Re: Modifying the POD83's voltage regulator for overclocking

Posted on 2015-11-14, 01:44

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by stuvize

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is interesting I recently acquired a V3.4 M919 and it was fussy with the POD only one would always boot at 4 V and neither would boot with 5 V or FPM memory the V3.3 did not have these issues although it has a tiny resistor on the reverse side of the board bridging two pins on the CPU socket …

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Re: Anyone else questioning the point of retrorigs?

Posted on 2015-11-11, 20:26

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by stuvize

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The building of the machine, hunting for parts and the nostalgia are definitely the main draw for me but I do have several boxes that rarely get opened up and I spend more time playing games on them than my modern machine. Dosbox has no appeal to me games run best on the hardware they were designed …

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Re: Fastest PCI graphics card in a 486

Posted on 2015-11-11, 05:24

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by stuvize

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

All my DOS and windows programs worked, and ran faster than the GF2 MX200 I had in it before games have much more color too. Also is there program to check if L2 cache is running WB or WT mode cpu check only gives L1 cache mode? I was able to go from 32mb to 80mb ram in my M919 without dropping FPS …

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Re: Fastest PCI graphics card in a 486

Posted on 2015-11-11, 04:24

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by stuvize

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Found a Geforce FX5200 128mb pci the other day in one of several towers I acquired decided to try in my M919 just see if it would work. My first surprise is when I took off the heatsink to clean and apply new paste the chip said GeForce MX. When I tried it in the M919 it did boot and I was able to …

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Re: Intel D865GV/Celeron-D 1.3Ghz as win98 board?

Posted on 2015-11-09, 03:12

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by stuvize

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There are win98 drivers for the i800 series of chipsets they are not available for download from manufacture websites for some odd reason they used to be, I remember running win98se on my old D875pbz and I downloaded that driver package. If you have any OEM desktop discs from that time they may have …

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Re: What's the best CRT monitor for DOS gaming?

Posted on 2015-11-06, 05:07

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by stuvize

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm glad to see that other people think CRTs are better for SD content personally I like Dell monitors, Packard bell made some of the best CRTs back in early 90s at least in my opinion, they did have a long run as a TV manufacture though. The only type of HDTV I think is any good for SD are DLPs

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2015-11-04, 23:16

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by stuvize

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have two floppys with drivers Promise DC4030VL disk controller drivers and utilities for WIN3.1 and Sound Booster pro 16 never tested this one the sound booster is a odd card with Oak sound chip and I have never owned one. I did not see either of these in the library are these drivers of interest? …

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Re: New Computer!!

Posted on 2015-11-03, 21:14

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by stuvize

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

It's very hard to judge the performance of theses FX processors unless a game has code for the FX module it may run slower. Usually I always go with Intel and I am not saying one is better than the other, AMD vs. Intel the never-ending debate, but my FX8120 at 3.9Ghz with 2133Mhz ram has kept me …

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Re: soundblaster 16 backwards compatibility

Posted on 2015-11-02, 18:17

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by stuvize

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have never owned an original SB pro but I have noticed with SB pro2 and SB16 in wolf3D that the door sound effects stop working sometimes opening the menu and returning to the game fixes it. Is this due to the mono sound FX of SB pro2 and SB16?

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Re: My HP Vectra VL5 / Pentium MMX

Posted on 2015-10-30, 05:56

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by stuvize

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I have a system almost just like that it does support 128mb ram with the 512kb cache module I actually have an extra. Great little system the color scheme HP used in this era of vecrtras really stands out

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Re: Help on finding heasink glue, please!

Posted on 2015-10-29, 21:25

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by stuvize

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You want something like "Arctic Alumina" never used myself but people say good things about it

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Re: Odd Dual Boot Question

Posted on 2015-10-29, 18:09

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by stuvize

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

brostenen are you talking about using a boot manager like "Grub"? I never thought of using a boot manager, also if you were using 2 HDDs you could change the boot device priority in bios. Using the other method I mentioned did not work with 2 partition on same drive they end up sharing the same SYS. …

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Re: Odd Dual Boot Question

Posted on 2015-10-29, 03:02

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by stuvize

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have done this with both 98se and 95 what worked for me was to install on two HDDs first install DOS6.22 on C: you can install win3.1 along with it install all the drivers or software, after that is done boot the machine to dos from your C: drive not a floppy and load win9x setup from the cd and …

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Re: Need advice on trash picking computers at the dump

Posted on 2015-10-28, 20:48

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by stuvize

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My advice is to be careful digging in dumpsters/trash cans can be considered an invasion of privacy in all 50 states, it varies state to state how much it really is enforced. My friend ran dumptruck for 22 years and he would pick out PCs and stuff for me and he got fired from the change in privacy …

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Re: Bought a 486 motherboard

Posted on 2015-10-28, 11:02

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by stuvize

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wasn't sure were to post this but I have a 12ns cache module for the M919. At first the only difference seems to be the 12ns chips but this module is watermarked "M919-02S5" and all the 15ns modules seem to al be watermarked "M919-01S3" the circuitry is also different on these modules. I purchased …

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Re: Compaq Presario CDS 510 help

Posted on 2015-10-26, 22:58

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by stuvize

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm not sure on how to make HDD image but have you checked HP\Compaq website most drivers can still be found there. Sounds like your old system with 256KB cache was the 5x86 mobo with pci slot, as for running games without cache upgrade even with a dx4 anything like doom will run slowly. I have a …

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Re: Modifying the POD83's voltage regulator for overclocking

Posted on 2015-10-26, 11:20

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by stuvize

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's a Zalman vga ram heatsink I put on for a little extra cooling it barley fits but does help. The Biostar MB8433UUD is the same mobo you used in fastest 486 thread I have seen it around but always at a ridiculous price. I think I will go to amibay and post would gladly trade for my socket 4 …

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Re: Modifying the POD83's voltage regulator for overclocking

Posted on 2015-10-26, 10:40

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by stuvize

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Modified another POD did this one without removing the VRM, got the solder hot and bent the VRM pins up and bridged the circuit. I uploaded a pic of cpu and also a pic showing how the fan is externally powered. Oddly this cpu is a little faster cpu when overclocked cpu check says it runs at 101.5mhz …

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Re: Dragons Lair CD from Readysoft -anyone get this to work in DOS from HD?

Posted on 2015-10-25, 05:55

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by stuvize

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I have this same version of Dragons lair that uses file formats (weird 1993 codec) same with my space ace. If you want to run this off the HDD, in dos make a directory you want to put the game in, once in the directory use the copy x command like this without quotes "COPY D:\*.*" and press enter, …

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Re: Modifying the POD83's voltage regulator for overclocking

Posted on 2015-10-24, 18:06

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by stuvize

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So did you bridge the VRM pins to run off mobo VRM or is your on chip VRM modified? I noticed that the cpu runs much cooler with the on chip VRM is disabled even if you give it 5 V, in theory 5 V should be no problem for the core as it the same as socket 4 so there may be more OC potential for the …

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