Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-06-14, 03:02

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by CelGen

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Another strange BCM brand device with a "Whizpro" BIOS has surfaced in the trash. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/CGS_8033.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/CGS_8033.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/ …

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

Posted on 2018-05-29, 05:09

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by CelGen

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Installed a SCSI card and CD drive in a 386 and then setup a DOS-based CD player and then tried Myst under Windows 3.1 http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/IMG_0429.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/IMG_0429.jpg http://i11. …

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

Posted on 2018-02-17, 17:54

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by CelGen

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

More of something on the Apple side of things but I have four Radeon x800 cards that need to be tested. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/CGS_7816.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/CGS_7816.jpg Two of them are non-qualification …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-02-09, 05:50

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by CelGen

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Slowly. It's one of those CPU's that have amazing power management but the clock speed does NOT compare to similar chips at the same speed. Windows 98se fully patched seems a bit sluggish but windows 2000 crawls. Worth noting however that if you got a good install on it: Keep it. The drivers for the …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-01-28, 02:13

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by CelGen

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This thing was in the garbage. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/IMG_9346.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/IMG_9346.jpg At first I thought it was a REALLY strange video card that gave you four composite outputs and a VGA …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-01-24, 02:43

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by CelGen

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This thing was in the garbage. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/IMG_9346.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/IMG_9346.jpg At first I thought it was a REALLY strange video card that gave you four composite outputs and a VGA …

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

Posted on 2018-01-18, 03:07

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by CelGen

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After sitting in storage for over half a decade I finally dragged out an HP Kayak XU series machine that I've been hesitant to work on because last I touched it while it had two pretty 450mhz PIII Xeon CPU's marked INTEL CONFIDENTIAL it had so many other problems. I say hesitant because last I tried …

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Re: hardware needed to cover all DOS games?

Posted on 2018-01-10, 02:57

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by CelGen

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey Ivanov. If you want to cover DOS I personally have no problems with machines setup like so: -Socket 3 motherboard with a 66mhz 486 (DX or DX2. Doesn't matter too much) --You can use a Socket 5 or 7 machine with a Pentium chip if you don't want to pay the premium 486 systems are going for right …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-10, 02:39

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by CelGen

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There was a *new and unused* 60gb Maxtor Diamondmax that was $10. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/CGS_7798.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/CGS_7798.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/CGS_ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-05, 02:03

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by CelGen

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The Hackery sold me a quad speed CD caddy drive with a manual eject mechanism. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/CGS_7785.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/CGS_7785.jpg If it was not for the flap door it would fit in almost …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-11-15, 04:07

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by CelGen

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I found three more 3M Microtouch touchscreen panels for 17" CRT's. The are all curved for Shadow Mask tubes so far though so they do not fit on a Trinitron and surprise, that's all I have. 😒

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

Posted on 2017-11-15, 04:03

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by CelGen

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I found a little metal swing arm in the trash so now I don't have to lug the hot air rework station out of storage. It just hangs next to my bench. :lol: http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/IMG_8978.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer% …

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Re: Was AC'97 Support on DOS ever figured out?

Posted on 2017-08-26, 00:48

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by CelGen

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Not really discouraged. Just looking for clarity. :cool: The problem is that once you start moving the supporting software/hardware to an off-the-motherboard card the point of getting DOS support in many cases is nullified because then you can just drop in a far more compatible card and not bother. …

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Re: Was AC'97 Support on DOS ever figured out?

Posted on 2017-08-25, 19:28

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by CelGen

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Yes, I am aware of that from research. The question however was if in the meantime someone had figured out some level of DOS support for the AC'97 standard in general, not what needed to be done to make it work. My assumption from both of you saying roughly the same thing is "no". Afaik AC97 has …

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Was AC'97 Support on DOS ever figured out?

Posted on 2017-08-25, 04:45

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by CelGen

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I am in a weird situation where I have a machine running MS-DOS where I cannot install any PCI or ISA cards so I am forced to use the onboard sound system. It consists of the Intel 810 chipset with the Analog Devices AD1881A (unfortunately, as it seems the VIA chipsets at one point were known to …

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BCM SL810 Motherboard Info

Posted on 2017-07-27, 05:33

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by CelGen

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I found in a pile of odds and ends a rather strange OEM'd LPX board from a company called BCM. What makes it special is that hanging off it via a proprietary internal LVDS connector was an LCD panel with an ELO touchscreen. The thing was able to POST once I gave it a Celeron, some PC100 ram and I …

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

Posted on 2017-04-22, 04:16

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by CelGen

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My old workstation I dedicated to handling my chip burning and dumping finally died, so I picked up a slightly newer machine and made a fresh install. Fed it a retail XP pro key, then switched it with the OEM key on the side of the case because I was too lazy to burn the OEM disc and it was not …

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Re: FX5200 Cards Hang PC

Posted on 2017-03-28, 02:42

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by CelGen

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It's a passive backplane so unless it's not liking the bus length there's not much I can do.

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Re: FX5200 Cards Hang PC

Posted on 2017-03-28, 00:26

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by CelGen

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Perhaps the website of your motherboard's manufacturer..? Not that easy. It's an SBC that was sold under different brands. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/IMG_7475.jpg Teknor Applicom T946...or Kontron PCI-946? Neither OEM seems to want to admit this existed and …

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Re: FX5200 Cards Hang PC

Posted on 2017-03-27, 13:50

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by CelGen

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I can't seem to recall if there were updated drivers from Intel when you ran 98 on the 440BX chipset. Would you by chance know where to find a different source of drivers?

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