Re: What would you stick in this dual socket board?

Posted on 2021-01-17, 15:55

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Oh okay. How do I spot the ones we are talking about? If either of you guys still have this board I’m wondering if it may be one of the older ones that may work with this. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=78756 (If it’s even true) which I’m hoping one of you guys may be able to test. Not …

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Re: Which old game would you like to see a remastered version of?

Posted on 2021-01-17, 09:10

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dank0 wrote on 2021-01-17, 09:04: None. Everything what is remastered or modernized lost the magic of the originality I could stand for stratosphere not to have the mouse dissapear or have it work on max settings like it used to on older hardware.

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Re: Looking for Windows 95 PCI Gigabit 1000Mbps ethernet card.

Posted on 2021-01-17, 08:53

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If interested in making your disk faster, Check out my build thread “fastest socket 7 on a 430tx chipset” in it I’m going to be running SSDs on sata, and a m.2 nvme. I think a windows 98 compatable sata card and a ssd would be a good fit for you. Or possibly a ide to sata adapter on a ssd plugged …

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Re: Looking for Windows 95 PCI Gigabit 1000Mbps ethernet card.

Posted on 2021-01-17, 08:47

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If you haven’t resolved the 1.6mb/sec issue yet. It sounds like you may be at 10 speeds. Check adapter settings. Then start testing your cables. I just went through this at my place. Had to replace cables, put new ends on them, fix mis wired cables. You may think your cables are right but you don’t …

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Re: Looking for Windows 95 PCI Gigabit 1000Mbps ethernet card.

Posted on 2021-01-17, 08:33

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I’m going to attempt to do gigabit on my socket 7 windows 98 build. But honestly I don’t think the way I did it is going to work, I was mainly buying that hardware with newer windows versions in mind(triple operating system on this build) But what I did is I bought the startech usb 3 to pci card …

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Re: Dimensions of Turbo/MHZ Display

Posted on 2021-01-17, 08:20

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In general I think many of the displays were around 0.5” if I remember correctly. Also, many of them had a bunch of jumpers on them for programming the two displayed speeds. So what, three leads? I think a modern version should be 888 not 188

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Re: Dimensions of Turbo/MHZ Display

Posted on 2021-01-17, 08:16

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I would love to work with you on designing a bay insert for newer computers that adds a turbo button and mhz display along with key lock. Is that what you are trying to do? I have ideas that may be of help. But little to no experience with 3d model building or gerber rendering. But I know some other …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-01-17, 08:09

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I’m pretty sure I once fried a pentium over drive with the wrong voltage settings 🙁

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Re: Need help finding childhood Super 7 mobo w/ big Dragonfly on box (ALI Aladdin chipset)

Posted on 2021-01-17, 08:03

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Awww!! Happy to see you found it!! These guys are great aren’t they? We (you and I) are actually concurrently embarking on similar projects. Rebuilding our childhood socket 7 computers! Like you, my first step was finding the motherboard. I got lucky and found my old specs in a post I made 15-16 …

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Re: Which old game would you like to see a remastered version of?

Posted on 2021-01-17, 07:46

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Stratosphere conquest of the skies https://www.google.com/search?q=stratosphere+ … mobile&ie=UTF-8

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Re: Newly made 4MB 30pin SIMMs

Posted on 2021-01-17, 07:44

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Um, hey. Can you make me some 72 pin simms I would love to make some 128mb simms In fact, I’d love to talk to you about the ram in my upcoming build. You obviously seem more knowledgeable on the subject than I am

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Re: Is Jan Steunebrink still around?

Posted on 2021-01-17, 07:19

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Does Jan mention he has done these particular mods on his website for other boards? If not, you are probably asking for too much from someone who helps out in his spare time without asking for payment. The email I sent him was thanking him for helping me 15 years back and telling him how i was …

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Re: Evergreen 486 SuperChip - settings for DIP switch?

Posted on 2021-01-17, 07:04

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Question, from reading this thread it almost sounds like the settings you expect those switches to control are unlikely to damage the cpu if set wrong. If you can’t figure out a setting or just want to make sure you may be able to try them one at a time and record results shown in a cpu analizer …

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Re: What would you stick in this dual socket board?

Posted on 2021-01-17, 04:40

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If either of you guys still have this board I’m wondering if it may be one of the older ones that may work with this. Dual AMD K6 computer (If it’s even true) which I’m hoping one of you guys may be able to test.

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Re: Dual amd K6 computer

Posted on 2021-01-17, 04:21

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May have been using an interposer to allow for socket7 on socket5. I think such a non-Intel dual socket 5/7 example would need to have some proprietary SMP controller, like those found in those dual 486 type boards. Everything I’ve read seems to point to exactly this. I think they used the …

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Re: Is Jan Steunebrink still around?

Posted on 2021-01-17, 02:18

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Can you elaborate a bit, what would you need customized? If it's something minor, with GUI tools it can be quite easy. Just clickety-click here and there and hey presto, you got yourself a custom BIOS. But ofc it depends heavily on what exactly needs to be altered (and also on the kind of BIOS you …

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Re: Dual amd K6 computer

Posted on 2021-01-17, 02:13

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The original poster there, Hat Monster, is still active on Ars Technica. You could probably make a post there asking him (or others) to clarify. I’m. Not on the group. And it sounds like he didn’t actually own the unit. Rather that it was a customer of his nearly 20 years ago. If you are on there …

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Re: Dual amd K6 computer

Posted on 2021-01-17, 02:12

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Calling bullshit. K6/K6-2 chips didnt work with the intel SMP protocol because of patents. The K6 had its own SMP protocol but a chipset was never made for it! The more I look into this and I’m no expert it seems he may have used a early dual socket 5 board which apparently had a on motherboard …

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Re: Is Jan Steunebrink still around?

Posted on 2021-01-16, 23:26

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Can you elaborate a bit, what would you need customized? If it's something minor, with GUI tools it can be quite easy. Just clickety-click here and there and hey presto, you got yourself a custom BIOS. But ofc it depends heavily on what exactly needs to be altered (and also on the kind of BIOS you …

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Re: Dual amd K6 computer

Posted on 2021-01-16, 23:19

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feipoa wrote on 2021-01-16, 21:40: I've personally had K6-2s running in old TX motherboards but the board identifies them as K6 rather than K6-2 Wasn't the 430TX single processor only? Is that quote from the first link? Yeah, I think so. Maybe they typoed. Maybe they meant hx.

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