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

Posted on 2020-06-16, 17:53

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by TechieDude

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Was it at least watchable? I mean, some sights really make you want to bleach your eyes afterwards... Nothing too crazy or even worth making a big fuss fortunately. Just a guy and his girlfriend going at it, and apparently being idiots, or else I wouldn't have seen it in the first place... Then …

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Re: Anyone here that has worked on old or weird hardware for a job?

Posted on 2020-06-16, 00:34

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by TechieDude

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I just remembered 2 more. There was a ship that sent an old 486 PC to the store about two years ago or more. Yep, an actual 486. I have no idea why ships even need those to be honest. Do they control sonars or radars or something? Anyway, I hadn't been there yet, so I was told this second hand. The …

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Re: How to stupidly fry your almost irreplaceable AWE64

Posted on 2020-06-14, 21:23

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by TechieDude

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Might want to have a look at: SB2AWE EEPROM flasher utility.

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

Posted on 2020-06-14, 13:02

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by TechieDude

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😮 Wow, congrats! Not the easiest thing to solder in, especially when the tin is not the easiest to remove from holes (even with desoldering wire). You needed to just solder in the ISA slot and it worked or you needed to solder some other electronic parts? What about BIOS, you needed to patch …

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Re: AGP System, 939 Athlon 64 FX-60, HD3850 Windows XP (New+Old)

Posted on 2020-06-13, 23:03

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by TechieDude

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Straight to the Molex adapter. I was not going to install it on my card until I got thermal glue for the RAM and VRMs, so I figured, why not test the fan? Now I'm beginning to consider RMAing it.

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Re: Anyone here that has worked on old or weird hardware for a job?

Posted on 2020-06-13, 17:13

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by TechieDude

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The 90's really was an interesting time, that's for sure. Even though I wasn't around back then, I'm sure it was. I also remember another client at that store who had a pretty modern system in an old case, and it had a Live! drive in the 5.25" drive bay, even though it must have been years since he …

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

Posted on 2020-06-13, 16:49

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by TechieDude

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Found some porn on one of them. XD I had also found porn on my laptop (Satellite A100) when I first found it back in September. Homemade porn, in fact. Seriously, who the hell abandons their PC with porn of themselves?! Smash the HDD first or something, but no, in fact, the HDD was in perfect …

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Anyone here that has worked on old or weird hardware for a job?

Posted on 2020-06-13, 16:36

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by TechieDude

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So, I was wondering if anyone here has worked on repairing old or weird hardware for a job or a client, either back when it was new or now that it's already old. I didn't find any such thread, so I figured I would make my own. Feel free to merge it if there is. To get it started, let's begin with …

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

Posted on 2020-06-13, 14:21

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by TechieDude

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Today I finished the preparation of my dual king board for my take on my ultimate DOS/W98SE/XP tripple boot system… After desoldering the last couple of pads I soldered in an ISA AT-BUS. The voltages are in check, I couldn’t measure any shorts… fingers crossed… will test with an CT4520 in the next …

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Re: AGP System, 939 Athlon 64 FX-60, HD3850 Windows XP (New+Old)

Posted on 2020-06-11, 09:16

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by TechieDude

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Yay, the cooler just arrived! Let's get on to it! EDIT: Well, crap. The thermal adhesive is completely dry, therefore useless EDIT 2: Oh, come on! The fan doesn't even spin! WTF is going on with this?!

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2020-06-10, 22:25

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by TechieDude

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Maybe hot tweezers could help you with those parts. Does anyone here use these?

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Re: AGP System, 939 Athlon 64 FX-60, HD3850 Windows XP (New+Old)

Posted on 2020-06-10, 18:50

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by TechieDude

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I run the HD3850 with base voltage (no bios mod or so) on 710/885 without problems. I think a fair OC 24/7. Just changed the Fan control to run anytime with 85% that keep the GPU silent under 45° on load. The FX-60 was a really performance push against the 4600+. Love the CPU. The HyperX RAMs 4x …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-06-09, 20:17

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by TechieDude

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kolderman wrote on 2020-06-09, 19:19: They sound like shit because they don't have SPDIF output, which should be a given for this generation of sound cards. I was referring to analog output, which if done properly, can sound just fine.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-06-09, 14:03

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by TechieDude

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All of this happened yesterday. The courier service I had picked for the caps couldn't get the capacitors shipped to my home address because they couldn't find the doorbell (yeah, right). I decided to just go get the parcel myself from their warehouse and pay there. I might as well have just gone …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-06-09, 12:37

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I have a vortex 2. It's neat, but super overrated. There are three games I have tried where the vortex 2 is actually better than EAX or just standard windows sound, and even in these cases each comes with some pretty serious caveats. 1. Half Life 1 has more effects enabled in A3D 2.0 that is pretty …

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

Posted on 2020-06-09, 12:11

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by TechieDude

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This was actually yesterday, but I only got to post this today. Finally received the Nichicons, and proceeded to install them on my boards. First was the ASUS A7N8X-E. It was a tight fit, because the caps are actually shorter and wider than what normally fits in that board, but they got in, and I …

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Re: Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Enabler for DOS v0.71c (UNISOUND)

Posted on 2020-06-08, 20:03

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by TechieDude

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Uninstall feature sounds like a great idea, because in my 486, as soon as I initialize my AWE64, my RTL8019 network card (that does NOT share any resource with it) is not recognized anymore by the DOS drivers, not even after a soft reboot. Only a hard reset will enable it again, or booting into …

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

Posted on 2020-06-07, 19:04

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by TechieDude

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Lost a Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB in the mail today. My current VLB VGA died as i expected would happen soon, and the Speedstar i ordered a month+ ago didn't show up. Thankfully seller gave me a refund. Now im back to arguing in my mind weather i wanna invest in another VL card or just give up on …

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

Posted on 2020-06-07, 00:38

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by TechieDude

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Installed rLoew's PATCHMEM on my P4 overkill PC and maxed out the RAM to 2GB just for the hell of it. After all, it's meant to be overkill. While testing it though, I did have a bit of a mishap: the y axis of my PS/2 mouse somehow slipped out of its place. Putting it back in place was trivial, and …

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Re: Pentium 133 DOS gamer dream machine (1995/97 ).

Posted on 2020-06-06, 17:28

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by TechieDude

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They look good, but if you don't use a Pentium MMX, the case badge seems a bit misleading.

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