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Reply 23020 of 52354, by furan

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Teac PA-10 PC amplifier. Fits in a drive bay, provides good sound. Mixes multiple inputs. Replacing the amp in my TechMedia 'built in speakers' case, for my ultimate 486 build. It was either this or a BenQ Gold. Via Yahoo Japan.

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Reply 23021 of 52354, by furan

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Burrito78 wrote:

Sound Blaster 16 PnP (CT2940) "real OPL3 edition".

That is a really nice score - especially with the OPL3 chip! I am using an AWE32 CT2760 in a new build but may go back to this board if I hear clicks (didn't know about these).

Reply 23023 of 52354, by MCGA

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I bought this stuff over the past week, just getting to sharing.

A Celeron 1.2 Ghz system. It's missing memory and I think the GPU. There's a VGA port on the back of the board, but I'm not seeing a graphics chip on the board. Not sure if these Celerons had integrated GPUs?

Power Mac 7600 Parts:
Two 601 100Mhz cards
A 256k level 2 cache

Two 72-pin EDO memory chips I think and probably from the same 7600. I'm not sure of the size, but I'm going to try them in my Pentium 60 to see if they'll work. I'm hoping this doesn't break anything.

Four 256k 30-pin sim chips I think. I can't recall, but are these for 286 and 386 systems? Probably also my 486, but I'm too lazy to open its case to compare.

A Key Touch keyboard with a calculator screen and I think spring-buckling switches. They have a nice feel, not as nice as Cherry MX IMO, but nicer than the membrane keyboards I have a ton of. Just wish it had multi colored( beige ) key caps.

And not a PC, but a Magnavox Odyssey 2 with voice synth attachment, in box ( just really beat up ), and 23 games. I'm hoping to trade this for a Sega Master System... 😀

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Reply 23024 of 52354, by keropi

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furan wrote:

Teac PA-10 PC amplifier. Fits in a drive bay, provides good sound. Mixes multiple inputs. Replacing the amp in my TechMedia 'built in speakers' case, for my ultimate 486 build. It was either this or a BenQ Gold. Via Yahoo Japan.

great find!

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Reply 23025 of 52354, by amadeus777999

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Some more srams(UM61M256K-15/9534) from a batch I already have 10 of. The reason why I bought more is that these are pretty meaty in the speed department. They can be run at 50mhz and fastest cache timings in a single bank configuration - albeit they're only rated at 15ns. For comparison I have 15ns Alliance srams which are only capable of 33mhz. Most 15ns srams make it usually up to 40mhz until "corruption" occurs... one excellent test being Doom - most of the time instead of a simple crash you get a "plane switch" crash which is a surefire indicator that the timings are too tight for your chips. Unfortunately I have no photo on disk of said occurance.

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Reply 23026 of 52354, by liqmat

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furan wrote:
Teac PA-10 PC amplifier. Fits in a drive bay, provides good sound. Mixes multiple inputs. Replacing the amp in my TechMedia 'bui […]
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Teac PA-10 PC amplifier. Fits in a drive bay, provides good sound. Mixes multiple inputs. Replacing the amp in my TechMedia 'built in speakers' case, for my ultimate 486 build. It was either this or a BenQ Gold. Via Yahoo Japan.

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Just curious. Does that put out a lot of heat after extended use?

Reply 23027 of 52354, by The Serpent Rider

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Dear diary, today was a lovely day.

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I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.

Reply 23029 of 52354, by keropi

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The Serpent Rider wrote:

Dear diary, today was a lovely day.

nice! 2x FX-3000 mobos , I have one too that is setup for a 486 cpu.
Maybe on your 386 boards the MR-BIOS bios will work , worth a shot since it's better than the amibios the boards come with: Re: FX-3000 motherboard thread

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Reply 23030 of 52354, by The Serpent Rider

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PCCHIPS board will require some tricky fixing though. One PCB lane was severed, so it's impossible to use external cache in that bank.

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And looks like TAG ram will require desoldering as well (8kb 20ns). Don't know where to find small TAG cache for another dip.

