Re: Anyone put an SSD in a Libretto U100? (1.8" PATA SSD)

Posted on 2018-03-01, 16:53

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by dionb

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Not into a Libretto, but I have into my mother-in-law's old Dell Latitude D430 (12"). The HDD was noisy, hot and slow. I found a very affordable Kingspec 32GB SSD with the ZIF-40 connector. I understand that the Libretto U100 has a 50p "CF" interface. Sounds to me like you could just stick in a CF- …

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Re: Recommended Format for troubleshooting posts

Posted on 2018-03-01, 10:50

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by dionb

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Agree with both of you I'm afraid. Yes, the asked information is all too frequently relevant, but no, it's not likely your average user would know how to fill out the template. Here at Vogons the average technical level is quite a bit higher than most other internet forums. I'm a long-time moderator …

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Re: CPU for Gigabyte BX2000

Posted on 2018-02-28, 20:31

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by dionb

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Well in that case as I said: BX2000 supports all CuMine CPUs with 100MHz FSB from BIOS F2 onwards. That covers a P3-850E just fine. Make sure you have F2 BIOS and it should work.

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Re: trouble installing Dlink DE220

Posted on 2018-02-28, 20:29

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by dionb

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Which operating system are you trying to install this under? In any event, D-Link still has drivers for the DE220 on its website: http://support.dlink.com.au/drivers/files/adapters/de220.htm The latest (1999) download contains DOS (NDIS & packet driver), WFW3.x, Win9x, NT3.5, NT4, Netware, OS2 and a …

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Re: CPU for Gigabyte BX2000

Posted on 2018-02-28, 16:22

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by dionb

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Gigabyte is almost unique in the level of continuing support information for old boards. There's a document for this: http://faq.gigabyte.com/FileUpload/FAQ/1/763/file/p3_celeronslot1_cpusupportlist.pdf BX2000 supports all CuMine CPUs with 100MHz FSB from BIOS F2 onwards. 133MHz FSB might work, but …

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Re: SiS 530 chipset with PCI graphics

Posted on 2018-02-28, 15:07

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by dionb

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There are more than enough mATX SS7 motherboards. Finding them for a decent price is another matter though... Quick look on Amibay shows that there's one, an MSI MS-5182 with an ALi Aladdin V chipset and onboard ATi Rage Pro AGP (with its own memory, not shared like with the SiS530), going for a …

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Re: Getting wavetable support for certain games

Posted on 2018-02-28, 14:42

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by dionb

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Could it be an address/IRQ thing? GM allows various addresses, but the MT-32 (or rather the interface card that connects to the MPU-401 that connects to the MT-32) was always at 0x330 and IRQ 2. Games that support GM allow you to enter MIDI base address, but games that support MT-32 just send data …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-02-28, 12:31

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by dionb

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some things never change... sounds like the 90's, o.0 ... except we didn't have all these fancy dancy pedantic sub genre names... its was just called "emo", and was already shite back then (subjective ofcourse lol)... [EDIT:] Actually don't remember it being called 'emo' up until real late 90's (98 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-02-27, 13:23

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by dionb

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Just like with CGA in the late 80s, which got a boom as a cheap alternative to EGA/VGA. You can find CGA cards made in 1990. Difference being that there was an installed base of CGA/MDA monitors which couldn't work with EGA or VGA cards, so people had an investment to protect. VGA was backwards …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-02-26, 23:32

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TGUi9440 rare? It was a pretty common mid 1990's low-end card in my experience. These days anything from back then is rare, but this isn't in the same league as many other things people are looking for. The only reason it might become rare is people binning it for lack of interest or redeeming …

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

Posted on 2018-02-26, 20:38

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by dionb

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https://tweakers.net/ext/f/6iMICLnsHmwKGh1iPCLRkb39/full.png Overclocking the K6-3+ to 600MHz was not the main activity; that - surprisingly - needed VCore raised to 2.1V, but that's not exactly liquid nitrogen overclocking rocket science. No, it was flashing the BIOS. My motherboard is a Tekram …

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Re: Pentium OverDrive and VLB ?

Posted on 2018-02-25, 15:33

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by dionb

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Yep. The mechanism is the same as on those So4/5 chipsets - the 64b Pentium bus is split and half of it feeds VLB. In the case of the 'native' Pentium chipsets with VLB (which were usually just 486 chipsets tacked onto a Pentium bus, with 32b wide memory access and the awful performance to go with …

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

Posted on 2018-02-25, 13:41

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by dionb

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Oh the joys of software on old hardware. Having pretty much gotten my 486 into the condition I wanted it, I focussed attention on my Tualeron 1400 'support system' which I want to triple-boot with Win98SE, WinXP and Linux. Originally I wanted to do this with a SATA 100GB laptop HDD on a Silicon …

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Re: 3d accelerators on other platforms not PC

Posted on 2018-02-23, 18:57

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by dionb

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Several posts about 3D in non PC systems and no one has mentioned SGI yet? (apart from that their stuff might run Quake) :o They pretty much invented 3D rendering and a significant number of major IT companies were founded by ex-SGI employees, including 3Dfx themselves. The high-water mark of SGI, …

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Re: What Monitors Do You Use for Your Retro PC Activities?

Posted on 2018-02-23, 10:59

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by dionb

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Interesting poll, but very heavy on specifics for non-period monitors and completely lacking for period CRTs. What about: - 4:3 or widescreen (yes, widescreen CRTs were a thing, look up the Sony GDM-FW900 for a prime example) - curved CRT screen or flat CRT screen - shadow mask or trinitron/ …

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Re: Hello what is -5V rail in power supply ? ( Seasonic support )

Posted on 2018-02-23, 10:34

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by dionb

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The -5V line is used by some ISA cards. Your motherboard does not have any ISA slots, so you don't need -5V for this system. As for the SATA connectors, they can carry less current per line than the thick lines in an old-fashioned Molex. If your adapter just connects the one 12V pin of the Molex …

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

Posted on 2018-02-22, 14:57

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mTCP is pretty easy to setup... easiest way to do it is setup networking in windows 3.x and then run ipconfig in Windows, pull those values and dump them into your mtcp.cfg file mTCP itself was no problem whatsoever, it was just mucking around with the packet drivers and going on wild goose chases …

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Re: Second VGA card?

Posted on 2018-02-22, 06:57

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by dionb

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Yes and no. Yes, you can definitely have two separate VGA cards in a modern system, even if they use different chipsets. But no, if that modern system runs a modern OS (i.e. Windows 7 or 10), you can't use a Voodoo because it's the host system that needs to supply the hardware drivers with DOSBox- …

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

Posted on 2018-02-21, 22:54

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...and a day later I fixed it. The router/switch had nothing to do with it as it turns out. This evening I turned the PC on and lo and behold everything worked. Great! But yesterday it also worked until a soft reboot. So did a soft reboot and... nothing again, no packets at all, despite not having …

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Re: Soyo EH-1BC1 motherboard.

Posted on 2018-02-21, 17:00

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by dionb

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OK. I found this site. http://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/Soyo/bios/586/index.html are any of these bios files compatible with my motherboard? Is there any way to check if the bios id in bin file matches the bios id in post screen? Do you have an EEPROM programmer or the ability (and experience/ …

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