Put a CT1600 and a CT3670 in the same system and got them working together nicely, SB32 into SBPRO, so I have Awe32-GM playback in Tiefighter,Xwing, Darkforces etc, and a real SBPRO2 for sound effects, and can switch to Real OPL3 or CQM whenever.
I'd of rather just used that CT2760 in that system, but.... Looks like thats not gonna happen soon.

Had a spare 9" green phosphor CRT, did the only logical thing!

Awesome SquallStrife, was it pin compatible or did you had to mod something?

Nice!

Did another motherboard video review, it's the GA-5AX REV 5.2. Video should be online soon 😀

rick6 wrote:

Awesome SquallStrife, was it pin compatible or did you had to mod something?

Monochrome monitor tubes generally have the same pinout, and tubes of similar sizes usually have the same size connector.

I just grafted the deflection coils from one to the other.

SquallStrife wrote:

rick6 wrote:

Awesome SquallStrife, was it pin compatible or did you had to mod something?

Monochrome monitor tubes generally have the same pinout, and tubes of similar sizes usually have the same size connector.

I just grafted the deflection coils from one to the other.

Interesting. Just out of curiosity, was the original B/W crt worn or dead or you did it just for the fun of it?

It wasn't dead, but it had some noticeable image burn-in.

Here's what I've been up to:

-Tried to recap a bad ATX power supply: failed. Bought new one with -5V line instead.
-Bought a memory tester/eeprom programmer.
-Tested all of my obsolete SRAMs
-Updated ROMs on a few old motherboards.
-Dumped ROMs for almost all my old hardware
-Reworked 486 VL/EISA motherboard to accept 300mil 128kx8 SRAMs
-Tested Award BIOS on 486 VL/EISA
-Assembled backpanel toggle switch to change CPU multipliers
-Bought VirgeGX, TNT1 and Voodoo3 PCI cards
-Reflashed dead Voodoo3 PCI by updating the firmware
-Got Voodoo3 going in 486 motherboard
-Bought Adaptec AHA-2940UW to replace 2940U2W that didn't function in Win3.x
-Tried running Cyrix 5x86 CPUs at 133MHz. None worked
-Tested Cyrix 5x86-100 at 2x60MHz. Successful

Hunted down a complete scan of the manual for the Creative Labs CT-6080 Video Blaster MP400.
A really helpfull man from Sao Paulo, have helped me, by scanning the English manual for me.
Downloaded it and realised it is in jpg images, one page in every picture.
Now I need to create a PDF file and have someone to tell me how I can upload to the Vogons Archieve.

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Hunted down a complete scan of the manual for the Creative Labs CT-6080 Video Blaster MP400. A really helpfull man from Sao Paul […]
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Hunted down a complete scan of the manual for the Creative Labs CT-6080 Video Blaster MP400.
A really helpfull man from Sao Paulo, have helped me, by scanning the English manual for me.
Downloaded it and realised it is in jpg images, one page in every picture.
Now I need to create a PDF file and have someone to tell me how I can upload to the Vogons Archieve.

Do you mean the Vogons Vintage Driver Library? If you have any trouble making a pdf/uploading, you can send me the pictures to avermakov[ouch]list.ru and I'do that for ya 😀

RacoonRider wrote:

brostenen wrote:

Do you mean the Vogons Vintage Driver Library? If you have any trouble making a pdf/uploading, you can send me the pictures to avermakov[ouch]list.ru and I'do that for ya 😀

Even better..... https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13450020/MP400.zip 😁
Not shure if the drivers are working correctly, I just included those who I found online.
When you have downloaded the file, then I will erase it from my dropbox. (too big a file)

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Here's what I've been up to:

-Tried to recap a bad ATX power supply: failed. Bought new one with -5V line instead.
-Bought a memory tester/eeprom programmer.
-Tested all of my obsolete SRAMs
-Updated ROMs on a few old motherboards.
-Dumped ROMs for almost all my old hardware
-Reworked 486 VL/EISA motherboard to accept 300mil 128kx8 SRAMs
-Tested Award BIOS on 486 VL/EISA
-Assembled backpanel toggle switch to change CPU multipliers
-Bought VirgeGX, TNT1 and Voodoo3 PCI cards
-Reflashed dead Voodoo3 PCI by updating the firmware
-Got Voodoo3 going in 486 motherboard
-Bought Adaptec AHA-2940UW to replace 2940U2W that didn't function in Win3.x
-Tried running Cyrix 5x86 CPUs at 133MHz. None worked
-Tested Cyrix 5x86-100 at 2x60MHz. Successful

Wow you've been a busy man!

What utility do you use for flashing V3? I got one out of three cards that is displaying weird graphics and want to try a BIOS flash. So I'd like to save the BIOS from another card, then flash it onto the faulty one.

This guy\site has almost all the 3dfx BIOS for download.
http://3dfxbios.stantoworld.co.uk/

Just finished rebuilding my FIC retro rig...

New case, changed gfx card from TNT2 M64 to Rage-128, got rid of the SB-Live, installed AWE32, added a Innovision Voodoo1 and a 120mm fan. Hope this new setup will serve med better than the priveous one, build on this Motherboard.

Is that full-length card screwed to the base? I've never seen that before.

2fort5r wrote:

Is that full-length card screwed to the base? I've never seen that before.

Full length, yes. Not screved to the case though. 😀
What I did, was taking some copper spacers that you normally would fit underneath the motherboard.
Then assembled them through the hole in the PCB. Red paper washers between, to prevent it from making a ground connection.
Just in case, that there was any form of electricity at that spot. Nothing fancy, just 3 copper spacers and 2 washers.
Many people are using some sort of rubberfeet under their full size card, I just did something else that works too. 😁

He had a case standoff in the correct spot I hope!
Or did you drill a hole?
When I used that noisy CT2760 I have in an Tower case I just used old style AT Plastic peggles meant for motherboard standoffs, stuck to one another to keep the card from sagging, in that same hole on the end of the card.

AlphaWing wrote:

He had a case standoff in the correct spot I hope!
Or did you drill a hole?
When I used that noisy CT2760 I have in an Tower case I just used old style AT Plastic peggles meant for motherboard standoffs, stuck to one another to keep the card from sagging, in that same hole on the end of the card.

Cool. Never thought about that. 😀 I just added one picture of what I have done. No drilling here. 😁

Yea that standoff hole could not be in a better place!

SquallStrife wrote:

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Had a spare 9" green phosphor CRT, did the only logical thing!

Awesome! Looks much better than the white screens IMO 😀