Re: Chia cryptocurrency - Mining on HDD and SSD

Posted on 2021-04-29, 04:01

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by cyclone3d

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How about we start using acorns as currency ? Instead of buying computer components and wasting electricity on virtual money, people plant trees which clean up the air and slow down climate change. As stupid as it sounds, it is not worse than what we have now. Except that "climate change" is a huge …

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Re: 486 will not boot from floppy; will not read from floppy either

Posted on 2021-04-29, 03:50

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BIOS is correct for that motherboard according to elhvb: https://www.elhvb.com/webhq/models/486vlb2/486sv231.htm

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-28, 21:27

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oooh... backup the BIOS for the Mr. BIOS thread. How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

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Re: Best CPU for Gigabyte P4 Titan GA-8ITXE (rdram)

Posted on 2021-04-28, 20:52

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Fastest is 3.0Ghz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_4_processors I haven't been able to find one for cheap, but the 2.8Ghz ones are generally really cheap. Not sure it is worth it to me to spend $70+ US to get 200Mhz more over the 2.8Ghz ones that can be had for around $10 on eBay …

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Re: ever buy job lots of CPUs etc?

Posted on 2021-04-28, 08:22

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by cyclone3d

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Back before the sellers started asking stupid prices for them, yes. Got a nice lot of Tualatin Pentium III CPUs and have also gotten lots of 486 class CPUs, S939, LGA775 and others.

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Re: 486 will not boot from floppy; will not read from floppy either

Posted on 2021-04-28, 05:14

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What is the full BIOS string on the initial POST screen? Let's make sure that you have the correct BIOS.

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Re: Video card upgrade for A64 X2 4400+

Posted on 2021-04-27, 01:31

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Video

What video card do you currently have? What games are you wanting to play in XP? Fastest AGP cards are: ATI : 3850 / 4670 Nvidia : 7950GT

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-27, 01:20

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hah... I don't think I posted pics of the BFG 5950U I picked up a while back for around $50... cause the fans were dead. Put an aftermarket cooler on it and it works like new.

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Re: 486 will not boot from floppy; will not read from floppy either

Posted on 2021-04-27, 01:17

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Are you 100% sure that the correct motherboard BIOS is being used? A lot of the older systems like that would work with BIOSes from other motherboards with the same chipset but that didn't mean that everything would work properly. Could even be that the BIOS is for that model of motherboard but for …

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Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank

Posted on 2021-04-26, 18:07

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Sound

I would like to buy one of these but need to wait a while. Do you have a set number of these you can produce or is there a good supply of all the needed parts?

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Re: 486 will not boot from floppy; will not read from floppy either

Posted on 2021-04-26, 07:35

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is it possible that somebody swapped out the BIOS chip and the board doesn't actually have the correct BIOS?

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Re: how to fix a wavetable addon to a sound card?

Posted on 2021-04-26, 07:31

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Super easy fix would be to just get some vacuum hose with close to the correct inside diameter from your local auto-parts store and cut to the correct length. Then you can use two zip-ties to make a holder for each hole.... one zip tie goes all the way through with the head keeping the zip tie from …

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Re: Anybody know what this beast of a card is?!

Posted on 2021-04-25, 22:47

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Reading the BIOS would probably give some pertinent information.

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Re: Help with obscure Toshiba docking station

Posted on 2021-04-22, 23:36

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by cyclone3d

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The PA27312U came today. The connector is correct but, as expected, the laptop will not fit on the dock due to the plastic on the sides of the dock and the metal alignment "hooks" being in the wrong place. I think I am going to take the dock apart and make sure the internals work and then either mod …

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Re: MP-32 : Pi based MT32, GM, ... module

Posted on 2021-04-22, 20:50

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hoping this has not stalled. :( on a side note, my SC55 up and died, so now I have zero midi and am reluctant to buy another old unit in case it goes the same way. This project looked to possible offer multi device 'emulation' (Hey, MUNT sounds great and that is definitely software emulation of the …

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Re: Life expectancy of an "old" HDD

Posted on 2021-04-22, 03:21

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

IBM Deathstar ! Some business gave use a box of around 40 of those drives back in the day. All were bad except for something like 5. Those ended up dying fairly quickly when we used them.

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Re: Found this interesting comparison of (up to) 1996 3D graphics cards, chips, and accelerators

Posted on 2021-04-21, 23:40

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by cyclone3d

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I think the number is just wrong as the specs match what the 317 was supposed to have.... and it is mentioned that it is the first 3d accelerator from Oak which the 317 was.

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Re: Can't get AudioPCI 1370 to run in DOS.

Posted on 2021-04-21, 23:33

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

What motherboard are you using?

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Re: Windows 98se turned into Me

Posted on 2021-04-21, 20:12

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Software

What network card is it? Are you running the install from an executable? If so, you may be able to extract it with 7-Zip and just install the driver manually. If that doesn't work, you can probably find a driver that you can install manually with the .inf file.

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Re: How rare is the Geforce 7950GT agp?

Posted on 2021-04-21, 20:09

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Video

I have one I got for pretty cheap a couple years ago. They do pop up on eBay every once in a while but are generally pretty pricey.

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