Re: Is this one cap worth replacing? GeForce4 Ti 4200

Posted on 2021-02-04, 18:11

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by Doornkaat

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I'm not trying to argue wether this capacitor is good or not. I'm saying you can never know from looking at an (almost) intact capacitor wether it's still fine or not. Overvoltage and switched polarity will heat the electrolyte very quickly. While the outer windings may still be at acceptable temps …

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Re: Failed Voodoo 1 on a dual Pentium Pro system?

Posted on 2021-02-04, 17:42

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by Doornkaat

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Bummer. No lifted legs/bad solder joints on the FBI either?

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Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 2 PCB SLI Bridge / SLI Cable

Posted on 2021-02-04, 17:39

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by Doornkaat

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What about something like this? What you have looks better btw. But if you found a 34 pin version of this you could probably order or make it easier. Would look cool in rainbow ribbon You already know that this has too many pins but it also has the wrong gender (male) since it seems to be designed …

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Re: Is this one cap worth replacing? GeForce4 Ti 4200

Posted on 2021-02-04, 17:17

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by Doornkaat

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A slightly bulging capacitor is not necessarily defective or out of spec. It only means that a bit of gas has developed on the inside, most often because it got a bit too warm. On the other hand a visually fine capacitor can be completely dry inside. In this case I would go ahead and replace all wet …

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-02-03, 13:43

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by Doornkaat

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Deksor wrote on 2021-02-03, 13:23: I have a OEM version of the k7m so I could try this someday 😀 Sorry, I mistyped. The tool is for the K7V. I have a K7M myself. It's even the board I got the Goldfinger with. Fixed the mistake in the previous post.

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-02-03, 08:34

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by Doornkaat

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With the cache speed, I believe that required a separate board or at least solder points that need to be soldered on the CPU PCB. Oh, right, when looking at the PCB I can see the corresponding switches seem to be connected only to empty pads/holes. I found a tool to mod BIOS for ASUS K7M K7V …

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-02-02, 22:55

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by Doornkaat

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I'm not 100% sure but if I remember correctly the Innovatek design only uses a row of switches (8 switches with 3 positions each) and the pcb connector. No other components. I'm not sure wether it is capable of configuring the cache ratio though. The table you posted indicates that design can do …

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-02-02, 22:23

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by Doornkaat

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I have an Innovatek Goldfinger card. I think it's an even simpler design and it works just fine. It looks pretty much like the one in the second picture here: https://forum.winworldpc.com/discussion/8324/questions-about-a-slot-a-amd-athlon-850mhz-w-o-heat-spreader I know roughly where it is so I can …

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Re: LGA775 System Power Requirements

Posted on 2021-02-02, 15:39

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by Doornkaat

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3: There are adaptors. Additional ATX 4 pins are reserved for +12v rail, which is not strong point of old ATX standards. I disagree. The extra four pins carry +12V, +5V, +3.3V and ground. They feature +5V and +3.3V because they replace the 6pin AUX power connector. The P4 connector is for only +12V …

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Re: LGA775 System Power Requirements

Posted on 2021-02-02, 13:14

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by Doornkaat

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Your question can't be answered reliably without knowing the specific PSU you have in mind. However a decent current 300W PSU will cut it while probably being more energy efficient, quieter and more reliable. I also think the PCIe version of the X850 Pro needs a 6pin PCIe power connector for which …

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Re: Can anyone here design a usb isa card?

Posted on 2021-02-02, 10:52

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by Doornkaat

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I saw those, very good idea! but I read that the via chipsets that they use are very buggy? lots of people having problems with them? people reporting many bsods and corrupt data written to hdd It seems there are some that have problems with it and others don't. I would recommend trying it out on …

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Re: Fast PCI-X video cards?

Posted on 2021-02-02, 10:43

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by Doornkaat

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agp is just pci with faster clocks and more lanes? or something like that where as pci express is a whole other animal and requires a bridge PCI 2.1 was the foundation on which AGP was originally designed. AGP 1.0 in 1x mode is in principle a 32bit 66MHz PCI bus with some extra features that is …

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Re: AST Power Premium motherboard

Posted on 2021-02-01, 08:35

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by Doornkaat

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Found some time to check things out. Looks like the PSU is ok. 5V 5.3 -5V -4.98 12V 11.8 -12V -11.78 So I switched with a known good PSU and plugged into the motherboard, no luck. The reset button seems to still work tough. Removing the video RAM is the same thing.... Any other thoughts are welcome …

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Re: boot/Maximum PC Dream Machines 1996-2004

Posted on 2021-01-31, 15:56

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by Doornkaat

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vmr_ wrote on 2021-01-31, 15:14: The original link is gone. Any chance for vogons members to have a copy of that page? http://web.archive.org/web/20180127193253/htt … r/DreamMachine/ There you go! 😀

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Re: Socket 7 and mmx

Posted on 2021-01-31, 12:18

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by Doornkaat

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charliegolf wrote on 2021-01-31, 12:08: OK cool thanks, I'll just stick a standard pentium 200 in Awesome! It'll be a great DOS machine.👍😁

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Re: Socket 7 and mmx

Posted on 2021-01-31, 11:44

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by Doornkaat

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If I'm not mistaken you should have a transistor with large heatsink next to your CPU socket and between that and the outer edge of the board should be two rows of fifteen solder points, correct? This is where an optional VRM module for split voltage support can be installed. If it's not present you …

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Re: modern power supply on a old pc

Posted on 2021-01-31, 10:49

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by Doornkaat

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The system is likely going to draw less than 100W on all power rails combined. Clean, stable 20A on +5V is going to be fine.

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Re: Socket 7 and mmx

Posted on 2021-01-31, 09:11

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by Doornkaat

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And as for the "different socket", the socket itself is completely identical, it's just different wiring for at least one of th pins, that's all. I believe this is true for the processor side, however the Socket 7 socket has an additional "KEY" position that is not present on Socket 5 sockets. For …

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Re: AST Power Premium motherboard

Posted on 2021-01-28, 17:38

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by Doornkaat

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Thank you for the picture. It always helps to better understand what one's dealing with. In this case I didn't realise the PC used a CPU board. Of course without that it simply can't POST. Do you have a multimeter? Can you check the voltages on the PSU with just a hard drive connected? It looks like …

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Re: Huge delta fans on a fan controller

Posted on 2021-01-28, 15:35

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by Doornkaat

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Even though running a fan at 7V by hooking it up between the two positive rails on the PSU is an old trick and you can (or could?) actually buy commercially produced adaptors that work exactly like this I do not know wether this can cause any problems on some PSU designs because it is not how they …

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