Re: Hard reboot

Posted on 2009-01-22, 00:34

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by prophase_j

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In my system it will run for an undetermined amount of time (usually 20mins to as long as a few hours) and then freeze. After a resetting or plugging... it will run for days. It's like it has to warm up or something.

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Re: Slot A Athlons

Posted on 2009-01-21, 05:18

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by prophase_j

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I remember building one for a kid back in my high school days. It was running at 700mhz, had 256 of ram, a Geforce 2 GTS, a Soundblaster Live and a 30gig hardrive. I think he spent about $1500 for it all, I remember at the time it was a really hot system.

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Re: Soundblaster MB_PRO pinout

Posted on 2009-01-18, 03:51

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Alright now were getting somewhere. One other thing I had noticed is that there are three wires coming from the microphone jack, and there is only two connections on the card. So the card is missing the connector for the "Mic bias". From what I read this mean that I can only use dynamic, not …

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Re: Motherboard with ISA slot?

Posted on 2009-01-17, 19:38

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I'm using a 8KTA3. and I actually have a Athlon XP with a barton core in mine... It turns out you can stick pretty much any socket A chip in there as long as you take into account the FSB and multiplier settings. Alas it is showing its age.. it has a few capacitors that are bulging and for one …

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Re: Soundblaster MB_PRO pinout

Posted on 2009-01-17, 00:15

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by prophase_j

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BUMP BUMP Surely someone has pondered this.

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Soundblaster MB_PRO pinout

Posted on 2009-01-15, 05:18

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by prophase_j

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So I have discovered a little row of jumpers on my awe64 gold. 5x2 with 9 pins. I did a little research and found that this is basically a header for front panel audio. I haven't been able to find a diagrams, and being able to use the front jack on my case for headphones would be dream. Anyone out …

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Re: Booting from PCI HDD controller card... not much likely, or.... ?

Posted on 2009-01-14, 00:12

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by prophase_j

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Yeah it really tears me because on one hand if I invest some more money into my K7 rig then I should be able to hold down a cool 2ghz. Even though P4's have more bandwidth, all of the older stuff I plan to run on it will be as fast if not faster. Athlon's are very bandwidth efficient. So until you …

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Re: Booting from PCI HDD controller card... not much likely, or.... ?

Posted on 2009-01-13, 00:36

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by prophase_j

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That is rather ninja. According to sandra2k2 it would defiantly wreck most p4s on non-optimized code. Thats another reason I love the athlons so much.. they just have raw alu/fpu power. http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/289/memoryno6.th.jpg http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/9564/memcachecw9.th.jpg …

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Re: AWE32 CT3990 PNP

Posted on 2009-01-09, 23:37

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by prophase_j

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Okay I'll try it out. I figured I was missing a device driver... I never put anything in the autoexec or config. I remember the diagnose.exe checking out ok, but a lot of the other commands from aweutils not working right. So even though I had the files there was no documentation and so yeah...

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Re: AWE32 CT3990 PNP

Posted on 2009-01-09, 00:27

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by prophase_j

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Does any of this stuff apply to the awe64? I have yet to get any music out of it in dos.. just sfx.

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Re: Booting from PCI HDD controller card... not much likely, or.... ?

Posted on 2009-01-06, 01:32

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by prophase_j

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Wow a BX and tualatin.. thats sick. You should run some Sandra2k and 3Dmark tests so I compare it with my K7.

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Re: 486 mobo: mouse, floppy, HDD, CD - where do they all go?

Posted on 2008-11-22, 21:11

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I'll second that SCSI is the way to go. A lot of multi-IO cards will have floppy and serial, and even parallel. You can keep that in mind if you can't find one located on a scsi card. Modern SCSI drives use a mode of SCSI called LVD, chances are your controller won't. There should be a jumper on the …

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Re: My K7 "Retro Rocket"

Posted on 2008-11-16, 21:53

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So I got a hold of the KT7A. Looks like it had some bad caps (shocker right?). Doesn't want to boot up.. didn't mess with it too much though. It made me wonder about the stability problems so I looked at the epox and sure enough.. there is at least one bulging back where the voltage regulation is …

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Re: Fastest Socket A / 462 mainboard with ISA slot?

Posted on 2008-11-11, 05:52

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by prophase_j

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On the bad caps website they say they can do the repair for you... for a fee. Just ship them the board and they send it back to you.

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Re: Fastest Socket A / 462 mainboard with ISA slot?

Posted on 2008-11-10, 13:33

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Check this out that looks pretty cool.. expensive but surely bankable performance. as much as i love amd, a northwood p4 running at 3ghz with a 533fsb and pc2700 ddr will walk all over the athlon xp. i'm not sure that agp slot will take a voodoo though.

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Re: Fastest Socket A / 462 mainboard with ISA slot?

Posted on 2008-11-10, 07:31

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Seems pretty cut and dry then. If you want the most speed, go with the athlon setup. Either get some ram and a MX300 (i have one.. highly recommend), or go looking for another board. Finding a good board shouldn't be very hard.. just have patience. Seeing as how you already have a P3 setup.. you …

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Re: Fastest Socket A / 462 mainboard with ISA slot?

Posted on 2008-11-09, 02:09

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by prophase_j

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Too bad that Kt266 board dosn't have a ISA slot. Really only other diff from the Kt133 is the DDR ram 😀

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Re: Fastest Socket A / 462 mainboard with ISA slot?

Posted on 2008-11-08, 22:28

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I would defiantly say my project has made me upset a time or two.. but I'm sure everyone will agree that an althon based system, clock-for-clock will run circles around a p3, and take its watch. Althons have better FPUs, the voodoo drivers have been proven to take advantage of 3dnow, and if you …

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Re: Fastest Socket A / 462 mainboard with ISA slot?

Posted on 2008-11-07, 02:21

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The fastest socket a with an ISA is going to be based off a kt133 or kt133a abit k7a epox kta3 < what i currently have. You may have issues getting your chip to run at the 13.5 multiplier, since these boards only use 4 bits to signal the processor. I'm I'd like mine to use 14... but it will only …

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Re: My K7 "Retro Rocket"

Posted on 2008-10-27, 20:46

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Yup seen that :) I have noticed that there is one jump that is persistent as soon as you clear 12.5x. I'm guessing that is the fifth bit. I looked at all the configurations and it isn't there until that point.. and then doesn't go away. http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee120/inuyasha_7777/fifthbit …

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