Re: Recapping Voodoo 3 3000

Posted on 2019-11-07, 12:03

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É muito comum essas voodoo 3 apresentarem problemas, o dissipador de calor dela não dá conta do calor gerado pelo chip principal. Eu já descartei algumas com o mesmo problema. Se você tiver sorte o prolema pode ser nas memórias, como falaram, é mais facil de resolver desde que tenha habilidade e …

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Re: Yet another 386DX40 motherboard identification

Posted on 2019-11-06, 19:45

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Hi People ! I'm from Brazil and have 6 boards of this same model but incomplete ones. It lacks cache, BIOS and CPU. I want to buy some i386DX-33 QFP132 from China. Best of all, I have some manuals of this board and in a few days I'll scan it and made it available here !! Hi GooBR!, I have bought a …

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Re: Fixing a Pentium MMX - 1 low beep, continous high beeps

Posted on 2019-10-10, 18:35

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have fixed a 486 motherboard recently that in the initial bios screen beeped like siren. Corrupted bios. Fixed by flashing a new bios.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-26, 19:30

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Bought on fleamarket last week. Opti vlb socket3 motherboard in good shape. Creative phone blaster in mint condition, the biggest isa card I have ever seen. Both needs to be tested.

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2019-09-06, 13:13

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I m a linux user and my main rig was a Athlon XP mobile until around 2012 (actually it's a core 2 quad). For some time I have used a radeon HD2400 AGP + Athlon XP to watch 1080p content with sucess. I think P3 + crystal pci = 720p maybe possible. 1080p I dont think so.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-06-11, 14:49

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Bought eight NOS zida 4dps on local fleamarket last sunday, 5 dolars each. 😲 😲 😲

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Re: FOREX 386 Cache board doesn't post

Posted on 2019-05-29, 20:22

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by Mut

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Check the temperature of all ICs with your finger, if you find something extremely hot its shorted. In the past I had a similar dead 386 motherboard, the problem was a shorted keyboard controller.

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Re: Motherboard capacitor repair ?

Posted on 2019-04-23, 04:40

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I think I will just use the original tantalum capacitors. Tantaluns are prone to fail catastrophically and are not recommended. Electrolytics and tantalus have similar characteristics. On the past I had two identical 386 motherboards (I don't remember the model) but from different batches, one …

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Re: Motherboard capacitor repair ?

Posted on 2019-04-21, 17:32

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Replace those old tantaluns with eletrolytic caps, they are cheap and reliable. I've always had success doing it.

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Re: most compact 8088/8086 board you've seen?

Posted on 2019-04-15, 00:56

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Oh, I almost forgot... My turbo XT has a really small motherboard actually. It's by Triple D International, I think it's called the TD-20, and measures only 217x166 mm -- barely larger than an A5 sheet of paper. Still manages 8 slots, too. Excuse the poor picture, I don't want to remove it from the …

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Re: most compact 8088/8086 board you've seen?

Posted on 2019-04-12, 15:28

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I have this board: https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/H/H … 88-HED-918.html The size is similar to those later 386 or 486 motherboards.

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 CT2230 problem

Posted on 2018-12-11, 17:17

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May be the amp is bad. Try the Line out connector instead the speaker out and check if something change and check the caps.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-08-11, 02:15

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Bought last week PowerBook 1400cs, lcd in bad shape and broken case, but working - us$ 5. Awe32 ct3600, crystal isa sound Card , st238r mfm hdd, trident pci and a complete pc xt clone - us$ 25. New old stock pcchips m326, cx486dlc 40, iit387 - us$ 20 (not pictured)

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Re: 386 Motherboard Blown Capacitor, How Much Damage? Worth Fixing?

Posted on 2018-08-09, 18:07

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Actually, you better replace electrolytic caps with tantalum caps, not the other way around. Electrolytic caps can (and will!) leak, tantalum caps won't. And no, the way tantalum caps can fail is not an argument here, since that only happens when they are really old and don't get powered for a …

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Re: 386 Motherboard Blown Capacitor, How Much Damage? Worth Fixing?

Posted on 2018-08-09, 11:15

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by Mut

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From my experience , if you replace only the failed caps , another one will blow up in the future. For safety I would replace all those tantalus with electrolytic caps.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-07-16, 20:22

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by Mut

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Bought yesterday on fleamaket, about US $40 Both 386 pcchips motherboards are working, no leaked battery damage. 3 486 motherboards : MS4144, Pcchips m915 and a ECS UA4982, this motherboard is somewhat strange, no battery no odin chip, nothing. 3 socket 7 motherboard And some other components

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-07-07, 22:05

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Hi Gered, Great notebook! Open it up and remove the cmos and the resume battery ASAP. Those batteries tends to leak when get old. They are located under the keyboard. I had two of these notebook destroyed by leakage.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-02-19, 17:11

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Bought on a flea market today: A couple of ultrastor U15F IDE cache controller isa, perfect for my 386 build. A 430vx pentium 100 and a opti495 dx266 both boards never used. Intel d45sg + q9400 rapidcad -1 and rapicad-2 sadly the motherboard was damaged beyond repair 386 dx 40 2 SB awe 32 SB awe 64 …

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Re: Good source for AT Cases

Posted on 2017-12-22, 20:04

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by Mut

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Is very difficult to appear some thing interesting in mercadolivre and when appear is overpriced. Recently I bought voodoo 3 2000 PCI there , was only 29 reais (around $10), was announced as "beatiful old vga" 😊 .

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Re: Good source for AT Cases

Posted on 2017-12-22, 10:56

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blurks i know that he is from Brazil (facepalm). Brazil is pretty big and I'm Brazilian too. Local flea markets are great source for old parts, I have found all the things .legacy sad that is impossible. Last week I found near for free a pentium pro 200 and a server motherboard, a thing that I …

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