Re: Your most shitty motherboard?

Posted on 2013-03-29, 11:44

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

1st and foremost: Chaintech 5AGM2 - don't touch this piece of junk even with a pointy stick. 2nd on the list - PC Chips M810L (SiS 730s). It had everything integrated, but also an AGP slot. I inserted GF2MX and used for a while until the board went dead. I received a replacement - and whoopsala: …

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Re: I need your confirmation for a K7S5A board!

Posted on 2013-03-24, 16:42

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The motherboard is utterly simple,so there are no jumpers than one for CMOS and one for (probably)Keyboard.

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Re: I need your confirmation for a K7S5A board!

Posted on 2013-03-24, 06:58

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There is no APM of +5VSB setting I can disable.Just ACPI Function and ACPI Suspend Type.

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Re: I need your confirmation for a K7S5A board!

Posted on 2013-03-23, 19:54

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Actuallly it's the v3.1 one with a modified K7S5A2 bios (see above)to allow booting without halting on errors and show the small EPA logo.Still I made it enable the USB Keyboard support but the keyboard does not work.

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Re: I need your confirmation for a K7S5A board!

Posted on 2013-03-23, 07:12

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have flashed it now,it works but still it doesn't see the USB Keyboard even though I set the options in the program I used (modbin6 if curious)for USB KB support to be Enabled.

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I need your confirmation for a K7S5A board!

Posted on 2013-03-22, 20:18

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi!I have a K7S5A v3.1 with a custom BIOS (Award BIOS instead of AMI) and it does not recognize my USB Keyboard.Alright.Make a custom BIOS with the Small Logo,USB Keyboard Support and custom BIOS bootup string and save.Now here is the problem: OLD CHIP:Winbond W49F002U-12B NEW CHIP:ATMEL 49F002T- …

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Re: 133MHz is the best!

Posted on 2013-03-21, 19:13

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Finally,repaired the BIOS chip!I have swapped the original SST MPC 29EE020 for a normal Winbond W29C020-90 chip.I reflashed using an ECS K7S5A mobo.It's in my bedroom,hidden next to a huge box full of pieces. (an USB bracket,a S3 Trio backpanel.1TB external HDD and Wii controllers)I have enough …

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Re: What Socket 370 boards do you recommend me?(133MHz only,and no ASUS or top manufacturers)

Posted on 2013-03-21, 19:00

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm in the same boat at the ATX Socket 7 chapter here in Bacau 🙁

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Re: Is this retro rig enough for watching the "Pair of Kings"show on internet?

Posted on 2013-03-21, 18:59

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some new specs: HDD:40GB Maxtor w/ XP SP2 Video Card:Radeon 7000/Radeon VE

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Re: What Socket 370 boards do you recommend me?(133MHz only,and no ASUS or top manufacturers)

Posted on 2013-03-21, 18:10

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I read the manual for my Jetway and it supports any kind of Pentium 3 processors,even Tualatin!

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Re: What Socket 370 boards do you recommend me?(133MHz only,and no ASUS or top manufacturers)

Posted on 2013-03-21, 05:41

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Actually they ARE interchangable.Especially the 49xx chips from a K7S5A.(which is what I used to reflash the Jetway)

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Re: 133MHz is the best!

Posted on 2013-03-12, 18:16

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Actually mine is a small bank of ram and its not ECC.

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Re: 133MHz is the best!

Posted on 2013-03-12, 17:19

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by PcBytes

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It boots very fine and stable,the secret is to use early 8chip single side 133MHz RAM.An example is Transcend's memory.Pop it in and it recognizes 128MB right out of the box.Samsung:search for a PC133U and 8 chips on both sides (double side)and it recognizes 128MB of course.Even PC100 or PC66 works …

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Re: Is this retro rig enough for watching the "Pair of Kings"show on internet?

Posted on 2013-03-12, 06:18

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No there aren't.I'm questioning if PCChips M830LR bios works on it.Basically the 830LR is a trimmed down K7S5A.

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Re: 133MHz is the best!

Posted on 2013-03-12, 06:16

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ System Specs

The mspaint is because the bios was not working at that time so i made a preview how it would look.😁

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Re: Is this retro rig enough for watching the "Pair of Kings"show on internet?

Posted on 2013-03-11, 17:56

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by PcBytes

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For internet,is it fine for loading 240/360p or maximum 480p HD videos right now?I ask that because I'm going for XP lite,and when I get a new HDD I'll turn around for Windows 7.Another question,does it take 256MB DDR memory?

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Re: CPU upgrade question for OEM PC (Dell, HP, etc)

Posted on 2013-03-11, 17:31

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If the case allows it,you can even shove a Athlon system in it with some proper cooling (if the PSU is not aligned it the vertical position rather the normal layout you're okay)(micro ATX only!)

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Is this retro rig enough for watching the "Pair of Kings"show on internet?

Posted on 2013-03-11, 16:35

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Since yesterday was Sunday and I had 20 bucks in handy I thought upgrading to an Athlon XP rig.Got a old Delux MT375 case(Romania)and began building it.It works but right now I don't have any battery slot (coin slot if you remember)but that's not a problem,can live without it. Here are the specs: …

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Re: 133MHz is the best!

Posted on 2013-03-09, 19:09

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Thanks.Tomorrow I will fix it and get it up and running again!

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133MHz is the best!

Posted on 2013-03-07, 09:31

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Hi! This is my new rebuild of the ASUS computer.Right now,the bios is down (no worries,I have replaced the BIOS chip and have a CD-RW for flashing and things).I have two Backup 2MB bios chips (the bios is 256K) Specs: Audio:Sound Blaster 16 Value-CT2770 Network:Realtek 8139A Video Card:S3 Trio 3D/2X …

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