I've been planning to resurrect an old board I was given in a junk machine years ago. Its a micro ATX Socket 423 board with an original first-run 1.7Ghz Pentium 4. I know these aren't super rare, but it is the only Socket 423 system I've ever come across personally. It supports ECC SDRAM in …

I just picked up a pile of old hardware on eBay. I only knew some of what was included, and it was worth the money ($20+$12 shipping)... here is what ended up being in the lot: Three motherboard boxes: One: A nearly-new Asus A7V motherboard (Socket A, Via KT133, PC-133, ATX), that looks like it was …

Is there a way to choose which PCI video card will be used when I boot my system? I've never honestly bothered running multiple video cards in the same interface before, and certainly never in DOS. I have an STB Velocity 3D (Virge VX) installed for best DOS game compatibility, but it'd be nice to …

Is the MIllennium II backward compatible? I have both. I think my Millennium (1) has a memory expansion installed as well. No, it's not. Okay, good to know. I just tossed in my Millenium with the 4MB expansion memory, installed the CDROM version of Nascar Racing, loaded it up with the Matrox …

I apologize if this was mentioned somewhere already, but which Matrox cards are capable of 3D acceleration in Nascar Racing? I have a few older ones, and I just bought a (brand new, sealed!) copy of the game on eBay. I'd loooove to get my hands on an NV1 of course, but that isn't likely to happen …

I apologize if this was mentioned somewhere already, but which Matrox cards are capable of 3D acceleration in Nascar Racing? I have a few older ones, and I just bought a (brand new, sealed!) copy of the game on eBay. I'd loooove to get my hands on an NV1 of course, but that isn't likely to happen... …

I've looked in the Vogons Drivers and the only files I can find for the Goldfinch are the Windows 3.1 and 95 drivers in this collection: http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=13 Also, what mixer would you recommend? This is totally new territory for me...

While probably not the worst ever, the Geforce FX 5600 was pretty bad. When my eVGA Geforce 4 Ti 4400 128MB died, I sent it in for RMA and they sent me the FX 5600 256MB as a replacement. This card was awful. Everything was slower... EVERYTHING. I can't remember how it compared to the 4400 in price …

Woo hoo, managed to get two of these, brand new from eBay for $22 shipped. No cables sadly, but it looks like I'll be cobbling something together one way or another anyway. Is there any reason that the MBPro to Goldfinch idea I posted above wouldn't work? Also, what kind of software do I need to get …

Thanks for that! I found an extremely useful page with what looks like the pinouts for almost any Creative sound card under the sun: http://support.creative.com/kb/ShowArticle.aspx?sid=3026 Also, since things tend to go "missing" online (like all of the references I keep finding to "Quest Studios" …

Would one of the aux inputs work? Also, where can I find a pinout for the ct1922's various connectors? Thanks so much for the help!

So... Which is it? :) Seems like a picture of the goldfinch connector on the 2940 or on another card would settle this. I don't have a goldfinch card and I can't find much online about them so I don't know to look for. This is similar to my card (except mine has the IDE connector and the row of five …

I have a couple of CT2940 cards and one has the Yamaha OPL3 chip. I was really amazed to find out recently that this is a pretty awesome card to have and is considered by some to be one of the best options out there for a good all-around ISA sound card for DOS games. It is currently being used in my …

I'm really itching to get this thing running, but if I don't figure it out by summer I'd definitely like to know the value for certain. I also just realized just how uncommon these 5500 PCI cards are. I was thinking that a lot of the listings on eBay were PCI cards, but it seems that the vast …

Thanks for all the information! I have no other donor cards to work with, so I'll just have to try the 100nF cap. What would be the specifications that I'd look for most likely? 16v 100nF? What about percentages and the 0805\0605 etc. numbers? Does quality vary much with ceramic caps? If I'm going …

My guess would be that is VR2 SC1102 pin 1 VCC bypass cap 100nF or 220nF and not 100% sure if the input voltage is 12V but a 16V rated X5R is more than good for this. Size I'm not sure if it's 0805. Datasheet nominal capacitance is 100nF so that or not too much larger capacitance should be ok as …

Missing conditioning caps can translate directly to reduced ripple, harmonic, or resonance suppression, therefore reduced chipset lifetimes. Even if the board works without, I recommend replacing the missing components as soon as possible. Yeah, this is how I feel. I've also seen cards work fine …

Greetings all! I can't believe it took me so long to register on this site. I've been building PCs since 1999 and have been getting very much into older hardware lately. I had an amazing eBay discovery a few days ago and ended up getting a Voodoo 5 5500 PCI, a nice Socket 370 board, a P3 1000EB, …