Re: damaged a voodoo 4500

Posted on 2013-05-23, 05:57

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by raymangold22

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Did you check to make sure that nothing broke off during the modding? I always put my cards in the freezer before trying to break the old epoxy. Chances are that there might be a crack somewhere and I did ruin a Banshee in the same way as your 4500. As for the card you can always get another 4500 …

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damaged a voodoo 4500

Posted on 2013-05-22, 06:35

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So I was popping off the crappy thermalshield fan off of my voodoo 4500 to replace it with a proper copper cooler and arctic silver. However, I didn't use compressed air like I normally do for the 5500s, and there was a heatsink already on the back of the board causing stress. After I got the …

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Re: My mobile DOS system, IBM ThinkPad 600E

Posted on 2013-03-17, 03:49

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Awesome! I'm negotiating for a 390X. I hope I get it. Thinkpads are pretty damned great. They would be flawless computing machines if they didn't have those fucking eraser nub pointers. Trackpoints are the next best thing to a mouse, seriously. Once you get past the learning curve , you can get to …

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Re: check out my WANG!

Posted on 2013-03-17, 02:39

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Beautiful condition inside, and nice to get all those cards in the unit. What OS are you going to have on it? Ps/2 on a 386? Didn't know that was possible! The PS/2 model 25 (which is an 8086) has PS/2 ports. All of the personal system/2s had PS/2 ports, and they ranged with many different …

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Re: MT-32 USB MPU-401 interface for 98/DOS

Posted on 2013-03-17, 00:49

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I'm going to see if I can write a driver to act as an active software MPU-401 Sound like what VDMsound for windows 9X does. Maybe you can use that. Don't know if it has intelligent mode. The Aureal vortex 9X driver also has a DOS window emulated MPU-401 that can reroute to any windows midi device. …

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Re: Getting rid of physical floppies ... how about hardware emulators?

Posted on 2013-03-16, 22:48

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On this subject, 2 days ago arrived a floppy emulator i got on eBay. It's this one in particular: http://www.ebay.com/itm/160981837011?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649 Yeah, chinese made, doesn't seem to be very good and after i bought it a saw a negative review of a Gotek model: …

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MT-32 USB MPU-401 interface for 98/DOS

Posted on 2013-03-16, 22:34

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Having acquired two rev1 MT-32s, one working and one in need of repair (they have not arrived to me yet), I've begun thinking up of a project for a new way to utilize the MPU-401 interface. Here's some reasons for doing this: #1 Mainly so I can save an ISA port on my Pentium 1 and just use one of …

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Re: Are there still PC games that we can't run?

Posted on 2012-11-12, 00:03

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Well I have a few picky games. One at the top of my head is Glover (requires windows 9x and relies on *SPECIFIC* glide drivers). Basically, if you have games that rely on specific hardware (as well as specific drivers), and where the emulator doesn't natively emulate that hardware, you get into …

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Re: Motherboard repair questions

Posted on 2012-11-11, 23:34

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Last week i took a look at my Chaintech 486SPM LINK that i had put aside years ago due to not being able to get it working , i noticed two things. 1 there is some corrosion where the barrel battery used to be 2 there is one pin of the bios chip that is damaged and not making contact . No wonder it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-11-11, 23:29

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Okay, so I've got a Voodoo5 5500 here for my "Voodoo Rocket" build. There's just one problem. The bearings on these fans are completely shot. What would be the best course of action for replacement cooling? The stock heatsinks are pretty much crap, so I'm thinking possibly some beefy northbridge …

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Re: My Retro-Ghetto PC build Woot Woot :-)

Posted on 2012-10-17, 06:35

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Very cool system! What's the monitor? Have you had any trouble running dos games with that 800MHz PIII? and I see you can use sloted cpu as well ;-) I'm using a IBM G54 on my workbench. Once I finish the system, I hope to pair it with a Sony Trinitron. I actually had one that someone wrote all over …

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Re: My first SLI rig, hopefully!

Posted on 2012-10-17, 06:30

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Yeah both of those dust busters will be using around 270 watts. Your PSU will also need two PCI-E power connectors (surprised they didn't use a P5 like the quadros: which use 200 watts for just one card opposed to two).

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Re: High end windows 98SE gaming computers

Posted on 2012-10-04, 03:19

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the Netvistas made from 2000 - 2002 all had electrolytics in them for the cpu VRM circuitry, and some tantulums in random places throughout the board. and Lenovo (the fake IBM, lol) never made a single netvista...and I thought lenovo took over in 2004. Humorously enough the press-released date for …

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Re: High end windows 98SE gaming computers

Posted on 2012-10-04, 00:59

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Very nice...although I do believe a 1.2Ghz P3 Tualatin is the pinnacle of Win98 goodness. Low powered, supported chipsets and plenty of power for Win98 games. Pick up the right board and you have ISA, PCI and AGP support in one box. Yes I agree. However, a tualatin will still struggle on more …

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Re: High end windows 98SE gaming computers

Posted on 2012-10-03, 01:01

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I wouldn't run Windows 7 on my thinkcenter... I don't want to push my only good machine too hard and kill it, lol. There's only two things that would kill it: #1 The FSB heatsinks get VERY hot, I really think they should be changed with something larger. Regardless of what OS you run, the FSB will …

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Re: 3DFX coolers (Small guide)

Posted on 2012-10-02, 05:20

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I actually say dripping compressed air coolant on the heatsink is better instead. This freezes it within seconds and you can tell how well it's frozen. Makes the awful STB thermal glue pop off nicely with the skimpy heatsink :D If you stick the card in the freezer, you'll damage the electrolyte in …

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Re: High end windows 98SE gaming computers

Posted on 2012-10-02, 05:08

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Raymangold1992? I didn't know you were on here... but anyway I think one of those thinkcenters is overkill for win 98... I still use one with a 128MB vid card 2GB of RAM and a 3GHz P4 HT for my main rig! Oh these computers can easily push windows 7; just pop in 4GB of RAM and you're set (yes I've …

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Re: High end windows 98SE gaming computers

Posted on 2012-10-01, 12:58

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I think ive read somewhere that windows 98 does'nt like cpus higher than 2ghz, you'll find out soon enough. Windows 98 doesn't like more than one CPU (there have been a handful who got 3+ Ghz processors running windows 98 ). I've been running this computer for about a week now with various DOS …

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Re: High end windows 98SE gaming computers

Posted on 2012-10-01, 06:07

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I believe as long as there are W98SE chipset drivers available you are set! But this machine might be too new. The good thing is that IBM has all the drivers on their site, so it shouldn't be an issue checking it out. Once you install the 98SE update pack, it is able to detect the AGP bus and …

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High end windows 98SE gaming computers

Posted on 2012-10-01, 05:30

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I've inherited three IBM thinkcentres (all northwoods with an AGP 4x/8x interface). This is perfect for a few classic GPUs and turning them into a decent windows 98SE system. Seeing that I never set up anything beyond a P3 with windows 98, and the fact I lacked AGP systems, these really filled a lot …

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