Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-07-22, 13:27

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by AngryByDefault

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Down the rabbit hole, step 1 ... AMD_Am586-X5-133-lowres.jpg Just arrived!... Finding a mainboard for building my theme system is proving impossible so far, but as these are becoming more rare and I got them for a good price i figured I'd get them before they're gone... Now I have to keep diggin' …

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Re: CF To IDE (and SD Card) not working

Posted on 2021-07-19, 21:13

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by AngryByDefault

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Does your BIOS have an auto detect IDE drive feature? Also, silly as it may sound, are you positive about the card' s orientation? My CF-IDE adapter expects it with the branded side up, but my USB reader expects it the other way around, and none of them has any indication of this nor any notch that …

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Re: SD-IDE or CF-IDE adapters - Is there any recommended model/make?

Posted on 2021-07-17, 14:06

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by AngryByDefault

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What @paradigital said is the key issue when choosing between CF / SD options. Around here there are no SD converters available, so I ordered two from China but have not received it yet, and I honestly don't know if it will ever arrive. So in the meantime, and because for me all of this is about …

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Re: SD-IDE or CF-IDE adapters - Is there any recommended model/make?

Posted on 2021-07-16, 12:49

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by AngryByDefault

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Hi! Regarding CF-IDE adapters I made a similar question recently, it seems that they are relatively passive, in the sense that they deal only with the size and layout of the connectors and don 't interfere with the data and protocols, so they are rather simple and mostly either do work or don't, and …

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Re: Unease feelings on other forums visited ?

Posted on 2021-07-15, 12:18

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by AngryByDefault

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Fair point... perhaps I have never been interested in topics so inherently competitive that every forum about them inevitably becomes a battlefield... Then again, I see a 'parents whatsapp group' fighting over he cake's flavor for the preschool party and wonder what topic can *not* become nasty and …

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Re: Unease feelings on other forums visited ?

Posted on 2021-07-15, 00:00

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by AngryByDefault

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Hi, total n00b here wanting to share a newcomer's opinion :-) [...] There is something about the 'culture' of technical forums where some people will try and outdo each other for an imaged 'top dog' position, it's visible in groups of friends too - vying for who can know the most obscure techy …

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

Posted on 2021-07-14, 17:48

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by AngryByDefault

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Damn! DamndamndamndamndamndamnDAMN! Got some major monitor suckery going on. So I was testing a load of PII/III boards and wondering why not one came to life, and how come the POST codes all seemed to translate to errors that should be shown on screen, no KB, no boot device, POST finished, without …

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

Posted on 2021-07-14, 17:46

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by AngryByDefault

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Mounted the front fascia to cleaned up chassis cage of my K6-2 400 Linux box. Fitted a DVD r/w drive and combo 3.5" fdd/card reader scalped from a horrible plastic case multi media system that had serious cracks and other damage to it. @Caluser2000, may I ask what distro are you running there and …

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

Posted on 2021-07-14, 17:39

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by AngryByDefault

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You are all so amazing with the projects you are doing! I'm just in the process of gathering the parts to put together several machines to give away on my silly streaming. Nothing as cool as all of the amazing things you are all doing here! Although I would love your suggestions. So the two older …

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Re: Easy Win-95 era gaming PC.

Posted on 2021-07-13, 18:04

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by AngryByDefault

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humm... I need to start learning fast about this FSB and mutiplier thingy before I start blowing boards and micros up... I never gave it, nor to overclocking, the slightest attention so far... Thanks for the info. (bookmarked!)

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Re: Easy Win-95 era gaming PC.

Posted on 2021-07-13, 13:19

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by AngryByDefault

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This motherboard has some limitations Limitations are: 75 thru 200mhz Socket 7 CPU. Up to 64mb EDO ram Up to 8gb IDE hard drive. ( Will work with larger capacity hard drives but bios is limited to 8gb capacity volumes ) Up to 512kb motherboard cache. Great post, it should give a great starting …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-07-13, 12:47

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by AngryByDefault

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Today I went to the flea market after 1,5 years, the flea markets in my area where closed, and I found these: 20210710_201123.jpg - a generic ISA graphics card with OAK OTI037C - a Media Magic ISA sound card with Cristal CS4231A-KL chip and Yamaha OPL YMF262-M - a Skywell Magic 3D II (or Trust …

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Re: CF To IDE (and SD Card) not working

Posted on 2021-07-10, 15:35

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by AngryByDefault

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Hi, I have only a few hours of experience with these adapters but from that I would suggest you try this: Go to the BIOS and, If possible, "throttle" the IDE port settings by disabling LBA, setting it to PIO Mode 1 and UDMA to the lowest value. The goal is to find if there is a lowest common …

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Re: Bid for a GF 9400 GT but getting a Radeon HD 4550 -> dispute?

Posted on 2021-07-10, 13:30

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by AngryByDefault

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hum... ok, interesting angles there... I'll try to elaborate on some details "Expensive" is quite relative to where you live and what else you can get in your country for that money, so in this case I 'd like to compare them against each other. For what I just saw the few HD4550 are listed around …

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Re: Are 586 Cyrix more fun?

Posted on 2021-07-10, 12:52

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by AngryByDefault

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You guys are always so helpful, thank you. Actually, a p75 is *the* micro I want to play with, so a while ago I got two of them at a great value even when Idon't have a board for them, all of this is very very scarce around here and I figured I should get them while they were available. I guess if …

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Re: A troubleshooting guide for Caluser2000.

Posted on 2021-07-10, 02:08

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by AngryByDefault

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cyclone3d wrote on 2021-07-09, 01:45: Way back in the day, I have a Linux distro that fit on a floppy. It was a router distro. I thing I was running it on something like a 486. Freesco perhaps?...

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Are 586 Cyrix more fun?

Posted on 2021-07-10, 01:50

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by AngryByDefault

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Hi there, I might have found someone selling a Socket 3 board (*), and he happens to also have a couple of 486/586 Cyrix processors. Cx486 DX2 66 (green heatsink) Cx486 DX2 80 (no heatsink) 5x86-100GP (green heatsink) IBM 5x86C 3v3 100HF (blue heatsink) While gaming might be one of my excuses for …

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Bid for a GF 9400 GT but getting a Radeon HD 4550 -> dispute?

Posted on 2021-07-10, 01:28

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by AngryByDefault

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Hi!, So, I bought online a second hand PCIe video card (which hasn't arrived yet), but on closer inspection of one of the pictures I fear I will be sent a Radeon HD 4550 instead of the advertised GeForce GT 9400 (both low profile). A quick search on comparing sites (which I don't really trust) …

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Re: Is this CF-IDE adapter a viable option for DOS?

Posted on 2021-07-03, 23:28

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by AngryByDefault

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Ok, so FWIW I got the one from the first picture but with a molex connector. So far so good, it seems to work reliably and it even has a master/slave jumper. Doesn't have any activity lights, as some fancier ones, but it is doing its job at a third of the cost. I still haven't run any thorough test …

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Re: What is this forum doing to me??

Posted on 2021-07-03, 23:17

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by AngryByDefault

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Fast forward a second month and I already got a couple of seemingly quite decent Socket 7 + K6-2s kits, a CF card + adapter, an Awe64 ISA card, an S3 PCI video card (on the mail) and two S7 Cyrix processors!! Ordered an SD to IDE adapter from across the globe with God knows when /if it will arrive. …

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