Re: What did I just bought and how to use it?
Posted on Yesterday, 23:59
Sorry, I meant much older than the P4 and Athlon XP boards. I would consider 5 years "much" anyway.
Re: What did I just bought and how to use it?
Posted on Yesterday, 20:09
Those are all atx boards. It's hard to tell from your pictures, but the case you have looks like AT? Also, the location of the PSU and slot covers is totally different. Yours is likely a much older model.
Post a pic of an interesting PC item you own\owned that you haven't posted about before.
Posted on Yesterday, 08:56
Some people have huge collections and we've seen pictures of their rooms full of $300,000 worth of rare sealed boxes... but that means we've seen those already. Try not to post an item that you've posted about in the past. Something new. Preferably, something useful, cool looking, rare, nostalgic, …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on Yesterday, 05:52
Shreddoc wrote on Yesterday, 05:21: Ozzuneoj wrote on Yesterday, 04:20: In all seriousness, I can't explain why some have had such reliability issues with nforce 2 boards while others have not. I can explain why my nforce2 board has a reliability issue. 😀 20210116_181613.jpg Mystery solved! 🤣
Re: What did I just bought and how to use it?
Posted on Yesterday, 05:00
I agree with replacing the LCD. Obviously wouldn't be a trivial project, but that screen is probably absolutely horrible by today's standards. Old CRTs have that vintage appeal and only look real bad if they are defective or worn out. Old (pre-1998-ish) LCDs were, in my opinion, barely usable from …
Re: What did I just bought and how to use it?
Posted on Yesterday, 04:30
Wow! That is pretty stinking cool! You could make a luggable... anything, out of that! Not sure about the video connector. Would it be an LVDS interface? I don't know much about them, but I don't believe there would be any standard pinout if it was. Unless you can find documentation for that system, …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on Yesterday, 04:20
ok, quick update on the nforce 2 motherboard. it got through 50h of memtest86, just fine: nforce2 - 50h.jpg So onto prime95. Unfortunately, at first it was unstable, with prime95 reporting hardware errors. Since I am actually overclocking the CPU, that isn't too unexpected. So I've bumped up core …
Re: Fastest AGP card that doesn't require external power (molex / floppy)
Posted on Yesterday, 04:02
Club3d GeForce 7600GT or Medion Radeon 9800XL. Note: 9800XL has external floppy power connector, but does not require it to be connected on most motherboards. I'd never heard of either of these, so I Googled it and found the thread where you guys discovered the Club3D 7600GT just a week ago here at …
Re: Fastest AGP card that doesn't require external power (molex / floppy)
Posted on Yesterday, 01:00
If you want to stick to Nvidia, GeForce 4 Ti cards don't need external power, surprisingly. Any of those or their Quadro4 equivalents would be among the fastest cards from that time period that run only from the AGP bus power. They'll all be faster than a 5600 or 6200. I know from experience because …
Re: Voodoo 2 TMU 500-0010-01 Pin schematic... does it exist?
Posted on Yesterday, 00:43
My point for creating the thread was to see if there was a pinout available, in general. If it comes down to tracing out pins because there isn't, I'll move on to that next. It's pretty obvious what needs to be done if the pin is necessary, so I didn't bother with pictures. I'd wager that these are …
Voodoo 2 TMU 500-0010-01 Pin schematic... does it exist?
Posted on 2021-01-15, 06:08
I have a Diamond Monster 3D II 12MB that was abused by scrappers. Amazingly, the only real physical damage (aside from missing parts of the VGA connectors and the back plate) is a single broken pin on the right side TMU. I've fixed bent pins on these before, but this one was broken off from the chip …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-01-15, 05:27
mhh love those matsushita drives :3 so I bought this Korg Audio Gallery AG-10 boxed with all the stuff for a reasonable price, quickly took it out of the box (which was pretty beat up but eh not complaining) to put it in my midi tower build to see how everything fits. hardware40_08.jpg today I put …
Re: Feast of Intel740 chip Graphics cards
Posted on 2021-01-13, 19:01
Oops sorry! I was testing another card at the same time and posted a thread about that one too... I got them confused! 🤣
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-01-13, 06:46
A few weeks back, I bought some non-working VLB graphics cards - one a CL-GD5429 and the other a CL-GD5426 / I/O Combo card. At this point I am not short on vesa local bus video cards, these are both novel enough to be worth fixing though. Both are now working after fitting an EEPROM to each one ( …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-01-12, 21:25
Dont bid one this one Imi, the interesting card is one the way to me :-) :-) :-) Including the slot bracket :-) s-l1600 (9).jpg Nice, Roland 401AT !!!!! With SCB-55 attachted ;) Ohggg.... Man, wish I'd seen that lot... I mean... congratulations on the find. :D EDIT: Also, the ISA sound cards in the …
Re: Feast of Intel740 chip Graphics cards
Posted on 2021-01-12, 19:22
Windows 98SE detected it as an "Intel i740 Win9x PV4.0 with Video Capture". Strangely, dxdiag detects 71.5MB of video memory... maybe this is related to some AGP trickery or just a glitch. That will be 64 MB AGP aperture + 8 MB video memory. Intel i740 was used for ... games. This is a 16MB card. …
Re: Appian Graphics Gemini PCI - S3 Savage MX 16MB
Posted on 2021-01-12, 07:51
Wow, you know I never looked real closely at the specs of the S3 Savage series in comparison to the competition. It never occurred to me that they were only single pipeline, single TMU chips until the Savage 2000 came out. On top of that, they all had a 64bit memory BUS. I had always assumed it was …
Appian Graphics Gemini PCI - S3 Savage MX 16MB
Posted on 2021-01-12, 03:38
Recently I was given a bunch of older PC hardware, and this card was one of the very few internal components in the lot. It's a bit of an odd looking card, and I assumed right off the bat that it was some kind of Permedia or other pro\workstation type card. I think I was getting Appian confused with …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-01-11, 21:26
No, that site doesn't have images, but it is among the most complete sites for listing old cards. I'll be cross referencing cards from plasma-online with info from reviews and other collection sites when I add legacy cards to my site (which is waiting for the webmaster to add the last few thousand …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-01-11, 21:12
Yes, it's just a retail i740. http://www.plasma-online.de/index.html?content=http%3A//www.plasma-online.de/english/identify/serial/cards/real3d.html I only have NVivia and ATI/AMD cards in gpuzoo.com so far, but eventually will have more info for cards like this. Still working on adding older …
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