Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-09, 09:35

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by elod

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just bought some old PSUs. One of each: FSP, Delta, HEC. All deliver ~200W on 3.3+5V. An Apacer IDE DOM (never had one, let's see how they work), a SilImage RAID controler and some other misc parts.

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Re: PS/2 to Microsoft Serialmouse Adapter Converter

Posted on 2017-02-08, 21:39

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by elod

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Matze, what would the cost be for the bare PCB? Also how do you accept payment?

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Re: Recognizing Compact Flash Cards

Posted on 2017-02-07, 14:55

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by elod

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I dropped the search after trying 2 cards. None of them worked reliably. I might try again with another adapter. As far as I know most of the cards are not even bootable (removable versus fixed disk profile) and manufacturers do not actively support or document this feature. SD looks more promising …

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Re: Hard disk running hours, anyone beating this?

Posted on 2017-02-06, 07:52

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by elod

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Pretty easy to beat on server type loads. The longest nonstop operation I observed was a Quantum Atlas 18GB drive that ran from 2001 until around 2015 when it began incrementing it's grown defects list. It's counter was 16bit and it did overflow twice in that time (this can be seen nicely in the …

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Re: places to buy old hardware?

Posted on 2017-01-31, 19:59

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by elod

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well..... What can one do. Our hobby is a small nieche-hobby. Not just our hobby, it's also killing most of the electronics/engineering learning process. A recycling center is a wet dream for any kid who's interested in technical stuff (or should be). Oh well, collateral damage, go buy your stuff …

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Re: 3COM Etherlink III ISA NIC problems

Posted on 2017-01-31, 07:54

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by elod

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Try an Intel or some ne2000 clone.

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Re: The dying Quantum Bigfoot

Posted on 2017-01-30, 09:52

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by elod

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

$50 for an old hard drive is just insane. I don't even pick them up for 1-2 euros. Got plenty of 2003-2005 era drives that seem much better (noise, speed, etc).

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Re: Are ECS motherboards any good?

Posted on 2017-01-30, 07:48

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by elod

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This particular board has a 12V connector for the CPU VRM at least, so you do not need to worry about a particularly high load on 5V. FX 5900 also has a Molex connector, it should pull most power from the 12V rail. I recommended the Seasonic S12II-520 in another thread, it's ok if you're looking for …

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Re: 386DX-40 Build

Posted on 2017-01-28, 21:44

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by elod

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

modular PSUs do make more of a mess when you have to keep order to your storage of unused cables, especially since I don't like mixing up cables of different brands (not even sure if these are all the same though, but I'd prefer to use the cables that came with its original unit). I tend to avoid …

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Re: FIC 486-PVT Jumper Settings for 5 Volt CPUs

Posted on 2017-01-28, 11:26

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by elod

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thank you, this is very helpful! I didn't know this has an onboard regulator, good to know. Now it looks like this is a solid 486 board for 1991-1995 fun! Yes. It might or might not run a 5x86, probably depends on the BIOS version. VLB stuff is also pretty hard to find, but they do pop up …

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Re: FIC 486-PVT Jumper Settings for 5 Volt CPUs

Posted on 2017-01-28, 07:42

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by elod

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for the nice photo of the VRM section. Now back to your problem. Just go with the settings specified for JCV. You have the regulator onboard (lucky you, I don't :) ) therefore it did not make sense to solder on the CN6 connectors. Also, the SX is a 5V CPU so you can't blow it up with wrong …

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Re: Asrock K7NF2-RAID worth it?

Posted on 2017-01-27, 14:45

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by elod

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Regarding PSU - it shouldn't be a problem using a modern one, right? I prefer stability over going 100% retro on all parts. Haven't decided on hard drives (or alternate hard drives e.g. SD cards) yet. Will look through PhilsComputerLab's videos and see. If you got any suggestions, let me know! Just …

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Re: General Information on Turtle-Beach Santa Cruz

Posted on 2017-01-26, 20:39

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by elod

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

skitters wrote: I have the "Applications and Drivers" CD that came with the card. If there is interest I could make an iso for vogonsdrivers. Please do. I've yet to play with my cards but would love to have the full software package around.

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Re: AMD Athlon WinXP Upgrade Advice

Posted on 2017-01-26, 20:32

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by elod

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That is a lot of caps. I would replace the ones that are exposed to heat (and high freq vrm stuff) and leave the very small ones alone (below 470uF). Those are not really stressed and will rarely fail. It's a lot of work as it is (the desoldering and cleaning of holes is 80% and must be done with …

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Re: Asrock K7NF2-RAID worth it?

Posted on 2017-01-26, 05:20

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by elod

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Usually nforce is not recommended for win9x around here if I remember right. I've just got a KT133a basedboard with an ISA slot that I'd love to get to work. That's way more appropriate for a very highend 98/dos system.

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Re: Proper Cleaning

Posted on 2017-01-24, 19:16

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by elod

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For accessories that are really dirty (keyboards for example) the best I've seen in action to this day is taking it apart completely, and washing the plastic with laundry detergent and hot water. The result is squeaky clean. You can also use wet wipes, the ones that are used for surfaces, stuff …

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Re: G486-evb with AM486 dx4-100

Posted on 2017-01-23, 19:33

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by elod

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am pretty decent at electronics and had a crazy thought of populating the voltage regulator and the missing components around it. I had the same thought for my 486-gio-vp. The voltage regulator part on a 486 is not very complicated. Not sure it's worth as you can still get later boards with PCI & …

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Re: LS-486e rev:C2 no post, trying to revive the board

Posted on 2017-01-21, 20:34

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by elod

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm joining the party. Got the same c2 rev board that will not post. Have not tried the debug card yet, but I do have one.

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Re: G486-evb with AM486 dx4-100

Posted on 2017-01-21, 15:28

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by elod

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

DX2-66 vere the last chips without voltage markings on them (so 5V). Your BIOS likely does not know about DX4, that's why it's 3V section is not pupulated (voltage regulator should be missing as well). Yes, you should hunt for a later board.

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Re: Linux and graphic cards installation

Posted on 2017-01-17, 09:37

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by elod

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I'm far from an expert on the subject as the only Debian installation I'm using on a daily basis is a CLI only server one, but as mrau mentions, in most cases xorg.conf is a thing of the past. Nowadays it's only used for customization, or if the hardware probing fails for some reason. This is …

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