Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-11, 00:59

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by Trashbytes

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On a different note I ran across this little nugget of a CPU a Athlon 64 X2 6400+ BE ADX6400IAA6CZ for ~100AUD (~66 USD) and just had to have it, at this price its worth grabbing as they generally go for a lot more and are rather rare. Got just the rig for it too, itll be a nice upgrade for the A64 …

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Re: Does FIC 486-GIO-VT support 3.3V CPUs?

Posted on 2023-06-10, 15:33

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Thank you for the responses. I just checked the board as well and don't see VRM on it. See attachment. Lack of a VRM doesn't always mean the board cant supply 3.3v, there are a number of boards that simply pass the 3.3v right from the PSU with some basic filtering, since the PSU is already doing …

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Re: PC had everything working, I disconnected my ATi Rage IIc and plugged in 3dfx Voodoo 2 PCI, changed back - no displa

Posted on 2023-06-10, 13:23

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Thank you @Trashbytes, It seems the card needed a little bit of a push (although I tried it before I made the post, lmao) Works now! Glad to hear it! AGP was never the greatest at retention and the older the slot gets the more wiggling it can require to get a good contact. Wiggling cards and …

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Re: PC had everything working, I disconnected my ATi Rage IIc and plugged in 3dfx Voodoo 2 PCI, changed back - no displa

Posted on 2023-06-10, 13:21

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2023-06-10, 12:17: Wiggling cards and holding your tongue at just the right angle are two skills every retro enthusiast should have *slams computer violently with a wrench* Thumping the desk has been known to fix PC issues, however its also been known to cause further …

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Re: PC had everything working, I disconnected my ATi Rage IIc and plugged in 3dfx Voodoo 2 PCI, changed back - no displa

Posted on 2023-06-10, 10:02

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Thank you @Trashbytes, It seems the card needed a little bit of a push (although I tried it before I made the post, lmao) Works now! Glad to hear it! AGP was never the greatest at retention and the older the slot gets the more wiggling it can require to get a good contact. Wiggling cards and …

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Re: PC had everything working, I disconnected my ATi Rage IIc and plugged in 3dfx Voodoo 2 PCI, changed back - no displa

Posted on 2023-06-10, 07:47

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Have you tried removing the Voodoo2 ? Possibly the V2 is shorted. Might also be worth cleaning the edge connector on the Rage card with some Iso alcohol and a soft lint free cloth, also check to make sure the AGP slot doesnt have some dust in it.

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Re: Dual Nvidia GPUs in Windows XP

Posted on 2023-06-09, 16:36

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You could grab a pair of cheap GTX 570s or a 570 and 580 and try again, XP has full support for SLI with Fermi cards, once you have gotten results you could then just sell the cards if you dont need them. At the least it would answer the question. Nah, I'll stick with Kepler/Maxwell. I want …

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Re: Dual Nvidia GPUs in Windows XP

Posted on 2023-06-09, 14:50

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I just wanted to see if I would get a performance boost in XP with a dedicated PhysX card. Before I upgraded from my 980 Ti to a 2070 on my main Windows 10 (now 11) PC, I used a GTX 1650 as a dedicated PhysX card and got a 20FPS boost (65 FPS to 85 FPS) in FluidMark with max settings at 1080p. You …

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Re: Dual Nvidia GPUs in Windows XP

Posted on 2023-06-09, 14:30

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I replaced the 780 with a 980 Ti and the 750 Ti with a 960, and the same thing happened. It must have nothing to do with the architecture of the installed GPUs matching each other, but is probably caused by the lack of SLI (and all multi-GPU) support for Kepler and newer GPUs. I get why you wanted …

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Re: Windows 11 CPU requirement removed?

Posted on 2023-06-09, 10:57

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What do you mean by "automate"? Are you being intentionally vague? AFAIK, there are various methods. The most well known is using the windows 10 setup with the windows 11 install.wim but all I ever use is a batch file on the root of the cd that adds the registry keys needed to bypass the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-09, 06:59

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But there was hope that it was these memory sticks that had the correct organization, because I they were get from the two-socket Tualatin. Apparently it was a motherboard on some kind of Server Works chipset. I have 4 IBM branded 256 MB sticks. But there are 2 from Infineon, 1 from Hunix and 1 …

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Re: Windows 11 CPU requirement removed?

Posted on 2023-06-09, 06:17

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By mistake I proceeded to automate a Windows 11 installation instead of Windows 10, on my old Intel 3rd gen Pentium CPU. For some reason, it installed and is working quite well. So did MS remove the restriction? Might depend on the version of Windows 11 you are installing. I did find this over on …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-09, 06:02

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So I peeked into the horizontal desktop case, thinking it would be a 286 since it had what seems to be a very compact hercules graphics adapter marked GW-400 (Gainward I guess?) But it turned out to be a completely undocumented 386SX board labeled PETER-386SX. (Paging theretroweb guys..) It seems …

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Re: Is this Atlon XP 2500+ damaged?

Posted on 2023-06-09, 04:55

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Those are filtering/decoupling caps, cpu should work even without them but can have some degree of flakiness in operation, depending on how good/bad the motherboard is. BEST OPTION IS TO RETURN IT, but cost is a element also, if you have to pay for returning the product, it might be cheaper (for me …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-09, 04:38

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Bought a Quadro M4000 for a future build I am working on, its roughly equivalent to a GTX970 but with 8Gb of Vram and a single slot design. Also found Windows XP drivers for it .. not sure how XP will handle 8Gb of VRam but itll be damn amusing seeing the GPU have as much memory as the main system …

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Re: Weird pentium 3 failure

Posted on 2023-06-08, 11:50

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not all BX boards run at 133Mhz FSB ... haha just kidding. I like how you had to repeat 3 times what clocks you are running :] - Coppermines are really sensitive to Vtt (1.5V). Some boards didnt have good Vtt supply. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=90645 - doesnt matter how capacitors …

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Re: Weird pentium 3 failure

Posted on 2023-06-07, 16:36

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Possibly a weak component in the CPU VRM, either one or more caps are not holding charge or another VRM component is weak. I would try and test each part with a multimeter to see if its within tolerance for that part, starting with the larger caps first and working down to the smaller ones. Also …

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Re: Safely storing older Lithium batteries

Posted on 2023-06-07, 11:58

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If I have questionable lithium batteries, I replace them. Questionable means I get less than 25% of the original charge / runtime, or it is beyond 6 years old, or it has any visible degradation, or it is below 3.2v per cell when I test it. Replacing the batteries isn't that hard at all.. I picked …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-07, 02:36

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Yah, that's what has been said, it WAS liquid metal type stuff, phase change, but it's pumping itself out over time and leaving it dry. Gallium based LM like the Thermal Grizzly stuff does this with desktop CPUs but it can take a good number of years, its odd that the PS5 and Xbox Series X would be …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-06, 22:47

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A quick repaste with MX6 should get you going. At least that's what I have to do on my RGH'd Jasper 360, after I swap it in the elite case, and I might be getting a 750 or 1TB drive for it. I'm afraid to brake the back end of the case , they are fragile , and it's in good state. Will probably blow …

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