Usb floppy drives interface

Posted on 2023-11-11, 19:07

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by squelch41

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Hi, USB floppy drives - do the drives inside have standard floppy interfaces running through a floppy to ide controller board? Can the drives be installed in standard (old) pcs if needed? (obvs wouldn't fit standard bays and reduced height) Thanks!

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PicoATX and P3

Posted on 2023-10-31, 16:30

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Hi, I was looking at running a P3 tualitin (overclocked celeron 1.2GHz, VIA chipset ) board with a pico ATX supply CF HDD Ati 9250 or Nvidia FX5200 PCI LAN Integrated sound Does anyone have any recommendations for ones likely to work (UK based)? Ebay has quite a few but I'm not sure quite how much …

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Re: Building a 486 VLB system

Posted on 2023-09-10, 09:03

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I am looking to build a 486 VLB system and can't quite decide on a CPU, I'm torn between a Pentium overdrive 83, a 486 DX4 100, AMDs 5x86 sounds like in reality you want a Pentium PCI system :-) Hehe, there is something fun about getting to the end of an architecture and pushing it as far as it can …

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Re: SATA to IDE adapters

Posted on 2023-07-27, 20:41

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Thanks - out of curiosity gave pulling the r5 resistor out a go but still dead. Sounds like startech or a bigger cf card is the way to go I have one of those adapters which didn't work properly. Reflowing the SATA and IDE connector solderpoints with leaded solder and removing R5 (which links pin 34 …

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SATA to IDE adapters

Posted on 2023-07-26, 11:06

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Hi, I bought 2 SATA to IDE adapters on ebay which turned out to be defective (tried with 3 sata HDDs on 3 IDE motherboards in master and slave configs - no life). Quality of manufacture is pretty terrrible as well. I am debating rolling the dice again having got a refund but was wondeirng if people …

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Re: 486 Optical drive and HDD size boot issue - Help?

Posted on 2023-07-15, 15:29

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I only have one ISA slot, which I already mentioned, and it's got an Orpheus 2 in it, so no room for xt-ide, and no ide header on the card... Yes, I really wish these awesome modern sound cards had that feature too, but I totally get why it's not worth the effort. Crap -sorry, totally missed that …

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Half Life 2 - Version differences?

Posted on 2023-07-15, 15:19

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by squelch41

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Hi, I'm running HL2 under windows 98 (obvs without steam) I know that the engine was updated and so the version of HL2 that is on steam now is the newer engine. Are there any performance benefits to the newer engine - I could dig out a spare hard drive and install XP but wasnt sure if it was worth …

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Re: 486 Optical drive and HDD size boot issue - Help?

Posted on 2023-07-14, 20:30

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by squelch41

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If you can, try using XTIDE - solves loads of these weird conflicts in my experience especially when they are around card identification/device conflicts

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Re: Would bios block tualitin on a 440bx board?

Posted on 2023-07-12, 16:04

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It was the g35-g37 short that did it! Did do the bios parcher update first as it seemed lower risk but still - - on POST card. Gives my CPU the right names though which is nice Went for the g35-g37 short and started right up! Just stress testing it now :) you could try setting fsb to 66MHz, if you …

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Re: Would bios block tualitin on a 440bx board?

Posted on 2023-07-05, 18:48

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thanks, I'll give the 66MHz FSB a go. I tried the alternative AK4 wire but without success. I dont have a programmer but was thinking about buying a new eeprom and hot-swapping it into the board and flashing a modded bios image. Just didn't want to risk that if people knew that the bios wasn't the …

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Re: Would bios block tualitin on a 440bx board?

Posted on 2023-07-05, 18:10

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that is really about if coppermines will work or not and implies i. that if coppermines will, tualatins should. I have 2 working coppermines on the boards and 2 tualitins that I cant get to work Look in this topic https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=20465&p=153857&hilit=upgradeware%20slot# …

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Would bios block tualitin on a 440bx board?

Posted on 2023-07-05, 10:47

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Hi, I'm trying to get a tualitin 1.2GHz celeron to run in a slotket on an MSI 6119 440bx based P3 motherboard. The chip is a tualitin 1.5v 1.2GHz 100MHz FSB part. I have 2 of the chips and about 4 different slotkets I have modded the slotkets as attached (https://web.archive.org/web/20170829114242/ …

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Re: Weird pentium 3 failure

Posted on 2023-06-21, 15:17

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Took the PC apart, inspected the motherboard, looked at the caps etc. No signs of bulging or any signs trace corrosion etc. Checked caps with a MESR100 ESR meter and all read fine (though the power caps around the ATX power connector are all very close and all in parellel, so not sure I really trust …

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Re: Weird pentium 3 failure

Posted on 2023-06-07, 21:19

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As in my first post, it is stable at 100MHz AND 112MHz with the pentium 3 450 and the pentium 2 233. At 100MHz is unstable with the 933 and the 1Ghz (but used to be stable at 100MHz and 112MHz). Sounds like everyone else thinks caps/vrms too. Will have to do some disassembly at the weekend!

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Re: Weird pentium 3 failure

Posted on 2023-06-07, 18:35

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Not running at 133, running at 100 or 112MHz for exactly that reason While lots of 440 boards have 133Mhz fsb setting, the 440BX chipset does not officially support 133MHz fsb - anything over 100MHz is considered an overclock. It's entirely possible your board is not stable at 133Mhz. That aside, …

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Re: Is any of these two slockets P III Coppermine compatible?

Posted on 2023-06-07, 16:26

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If you do have trouble, there are some good articles out there on how to modify slotkets to support faster CPUs. Your mileage my vary - my experience is that some slotkets work well, some dont and you need to be careful that the voltage is controlled -- try it first on a cheap CPU you dont care …

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Weird pentium 3 failure

Posted on 2023-06-07, 16:18

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Hi, I am running an MSI-6119 440BX motherboard. I have a few CPUs for it- P233 Slot 1 P450 Slot 1 P933 on slotket Celeron 1Ghz on slotket The P933 ran nicely underclocked at 784MHz on 112MHz FSB (the system is unstable with 133 FSB) The celeron also ran well at 112MHz FSB However, for no apparent …

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Re: Netwoking on a Windows 98 PC - Security concerns

Posted on 2023-05-09, 22:26

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If your lan is behind a nat router, the stuff on the inside would not be available unless port forwarded on the router. I just run plain insecure smb1 straight because I tust my lan. (And I don’t have modern windows computers :) ) 100% this people blow this crap way out of proportion Same - I have …

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Re: Win 98 Dial up gateway problem

Posted on 2023-04-27, 10:53

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by squelch41

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So the next question why? Don't get me wrong I enjoy playing around with old server software just as much as old games as well. I'm interested in what setup plan this is in aid of? hehe, the sheer fun of it :) I like to load a friend of mine's website on as many old browsers as possible or in …

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Re: Win 98 Dial up gateway problem

Posted on 2023-04-26, 20:42

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Ha! Done it!! Using a pi did the job. Think the PC version of linux I was using didnt forward the packets properly but a fresh raspbian install worked and even had the usb modem drivers! Interestingly, the gateway on win98 still reads as the ip of the client machine but with the pi as the server, it …

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