devius wrote:

brostenen wrote:

Naturally. Stepping are different on these two. What exactly they have changed in the CPU's are unknown to me.
Hmmm.... Corporate secrets I guess. I can't find anything for shure.

The one I have seems to be slightly older, and considering they raised the VCore on the newer one I wonder if mine is not as stable or something like that.

I don't think you need to worry on that. Just use, as I will, a good cooler. 😀 I think these a subtle changes, that don't matter for gaming.

Not arrived yet but I took the plunge on this joblot of graphics cards from Ebay

Hopefully most will work. I'm particularly interested in the Permedia 2V card and the S3 Trio I've spotted as well as a few others :cool

Boxed GUS Extreme - finally!

I just did the same thing.

I got the fallowing cards
Pci matrox mellenium 2
Agp rage pro
Mx440 agp
Velocity 128
7200 agp
2 Sis agp 6326
Agp rivia tnt2
Matrox gt250+

These Arrived this morning. £2.20. 4x256mb PC133 Crucial ram sticks, only when checking them out they are ECC modules. Advert didn't state that and i couldn't check the stickers. Will test them in my Asus P5A as from reading the manual that accepts ecc ram with the option to turn the checking ON/OFF.

Still £2.20 is nothing and i'm sure i will be able to use them in something in the future.

it actually says ECC right on the sticker. ALSO it has 9 chips per side and nu buffers so its obvious. that said, it's a GOOD DEAL.

luckybob wrote:

it actually says ECC right on the sticker. ALSO it has 9 chips per side and nu buffers so its obvious. that said, it's a GOOD DEAL.

I didn't know about the 9 chip was ECC until reading the P5A manual. Well i learned something new 😊

Nope... Not a bad deal on them ECC's. They even have a good look to them. 😀

Just tested the ECC sticks out on my Asus P5A with a K6-2 500. Worked fine. Timings set to 2-2-2. Was funny populating all 3 slots with 768mb haha. Tested Quake 2 and the time demo took a 6fps hit with 768mb compared to 512/256mb.

remove a stick and try again. Whats most likely happening is you are past the cache-able ram limit. Long story short, there is only so much ram your L2 cache can address. Most P5A's cap at 512mb or less. A K6 (2 or 3)+ resolves this, but is still a concern.

nice! A 104 + 105 input/output selectors. I have already taken them apart and its exactly as I suspected, gang switches in one and nothing else, and the other is gang switches and an opto with a cap or two. so minor. could combine these into one little system very easily.

That Edirol looks exactly like a SC-55 but white. Didn't know they released a SC-55 under the Edirol brand, or is it another module?

^ most likely that's a SC-88VL unit

yeah its an sc88vl. its posted a few pages back in much better pictures 😉

Don't know if this counts, but they are retro and they both use floppy disks. Both came with chargers and (working) batteries, and one came with full documentation. I was given a Sony Mavica FD7 (used) around 2000, when I was in high school. I loved taking pictures with it, but I think the floppy disk controller was malfunctioning. It could never properly read PC 1.44MB formatted disks, but was fine when they were formatted by the camera. Unfortunately some files at random could not be read when I put the disk in the PC.

I remember using those in England back in 2000 or so! I had something similar, because I could take little 5-10 second videos with it!

Those cameras definitely count, as they're a lot less useful than most of the stuff that gets posted, not to mention much more unusual and wacky!

Another cheap board arrived today. Had a AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1333 sitting in my draw and spotted this on ebay. Its a Epox 8kta+. It was boxed in as new condition. £11 delivered. Because the chip is a 133mhz chip and this being the KT133 only supporting 100mhz it would boot a 1ghz. There is a jumper on the board for 133mhz but will not boot when switched. Whipped out the old HB pencil and joined the 4 L1 bridges and selected 12.5x multiplier. Funnily enough it shows a 13x multi on post for 1300mhz. Put 768mb in of the cheap crucial i got yesterday. Will get 98SE installed and have a play. Not decided on what cards to use on this board yet.

Bancho wrote:

Another cheap board arrived today. Had a AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1333 sitting in my draw and spotted this on ebay. Its a Epox 8kta+. It was boxed in as new condition. £11 delivered. Because the chip is a 133mhz chip and this being the KT133 only supporting 100mhz it would boot a 1ghz. There is a jumper on the board for 133mhz but will not boot when switched. Whipped out the old HB pencil and joined the 4 L1 bridges and selected 12.5x multiplier. Funnily enough it shows a 13x multi on post for 1300mhz. Put 768mb in of the cheap crucial i got yesterday. Will get 98SE installed and have a play. Not decided on what cards to use on this board yet.

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Actually these are one of the better motherboards for the older chips. And they're KT-133A boards, which will run at 133 mhz just fine, they just need a bios update for it. They'll even run with up to mobile Barton AthlonXP Chips as well. I'll try and look through my stuff to find the bios update for it.. but it was a PITA to hunt down on the internet today and I don't know where mine is.

EDIT: Here you go. 😀

https://web.archive.org/web/20020406010150/ht … d/bios/8kta.htm

This at least gives you file names (unfortunately the actual downloads don't work) But then we can google hunt for file names.... and... viola: http://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/Epox/bios/index.html

Just control-F and look for: 8kta2218.exe It's there and works and I downloaded it and verified with the readme file it's for the EP-8KTA+, and the date and file size match up with the EpoX Website.

Mr_ppp wrote:

Not arrived yet but I took the plunge on this joblot of graphics cards from Ebay

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Hopefully most will work. I'm particularly interested in the Permedia 2V card and the S3 Trio I've spotted as well as a few others :cool

Got the package today and scored a nice working haul within it. £15 got me.....

PCI

1 x Trident GUI9680XGI
1 x S3 Trio64V+
1 x ATI Xpert 98
2 x ATI 3d Rage IIC
1 x Winfast TV2000 XP Expert

AGP

1 x 3DLabs Permedia 2V
1 x SIS Xabre 200
1 x Matrox Millenium G200
1 x Creative GB0010 Geforce 2 GTS
1 x Geforce 4 MX440
1 x Passive cooled Nvidia Geforce 6200
1 x Nvidia FX5600 - dead fan but working
1 x ATI Rage 128 Ultra Low profile
1 x ATI Xpert 99/00

PCI-X

1 x Nvidia 6600 passively cooled

I also got a Faulty Radeon 9800se AIW with graphics corruption