Re: Best Motherboard for my 90’s pc?

Posted on 2019-04-24, 03:16

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I wanted to put my $0.02 in for the 440BX board. Everyone offered very good suggestions, but only a few were true legit solutions for 1999. In my personal opinion, the 1999 era was defined by the Super Socket 7 and the 440BX chipset/slot 1 boards. You can for sure get Socket A options that came out …

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

Posted on 2019-04-23, 16:20

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In this instance, size does matter. You don't want to blow that 320res graphic up on a 17" monitor. I run a trinitron Mtiscan 100ES on my 386DX 40 playing all the games appropriate for such a system and it looks amazeballs. My eyes don't end up bleeding and the picture / graphics look really good

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Re: keyboard Error -

Posted on 2019-04-23, 10:11

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This is an interesting thread for me... I replaced the CMOS battery recently on a 386DX-40. Keyboard was working fine before, Keyboard not working now. I did have a few mishaps during the process that caused my soldering iron to skip across the local traces. I thought I damaged a trace as the …

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Re: Looking for 32Kx8 10ns 28-pin cache

Posted on 2018-06-26, 03:25

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on the subject of fake SRAM; do they test out properly when installed in the motherboard? would fake SRAM be able to report to the motherboard as being what you expect it to be? or is it a case where, if they are fake/counterfeit, you would know straight away once you try to get your board to pick …

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Gigabyte GA-486VS REV 7 Not Playing Well With Drive Controller Cards

Posted on 2018-06-25, 01:37

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I've tried three different controller cards. 1 VLB, 2 ISA. the board always hangs. it seems to have no issue detecting any drives attached to the controller and I can enter the BIOS fine, but it wont get past POST. Depending on which card I have more or less determines where it hangs. The VLB card …

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Re: Marketplace?

Posted on 2018-06-10, 04:36

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The long and the short of it is, Vogons is not a marketplace simply because it does not need to be one. This is a place where people come to discuss, not to buy, sell, trade, and bargain. Vogons is more a marketplace of ideas, fun, and code. In the spirit of that, it would be nice if we could help …

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Re: Marketplace?

Posted on 2018-06-10, 03:50

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BeginnerGuy wrote: pico1180 wrote: leileilol wrote: No it doesn't. why not? Cuz it doesn't! 🤣 you sound like my boss.

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Re: Marketplace?

Posted on 2018-06-10, 03:06

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leileilol wrote: No it doesn't. why not?

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Re: Marketplace?

Posted on 2018-06-10, 02:04

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As this forum expands and the hobby takes hold with more people, i feel this needs to be addressed. i have read forum posts here about the topic and the answer sees to be some sort of perceived liability. Vogons doesn't want to create an environment where its users can be ripped off by other users. …

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Re: The millenial troll PC - A Socket 423 Rambus build

Posted on 2018-06-06, 03:28

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some OEMs/hardware manufacturers tried to pass old VXD-based drivers as "compatible with ME" even though it was designed to be used with WDM drivers instead of VXD This leads to an interesting question that came to my mind: what about Sound Blaster compatibility for DOS games running from inside …

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Re: The millenial troll PC - A Socket 423 Rambus build

Posted on 2018-05-31, 10:24

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That was pretty funny. The sad part is, if you didn't live through that time you wouldn't get it. ME was historically one of the worst, if not THE worst OS Microsoft ever released. Notorious for its instability and lack of refinement, despite how long they had to make that platform rock solid. And …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2018-05-31, 03:29

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Thanks for the great forum.. this will be my first post. I'm just starting into retro builds to bring back the childhood memories. For now, I just built a dual boot 98/XP gaming PC, but I'm in the process of doing a Socket A build with a Voodoo 5 5500 that will be running 98SE, then I'll re-setup …

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Re: NVIDIA Fermi is now officially retro (or atleast unsupported)

Posted on 2018-05-28, 03:56

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Retro =/= No longer officially supported. A 2001 Ford Mondeo is by no means a new car. A lot of people would call it an old car. But it is in no way, shape or form "retro".. I take issue with this! That shit late 90's sedan look is classically represented in the 2001 Ford Mondeo. Classic retro, my …

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Re: Go era correct?

Posted on 2018-05-28, 01:41

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Something I like to ask my self when picking parts is, "would this be a reasonable upgrade for this system?" The 7900GTX is period correct too. According to Wikipida the FX 3450 launched in June of 05. The 7900GTX launched sometime in early 06. The 64 X2 4200+ launched in May of 05. The Opti 180 …

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Re: Choice of GPU for Socket 7 build

Posted on 2018-05-28, 01:33

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Thanks for all the advice guys. Most common choice seems to be an S3 VIRGE 325 so that's what I went for. Just need to find a Voodoo1 or maybe a Voodoo2 now (the former would be more period correct but the latter a little easier to find and obviously higher performing) I have a brand new beige …

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Re: Go era correct?

Posted on 2018-05-26, 15:36

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Something I like to ask my self when picking parts is, "would this be a reasonable upgrade for this system?" The 7900GTX is period correct too. According to Wikipida the FX 3450 launched in June of 05. The 7900GTX launched sometime in early 06. The 64 X2 4200+ launched in May of 05. The Opti 180 …

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Re: Looking for some help in understanding cache chips.

Posted on 2018-05-24, 06:16

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I did set the tag to the cache setting. I did set the jumper to the cache setting as well. At least to my understanding.

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Re: Looking for some help in understanding cache chips.

Posted on 2018-05-23, 23:39

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Sorry to keep asking mundane questions, but mucking with cache is new to me and I want to understand it the best I can. I tried to set up, what I believed would be 128k, but it didn't change anything. I thought the IS61C256 were 32x8, but am I mistaken? Could you look over the settings and the chips …

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Re: Looking for some help in understanding cache chips.

Posted on 2018-05-23, 10:09

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In your experience would these appear to work for the cache, or are they a different thing? https://www.ebay.com/itm/SRAM-32kx8-Static-RAM-32k-x-8-Hitachi-HM62256LP10-used-4-pieces-/253466177965?_trksid=p2349526.m4383.l4275.c10#viTabs_0 https://www.ebay.com/itm/SRAM-32kx8-Static-RAM-62256-Family-32k …

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Re: Looking for some help in understanding cache chips.

Posted on 2018-05-23, 09:05

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Thank you very much for that information. I did try to google it, but I honestly couldn't find anything that I would take to be solid authority. I did find product advertisements though. For example, Amazon says they are 8kx8, and they are abundant on eBay, but the sellers do not advertise their …

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