Re: RAM Issue DELL 425s/L

Posted on 2024-04-27, 16:27

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by waterbeesje

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EDO, FPM... Those can be confusing. Lots of sellers even don't know exactly which they sell. You could try to zoom into the ram chips and search the part no datasheet. This will tell you which it is. My preferable method is just to stick it in a S7 machine with 72p slots, and it will tell me it it's …

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Re: Someone with cx5x86 here?

Posted on 2024-04-26, 10:27

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by waterbeesje

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Cyrix 5x86 100GP here. Motherboard Aquarius MB4DUV (UMC UM8496/8498) 32MB fastpage 60ns 256kB cache Diamond Stealth Trio32 VLB Quantum Bigfoot 4,3GB Ms Dos 7.1 (from Windows 98SE) Some Cyrix program to enable hidden switches Ran Phil's dosbench suite. Pc player 320x240: 13,1 fps Doom 640x480: 2126 …

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Re: What does it take to replace an Intel 10 MHz 286 with a Harris 12 MHz 286? Hopefully... nothing?

Posted on 2024-04-13, 09:09

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by waterbeesje

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You'd have to replace some crystal too. Also, this system was designed with 10MHz in mind, so all components are rated 10MHz. Overclocking to 12MHz (20%) Will put more stress on the other components as well. This may ruin them hotter than intended and probably cause instability. The 8530-286 was …

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Re: ISA vga card works only in 8-bit mode

Posted on 2024-04-07, 17:54

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by waterbeesje

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Some variants of the notoriously slow Trident 8900B have the same issue. There may be a jumper for 8/16b operation, but the 16b setting actually triggers an auto detect system that isn't very great at it. So it always remains in 8b mode. Looking at your card, the 100ns ram does not help a lot as …

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Re: Voodoo 3 3000 agp or agp card + voodo 2 pci

Posted on 2024-04-01, 19:31

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by waterbeesje

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In my opinion the V3 bottlenecks the P3-1000. But since you've got all the stuff already, you can try it out yourself 😀 Yes I also read that 1ghz is too much for voodoo 2 or 3 . But many people have used that configuration with no problem . To be honest I just finished the replacement of …

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Re: Voodoo 3 3000 agp or agp card + voodo 2 pci

Posted on 2024-03-28, 16:52

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by waterbeesje

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The MX440 is a very capable card as well. It matched the GeForce 2 GTS in performance under certain conditions. You may try to cope this with the V2. In my opinion the V3 bottlenecks the P3-1000. But since you've got all the stuff already, you can try it out yourself :) Of and the second V2 does no …

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Re: Voodoo 3 3000 agp or agp card + voodo 2 pci

Posted on 2024-03-28, 10:53

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by waterbeesje

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Pentium 3 above 600MHz I'd give a Ti4200 and V2 in your case. This enables the features and speed from the Ti for Direct3D and Glide from the voodoo Sub 600 the V3 would be OK as well, since the system won't be that much faster with a Ti. Alternatively I'd recommend pairing Matrox with V2 (maybe SLI …

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Re: GeForce4 4200 ti with a Busted Memory Leg - Repairable?

Posted on 2024-03-14, 07:08

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by waterbeesje

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I'd Dremel the plasticaway very carefully and solder in a small wire. It does requirea steady hand and small tip but it is definitely doable with a regular iron.

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Re: Your most shitty motherboard?

Posted on 2024-03-13, 21:46

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by waterbeesje

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As much as I bash PCChips, they have some okay-ish boards as well. M577 and M726MRT (the combo slot version w/ 370 and Slot1) seem to be fairly stable, although a bit slower than usual boards (MVP3 and Aladdin Pro 2) Ah, the M577 is actually my super 7 testing board of choice! It's a bit slower …

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Re: Your most shitty motherboard?

