD k6 II

Posted on 2017-10-12, 18:05

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by lazibayer

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Thanks a lot lazibayer, for the info. I've been studying the info and I have two questions: 1.- 60 Mhz setting : the information in the manual doesn't match with the yours (the others (66,50,75) are the same!!) 2.- I can not get a correlation between voltage regulator VID0, ViID1, VID2, VID3 in …

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Re: SOYO 5XAE and AMD k6 II

Posted on 2017-10-12, 15:23

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by lazibayer

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Hi lazibayer! I don't know what you mean with: "Rule of thumb: K6-2 CXT takes Intel's 2x multiplier input as 6x." I do apologize : my english is very limited Anyway, I took some pictures of the mainboard: https://mega.nz/#F!XFMTBajB!9YFJ3w3QXqVqnl_oCXe90A Please, tell me if you need more. Thanks in …

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Re: Clock generators on Socket 7 and older motherboards

Posted on 2017-10-12, 15:15

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by lazibayer

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Soyo 5AXE 9148BF-04

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Re: What of these cards should i pair with my voodoo 2

Posted on 2017-10-11, 17:19

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by lazibayer

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I'd pick Trio3D/2X.

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Re: 486 MOBO BIOS Update

Posted on 2017-10-11, 16:05

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by lazibayer

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Update - Both Imperious and feipoa were correct. This board does have a "Non Flashable EPROM". There is a jumper when clearing CMOS and Programming the EPROM to use 5V or 12V. Why would a board provide programming option for EPROM? So you turn on the machine, shine UV-light on it overnight and then …

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Re: Clock generators on Socket 7 and older motherboards

Posted on 2017-10-11, 15:49

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by lazibayer

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ECS Me5PI-S MX8315PC

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

Posted on 2017-10-11, 15:48

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by lazibayer

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aop wrote: If I can get a CPU for reasonable price I plan to test it. It has the MX8315PC clock generator which allows you to up- or down-clock your CPU from 80 to 20MHz.

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Re: SOYO 5XAE and AMD k6 II

Posted on 2017-10-11, 15:08

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by lazibayer

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Following logical deduction I reckon SW1, SW2 and SW6 are in charge of sending multiplier information to the CPU and SW3, SW4 and SW5 decide the bus speed. To get the undocumented multipliers: SW1 SW2 SW6 5x: Off On On 5.5x Off Off On 6x On Off Off Rule of thumb: K6-2 CXT takes Intel's 2x multiplier …

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

Posted on 2017-10-11, 03:29

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by lazibayer

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Learned that when both using XP stock driver ViRGE/GX PCI has Direct3D support but Trio3D AGP hasn't.

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Re: Tualatin missing pin, would it work?

Posted on 2017-10-10, 21:18

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by lazibayer

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If my eyes worked properly it is missing a VTT pin, so it might work.

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Re: Wrong core voltage settings on ASUS TX97-XV

Posted on 2017-10-10, 16:31

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by lazibayer

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Maybe you could try to patch the bios to include tilamook's microcode and put it in the Frankenstein bios, that way you'll be able to switch between the modified and the unmodified bios ^^ That's a great idea. I have dissected the two ASUS BIOSes and some newer Award BIOSes with Awdedit, and I can …

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Re: SOYO 5XAE and AMD k6 II

Posted on 2017-10-10, 16:17

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by lazibayer

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Hi! I would like know if anyone has got the table for setting DIP switch of Soyo 5AXE motherboard. I own the manual but the information is not complete: the manual has got some examples, but not the exactly setting for the clock and for the Clock multiplier I would like to change the CPU to AMD K6 …

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Re: Wrong core voltage settings on ASUS TX97-XV

Posted on 2017-10-10, 04:25

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by lazibayer

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The boards came with HP BIOS and I wanted to flash one of them with ASUS BIOS. The boards have 2Mbit flash chips and all ASUS BIOSes are 1Mbit in size. So I stitched two ASUS BIOSes, 0112xv.001 and 1001xv.003 together and flashed the Firmkenstein into the 2Mbit chip. Now I can switch between the two …

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Wrong core voltage settings on ASUS TX97-XV

Posted on 2017-10-10, 04:06

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by lazibayer

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Got two TX97-XV rev. 1.13 from HP Pavilions. They have HIP6008CB onboard which can supply 2.0 to 3.5v core voltages: Screen Shot 2017-10-09 at 11.15.55 PM.png But the board and manual have only 7 settings over a 3x3 jumper block: Screen Shot 2017-10-09 at 11.07.22 PM.png I couldn't figure out the …

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Re: Starting MS-DOS....and nothing happens

Posted on 2017-10-09, 04:06

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by lazibayer

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Have you tried booting with a real floppy or IDE drive?

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Re: Rendition Verite V2100 too slow? Games too demanding?

Posted on 2017-10-08, 05:39

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by lazibayer

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Diablo II is too demanding for your build. Quake II is probably also too demanding for a 200MHz CPU. Starcraft should be OK. Being stuck in software mode in Quake II might be caused by a driver issue. In fact, Quake II has a port for verite chips and a patch to utilize 3d now in Winchip2. Stutter in …

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