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My Socket 7 "1997" Project

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Reply 60 of 73, by Arctic

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Sorry for the late reply 😁
My Avatar is actually my Saints Row 4 character! But you are right, totally looks like it 😀

Reply 61 of 73, by bjt

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Arctic wrote:

Does Second Reality has to be run in DOS mode?
It crashes with an error on windows 98

Yep it will need to be DOS mode, and with an EMS driver loaded for Sound Blaster sound to work.
It's worth the effort. Turn up the volume 😎

Reply 62 of 73, by Arctic

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Awesome! I will!
Thanks bjt

Reply 63 of 73, by Arctic

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I am going to build a second one! 🤣

Reply 64 of 73, by Arctic

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Would it be a good idea to change the motherboard for a Pentium Pro 200 (256K) / 128MB RAM ?
Or would it actually be a downgrade?

Reply 65 of 73, by chinny22

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I'd call it an upgrade.
As you probably know Pentium Pro is optimised for 32 bit code, so this will preform better then your MMX chip.
16 bit, will be roughly about the same due to brute horse power,
So nothing lost in old dos games, and a gain in newer ones, I would call that a win!

Reply 66 of 73, by Arctic

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Thank you chinny22! 😀
I mostly had 32 Bit software in mind when I was building this system.

Then I guess I will start looking around for a fitting heatsink.
I have a big collection of all kinds of heatsinks.
Is there any known DIY solution or should I buy a regular socket 8 heatsink?

This is the motherboard:
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/WW4AAOSwRUhZAJKe/s-l1600.jpg

Unfortunately it wasn't this layout, maybe I can trade it with someone somewhere:
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/8BoAAOSw44BYFx3S/s-l1600.jpg

Reply 67 of 73, by kaputnik

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raymangold wrote:

IBM just transitioned over to ATX in '97 for their consumer computers, so it should be expected. USB 1.0 is fine for transferring files on a 66 Mhz bus. And yeah, just get a multimeter and probe the voltages (will have to be done while the computer is running-- DO NOT short any pins by accident).

On this note; it would be easy enough to identify the 5V and ground lines, but how do you differentiate Tx and Rx? Does anyone happen to know?

Reply 69 of 73, by Arctic

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I had the banshee installed for only a short time
and had some trouble with DOS games if I recall correctly.

Reply 70 of 73, by peklop

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Hi Arctic. Have you still a miroMedia Surround card in your system/collection? Cay you take a hires photo of both sides?

Reply 71 of 73, by Arctic

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Yes that system is still alive 😀
I would have to take the card out. I will put a Caddy drive in it soon, then I could take some photos for you - if you are still interested 😎

Reply 72 of 73, by Arctic

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Ok, the caddy is installed 😀

Next question:
AWE64 Gold ISA or AWE64 Value + SimmConn Value (32MB)?

Reply 73 of 73, by etomcat

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Arctic wrote on 2015-01-26, 15:50:
Does anyone here know this card? […]
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Does anyone here know this card?

Dual Gameport Quickjoy "QJ" SV-209 8 Bit ISA (1992)

This is apparently its successor:
Quickjoy SV-210
$_20.JPG

Since that QJ SV-210 image is now gone, let me add local photos.
(BTW, why isn't every expansion card armoured like this? There is no reason to expose components incl. ant-sized SMD to mechanical wear and tear on bare PCBs, except planned obsolescence!)
BR: Tamas Feher.