Re: Dual Pentium Pro Build Thread

Posted on 2021-11-02, 17:59

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by Paadam

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Mentat-vvo wrote on 2021-11-01, 00:35: Nice rig, btw […] Show full quote Nice rig, btw Email me mentat_vvo@mail.ru Ps. I have some (7, for now) DIY green slotket8 sets for 50 bucks/each. E105CC39-F809-4006-A4D1-577250AD475A.jpeg I would like to buy one kit. What is your email?

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Re: What systems does the R7000 have suitability in?

Posted on 2021-10-23, 07:15

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by Paadam

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I have Radeon 7000 PCI 64MB (with VGA and DVI) made for Sun that I flashed with PC BIOS, works nicely but bried testing on my Pentium Pro 233 MHz Compaq system showed unimpressive performance. Not sure whether it was due to slow CPU, lower clocks of the card (have not verified it yet) or both. I …

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Re: Strange voltages on P2B-S

Posted on 2021-10-22, 20:36

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by Paadam

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Nothing is wrong, just the PSU is too new to output -5v and it only matters to few ISA cards.

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Re: Dutch members: Tulip Vision Line dt 4/66 (486) CPU jumper help?

Posted on 2021-10-21, 18:13

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by Paadam

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I have not dealt with it yet, was busy whole summer building a garage for another hobby (old Porsches 🤣). But the machine is nearby and I will focus on it soon. I could try to get a BIOS dumpsome time if needed.

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Re: Dutch members: Tulip Vision Line dt 4/66 (486) CPU jumper help?

Posted on 2021-10-20, 20:39

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by Paadam

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Hi Chris! Did you get my PM?

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Re: Any list of laptops with GeForce 2Go/ATi Mobility Radeon 7500 and support 98SE?

Posted on 2021-09-29, 07:39

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by Paadam

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T42p had 128 MB FireGL T2 in it.

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Re: Intel Slot 1 slocket troubleshooting and repair

Posted on 2021-09-08, 05:07

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by Paadam

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Can you try the slocket on another board to verify that it works? I have seen C1C0 message when slocket has connection problems to Slot1 connector on the board. Since it does not have retention brackets you can try to push the slocket in the Slot1 either side during power-up and see whether it will …

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Re: ASUS p55t2p4 repair

Posted on 2021-09-06, 17:17

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by Paadam

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It is 99% mismatched RAM.

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Re: I won a very nice looking GeForce FX 5900 with a stock cooler from eBay

Posted on 2021-08-26, 18:32

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by Paadam

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If you have proper heat gun and some experience, you can do a lot 😉 https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=101801

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Re: Acceptable 3d accelerator for Pentium MMX era.

Posted on 2021-08-21, 06:13

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by Paadam

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Banshee is also good choice for MMX.

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Re: OPTi Tribute system, Opti Chipset, VGA and sound

Posted on 2021-08-16, 08:41

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by Paadam

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I used Opti USB 2.0 PCI card on my MikroMikko (Finnish brand) computer which had ICL soc7 system board with Opti Viper M chipset. Now I have to find Opti sound card and graphics also and disable onboard 2MB Ati Mach64 😁

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Re: Acceptable 3d accelerator for Pentium MMX era.

Posted on 2021-08-15, 18:40

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I tried NFS Porsche on a 233MMX + Voodoo2 system within the past year. Iirc, it could be made sorta playable but it wasn't a very good experience. The CPU + bus speeds just weren't there. As soon as anything remotely taxing occurred (like other cars coming onscreen) it was chugsville. NFS 2:SE on …

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Re: Anyone has Compaq Professional Workstation 5100?

Posted on 2021-08-07, 10:50

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by Paadam

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Thanks for excellent reply and especially the links for various downloads. I found several myself but since they are all down from their original sources it takes special skill to find through archives. I PM'd Callahan but he had not replied me. Physical shape of PSU is little thing to worry, I can …

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Anyone has Compaq Professional Workstation 5100?

Posted on 2021-08-05, 18:17

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by Paadam

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I obtained the nice dual PII workstation recently but it was missing a PSU and I would like to confirm its pinout. First measurements indicate that it has standard ATX but knowing Compaq they might have changed PWRGOOD etc wires. Photo is illustrative, this model seems quite rare.

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Re: Dutch members: Tulip Vision Line dt 4/66 (486) CPU jumper help?

Posted on 2021-06-29, 19:22

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by Paadam

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Mine is from October 1996, I attached a screen. But for some reason my board refuses to work at 33MHz bus all of the sudden. Post nicely at 25 Mhz (and is stuck at starting MS-DOS screen, also does not boot from CD even though it displays choice whether I want to boot from CD or Windows (it is on …

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Re: Last games that run on a voodoo 5 5500.

Posted on 2021-06-28, 19:07

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I remember Doom 3 was run on Voodo2 SLI back in the day. I ran GTA Vice City, NFS Most Wanted for example, they ran quite well on V5. That was on Tualeron 1.2 overcloked to 133 Mhz FSB (1.6 GHz).

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Re: Fastest pc you have win98 on? (besides emulation)

Posted on 2021-06-20, 06:57

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by Paadam

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Pentium M Dothan 750 overclocked to 2.4 Ghz, 2GB RAM, Asus P4P800 SE+Asus CT-479, Geforce 7600 GT AGP.

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Re: Dutch members: Tulip Vision Line dt 4/66 (486) CPU jumper help?

Posted on 2021-06-17, 18:37

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I use 20GB HDD, without any overlay. BIOS sees it as 8 GB drive and since I wanted to clone original W3.11 installation I just partitioned it in DOS and made 2,1 GB FAT16 partition. No additional software used. Nice information regarding 40MHz FSB. I have am486-DX4 120 CPU laying around (with 8kb WB …

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Re: GPU for 440BX machine with 133 MHz bus?

Posted on 2021-06-15, 13:24

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by Paadam

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I have only had Gigabyte 440ZX mATX board but that did not have any such problems (it had Tualeron 1200@1600, Ti4600 graphics etc) and it was my main gaming rig back in 2002-2005 after which I went to Asus P4GD1+CT479 and overclocked Dothan 😀

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Re: GPU for 440BX machine with 133 MHz bus?

Posted on 2021-06-15, 06:36

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The early AT boards with AGP slots and some early ATX boards (Asus P2L97 comes to mind specifically) had VRM's that converted 5v to 3.3v and they had problems with more powerful (for the time) graphics cards. Asus even had official rework guide regarding the P2L97 mod early revisions that included …

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