Re: CRT experience

Posted on 2023-08-13, 14:55

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You have to remember a CRT is a hot box with precision resistors and capacitors degrading over time, a small deviation from there desired values causes problems. In addition to solder joints going bad from heating and cooling. Sony was early to embrace digital CRT chassis and continued to heavily …

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Re: Tualatin board with SB-Link connector

Posted on 2023-08-13, 00:32

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Look at the QDI Advance 9 (Via chipset and has PC-PCI) The manual doesn't specifically say that it supports Tualatins, but it might have been added in a later BIOS version. • Intel® 815 chipset: This chipset contains the 82815 GMCH and 82801AA ICH. This combo supports PC-PCI / SB-Link per the …

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Re: What do you do with hardware that you don't need (cases, monitors, drives, etc.)

Posted on 2023-08-10, 20:34

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On a little side note, it was curious for me to recently note that more and more people that I know of around me, as well as other collectors and even youTube related collectors are deciding to actively sell most if not all their retro collections, or just retro stuff - let alone dealing with …

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Re: How do I access the bearing to oil it? - Sapphire Radeon 2600XT

Posted on 2023-08-07, 15:26

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shevalier wrote on 2023-08-06, 06:55: You can write DOS on CD-R Oh that's good to know, thanks, will try it again when I have the time for sure!

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Re: How do I access the bearing to oil it? - Sapphire Radeon 2600XT

Posted on 2023-08-05, 22:44

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IIRC, FreeDos and FAT32 is good for AtiFlash. You may try first "AtiFlash -i" to identify card and flash chip "AtiFlash -i" in ATiWinFlash ends up like the other commands, abrupt restart and back to XP with "recovered from serious error". I'll retry via FreeDos boot when I have the time. My Asus …

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Re: How do I access the bearing to oil it? - Sapphire Radeon 2600XT

Posted on 2023-08-05, 17:54

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ATIflash.exe -unlockrom 0 ATIflash.exe -f -p 0 mb.rom Worked ati_ WIN _flash I can`t find. After many hiccups I decided to try AtiWinFlash and it was working per se, but I think that the original BIOS in the card is still locked. It started flashing and then restarted by itself and rebooted to XP …

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Re: How do I access the bearing to oil it? - Sapphire Radeon 2600XT

Posted on 2023-08-04, 20:32

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Informative video, I didn't know those types of fans could be disassembled. Not all. On the video - non-separable, because the brass bushing is torn out. The impeller, which is discussed in the topic, due to the split retaining ring, the impeller pops out without a brass bushing. how do I oil it up …

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Re: How do I access the bearing to oil it? - Sapphire Radeon 2600XT

Posted on 2023-08-04, 18:24

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Can I remove both halves without destroying it? Stick your all fingers between the turbine (yep, it's not a fan) and the base and push them in until the turbine pops out. Do not use tools, only fingers. Otherwise you will break impeller. like this video https://youtu.be/opB5Je1oqpA?t=59 Only at the …

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Re: How do I access the bearing to oil it? - Sapphire Radeon 2600XT

Posted on 2023-08-04, 01:06

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See edits, was still tweaking reply. Anyway, flip fan upside down, spray under the fan hub and fill it up, go out side and swing it around to throw off the excess, and wipe up the rest. Best you can do without disassembling. Again, probably best to actually replace it. Successful service of fans is …

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Re: How do I access the bearing to oil it? - Sapphire Radeon 2600XT

Posted on 2023-08-04, 00:54

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Okay, so here is the scoop. I worked on fans/motors like this professionally for decades. Basically many of those fans use a dry slip bearing. But not all. Ideally you would try to clean them and insert something like graphite in them, but good luck with that. Long story short, they aren’t supposed …

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Re: How do I access the bearing to oil it? - Sapphire Radeon 2600XT

Posted on 2023-08-04, 00:12

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The center circle could be a cap for the bearing, but just as well a groove left after trimming down flash from the injection molding or something. Hard to tell from your pics. The bearing is right behind it anyways. Check if you can remove it with a needle :) Thank you, tried the needle but didn't …

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How do I access the bearing to oil it? - Sapphire Radeon 2600XT

Posted on 2023-08-03, 23:24

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Hello everyone, Decided to make a new thread as this question came about solving a different one here. So my card's fan too noisy and I'd like to at least be able to oil it up to alleviate this somewhat. But removing both stickers didn't show the bearing at all. How do I access it? Can I remove both …

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Re: Can't find 4 pin PWM (male-fan) to 3 pin (female-motherboard) adapter/cable

Posted on 2023-08-03, 22:34

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It should fit, it just won't have the PWM pin connected. An adapter wouldn't change that, the 4th pin will be redundant with or without an adapter. The shape of the connector will ensure it fits correctly. You would, as you suggested, need a fan controller to adjust the fan speed, it'll never be …

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Re: Can't find 4 pin PWM (male-fan) to 3 pin (female-motherboard) adapter/cable

Posted on 2023-08-03, 20:51

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It should fit, it just won't have the PWM pin connected. An adapter wouldn't change that, the 4th pin will be redundant with or without an adapter. The shape of the connector will ensure it fits correctly. You would, as you suggested, need a fan controller to adjust the fan speed, it'll never be …

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Re: Can't find 4 pin PWM (male-fan) to 3 pin (female-motherboard) adapter/cable

Posted on 2023-08-03, 20:22

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It should fit, it just won't have the PWM pin connected. An adapter wouldn't change that, the 4th pin will be redundant with or without an adapter. The shape of the connector will ensure it fits correctly. You would, as you suggested, need a fan controller to adjust the fan speed, it'll never be …

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Can't find 4 pin PWM (male-fan) to 3 pin (female-motherboard) adapter/cable

Posted on 2023-08-03, 18:22

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Hello everyone, So I got an OCZ Gladiator cooler that is still sealed in box to use in my Socket 754 Asus K8V-X. The cooler is compatible with socket 754, but its fan is a 4 pin female header, as opposed to the board's 3 pin male header. I can install it, sure, but it will always run at max speeds …

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Re: MCGA Games (PC/DOS) - LCD vs CRT

Posted on 2023-07-29, 04:01

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Good stuff Jo22, as always!

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Re: Collection rationale

Posted on 2023-07-24, 18:12

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Like it was said many times around the forum, in many countries you can get PCs for 10 bucks / euros or even less as a good base to start, maybe ranging from Pentium IIs to even 10 year old PCs by now. Some countries are harder than others, but for the most part this still applies. That's why, as it …

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Does anyone know the exact model reference for this Olivetti monitor?

Posted on 2023-07-23, 21:05

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Apparently it used to come with Olivetti PCS86 computers, found it with some good pics by Antnik in this blog: https://antnik.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/olivetti-pcs-86/ Thanks for all your help and replies

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Re: Retrobrighting

Posted on 2023-07-14, 16:26

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I searched the internet and youtube for methods for getting that yellowed plastic look out, there seems to be a lot of different methods which all claim to be the best. So what do you think, what's your preferred method, or do you think the vintage look is part of the charm? I heard there might be …

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