Re: GeForce FX5900 ULTRA - no power through molex, fan not spinning

Posted on 2019-10-09, 17:49

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

post hi-res pics of the card. Kinda sound like the voltage reg that is in-line with the molex connector is bad. Could also be something as simple as a fuse or diode.. or maybe something got knocked off the board.

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Re: NForce2 and DOS Sound question

Posted on 2019-10-09, 17:48

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Sound

I'll pull out one of my nforce 2 boards and do testing this evening to see if it will work with a Yamaha YMF7x4.

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Re: Magma 2-slot PCI expansion system (CB264)

Posted on 2019-10-09, 16:39

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Doesn't seem like too bad of a price. I got one quite a while ago that I still need to do something with. The PCMCIA cards are especially hard to come by. I usually see just the chassis units for sale.

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2019-10-09, 16:23

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll take it.

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Re: ULTRA-X Professional Hardware Diagnostics P.H.D.16 - Made in U.S.A

Posted on 2019-10-09, 15:29

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would like a copy of the software as well as a scan of the manual if you have the ability to do that. I don't see a download page on the ULTRA-X site for any of that stuff but I may chat with them and see if they have it available.

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Re: How to repair IBM Model M keys?

Posted on 2019-10-09, 14:29

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not sure I would use grease at all. I would pop the stabilizer off and clean it and the hole it goes into. Chances are that there is just some dirt or fuzz in there and/or the plastic has worn a bit and has plastic dust in there. Either way, cleaning it should make it work fine again.

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Re: Expanded Memory (EMS) board for IDE/ATA ?

Posted on 2019-10-09, 03:56

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by cyclone3d

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Ok, so here is an option that is available that will work: 1. Get a SATA RAM drive such as this: https://www.amazon.com/ACARD-ANS-9010BA-Dynamic-Modules-Included/dp/B00VMS9ER4 http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/07042003/products.htm 2. use a SATA to IDE adapter 3. Use a program to emulate LIM EMS/ …

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Re: 386 system came with "lost" audio authoring software?

Posted on 2019-10-09, 01:59

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Sound

I contacted the seller and they still had the dongle. So now I have the dongle on the way! 😀 😀 😀

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Re: Improving x86 emulation speed(optimizations)?

Posted on 2019-10-08, 20:32

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by cyclone3d

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You could remove the logging checks. If it were me, I would have compiler directives defined for logging and not run-time checks.

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Re: The neverending journey to elusive Pentium 4 build

Posted on 2019-10-08, 16:36

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The Serpent Rider wrote: 55 bucks is ludicrous amount for any Cedar Mill. Well, it is the only place I could find that had it... so I guess if very specific CPU model/stepping is required it might be worth it.

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Re: Packard Bell Master CD - Skipping the hardware check.

Posted on 2019-10-08, 16:03

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sooo... what are the contents of the hwdetect.bat? Also, have yo tried booting into safe mode? Mash F8 before Windows starts to load.. then you can either go straight to Safe Mode or step through the boot process. My guess is the BSODs are due to incorrect drivers being pre-loaded on Win95 with that …

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Re: Isa ide cache controller vs normal isa ide controller

Posted on 2019-10-08, 14:41

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If using an old/slow HDD, then yeah, you will notice a difference. Maybe not so much if you are using Smartdrv. If you put an SSD on a regular IDE controller, then it will be faster than a HDD with a caching controller

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Re: Boxed Gravis PNP 1.0

Posted on 2019-10-08, 14:38

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Sound

The Best Soundcard for Internet is truly the Phoneblaster 28.8k Oh yeah, at some point somebody realized that sound cards and modems deal with very similar signals - same frequency range, etc., so it would be profitable to integrate them into one device. And that was one of the reasons behind the …

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Re: The neverending journey to elusive Pentium 4 build

Posted on 2019-10-08, 14:34

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here ya go - $55 from CPUMEDICS: https://www.cpumedics.com/intel-sl9kd-3-60ghz … -cpu-processor/

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

Posted on 2019-10-08, 06:15

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by cyclone3d

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I rescued this lovely Asus A7V8X from the recycle pile yesterday. Unfortunately it doesn't work, no idea why... I can't see anything obviously wrong. Anyone have any ideas? CameraZOOM-20191007012742480.jpg :P Hard to tell, could be anything. Carefully follow all traces on the PCB and look for …

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Re: 386 system came with "lost" audio authoring software?

Posted on 2019-10-08, 06:13

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Sound

Yeah, I'll copy them off and upload them - probably to archive.org There is more than just those two. The two I already mentioned: The Final Cut 3.00 - by Legend Software Systems - exclusively distributed by MIDI Land Inc. Trax v2.21 - by Passport Designs, Inc. and Cakewalk 5.0 Template (by Judy S. …

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Re: Software suggestions for formatting/recovering troublesome floppy disks?

Posted on 2019-10-08, 01:52

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Try Flobo https://flobo-floppy-bad-sector-repair.software.informer.com

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386 system came with "lost" audio authoring software?

Posted on 2019-10-08, 01:04

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Sound

So the Leading Edge 386 computer I bought that had an SCC-1 in it also came with some audio/midi authoring software. I'll have to double check what all is on there but 2 of the ones I looked at were: Final Cut - dos Trax - Windows 3.x Not finding any mention of these anywhere. Anybody here familiar …

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Re: Yamaha OPL YMF262 driver ?

Posted on 2019-10-07, 14:37

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Sound

OPL doesn't support MIDI by default.. however there were drivers that allowed you to play MIDI through the OPL synth. See here: http://www.midiox.com/index.htm?http://www.midiox.com/jsoft.htm http://cd.textfiles.com/audio11000/MSDOS/SNDBORDS/PROAUDIO/MIDIDR13/MIDI-DRV.TXT Also pretty sure that …

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Re: Bocaram AT XMS/EMS memory card replica?

Posted on 2019-10-07, 03:22

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for the encouragement! But I will not follow-up on this topic. There seems to be no interest and I own enough of these cards. Little disappointing, as such card is a must-have for a 286 owner. But main reason is that I dont know how to handle these PCB design programs, I didnt even find a …

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