Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 15:19

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Check the thermal paste on these old passive heatsinks. They are often dried out and the card, which already gets extremely hot, is often overheating to 100C or more as a result. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=97533 Jeez 100C! I did change it as part of the initial cleaning, you can't …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on Yesterday, 15:13

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5160s don't have onboard IDE but I have seen a lot of later Turbo XT clones with IDE on board, along with a full whack of i/o and even video. There are also some 8 Bit IDE cards, but they are nowhere near common. You've seen a lot of XTs with on-board IDE? Could you share some of them? Integrated …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 11:11

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I couldn't pass on some cards sold locally for a very good price. Among an ATI 9550 SE whose speciality I believe is being the slowest card in the entire 9000 series and a beautiful Audigy 2 that I just found out it never had official win9x drivers so it won't replace a Live!, there where these 2: A …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on Yesterday, 06:34

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5160s don't have onboard IDE but I have seen a lot of later Turbo XT clones with IDE on board, along with a full whack of i/o and even video. There are also some 8 Bit IDE cards, but they are nowhere near common. You've seen a lot of XTs with on-board IDE? Could you share some of them? Integrated …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-04-25, 11:07

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Built an ISA ROM card, hope to use it as an XT-IDE card for a possible future Turbo XT build.. Out of curiosity, where do you plan to connect the IDE device since this is just the ROM? Directly to the motherbaord or to a separate dumb Multi-IO ISA card. That's exactly what I was thinking, XTs don't …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-04-25, 10:18

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appiah4 wrote on 2024-04-25, 09:45: Built an ISA ROM card, hope to use it as an XT-IDE card for a possible future Turbo XT build.. Out of curiosity, where do you plan to connect the IDE device since this is just the ROM?

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Re: UDMA 5 with DOM's & CF's

Posted on 2024-04-25, 07:16

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Question guys, what happens when you connect pin 34 to a ground pin and then attempt to use the CF adapter/DOM on an older controller? Let's say one that maxes out at UDMA2/ATA-33 or is even PIO-only, will it still be functional like before or is it affected in any way? (other than not being able …

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Re: UDMA 5 with DOM's & CF's

Posted on 2024-04-24, 18:32

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Question guys, what happens when you connect pin 34 to a ground pin and then attempt to use the CF adapter/DOM on an older controller? Let's say one that maxes out at UDMA2/ATA-33 or is even PIO-only, will it still be functional like before or is it affected in any way? (other than not being able to …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-04-18, 05:57

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Wow I can't believe that MS really changed your background to tell you, in a sloppy way, that win10 will be simply unsupported a year later. I really can't, I'd do some more checks and googling to verify that this is legit. https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-begins- …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-04-17, 15:22

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I woke up to my desktop wallpaper being replaced with a badly-scaled (blurry) and badly-cropped (the bottom was cut off under the taskbar) message about Windows 10's end of support (in a year and a half). It really didn't look like anything Microsoft themselves would do, but it had functioning …

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Re: Another "cannot get CF2IDE to work in DOS" topic

Posted on 2024-04-16, 11:44

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So you just typed some random numbers for geometry? As for MBR, I did not do that because its a secondary drive and the suggester "FDISK /CMBR [drivenum]" did not work, reported CMBR as an invalid parameter. Or maybe the C there was a typo..? I tried the CF as the only master there and it would not …

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Re: Another "cannot get CF2IDE to work in DOS" topic

Posted on 2024-04-16, 09:39

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So you just typed some random numbers for geometry? My suggestion is to use some utility like IDEINFO and see what geometry it reports. And just to rule out master/slave issues with the adapter until you have everything setup you might want to work with the CF as a single/master HDD in the system. …

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Re: What tool debugs a miscalculated area of memory in a game program written in C?

Posted on 2024-04-16, 06:44

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A general advice for "inexplicable" failures is to create a test case that you can follow/debug each step manually. For example a very small file that you will step into every loop iteration and observe all variables involved. A modern IDE can make this significantly easier.

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Re: Floppy drive problem on win95B

Posted on 2024-04-14, 14:17

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Also make sure it is declared correctly in BIOS.

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Re: What does it take to replace an Intel 10 MHz 286 with a Harris 12 MHz 286? Hopefully... nothing?

Posted on 2024-04-13, 11:33

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waterbeesje wrote on 2024-04-13, 09:09: You'd have to replace some crystal too. No, OP clearly says he wants to run the CPU at 10MHz. Which makes me curious to learn why, is it to replace a confirmed dead CPU and the 12MHz one just happened to be available/cheaper?

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-04-11, 10:50

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Does ripping music CDs onto my computer count as a retro activity? I'll take this a step further, imagine re -ripping the same old audio CDs to a better/lossless format now that storage space isn't an issue! Reminds me of a friend back in the late 90's. He ripped all his CDs at 128Kbps (took 1 …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-04-11, 10:30

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momaka wrote on 2024-04-10, 12:22: Does ripping music CDs onto my computer count as a retro activity? I'll take this a step further, imagine re-ripping the same old audio CDs to a better/lossless format now that storage space isn't an issue!

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Re: Issue with my diamond voodoo 1, please help

Posted on 2024-04-11, 10:23

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Try to eliminate possibilities. Is it a windows issue? Test the card on a fresh, temporary installation (even on a different HDD if you don't want to format the current installation until proven bad) Is it a win95 issue for some weird reason? Confirm that the card still works as it used to do in a …

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Re: ATX I/O shield with 3 holes? What do I need to buy? (re: 440BX/MVP3 socket 7 motherboard)

Posted on 2024-04-11, 10:13

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Repo Man11 is probably right. For a short period non-disposable I/O shields were coming with the case and used their own way of mounting. Maybe that's what you've got here, minus the matching case.

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Re: Issue with my diamond voodoo 1, please help

Posted on 2024-04-10, 09:04

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Try to eliminate possibilities. Is it a windows issue? Test the card on a fresh, temporary installation (even on a different HDD if you don't want to format the current installation until proven bad) Is it a win95 issue for some weird reason? Confirm that the card still works as it used to do in a …

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