Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-26, 14:26

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I couldn't pass it up; $35.00 for this Lian-Li case with an Asus P5Q Pro Turbo, 4 gigs DDR2, 650 watt Seasonic power supply, and a very basic video card (no hard drive of course). Sadly, it only has the minimum needed cables for the modular power supply which is bad because those things are …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-25, 13:27

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They are not cards you would keep in a PC, more useful for testing and stress testing after OS install, then once you are happy you take it out and throw in the GPU you do want to keep in there . .then the 6200 moves back to the testing shelf. This. I have two 6200 (Zotac), one 5500 (Axle), two …

---

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

Posted on 2022-02-24, 19:47

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BitWrangler wrote on 2022-02-24, 04:44: Also, toilet paper is gonna be out of stock this week 🤣 That was the inspiration for my avatar. 🤣

---

Re: Hello! I am new. Here is my Retro PC story

Posted on 2022-02-24, 10:27

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sorry for late reply. Did need to test something first, so I don't recommend crap to you. I see you finally got your K6-2+/570. Did you buy a lot of 3 or did you get a single unit from someone else? There was a major breakthrough in the meantime. The Vogons collective found a way to turn K6-2+'s …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-23, 23:38

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ODwilly wrote on 2022-02-23, 22:41: There are 30 NIB Antec/chieftec full towers for $50 a few miles for me. Unfortunately he says must take all 🙁 $50 for all or just one?

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-23, 21:44

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Meatball wrote on 2022-02-23, 21:29: I bought this Realtek-based Kingston Ethernet NIC for $39.46 (includes taxes and shipping). I know I paid too much, but it’s a Realtek PCI NIC!!!!!!!!!! Whoo hoo!!!!!! Oh, and an AGP Voodoo3 2000 was thrown in for “free.” You want more of them? I'll even throw …

---

Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on 2022-02-23, 18:54

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Puts VIA chip PCI card advertised as usb 2 discovers there was a reason for white tongue ports - fake usb2 Awaits NEC USB 2 card with black tongue usb ports - the genuine article Both my NEC and my VIA card have white tongues. That's not a proper way to identify USB2 cards. Googling for the chip is …

---

Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2022-02-23, 12:27

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That one was up for at least about a day. I saw it on Sunday and considered getting it, it was a good price considering usual prices for SS7 boards these days. Ended up deciding against it since I already have enough SS7 boards for what I would want to use them for. Still kept an eye on it, as I …

---

Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2022-02-23, 10:16

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I actually kinda had this idea, to make for lyself a unofficial k6-III+ 600EE/FAK/OVC whatever using a early k6 lid that used ink to print the logo and a laser etcher. But the early lids were slightly different than later lids and so far we haven’t conclusively discovered the exact adhesive used. I …

---

Re: Voltage problems after recapping (DFI K6XV+/66)

Posted on 2022-02-23, 09:53

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If the recapped boards are identical, down to the hardware revision # and the vrm controller being used... All our boards (we both have 1 modded, 1 untouched and 1 broken one) are Rev:B2 I think. But the chips slightly different: Cache, BIOS and other where I don't know what they do. Where is the …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-22, 18:01

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I recently got 5 for 0.50€ each. Only one not working properly. Guy was happy to get back some space in attic. If I win an auction I'm getting 10 more, tested, for like 0.60€ each. Good price. Grab em while you still can. 3 years ago there were plenty of floppy drives for 1€ on Ebay. And now? A few …

---

Re: Voodoo2 SLI not being recognised as installed for games

Posted on 2022-02-22, 15:46

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

andysarcade wrote on 2022-02-22, 15:29: They are the exact same make/model from what i can see, apart from a slightly different colour soldermask they are the same. Wrong. One has 100MHz RAM, the other 90MHz.

---

Re: Voltage problems after recapping (DFI K6XV+/66)

Posted on 2022-02-22, 15:01

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

While polymer electrolytics are great, I think it was a bit overkill to recap entire mobo of this generation with them. Well, we don't want to bother with caps ever again, so we're recapping the boards which we intend to use in our rigs with polymer caps. I would first run a decent memory test, …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-22, 14:20

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A few days ago my untested DFI K6XV3+/66's finally arrived. IMG_6819.JPG Kept fresh nicely. -.- Even told that idiot to wrap them in paper. Gave them a proper cleaning and tried to power them up. Number 1 turns on, but no signs of life otherwise. Number 2: IMG_6831.JPG Now Hirsch and I both have 2 …

---

Re: Voltage problems after recapping (DFI K6XV+/66)

Posted on 2022-02-22, 13:42

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I assume you did install a CMOS battery. The picture doesn't show one. Yes of course. I usually store boards without battery and only insert it if I use them. I will also assume that you don't have an oscilloscope, since you don't even have a way to measure voltages. Get a multimeter, you can find …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-22, 13:23

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Even if that is the case (no pun intended :) ), the beige/grey ones are all over the place but finding a black one is more difficult Yes, exactly. I have a few beige Sony MPF920, but only one black one. Need 2 more, but I won't pay 15€ for one. I have more than 20 beige floppy drives but only a …

---

Re: Voltage problems after recapping (DFI K6XV+/66)

Posted on 2022-02-22, 12:36

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

-stop polishing turds. I get that you had AMD K6 in the nineties (parents got scammed, didnt want to or couldnt pay more), but that doesnt mean you cant have a good retro computer today :) No, I didn't have a K6 in the 90s. You don't seem to know that K6's are actually more valuable than Pentium …

---

Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2022-02-22, 12:17

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Step 1: Order dozens of K6-2+/570ACZ for 20€ each Step 2: Order fake lids that read K6-III+/550ACR Step 3: ? Step 4: Profit!

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-22, 12:12

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was running low on 3.5" FDDs so I grabbed 4 of them for 8 bucks. 2 beige, 2 black. Yeah, black :/ But I guess I can replace the facplates with ones from dead floppy drives or paint them. Black ones are actually more valuable, because they're more rare. What brands? Sony MPF920 by any chance? …

---

Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2022-02-22, 12:07

by

by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Question: Do the modded CPUs get recognized as a K6-III+ by BIOS and CPU-Z?

---