Posted on 2024-03-13, 19:19

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by waterbeesje

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Lots of pc chips boards pushing here! I'm gonna add two: - pc chips M520. Mentioned before. The VX Pro chipset is a dud, failing to compete with anything else on the market. Fake cache next to real cache (?) and horrible layout near the power connector. It just misses winbios to complete the list. - …

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Re: Crystal Sound card

Posted on 2024-03-13, 16:46

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by waterbeesje

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This is an 8bit Adlib / sound blaster / sb pro compatible, looking at the CS4252 chip. Not the most desired one, but does the job in most cases. It seems to have a LS245 opl3 clone. These also do the job pretty well. Also it seems to have the CS9322 wave table onboard. That makes it a nice card to …

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Re: Know and has someone better photo of 512kB memory card for XT Computer

Posted on 2024-02-28, 21:20

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by waterbeesje

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Kinda necropostting but actually got three the of these! Got them today in the mail and looking for info about them. Here are the pictures, including the main chips. All good seem to be socketed 😀

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Re: 486 Build, I'm at a loss! Write failures on Drive C. But why?

Posted on 2024-02-18, 16:34

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by waterbeesje

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Maybe I've missed this but I've had the same thing a few times. For me the solution was: - get the cf into a modern computer, clean the partition table (diskpart ie). Do not create any new partition yet. - put the cf back into the old computer, there partition it. Reboot. Run fdisk /mbr. - then high …

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Re: What could this be?

Posted on 2024-02-18, 16:20

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by waterbeesje

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Pc Chips M577 ftw! I own one too and it literally just takes any s7 compatible CPU you throw at it. On the whole it's noticeable slower than any other Ali V or mVP3 board, but rock steady. One of the better PC Chips boards imo (although I recently got some Alpina 430VX boards that seem pretty ok too …

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Re: KVM Switch ideas / experiences

Posted on 2024-02-17, 22:40

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by waterbeesje

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I'm using an IBM Netbay LCM. Honestly, it's the final kvm I'll ever need 😁 It'll hold up to 255 devices and connects dongles with standard cat5 networking cables. The only disadvantage is, I've only got 7 dongles and it's hard to find more 😀

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Re: quick p4 question

Posted on 2024-02-16, 09:50

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by waterbeesje

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Dont forget is HT that just helps at multitasking, it's not a second cpu. Without using ht the cpu stil has the same raw processing power. Also there are some cpu's that have more cache zo they can be a little bit faster too. So Yes, ik a proud just of a HT cpu with win98.

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Re: 486 DX4-100 in an HP Vectra 486/66N Motherboard [Issues]

Posted on 2024-02-09, 23:59

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by waterbeesje

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Those HP computers are notorious for being build as cheap as possible. So a 5v cpu means doet for 3v cpu cost more. When stelling computers in thousands, the few dollars saving make sense so it is quite possible the system does not support the DX4 out of the box but the bios is prepared for an …

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Re: RAID on Pentium 75

Posted on 2024-02-07, 19:49

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by waterbeesje

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The controller wel definitely speed up transfers. I use ata133 controllers in two P3 systems and a k3+ and you really can notice. That is if the hard disk supports it and the drivers are available. For win95 there's also the hard disk limit where it's reliable. I wouldn't use a partition over 30GB …

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Re: In need of new a PSU for 486

Posted on 2024-02-07, 19:43

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by waterbeesje

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All i can say is: go for any decent brand. Preferably with a certificate like bronze, silver etc. those promise to give you certain Efficiency which can only be achieved with quality components. Why wait for a recap in five years wilt for a little more money it can ru for 20 years? Probably anything …

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Re: CF card options for HDD replacement

Posted on 2024-02-06, 22:48

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by waterbeesje

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CF for Dos is no problem. The wear on the card is very low, because there hardly any r/w activity. For Windows 9x you definitely want to use industrial cards, 16 or 32GB that can withstand more intense i/o. Especially when you are going to keep the swap file, that's wearing the CF out faster. The …

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