Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on Yesterday, 23:08
Does that stand for Non-Masking Interrupt?
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on Yesterday, 22:18
What motherboard are you using ? A Shuttle AV18E2 (AV18V31) VIA Apollo Pro133T with 2 ISA slots, universal AGP slot (1x-4x), PCI slots, and integrated VIA AC'97 audio + Sound Blaster Emulation. On the Shuttle site, it says the CPU is not supported, but the board has automatic voltage detection …
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on Yesterday, 04:01
For the IDE issues, it's possible the integrated controller card might be acting funny and doing a reflow might help, but I digress. My current and only Socket 370 build has a PIII-S 1.4/512K/1.45V CPU installed and has 2 ISA slots. Going to install my AWE64 Gold for DOS games and disable the Live! …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-06-03, 06:54
Bought me a Texas Instruments Extensa E610CDT/TI Extensa-Scholar ESS2 (or ESS3, hard to read the label on top due to the lighting). The laptop is in good shape (keyboard's keys are faded on a few of them, but that's no problem, I could print out stickers of said keys or do something to make it more …
Re: Soyo SY-4SAW2 Rev WA3
Posted on 2020-05-31, 18:35
Well, the L2 cache jumpers and TAG chip were wrong. After changing that, it boots with the CPU set to WB mode. I'll test the other BIOS and see what happens. I tested the 1997 BIOS, but my HDD refuses to boot or throws bad cluster errors with ScanDisk and won't continue. Going to try it again.
Re: Soyo SY-4SAW2 Rev WA3
Posted on 2020-05-31, 17:23
Received the board yesterday and spruced it up by swapping the battery with a CR2032 with a battery holder; removed D2 to prevent the charging circuit from being used. Plus, I repaired the slight trace damage the board had from the battery and it works. The board is supposed to work with a WB cache …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-05-28, 04:55
Attempting to fix a PB450 board that has power (voltage) issues. Replaced inductors, cleaned the pads off, and installed a battery holder + a wire to go from the positive terminal to the one trace that got damaged on top, but the wire is underneath. Going to check more traces for any damage, patch …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-05-28, 04:53
Bought another ThinkPad 380D that is in great shape that also has the power supply for it (so now I'll have 3 of them). Few code errors, but it has 80MB RAM installed (roughly). 161 and 163 - CMOS battery low - CMOS settings reset to default 301 - Key stuck or not responding 8611 - System bus error …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-05-26, 21:08
Backing up my old S7 Edge (going to retire it) and going to put the data that's backed up on my SD card onto the new phone I recently got (put on a screen protector and added the case to it as a precautionary measure). 1 thing left after that and that is activating it.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-05-26, 05:38
Those are good investments. Might as well do the same thing with my GameCube someday (it reads good, but takes a while to load games sometimes).
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-05-26, 04:45
Ouch.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-05-26, 04:26
There are adjustment potentiometers for the laser, I believe for both CD and DVD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tvwdel1XuA
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2020-05-24, 05:40
Wowzers. PCI, MediaBus, ISA, and EISA? Great board and score, man.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-05-24, 04:56
They are, but I believe he's talking about the timedemo for Doom to see how quick it is for the hardware. I get between 42.4 and 46.5 FPS when I run doom -timedemo demo3 on both of my 486 machines. 1 of which allows me to change the timings for the cache and RAM, whereas the other one does not, but …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-05-24, 04:26
The PB450 board has the ISA riser card with it as well and has a better video chip than my Packard Bell's motherboard. The one I bought a week ago will get diagnostics done on it. If the diagnostics card (ISA or PCI) shows ---- on the display, does that mean the BIOS chip has gone bad or something …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-05-24, 04:23
Does it have PCI? If so, a dual IDE controller card would suffice, however, you would need to install the drivers first on another computer to play it safe.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-05-24, 03:42
I still have cache chips stuck in Texas for almost a month and the PB450 board I ordered keeps going to different cities in my state.
Soyo SY-4SAW2 Rev WA3
Posted on 2020-05-24, 02:45
Bought a good, functional (battery leakage present, will fix the issue by replacing the battery with a CR2032 (got the battery holder, as well as the board manual, BIOS, and battery replacement guide on vogonsdrivers.com prior to) Soyo SY-4SAW2 Rev WA3 motherboard. Odd portion is the keyboard port. …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-05-24, 00:58
Bought a good, functional (battery leakage present, will fix the issue by replacing the battery with a CR2032 (got the battery holder, as well as the board manual, BIOS, and battery replacement guide on vogonsdrivers.com prior to) Soyo SY-4SAW2 Rev WA3 motherboard. Odd portion is the keyboard port. …
Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS
Posted on 2020-05-23, 21:13
That's much better. I didn't realize the new Edge version allows the installation of Chrome extensions, which is rad, man.
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