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

Posted on 2020-03-04, 13:24

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by kaputnik

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Just found on the street, unfortunately without controller+games... IMG_0942.JPG Cool, somewhat jealous now :D Those pads are extremely simple, there's no controller chip etc in them, the buttons are directly connected to the console. Here 's a good summary. With other words, if you don't want to …

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Re: How much does XP benefit from two cores versus one when it comes to Athlon 64?

Posted on 2020-03-04, 10:08

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by kaputnik

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... XP really is a whole lot better with 2 cores than 1. Even if the program you are running is only single threaded, the system can use the second core to process background stuff instead of having to do a ton of task switching. ... Agree. Even hyperthreading did wonders, remembering upgrading an …

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Re: Transmeta Crusoe board - help restoring its former glory

Posted on 2020-03-03, 23:34

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Who on earth would cannibalize parts from this rather than just buy new...? (admittedly the big caps are nice Sanyo units) Looking at mine: TC4: 16V 2200uF TC8: 6.3V 2200uF TC9: 16V 220uF TC11: 16V 2200uF TC12: 16V 220uF TC13: 16V 220uF TC15: 6.3V 2200uF I'm not to hot at identifying inductors or …

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Re: Need to Identify type of mainboard (MSI MS6119) for correct Bios

Posted on 2020-01-27, 14:35

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by kaputnik

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Does it have jumpers/dipswitches? I think I see them on this image, if so then it's not "CPU PLUG AND PLAY", so use the standard one. Also, it has a nice socketed BIOS ROM, so even if you mis-flash, it's easy enough to fix. My MS6119 rev 1.1 is a CPU PnP one, and it hasn't got the FSB/multi …

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Re: New ATX power supply standard will be 12v only

Posted on 2020-01-27, 08:46

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well yeah, there are several devices that consumers can use and buy that use 48V, but I meant wide spread adoption in high current power supplies. though I think the safety limit is something like 60v currently. Well, it varies depending who you ask, but 24V is the most conservative treshold I've …

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Re: Is this Mac Se (likely) repairable?

Posted on 2020-01-21, 15:30

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by kaputnik

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yeah for $20 I'd probably save it just for the case ^^ otherwise it'll just get thrown away. Same here. If the hardware really was beyond repair, it would make an awesome case for a hackintosh. I don't know its physical dimensions, but it would really surprise me if you couldn't fit some suitable …

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Re: How to remove superglue (cyanoacrylate) from electronics?

Posted on 2020-01-21, 09:51

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by kaputnik

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It is indeed cyanoacrylate. The seller is an ignorant (no offense) scrapper, he just used what was conveniently available. Although ideally I would like to, I dont have to remove all the CA On the PCB (it is not polar and therefore not conductive right?); hopefully there isnt much on the underside …

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Re: How to remove superglue (cyanoacrylate) from electronics?

Posted on 2020-01-21, 08:34

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by kaputnik

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To effectively dissolve cyanoacrylate, you'd need some chlorinated hydrocarbon, and those are hard to come by nowadays. In most civilized countries, you need some kind of license to buy them, they're not very healthy. There are special cyanoacrylate solvents too, but got no idea how PCB laminate, …

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Re: Voltage question for Noctua 40mm fan

Posted on 2020-01-18, 14:51

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Fans don't use more than one voltage. Black is GND Red is either +5V or +12V, depending on if it's a 5V or 12V fan Yellow is revolution sensor Ah yes thank you just after making this post I remembered an old post I asked for a power supply fan here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=62248 …

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

Posted on 2019-12-26, 10:18

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by kaputnik

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Nice.. Did it come with a metal bracket? Mine was my own solder project so it's not as clean as yours. It also has a volume shaft that is a few mm longer and and lacks a metal bracket, but I think it cost me half of what you paid so I can't complaing :lol: If you really want a metal bracket, it …

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Re: Identifying the sound chipset in an old laptop

Posted on 2019-12-26, 09:54

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by kaputnik

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derSammler wrote: It's AC'97 as listed. Not usable under DOS at all (for games, that is), only inside a DOS box in Win9x. Oh, okay. So no AC'97 chips has any sort of standalone DOS compatibility? Guess I'll just forget about that then, and see what it can do from within W98SE instead 😀

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Re: Identifying the sound chipset in an old laptop

Posted on 2019-12-26, 09:48

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by kaputnik

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In "modern" (AC97/HDAudio) computers, the sound codec is connected to the southbridge. Windows can see the connection (that 8086:266e) but not the codec itself. You could try to boot with a Linux cdrom and ask asound which cards the laptop has, but (in this case) it's easier to find the drivers on …

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Identifying the sound chipset in an old laptop

Posted on 2019-12-26, 09:06

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Was asked to wipe the HDD and scrap an old laptop containing some sensitive research data the other day. Before scrapping it, I decided to check if it might be worth keeping instead. It's a Compaq NC6220. Googled around some and found this . The most interesting part is of course the audio output …

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2019-12-23, 10:51

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I've run it through Memtest86 and Prime95, no problems, it mostly seemed stable for desktop activities with XPSP2, but as soon as SP3 gets involved it goes to hell, It seemed to work fine in 98SE until I tried to run some DX 9 games, it works for about a minute then crashes, do these things seem …

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2019-12-23, 08:15

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Ok guys I can't get this board stable. I'm running a Xeon 3230, 512MB of 533 DDR2, 2 Sata drives in IDE mode, an ATI radeon 9800 with a voodoo 2 PCI board. The OSes are installed to a 120GB SSD in 2 separate partitions. I keep getting all kinds of errors randomly, IRQL and memory access violations …

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Re: Yet another slotket question!

Posted on 2019-12-20, 14:41

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by kaputnik

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Coppermine processors often require 1.65 Volt to operate. Slotkets cannot convert voltage**, only adjust the Voltage request signal. Older 440BX motherboards may have an older Voltage regulator module on the board that cannot go below 1,70 Volts, or was it 1,80 Volt? Anyways, In that case you have …

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Re: Cooler for GeForce4 Ti 4600

Posted on 2019-12-17, 09:48

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Looking for a recommendation on a good cooler or cooler / fan to put on one of my Ti4600 cards as I just dont like the Cooler and Fan that comes with it...I'm sure it works fine, but I want something that looks better! Using Zalman VF900Cu with my GF4 series cards, picked up a couple of NIB ones …

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Re: MSI MS-6168 ... is a rebirth possible ?

Posted on 2019-11-24, 14:04

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Hello everybody :happy: I bought a MSI MS-6168 ver2 which was in a really bad shape. Lot of dust, bad capacitors, missing inductance and maybe more that i can't detect. My electronic knowledges are really poor (absent ?) and i would like to rebirth this board. - For capacitors replacement, i think …

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

Posted on 2019-11-15, 07:25

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Pulled my hair out trying get a Dreamblaster S2 working with an ES1868F card for a couple of hours. Turned out it was just the AUX channel volume the Waveblaster header uses being set to 0 by default. So silly...

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Re: Readily available motherboards with ISA slot and faster CPUs?

Posted on 2019-11-14, 21:10

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Got a Chaintech 7AJA2 running an XP Thoroughbred 2600+ (AXDA2600DKV3C) in my Athlon rig. It's a KT133A board with one ISA port. At least theoretically it should be able handle the 266 MT/s Barton XP-M CPUs. If it does, the 3000+ is the fastest possible CPU. Looked for one to try with for a couple of …

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