Re: How old is a computer in people years?

Posted on 2015-06-07, 10:28

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by kanecvr

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Great post, I'm 35, and always did love old hardware-software, old women , everything that's old, coz in my head OLD=BETTER QUALITY, at 20 had a 37 girlfriend, and at 25 a 51 , now I'm married to a 49 y.o woman. We got a 29" 1992 Sony Triniton TV and watch old Chuck Norris and Arnold movies and I …

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Re: Some advice needed about the Voodoo 3 3500 TV

Posted on 2015-06-07, 00:07

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by kanecvr

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Oh that's great, just what I was looking for! I found the EVC connector the V3TV uses at a local electronic components shop, will order two male connectors and two female d-sub connectors. I should be able to put together two short cheap cables. The only thing I was missing is the pinout.

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Re: Some advice needed about the Voodoo 3 3500 TV

Posted on 2015-06-06, 14:57

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by kanecvr

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

thanks for the tip - frankly I was hoping for a pin-out or something - I can't buy another card right now. Besides, shipping alone is twice the value of the card...

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

Posted on 2015-06-06, 14:42

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by kanecvr

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The Pentium PRO's cache is very speed sensitive... overclocking the CPU might be dangerous (you could end up damaging the cache)

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

Posted on 2015-06-06, 12:54

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by kanecvr

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Yeah, I disabled it from bios and stuck my Audigy 2 ZS in there. Downloading the driver CD now. I did think something was wrong when I first installed it in win98 - using the installer caused BSODs. Manually installing it seemed to do the trick but there was no audio. Maybe the motherboard has an …

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

Posted on 2015-06-06, 12:42

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by kanecvr

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RWARGH the onboard audio isn't working! Don't know how I missed that... Such a shame - it's a creative chip too... (Well... crative branded ESS chip...) Front panel header jumpers are in their correct locations, and the correct drivers have been installed from Gigabyte's support page... Guess I'll …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-06, 12:09

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by kanecvr

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Bought a couple of things today: - a Asus P4P800-X new, unused in original box (tested it and it works great) IMG_20150606_150119.jpg - unidentified baby-AT 286 motherboard with a Headland chipset, 12MHz AMD CPU and 1MB of ram. Just finished replacing the leaky barrel battery with a new one. Tested …

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

Posted on 2015-06-06, 11:50

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by kanecvr

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philscomputerlab wrote: That's a lovely glide machine! Played some Unreal yet? Thanks 😀 I'm installing UT Gold and Unreal on it as we speak 😀

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

Posted on 2015-06-06, 11:40

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by kanecvr

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Just finished my overkill glide rig. Well, it's allmost finished - still looking for a Voodoo 5 5500. IMG_20150606_140246.jpg IMG_20150606_140256.jpg - Athlon XP 1900+ 1,6GHz (will replace with a 2400+ soon) - Gigabyte GA-7VRXP KT333 + Universal AGP - Creative Sound Blaster 128 On-Board^ - 1GB …

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Some advice needed about the Voodoo 3 3500 TV

Posted on 2015-06-06, 11:06

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by kanecvr

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Hi guys. I have a Voodoo 3 3500TV and I'm sick of using the big cumbersome dongle it comes with. Can you point me to some adapter from the voodo's DVI like connector to a simple 15 pin D-SUB?

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Re: What is your age?

Posted on 2015-06-05, 19:41

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by kanecvr

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Turning 30 in October. Still not married, but living with my fiancee. God I feel old...

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Re: Need help configuring multi I/O card for a 386 computer...

Posted on 2015-06-05, 18:28

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by kanecvr

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Both my I/O cards act the same. Tried on a 286, 386 and two 486 PCs. All behave similarly. Witch ISA slot do you think I should try? The contacts (and boards) have been thoroughly cleaned using isopropyl alcohol. Neither of the cards has any jumpers for IRQ and DMA, so I can't set those. I've never …

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Need help configuring multi I/O card for a 386 computer...

Posted on 2015-06-05, 11:06

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by kanecvr

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Hi guys. Can anyone help me configure an I/O card and get it running on my 386? I have an EVERGREEN SYSTEMS, INC. IDE-I/O with IDE, FDD, 2xSerial, LPT and a Game port - this thing: http://museum.ttrk.ee/th99/c/E-H/20395.htm I've tried all possible jumper settings (from the manual in the link above), …

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Re: Intel 815 vs Via Apollo Pro133 performance (S370)

Posted on 2015-06-04, 21:05

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by kanecvr

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ALi Aladdin V vs MVP3 - MVP3's AGP performance is marginally better and it's less buggy then the ALi chipset witch gives me headaches constantly For me is the other way around,ali aladdin V is the chipset i prefer,the mvp3 on 2 different boards as soon as i enable dma in control panel in win98se, …

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Re: Intel 815 vs Via Apollo Pro133 performance (S370)

Posted on 2015-06-04, 11:23

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by kanecvr

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I'm still putting together a video about my project, but I'd like to tell you now, because I know how frustrating it can be if something is bugging you and you can't find out why. I can confirm your findings. In my tests, the Intel platform performs faster under DOS (VGA and high resolution, only …

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

Posted on 2015-06-03, 19:29

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by kanecvr

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Today I got an HP Vectra 420 SF for allmost nothing hoping it had an 3.3v AGP slot. It did not. The system will also not support FSB 533CPUs and is stuck with SDRAM witch is quite valuable to me since I use it in my PII/PIII rigs. It also won't work with HDDs larger then 120GB. It came with a 1.7GHz …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-03, 19:09

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by kanecvr

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bought a Iiyama ProLite B1906S for 25$ - great working order, but it's extremely yellowed. Nothing a little peroxide cream and some sunlight won't fix. Also got a couple of 5.25" IDE hot swap racks to use in cases that are missing bay covers, a 20GB seagate ATA drive, a Creative Audigy 2 ZS and an …

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Re: Intel 815 vs Via Apollo Pro133 performance (S370)

Posted on 2015-06-03, 18:38

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by kanecvr

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I used the latest Intel Chipset driver for the 815 off their website and VIA 4in1 443 for the test. I have a 3rd s370 board, an Asus CUV-X (also via based). It scores 5790 with the 933MHz PIII / same GPU / RAM / HDD as the ECS. It's probably something the ECS board has that gives it an advantage …

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Re: Intel 815 vs Via Apollo Pro133 performance (S370)

Posted on 2015-06-02, 15:25

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by kanecvr

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Yeah, I encountered this problem as well on my ASUS CUVX. Nvidia cards will not run at AGP 4X. Worse off, Aida64 reports the chipset is only capable of AGP 2x when an nvidia card is installed, and forcing 4x from bios does nothing. My 8500 and 9000 work fine at 4x on it. Still, with the GF4 Ti 4200 …

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Re: Intel 815 vs Via Apollo Pro133 performance (S370)

Posted on 2015-06-01, 20:43

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by kanecvr

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You had a weird board I guess - or immature drivers / firmware. My ECS runs every AGP 4x board I threw at it at 4x. No issues whatsoever (apart from the annoying PCI latency thing and poor quality on board audio).

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