Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-21, 23:45

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by Thermalwrong

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Yep, two MU440EX which are Packard Bell branded - I bought one a while ago as well, so now I have 3, the audio is pretty good for such a basic board. The Aopen AX6Bc boards are nice as well, but I also have the ZX chipset Micro ATX verison of the same board - the MX6B-EZ

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

Posted on 2018-11-21, 21:40

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by Thermalwrong

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This wasn't today, but yesterday - I was in a hurry while moving things around and decided to wire up my 386 board onto another power supply to test it before I put it away. Sadly I hadn't noticed that the CF to IDE adapter's power cable I'd made up could be put in backwards - this meant I was …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-21, 21:12

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by Thermalwrong

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That collection of slot A Athlons is incredible - also amazing that with all of those you didn't have one goldfinger :P But that's great that you have it now. I ended up buying a couple of 'junk' lots and a few other nice things because no-one else bid, or because the discount was just too hard to …

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Re: The AT cases with built-in stereo speakers thread!

Posted on 2018-11-18, 02:09

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by Thermalwrong

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This one is odd, apparently it has a Celeron 400 in it but it's definitely an AT case. I guess the speakers must've been pretty bad because it came up for sale again not long after.

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Re: Need Help on Whether, and If So, How to Go About Replacing the PS/2 "Hub" on Motherboard

Posted on 2018-11-14, 08:40

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by Thermalwrong

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It looks good, those ground areas do a lot of heatsinking so getting them clean with a solder sucker is quite difficult - mine rarely look so tidy :) I definitely agree on the technique part, one thing I've learned so far is that using a high temperature and putting in some low-temp solder helps …

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Re: Voodoo 5500 PCI repair

Posted on 2018-11-13, 08:43

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by Thermalwrong

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Here's a book with SMD part codes, this lists 5H as a SOT23 component, which looks correct, and it appears to be a Schottky Diode :) For anyone that doesn't want to open the PDF, here are the specs: Code: 5H Device: MMBD701 Manufacturer: Mot Base(?): C Package: SOT23 Data: MBD701 UHF schottky diode …

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Re: Micronics motherboard Pentium 200 classic.

Posted on 2018-11-10, 16:31

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by Thermalwrong

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I agree, I hadn't noticed it comes with the 200Mhz non-MMX CPU, which is a bit rare on its own these days. You might want to go the under-clock route. The P200 can be clocked down to 75MHz at 1.5 x 50MHz FSB. The MMX Pentiums only support 2x as their lowest multiplier, so you would reach 100MHz only …

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Re: Micronics motherboard Pentium 200 classic.

Posted on 2018-11-10, 15:05

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by Thermalwrong

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The pinout can be found on page 35/36 of this document: :) http://datasheets.chipdb.org/Intel/x86/Pentium/24318702.PDF This is the only once I've seen attached to a motherboard: https://www.ebay.fr/itm/PCCHIPS-M520-v1-0-socket7-cpu-intel-Pentium-166mmx-edo-ram-VINTAGE-AT/163359587073?hash= …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-09, 00:44

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by Thermalwrong

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I saw this joystick on ebay, just like the one I used as a kid to play Rebel Assault on our family 486. It was also just listed as 'old' and thought I've got nothing to loose for £10. It arrived today and it turned out to be new old stock and still factory wrapped! I wrote a little post about it on …

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Re: Packard bell PB450 repair / mods / upgrade

Posted on 2018-11-01, 18:34

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by Thermalwrong

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Sometimes, the adhesive can wear out over time. I use Arctic 5 Silver compound on every processor for every system and it works very well. Also, thank you for the suggestion for the heatsink. My current heatsink has clips on the sides that I bought NOS last year. Its fan could use some lubrication …

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Re: Packard bell PB450 repair / mods / upgrade

Posted on 2018-10-27, 10:31

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by Thermalwrong

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Excellent :) Is that a fixed voltage regulator or an adjustable one? It's not really clear which from the pictures but I assume it's the LT1085CT-3.3 since the R131 is just bridged? I bought an adjustable one but haven't fitted it because I haven't put time into working out which resistor would be …

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Re: SuperDisk LS-120 drivers for NT 4.0

Posted on 2018-10-25, 12:09

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by Thermalwrong

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Try here: http://web.archive.org/web/20060311204629/http://www.imation.com/support/products/superdisk_drivers.html It looks like the download links work :) 2 FAQs: Imation: http://web.archive.org/web/20060311204629/http://www.imation.com/support/products/superdisk_drivers.html Hival: https://web. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-23, 12:34

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by Thermalwrong

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Been playing the slots :) , picked up a bundle of - PII 333 & 450 (sealed) top to bottom: PIII 750 SL4BZ PIII 500 SL37D Cely 333 SL2WN (my temp cooler) Cely 300A SL2WM I like the temporary cooler, not sure that rubber bands will provide enough tension but it should cool okay :) I did similar with a …

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

Posted on 2018-10-22, 01:02

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by Thermalwrong

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Today I got some of my 486 stuff set up and working at last. Specifically an MSI 4143 motherboard and the DataExpert 4044 DataExpert 4044 - I bought this broken but it seems to work with a couple of traces repaired, the correct jumpers set (no, do not use the not-present integrated QFP cpu...) and …

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Re: Help: PCI POST card only shows +12V LED illuminated

Posted on 2018-10-21, 21:46

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by Thermalwrong

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Is this the super cheap ISA/PCI post card? It seems not since you're using PCI and that can't be reversed, but I had the same problem today as well - however it was just a sily reason: I had inserted the ISA edge in the wrong direction. Thankfully nothing blew up and the two motherboards I was …

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Re: 2007 "retro" C2D XP PC

Posted on 2018-10-19, 23:46

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by Thermalwrong

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Even the desktop is period correct :) lovely. I must be getting old after all, I still have pretty fond memories of clocking up my Core 2 Duo E6600 from its paltry 2.4GHz up to a more tolerable 3.6GHz. It took a couple of months until the cheap Gigabit 965 board's VRMs started to burn up the board. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-15, 23:14

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by Thermalwrong

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Today I got some "Pentium CPU Cooler" (SPMP250B) heatsinks that fit my 486 boards 😀 Filename 20181015_204743 (Custom).jpg File size 595.4 KiB Views 608 views I also got some cheapy PLCC extractors - I really should not have attempted removing cache chips without this...

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Re: pentium 4 frustrations

Posted on 2018-10-14, 00:49

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by Thermalwrong

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I tried unbending the pins on a 1.5GHz Willamette CPU the other day - sadly one of them was bent so far over, that when I tried to bend it back, the pin just fell off. Oh well, it's decorative now 😀

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Re: Pentium II Mods

Posted on 2018-10-14, 00:02

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by Thermalwrong

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That's surprising - I seem to recall my 300A might have required 2.1v to be fully stable though, so maybe that could help? There's someone in the UK selling 12 Pentium II CPUs, mostly 333Mhz and many with datecodes before August 1998, sadly they refuse to part the lot out, I don't want 12 of them, …

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

Posted on 2018-10-13, 23:56

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by Thermalwrong

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My AST Bravo LC P/75 computer has been driving me mad the last few days - it crashes a lot, fails on extracting files, the power supply failed, the cache chips may be damaged, the floppy drive and CD drive were both broken... I haven't come across a system with so much broken on it that I wanted to …

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