Pentium Pro system for sale

Posted on 2018-08-25, 12:50

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Pentium Pro 200MHz 512k cpu on VS440FX motherboard (Gateway BIOS). MB has USB. 256MB RAM. I've actually got an entire build, but it's too heavy and expensive to ship, so just gonna sell the MB/CPU/RAM to start.

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Selling on eBay

Posted on 2016-02-22, 11:38

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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Not sure if this is off-topic, but I'm curious about other people's experiences selling old hardware on eBay, and also I would like some perspective on my recent experience. I decided not too long ago I was going to try to get rid of some of my old stuff. I put a dual p3 motherboard/processors/ram …

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Re: Nvidia GeForce 6800XT AGP won't work with 98

Posted on 2016-02-18, 19:46

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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Not real sure. I put a PCI ATI Radeon 7000 in the machine. Will probably just ebay the AGP card, along with most of my other old stuff. Getting tired of how much time old hardware sucks up from my life.

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Re: Nvidia GeForce 6800XT AGP won't work with 98

Posted on 2016-02-18, 18:57

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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And another obstacle: I can only boot into 98 safe mode now. But in safe mode, of course 98 won't recognize my USB drive, so I no longer have a way to get files onto the machine.

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Re: Nvidia GeForce 6800XT AGP won't work with 98

Posted on 2016-02-18, 18:52

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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mockingbird wrote: Use an older driver... Something like version 45. I was doing well to find the one I found. Every other search just gave me some strange downloading service that wanted me to download their proprietary spyware-installing download manager.

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Re: Nvidia GeForce 6800XT AGP won't work with 98

Posted on 2016-02-18, 18:28

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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That's the only AGP card. It works fine in XP on the same machine, and I know I've got the right Win98 drivers from Nvidia, so I don't know what else to try.

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Re: Nvidia GeForce 6800XT AGP won't work with 98

Posted on 2016-02-18, 18:19

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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try going into BIOS and disabling AGP x4 and AGP fast write. No option for fast write, but I changed AGP from 4x to 2x. Instead of a fast flicker, I got some scrambled color bars on the screen for a few seconds, but the screen still went black after that. Board is an ASUS TUSL2-C. Should I give up …

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Nvidia GeForce 6800XT AGP won't work with 98

Posted on 2016-02-18, 17:37

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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Downloaded the GeForce 6 Drivers from Nvidia, and they install, but when I boot into 98 in normal mode, the screen flashes and goes blank. Installed a PCI video card and everything works fine. The 6800XT works fine in the same machine under XP.

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Re: Is there no classifieds section on here?

Posted on 2016-02-13, 23:07

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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OK, thanks.

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Is there no classifieds section on here?

Posted on 2016-02-13, 22:34

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Or am I overlooking something...

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Re: Weird Video Card Issues

Posted on 2016-02-10, 18:11

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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Just thought of something in common between the pentium pro system and the 486 system. They both use the same 60ns FP RAM. 2 32MB sticks in each board. I wonder if that could have anything to do with the issues I had. It's new RAM, purchased from one of the memory manufacturers that still …

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Re: Weird Video Card Issues

Posted on 2016-02-10, 17:55

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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You should figure out a way to get some airflow over that heatsink or the Pentium Pro will run very hot. At 200 MHz a Pentium Pro 256KB or 512KB is rated at close to 40W and its not much less at 180 MHz. It's running at a temp where if I touch the fins for more than a second or two, they'll burn me …

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Re: Weird Video Card Issues

Posted on 2016-02-10, 17:40

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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A 20 MHz overclock is nothing to worry about with a gold top Pentium Pro as long as the heat sink has a fan but at 233+ MHz they start to use alot of power, this is however more of an an issue for dual CPU boards. Unfortunately, it's a passive heatsink, permanently bonded to the processor with …

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Re: Weird Video Card Issues

Posted on 2016-02-10, 17:25

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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UPDATE! And the weirdness does not cease... I got one of the two new video cards I ordered in, put it in the pentium pro system, and got the exact same problem. Had to hit reset a couple times before the system would boot. My processor is a Pentium Pro 180, so the bus speed was set to 60MHz. On a …

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

Posted on 2016-02-10, 15:22

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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I like those old IBM systems. There was a guy on Craigslist a few months ago selling 286 and 386 IBM systems in near mint shape, both with model M keyboards, for $50/machine. Kinda wish I had picked one or both up.

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

Posted on 2016-02-09, 11:42

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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I did find out that even with a GTX 470 in here.. and the big overclock on this cpu, it's still not fast enough to play Warframe on it. Stutters and runs like crap. I play warframe, too, and I've tried running it on quite a few platforms. I've had it running fine on a G1840 with a GTX560, as well …

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

Posted on 2016-02-08, 22:06

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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Tested this card today. Not sure what it's all about? :confused: Does anyone have more info? http://i.imgur.com/XE5uMchm.jpg kithylin is right. It's a video card with a standard DB15, and then a DB13W3 connector, the latter of which was used by Sun, SGI, and perhaps some other companies back in the …

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Re: PCI Video Card for Pentium Pro 180MHz

Posted on 2016-02-08, 19:52

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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Well, I ordered both the Matrox G450 and the ATI 7000. One of them ought to work right in the box, and I'm sure I'll find a use for the other later on...at the very least, I'll have an extra card for testing purposes. $12 and $15 respectively seemed pretty good.

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Re: Weird Video Card Issues

Posted on 2016-02-08, 19:46

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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It's a VS440FX board. I scanned through the 72 page manual, but didn't see anything about a flashing power LED. Might notice it if I read more carefully, but upon the suggestions of some forum members, I have a couple other PCI video cards on the way. So I'm going to try those out and see how they …

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Re: PCI Video Card for Pentium Pro 180MHz

Posted on 2016-02-08, 16:32

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by AllUrBaseRBelong2Us

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Thanks for all the info. I'll probably go with that Matrox G450 card vetz suggested, since it's less than $15.

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