Re: PCI Geforce4 with yellow "warm" tint

Posted on 2018-09-23, 19:55

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by Merovign

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All I can think of is either damage to the chip/chipset that *sends* the signals to the video connector, the traces between them, or bad solder joints on the connector itself. Having a bad pin on a DB15 often causes color shifts because they send the color signal to the monitor. Usually that would …

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Re: Painting Motherboards

Posted on 2018-09-22, 20:20

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by Merovign

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I don't know about the utility of painting the motherboard itself, but *cases* - I actually prefer modern case colors to the old beige and treated steel in many ways, but the inside of modern cases is often a cavern of impeded visibility. I have often thought of masking and painting the *interior* …

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Re: Creating 80186 Based System

Posted on 2018-09-22, 10:24

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by Merovign

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I believe the company was called "Computer Products United," the acronym was definitely C.P.U., and they were California-based and they had ads in the late 80s and early 90s in PC Magazine and maybe Byte - they had a 186-based PC for sale to the general public as a budget alternative. I've never …

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Re: Struggling to find parts.

Posted on 2018-09-22, 09:31

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by Merovign

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I almost bought it except it may not work as its sold for the gold and the pins are bent. :angry: And it's described as being in "excellent condition" and is being sold for gold scrap at $38.50 for what is described as $9 in gold. Seriously, we need to mine the asteroid belt so gold will be so …

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

Posted on 2018-09-22, 01:17

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by Merovign

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A problem with English is that unlike German, Spanish and other languages, there is no universal body with authority to set standards of spelling and word usage. Every major university and newspaper in the English-speaking world has its own style of English peculiar to itself. That is possibly the …

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

Posted on 2018-09-21, 04:33

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by Merovign

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You're welcome for the stickers. Is there a repository for such things? I have a few on cases, from U-tron and Victoria to Power Computing, that I think I could get high-res pics of that could be reproduced. I found a few logos online, like Leading Edge and Everex, but search engines kind of don't …

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

Posted on 2018-09-21, 04:22

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by Merovign

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Good cable management behind the motherboard. Separate sides and top instead of those awful U-shaped covers. Increase length of case by a few cm and move HDD from awful location under FDD (and on top of most important bits of motherboard) down to the lower front of the case, in vertical orientation …

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

Posted on 2018-09-20, 23:29

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by Merovign

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Looks good! How many times did you cut yourself? Only the once thankfully and that was from trying to feed the IDE cable in a small awkward space at the top. Either i am more careful now or I've got iron hands immune from cuts off cheap Chinese steel! hahaha :lol: :lol: The removable backplane was …

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

Posted on 2018-09-20, 21:26

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by Merovign

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derSammler wrote: Errius wrote: Understandable mistake though for people learning the language. Mind you, the corresponding prefix in German, "ent-", has exactly the same ambiguousness. Filename Spidermen.jpg File size 45.16 KiB Views 2255 views

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

Posted on 2018-09-20, 01:29

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by Merovign

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Welp. I don't know if anyone needs to know this, and I didn't do extensive testing, but a PCI *Mac* Matrox Millenium works on a 486 PC. Edit: It is *possible* that someone stuck a non-Mac Millenium in a Mac, I have been looking this up online and it seems Milleniums all had low-density 15-pin …

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

Posted on 2018-09-19, 04:26

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by Merovign

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Just testin' some memory, like ya do. Filename Memtest.jpg File size 763.49 KiB Views 1031 views Also testing 3 motherboards that have sat and thought for a spell, that's one of them. Seriously the next time I look up the board specs I need to save them all in one place.

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

Posted on 2018-09-18, 19:16

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by Merovign

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https://i.imgur.com/46fJitlm.jpg edited an IRC friend's picture I love lunchbox computers! It's too bad Dolches are like gold. someday I may find one of the "lesser brands" from the 386/486 era. There are a few companies like SCS and BSI that makes new computers in that format, with up to 22" …

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Re: Advice needed about a 486 EISA rig

Posted on 2018-09-18, 00:58

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by Merovign

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I'm Jelly, as the kids say. I had an EISA system back in the day. The parts (boards) seem neither common nor very expensive, you should be able to find some if you like. The board details are on Stason and TH99 but I didn't find a manual. Ditto on what Disruptor said, but I'm not sure if that's in …

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Re: To what extent are heatsinks/fans cross-compatible?

Posted on 2018-09-18, 00:43

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by Merovign

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It feels almost off-topic now, but if there's room in the case and structure (like a drive cage) to attach to, and you're careful not to ground anything that shouldn't, then consider just putting massive heatsinks on everything that gets hot (the biggest socket-compatible unit for the CPU, …

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2018-09-17, 23:57

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by Merovign

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Coherent looks interesting, I'll give it a try soon. NextStep also officially ran on x86 in one of its later 3.x versions, and you're right, it was picky about the hardware. If anyone wants a taste of what NextStep was, I suggest you try GNUstep: http://www.aiei.ch/gnustep/ http://wiki.gnustep.org/ …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2018-09-17, 05:19

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by Merovign

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I keep thinking I'm going to finish my desk but I never do, so here's a quicky of my actual desk (it's not very retro, but I work on retro stuff here and the rolling cart that sits to my left hand has power and my soldering kit): desk1280.jpg Yes, it's RGB lighting, as you might detect from the …

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

Posted on 2018-09-16, 21:49

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by Merovign

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To be able to test this a professional CGA/EGA 9pin to "EGA/CGA 15pin" cable is needed. Just a wild hair of a wild thought (that I almost used and might still use for rebuilding the 8-pin DIN power cable from a Zeos 386 (got it working but haven't fully rebuilt the cable yet): Cat5e.jpg It might …

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Re: To build or not to build - Zenith 80286?

Posted on 2018-09-16, 04:04

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by Merovign

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I'd build it, if I could, but I have a thing for non-major-brand clones and I'm a little crazy. Maybe try to see if someone out there has the right case, which is a very long shot.

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

Posted on 2018-09-16, 00:35

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by Merovign

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Going through my stacks/boxes/bins of computer parts to try to start thinning out stuff. First phase will be to get rid of stuff I am pretty sure I will never have a use for. I only ever get rid of things I will *really* wish I hadn't later, so at least when it happens I did it on purpose rather …

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

Posted on 2018-09-15, 07:51

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by Merovign

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luckybob wrote: i will never turn down a retro system if the price is reasonable. All I'm askin is, somebody, anybody, give me a chance! 😀 Yeah, that's my perpetual whine, not much around here despite major metro area. We had massive "ewaste recycling" programs pushed here and they were too …

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