Re: AthlonXP + GeForce4 build

Posted on 2020-07-18, 20:03

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by gex85

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Nice writeup, thank you! I also still have the Socket A rig I bought in 2001 which is based on the Epox EP-8KTA3+. It also has the Via chipset and an ISA slot and I have a spare ALS100 in storage that I have never used, so it might be a good idea to throw it in and give it a try 😀

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Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2020-07-17, 11:20

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by gex85

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2000 (PC): P2 400 (moved to Socket A in 2001) 2010 (Laptop): Core Duo T2500 (a Lenovo 3000 V100 was my daily driver back then) 2010 (PC): Athlon64 X2 4200+ AM2 (already pretty outdated) 2020 (Laptop): i5-520M (ThinkPad X201, this CPU is 10 years old now, still seeing daily use with Win10 + SSD + …

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Re: MSI MS-5169 dead - blown MOSFET?

Posted on 2020-07-16, 07:02

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by gex85

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At least your MS-5196 board appears to have better caps than my (rev 4.0) did, mine was straight out of the Taiwanese capacitor plague era, and had a few leaking 1000µF caps. I ended up recapping the board, and stability improved quite a bit. I'm surprised by how different the mosfet and capacitor …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-15, 17:40

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by gex85

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Since I was running out of functional optical drives, I went shopping on the local classifieds site and got a total of four drives, two of them being NOS and another two in hopefully good condition. Another purchase was the MS Sidewinder Precision Pro, the very same model I had back in the day and …

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Re: MSI MS-5169 dead - blown MOSFET?

Posted on 2020-07-15, 12:07

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by gex85

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Okay, so my friend said that while not really meeting the specs, the replacement from the Asus board would be close enough to give it a try. So I soldered it in place (slightly less sloppy solder job than before): MS-5169 MOSFET 2.jpg I put in a known-good Pentium 166 MMX, fired it up, and yes, it's …

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Re: MSI MS-5169 dead - blown MOSFET?

Posted on 2020-07-15, 10:09

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by gex85

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Be careful with that K6-2, chances are that it was also killed when powering on the board. Or it was the cause of the cracked/dead mosfet. If a K6 dies due to overvoltage, it can cause a short-circuit on its power supply pins Vcc2 and Vcc3 to GND. This in turn will also kill the voltage regulator …

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Re: MSI MS-5169 dead - blown MOSFET?

Posted on 2020-07-15, 07:44

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by gex85

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Thank you for your assessment! I think I'll try to replace it. I thought that what looks like a sloppy solder job might indeed be the result of the MOSFET getting too hot and melting the solder by itself... Since I'm not too experienced with this type of repair, do you think this would be a suitable …

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MSI MS-5169 dead - blown MOSFET?

Posted on 2020-07-15, 07:15

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by gex85

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Hi folks, the other day I received this motherboard: MSI MS-5169 Ver. 2.1, Super Socket 7 ATX, ALi Aladdin V chipset. It came with an AMD K6-2 300 MHz (300AFR) and refused to start (powers on, but no beeps, no POST, nothing). Jumper positions are all correct. Upon closer visual inspection I found …

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Re: My Pentium III build

Posted on 2020-07-11, 18:40

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by gex85

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I really like those Zalman GPU heatsinks. I had one back in the day for my GF2 Ti and now I try to buy them whenever I can get them cheap.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-11, 12:18

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This week I received two InWin S500 cases... in the seller's photos they looked nice and white so I was a bit disappointed when they turned out to be slightly yellowed. Also, they came with only one set of drive rails each, which sucks if I ever want to put in more drives. I will contact the seller …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-05, 10:40

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by gex85

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This is my overall favourite dual native Tualatin board. I think I paired mine with GF4 Ti4400. Do you plan on overclocking it? It doesn't appear to have BIOS adjustments for CPU voltage, so the fastest I could get stable performance is about 1.5 GHz. I think it could do 1.54 GHz stable, but I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-05, 08:06

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by gex85

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This is my overall favourite dual native Tualatin board. I think I paired mine with GF4 Ti4400. Do you plan on overclocking it? It doesn't appear to have BIOS adjustments for CPU voltage, so the fastest I could get stable performance is about 1.5 GHz. I think it could do 1.54 GHz stable, but I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-04, 21:02

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by gex85

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Almoststew1990 wrote on 2020-07-04, 20:51: I bought some retro hardware for the first time in a while. A local advert for £10 and it had: [...] Now that's quite a nice haul, too!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-04, 20:50

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by gex85

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So I finally received this beauty today: Pro266TD Master-LR.jpg MSI MS-9105, aka the Pro266TD Master-LR . Dual Tualatins + AGP + LAN + RAID + DDR RAM (I know...). It came with two 1133 MHz P3-S Tualatins that were immediately replaced with a pair of SL5XLs (P3-S 1400 MHz, aka "The King"). Now I need …

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Re: Modem usage

Posted on 2020-06-29, 08:01

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by gex85

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Some time last year I set up a dial-in connection for one of my retro PCs just for the fun of it. Components used: - Windows 2000 Advanced Server machine to act as a RAS server - Dell USB modem hooked up to the server (any other non-winmodem will do) - Windows 2000 Professional machine (the "client …

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Remote Desktop into Windows 9x Systems?

Posted on 2020-06-09, 15:08

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Hi guys, what software do you use to remotely control your Windows 95/98 systems? The best solution I have found so far is TightVNC (which I have been using for many years, actually), but without special screen mirror drivers like DFMirage, that are only available from Win2k onwards, its CPU usage …

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Re: My "slightly accidental Pentium IV build"

Posted on 2020-06-09, 13:38

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by gex85

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With the GF FX and Audigy you could make it a really powerful Win9x rig a well? Yes, I actually want to make it a dual boot system Windows 98 + Windows XP :) @chrismeyer6: Thank you! I think the cable management still has some room for improvement, but I wasn't patient enough and was running out of …

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My "slightly accidental Pentium IV build"

Posted on 2020-06-09, 09:53

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by gex85

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Hi folks, today I finally want to share some impressions of my "slightly accidental P4 build". Why the name? Well, there was a thread about case recommendations which led to me "accidentally" winning an eBay auction for a Chenbro tower for exactly 1€ . After I had put together the build with parts I …

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Re: Fantastic AT case and my mid to late 90's system in it.

Posted on 2020-06-07, 12:05

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by gex85

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This is a really, really nice machine you built there! Love the cable management, too! Something I have been wondering for a long time: Does anybody ever really use those slide-out mainboard trays? I always found them to be relatively useless because you couldn't slide out the tray without removing …

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

Posted on 2020-06-05, 17:43

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by gex85

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Cleaned and lubricated the fan of my P2-450 today and installed it in my Epox EP-BX3 system (440BX Slot 1, obviously). While I was at it, I rearranged some of the expansion cards and added a second Diamond Monster 3D II 12MB for SLI. Other hardware in this build: Diamond Viper V550 (Riva TNT 16MB, …

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