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Reply 23031 of 52354, by keropi

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fixing that severed trace is easy, just solder a jump wire to these points:

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personally I wouldn't bother with desoldering the tag ram and add more cache *unless* the mobo is really good and stable

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Reply 23032 of 52354, by The Serpent Rider

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I have one too that is setup for a 486 cpu

For a 486 setup I've acquired this bad girl (boy?) - Aopen VI15G

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I think LGR did a semi-review of this board.

fixing that severed trace is easy, just solder a jump wire to these points

I see now, thank you.

personally I wouldn't bother with desoldering the tag ram and add more cache *unless* the mobo is really good and stable

PCCHIPS... kinda doubtful it's that good or any. Oh well, I've bought it just for included 386DXL and Cyrix Fastmath anyway.

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Reply 23033 of 52354, by SW-SSG

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MCGA wrote:

A Celeron 1.2 Ghz system. It's missing memory and I think the GPU. There's a VGA port on the back of the board, but I'm not seeing a graphics chip on the board. Not sure if these Celerons had integrated GPUs?

I guess you are somewhat new to older machines... the graphics are built into the northbridge chip (VIA VT8601), as with most IGP motherboards (regardless of chipset brand) until ~2010 or so.

That said, looks like your board is a Biostar M6VLQ with the VT8601T chip, supporting tualatins. Unfortunately some of those capacitors next to the CPU HSF appear to be bulging...

Reply 23034 of 52354, by MCGA

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SW-SSG wrote:

I guess you are somewhat new to older machines... the graphics are built into the northbridge chip (VIA VT8601), as with most IGP motherboards (regardless of chipset brand) until ~2010 or so.

That said, looks like your board is a Biostar M6VLQ with the VT8601T chip, supporting tualatins. Unfortunately some of those capacitors next to the CPU HSF appear to be bulging...

Oh cool. Very helpful, thanks! 😀

I'll need to invest in a soldering pump thingy when I get time, and practice on doing replacements. I have 7 old systems now that will need some care. So I'm grateful for sites like this and YouTube when it comes to help and how-toos.

Anyways, I grew up with computers, first PC was an XT( not my first computer ), but by the mid nineties I moved to Macs -- for the art thing. So I stepped out of PCs as a hobby and skipped every Intel from the Pentium II to the P4.

Reply 23035 of 52354, by cyclone3d

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Finally have a Pentium Pro (2 actually) on the way. Bunch of useful ones in there besides the PPros I am guessing. I see some S370 Tualatins in there. Can't really read the speed of anything.

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Reply 23036 of 52354, by slivercr

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cyclone3d wrote:

Finally have a Pentium Pro (2 actually) on the way. Bunch of useful ones in there besides the PPros I am guessing. I see some S370 Tualatins in there. Can't really read the speed of anything.

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Also a high end Willamette next to the PPros, if you're into that 😁

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Reply 23037 of 52354, by Gered

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Bought one of the HardMPU's that ab0tj periodically sells through eBay and it arrived today. It is most excellent. A great addition to the SB Pro 2 and GUS in my 486,

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486DX2-66/16MB/S3 Trio32 VLB/SBPro2/GUS
P233 MMX/64MB/Voodoo2/Matrox/YMF719/GUS CD3
Duron 800/256MB/Savage4 Pro/SBLive (IN PROGRESS)
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Reply 23038 of 52354, by liqmat

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Welp, all of you probably have your unobtainium piece of hardware that you either seek or have found. I finally found mine and unbelievably NIB. You bet I'll be archiving all of the floppies and docs. Cross your fingers all the floppies work as the DOS/Windows 3.1 drivers and software for this card are basically non-existent. This card was $1300 back in 1992 when it was released.

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Reply 23039 of 52354, by furan

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liqmat wrote:

Just curious. Does that put out a lot of heat after extended use?

Not sure yet, but it does have a fan, so I imagine it gets "amplifier hot" - in my system it will only be near a cdrom (on top of, not underneath) so I think it'll be ok.