Re: PSU - bust the myth
Posted on 2016-02-08, 17:41
By the way it still seems incredible nowdays to have 1000W on a multiple rail and 150w on another..
Re: PSU for Athlon XP 3200+, Radeon 9800 XT?
Posted on 2016-02-08, 17:07
Are there any way to prevent that something will be burned when an older psu cap will fail? Like something to shutdown power supply before something goes wrong like overvoltage on some rails? I don't know. Or at least I don't know of any external measures you can take (except maybe for a fuse? …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-02-08, 16:56
Or is it a K6-2? a 500Mhz model would be a nice bonus :) I bought a bunch of crap hics cards from a local seller (x12 for £8) purely because of the unidentifiable PCI card I saw in the terrible picture. Turns out it's a REALmagic EM8300 MPEG-2 / DVD decoder card. Apparently useless without the …
Re: Weird Video Card Issues
Posted on 2016-02-08, 16:40
If you find some info/manual of you motherboard maybe there'll be some led status info about the slow led light. Is the power cable outside the power supply connected directly to the wall or with a multiple plugs?
Re: PSU for Athlon XP 3200+, Radeon 9800 XT?
Posted on 2016-02-08, 16:32
So about recapping, which brand to choose for the caps? And what about the values of the capacitors about voltage and u? Higher always better? General guidelines for starters. Replace with caps of: - Same diameter (sometimes a slightly wider cap will fit in if there's enough room, like a 12.5mm …
Re: PCI Video Card for Pentium Pro 180MHz
Posted on 2016-02-08, 14:02
Only an opinion: the first generation Voodoo based card (usually 4MB of ram) is a 3D only accelerator that need another 2D video card to run (it will not run alone). A Radeon 7000 is a much newer card that usually would require much more powerful cpu to be used at best. It depends on what someone …
Re: PCI Video Card for Pentium Pro 180MHz
Posted on 2016-02-08, 13:51
Maybe (and if compatible with your system I don't know) I would try Mystique 4MB + Voodoo 1 or a Riva 128 PCI, obviously for very old accelerated games.
Re: Weird Video Card Issues
Posted on 2016-02-08, 12:19
But the system boot up anyway even without the video signal? Not really sure. I'm not that adept at interpreting sounds, but it does seem like it's working. I usually don't let it go very far, though. It only takes a few seconds to realize the video signal isn't going to come through. Try to see if …
Re: Top 5 hardest retro builds
Posted on 2016-02-08, 12:13
I think in general the older the system, the harder it gets. Hardware just seems more particular the further you go back. I have a 486 VLB system with SCSI HDD and optical, but I've never been able to get the ISA soundcard to work (CT4520) in DOS or WFW, regardless of drivers and configurations …
Re: Weird Video Card Issues
Posted on 2016-02-08, 12:10
But the system boot up anyway even without the video signal?
Re: Top 5 hardest retro builds
Posted on 2016-02-08, 12:07
I would also say some 386 or 486 build. I have some that I have not yet understood if broken or just difficult to setup. But obviously I find easier to stabilize many setup just using the exact time correct components.
Re: A7Pro/G450 bios update
Posted on 2016-02-08, 10:48
edit: If you use google, there's still lots of info available and lots I read brings back memories. But anyway, this thread http://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/asus-a7v133-v-1-05-motherboard-upgrading-to-athlon-xp-2100-92085/ has a few more tips, including disabling spread spectrum, but I'm …
Re: (KT133) I/O voltage dram/chipset/pci/agp
Posted on 2016-02-08, 10:42
Thank :) As I wrote in another thread, I put down to lower setting to see and I basically solved some strange problems I had before; the dxr3 that had lags during playback with H+ drivers (now lags are gone) and most of all the G450 instability. I suspect also that the time I had blue screens with …
Re: PSU for Athlon XP 3200+, Radeon 9800 XT?
Posted on 2016-02-08, 07:36
So about recapping, which brand to choose for the caps? And what about the values of the capacitors about voltage and u? Higher always better?
Re: A7Pro/G450 bios update
Posted on 2016-02-07, 14:26
edit: If you use google, there's still lots of info available and lots I read brings back memories. But anyway, this thread http://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/asus-a7v133-v-1-05-motherboard-upgrading-to-athlon-xp-2100-92085/ has a few more tips, including disabling spread spectrum, but I'm …
(KT133) I/O voltage dram/chipset/pci/agp
Posted on 2016-02-07, 12:54
Hi, I was reading in the Asus A7Pro based manual the part about I/O voltage settings and there's something I'd like to ask. There're three options: 3,35 / 3,56 / 3,69v and a default of 3,56 as my sensors read during running. Is this right for an AGP1/4x and PCI Athlon based machine? Or I should set …
Re: Cmedia CMI8786 and Win 9x/ME
Posted on 2016-02-06, 19:38
I have seen that also terratec dolby digital live should have the same family chipset (8788) but I don't find win9x driver anyway.
Re: PSU for Athlon XP 3200+, Radeon 9800 XT?
Posted on 2016-02-06, 19:23
So, which brand you can be sure you'll probably always get high quality psu/components, without having to search for each capacitors inside each psu? 😁
Re: CMI-8786 and Win 9x/ME
Posted on 2016-02-06, 17:20
gdjacobs wrote: Doesn't look good. I'm seeing only Win2k/XP drivers as the earliest. I knew I had to wait... 🙁 I am looking if some other cmedia chipset has compatible drivers.
Re: CMI-8786 and Win 9x/ME
Posted on 2016-02-06, 16:35
gdjacobs wrote: You sure that isn't a CMI8768? Yes, it's CMI-8786.. I knew it was quiet modern chipset but it looked too good to not buy it. 😁
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