Re: Storing thy crap safely (ESD, Damage, etc): Opinions? What do YOU do?

Posted on 2020-03-12, 13:48

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by SodaSuccubus

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Improper storage, terrible advice. Ziplock bags are high source of ESD .. as they can generate anywhere from 1000V to 20000V just from being picked up and opened, depending on the humidity level. Also, ESD usually doesn't flat out kill something. Most of the time it just causes degradation which …

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

Posted on 2020-03-12, 04:03

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by SodaSuccubus

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Anyone else just spray paint cases makeshift beige when they can't find actual vintage ones? I had some old Corsair Carbide R75 (something like that) cases lying around im currently in the process of painting beige, and dark pink for my ultimate SLI build. They manage to fit AT boards in them with …

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Re: Storing thy crap safely (ESD, Damage, etc): Opinions? What do YOU do?

Posted on 2020-03-12, 03:41

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by SodaSuccubus

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Honestly, i just keep all my motherboards in large sturdy ziplock bags, GPUs/soundcards etc in smaller ones. I only really keep ESD bags around if im gonna be selling something. Once their bagged up, off to the storage bin it goes where they remain safe. Haven't lost anything to ESD in storage in …

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Re: Storing thy crap safely (ESD, Damage, etc): Opinions? What do YOU do?

Posted on 2020-03-12, 02:51

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by SodaSuccubus

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Honestly, i just keep all my motherboards in large sturdy ziplock bags, GPUs/soundcards etc in smaller ones. I only really keep ESD bags around if im gonna be selling something. Once their bagged up, off to the storage bin it goes where they remain safe. Haven't lost anything to ESD in storage in …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-10, 22:55

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by SodaSuccubus

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YYYYYESSSSS! I managed to get some help from a steady-handed relative and we managed to separate out the shorted legs just enough. Card seems to work fine now, just waiting for the SLI bridge 😁 (witness my cheap testbench. A unused table in the living room 😜)

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-10, 21:50

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by SodaSuccubus

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You can use a small, flat tipped (bladed) screwdriver and press the legs to the left (rear of the chip) and to the left (front of the chip) in question. Please be careful with this and the sewing needle method should work as well. I can't for the life of me figure out how I'm suppose to do separate …

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Re: Voodoo 2 preventing PC from POSTing

Posted on 2020-03-10, 21:48

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by SodaSuccubus

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I used a magnifier and a tip of a pin needle to separate pins on a motherboard chipset. The tip was exactly correct size that the distance of the pins became same as with the other pins in the chip and I was happy with the result. Ack X( I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this. Do i …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-10, 17:29

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by SodaSuccubus

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Do a visual inspection of the whole card. The legs of the big chips bend easily and can cause a short. Was it sold as working? Yup, found 2 bent legs touching on two of the big 3DFX chips, think that's the culprit? OKAY...so now I'm mildly freaking out as I really don't know how to separate these …

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Re: Voodoo 2 preventing PC from POSTing

Posted on 2020-03-10, 17:21

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Doornkaat wrote on 2020-03-10, 12:10: Check for bent pins on the chips. Especially on the FBI shorted pins can cause permanent reset etc. Yup Upon further inspection i found pins touching on two of the big chips. *sigh* any advice on how to separate these. Im suuuppeeer nervous of breaking this V2

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-10, 09:40

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by SodaSuccubus

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Well, my second Diamond Monster 3D 2 (8mb) card came in today, and iv found out my 440bx board just refuses to POST when the new V2 is anywhere near it :( So now i gotta go through the long process of figuring out weather the card itself bit the dust or its something on my end, and if it is dead, …

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Re: 3dfx card lot two questions

Posted on 2020-03-10, 09:21

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by SodaSuccubus

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My understanding is that a Voodoo 3 + Voodoo 1 combo is ideal for a balance of performance and full backwards compatibility with DOS Glide. It shouldn't be *too* hard to install drivers properly either. Honestly though, you might as well avoid the hassle of card conflicts and just go with a V2-Sli …

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Re: Just a warning, bad memory modules can get you!

Posted on 2020-03-10, 08:39

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by SodaSuccubus

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I like to build gaming computers for friends and oddly, iv never really had much issues with bad memory these days. Most of the time its just the memory throwing a fit with certain motherboards (Ryzen mobos in particular, can be VERY peculiar over what ram sticks they wanna play with). Old computers …

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Re: What is it with Win95/98 killing my CF cards?

Posted on 2020-03-09, 23:08

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by SodaSuccubus

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Good CF cards can only handle a max of 1,000,000 cycles but typically start to fail around 500k. As derSammler and douglar mentioned, you need to limit how often windows is writing to them or else the typical 3 year life span (for a camera as example) will be cut super short. Windows 9x and above …

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Re: What is it with Win95/98 killing my CF cards?

Posted on 2020-03-09, 21:45

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by SodaSuccubus

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Im at a total loss, and down a few $$ in CF cards that just refuse to cooperate anymore in retro machines. Any ideas? Hi, any chance the CF cards were no-name models ? If so, they could be fake, ie. they have less capacity than they claim to have. And when you exceed the real capacity, they …

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Voodoo 2 preventing PC from POSTing

Posted on 2020-03-09, 21:38

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by SodaSuccubus

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Allright...seems like i got another problem on my hands (great) leading up to SLI amazement. dtk PRM-0080I E1 P3 500mhz 384mb of ram My second Voodoo 2 just arrived. Its an 8mb diamond model. I allready have an existing identical V2 i was gonna sli with but board simply won't POST (or beep even) …

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Re: What is it with Win95/98 killing my CF cards?

Posted on 2020-03-09, 18:34

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by SodaSuccubus

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I turn off the swapfile in Win98 starting with 128 MB of RAM for socket 7 systems and starting with 256 MB for Slot 1 or S370 systems < 1 GHz. SD cards are even worse (and slow!). I'll give that a go here then. Pardon my dummyness, but that'd be disabling virtual..memory..i think? Correct? Im still …

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Re: What is it with Win95/98 killing my CF cards?

Posted on 2020-03-09, 18:24

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by SodaSuccubus

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Thanks for the advice so far guys, i managed to dig up another CF that isn't total bust from the looks of it. Re-installing windows now and will try some of these swap tricks. Swapfile. Either turn it of or put it onto a second mechanical HDD. Yeah, ideally i'd like to not deal with the swapfile at …

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Re: What is it with Win95/98 killing my CF cards?

Posted on 2020-03-09, 16:21

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by SodaSuccubus

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tpowell.ca wrote on 2020-03-09, 15:35: Maybe its a problem with the on-board IDE controller, or how windows 98 is using the swapfile. How much RAM do you have? 256Mb. Although i have another stick of 128 available too.I haven't messed around with conservative swap use or doing ramdrives for swap.

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What is it with Win95/98 killing my CF cards?

Posted on 2020-03-09, 15:16

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by SodaSuccubus

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Hey vogons! Sooo sorry for the long post! So iv had some mysterious issues plague my Win98/95 rigs. I generally like to use CF cards as a easy convenient way to move files but it seems after enough time these cards like to suspiciously all crap out, all the same way. They just eventually refuse to …

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