Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 20:11

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I'm sorta, kinda, maybe considering buying this old mystery PC as a project. Anyone care to venture what the motherboard looks like from this very limited eBay listing? Seller has no info about the PC. I can see it's ATX, 4 dimms EDIT: Actually, looks like 2x2 different RAM kinds. (1 AGP?) 1 AMR. 5 …

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Re: Bad caps

Posted on Yesterday, 15:42

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You will save time and future headaches if you replace all of the caps with this same brand/voltage/capacitance rather than just the one. For example, I have a PCChips board where I tested it to POST, then ordered replacement caps for the failing ones. By the time I got them and pulled the board for …

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Re: DFI VIA MVP3+K6-III+ = OC?

Posted on 2024-04-23, 23:46

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It's possible that there are speed settings where the POST screen won't be able to show the correct speed as it wasn't included in the BIOS code. If the multiplier is set at 2x and the FSB is set to 100 MHz then you will have 600 MHz regardless of what the POST screen displays. You can check it with …

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Re: Geforce4 Ti4200 - Black screen

Posted on 2024-04-23, 23:10

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I had an Asus P2B and I found that power hungry AGP cards wouldn't work in it. I think the best card I tried that worked was my Quadro 2 (same as a Geforce 2 Ti). It wouldn't be too surprising if that was the issue. Do you have another motherboard you can try the video card with?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-23, 23:02

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This (amongst 5 other S3 Trio64) appeared at my local second hand shop. I didn't buy it yet, but for 3€ I might buy this mighty AGP card ;) It’s the first time I actually see one…strange that they branded is a Trio instead of Virge. https://i.ibb.co/grDV4S5/IMG-1566.jpg At a glance I thought that …

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Re: DFI VIA MVP3+K6-III+ = OC?

Posted on 2024-04-23, 22:59

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If your board can go above 100 MHz FSB, you generally want to have the highest frontside bus speed you can achieve while lowering the multiplier. But you can quickly run into an issue with the motherboard's cache. The cache chip on the motherboard does help performance some as level 3 cache, but …

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Re: DFI VIA MVP3+K6-III+ = OC?

Posted on 2024-04-23, 22:51

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Many MVP3 (most?) motherboards only go up to 100 MHz frontside bus, and if this is true of the one you have, 600 MHz will be the highest speed you can achieve. To get the six multiplier you have to set the motherboard to 2x. The CPU uses 2x as 6x and 6x100 = 600 MHz. This can sometimes be achieved …

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Re: Clonezilla not work

Posted on 2024-04-23, 20:22

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Is there a version of this software that will work on hardware this old? I've used Clonezilla successfully on newer hardware, but when I wanted to clone my Socket 7 machine I gave up and used Norton's Ghost instead. A version of Clonezilla that would work on such old hardware would be great.

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Re: No beep codes from motherboard

Posted on 2024-04-23, 16:31

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Did you have a CMOS battery installed when you tried it out? Some motherboards will not POST without one.

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Re: Nvidia TNT2 Ultra driver

Posted on 2024-04-23, 16:27

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Phil's Computer Lab has the text of the models covered for each driver version - I've found it to be a quick shortcut for knowing what models each driver covered. https://www.philscomputerlab.com/nvidia-9x-gr … cs-drivers.html

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-04-23, 02:00

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I've just begun Max Payne for the first time. Many years ago a neighbor gave me a demo, but I wasn't interested because my obsession was flight sims. This is the first third person shooter I've ever played, so the perspective's a bit odd. It runs nicely on my Soyo Dragon Plus system which I would …

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Re: Broken socket 7 board - Epox P55-TF. Stuck in post

Posted on 2024-04-23, 01:54

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Sadly, I have no advice for you, but that is an excellent first post, very detailed and thorough.

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Re: K6-III+ and cooling

Posted on 2024-04-22, 22:40

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I have one of these for my Socket 7 setup, I think it will be more than you need to keep a K6-2/3+ cool even at 600+ MHz. Readily available and the price is right (I think this is new old stock): https://www.ebay.com/itm/232862094084?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28&srsltid=AfmBOopVrSPM- …

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Re: Need Driver CD for Philips Acoustic Edge PSC706 PCI Sound Card

Posted on 2024-04-22, 18:04

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I'd have been happy to upload the driver CD from my Acoustic Edge if I still had it, but it was lost when my (former) town burned down. That was one of a very small number of parts where I still had the original box and all of the contents. It was a good sound card, especially considering that I …

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Re: Need Driver CD for Philips Acoustic Edge PSC706 PCI Sound Card

Posted on 2024-04-22, 01:22

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I had one of those - I bought it after killing the onboard sound of my Soyo K7VTA, and I used it until it wouldn't work with my P5Q Pro. This page appears to have the drivers, it was the only one I found that didn't try to link to Philips: https://driver.ru/?file_id=16446

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Re: Replacement for Chaintech 5AGM2 bracket?

Posted on 2024-04-21, 20:12

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Thx for the info. Don`t know if its even a real shop but: https://www.komputer.de/zen/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=31&products_id=208 Single socket would be better but still. What do you think? If it can fit those tiny pins, you're good! Since you have the board, you can measure the …

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Re: Replacement for Chaintech 5AGM2 bracket?

Posted on 2024-04-21, 20:01

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So found the right spot. And yes, not useable for me. What a waste of time, I apologize... Will sell it at some point. If anyone still has the right bracket and can send it to Germany, please get in touch, thank you. This was exactly the sort of thing that made the ATX standard a great leap forward …

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Re: Replacement for Chaintech 5AGM2 bracket?

Posted on 2024-04-21, 19:21

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Demolition-Man wrote on 2024-04-21, 19:17: Sorry, i dont want to cause any trouble. But normal pins with normal fit. One problem less. That isn't CN4 - CN4 is lower between the PCI slots.

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Re: Replacement for Chaintech 5AGM2 bracket?

Posted on 2024-04-21, 19:21

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IIRC the right side of CN4 is a standard USB nine pin as far as the pin out is concerned, so that part is easy (of course with no breakdown of the pin out in the manual, you must verify with a voltmeter first). I only bothered to connect eight of the pins because the connectors I salvaged from the …

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Re: Replacement for Chaintech 5AGM2 bracket?

Posted on 2024-04-21, 18:50

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What do you mean the voltage would have to be divided again? One PS/2 bracket, and a standard 2x USB bracket. Each port requires 5V. The connector pinout lists 2 or 3 5V pins. I don't see the problem. It's non standard and tiny... So standard 2,54mm (sorry metric) won`t fit? Serial would be the …

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