Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 22:25

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Not many notebooks can hold up to 45w Quads and not many can take this natively with out modding the notebook in both bios and motherboard. The ones that is rated and designed for usually were found in high end 15" and 17" where heatsinks were designed for this and motherboard usually used 4 memory …

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Re: What's this strange video card?

Posted on Yesterday, 21:41

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And pretty good compatibility. Cheers,

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 21:26

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A quick repaste with MX6 should get you going. At least that's what I have to do on my RGH'd Jasper 360, after I swap it in the elite case, and I might be getting a 750 or 1TB drive for it. I'm afraid to brake the back end of the case , they are fragile , and it's in good state. Will probably blow …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-03, 22:13

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Dumbass got hisself another headache lol HP Elitebook 8640p for $10 ... should be a chunk faster than the A6 and potentially a request fulfillment of a "I need an okay laptop" from in the fam, but gotta check it out and think about whether it could use a CPU upgrade or not. It is semi rugged …

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-06-03, 20:57

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I didn't have any problems running Nature or any other Windows 98 3DMark on a Pentium 3 with an FX 5700 or Quadro FX 3000 using driver version version 56.64. There is a video from Phils ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRhm4aGNI3o ) that shows that version 56.64 is the fastest FX driver overall …

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Re: "Input not supported" error when resolution set to 800x600 256 color

Posted on 2023-06-01, 22:55

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Corruption is memory speed or memory had degraded. These chips you have is 4 of junk quality memory chips and other 4 chips made by IBM could be 100ns or 120ns that were made for IBM made 256K modules rated at 120ns or 100ns. Unfortunately ram is soldered on this video card. My best advice is to …

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Re: NEC PC-9821An: My crazy Japanese Socket 5 machine

Posted on 2023-05-31, 22:54

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That's unusual cache stuff an high end external cache controller with their cache chips. That is made for server but used in PC98. Cheers,

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-05-31, 22:51

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With a FX5200 in windows XP, 45.23 crashes in 3dmark2001 on game 4, but 66.93 completes them all without issue. Haven't yet tried the same versions on 9x to see if the results are the same I get that now, what we meant about 45.23 is focused on windows 98 games for wider games compatibility. XP …

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Re: "Input not supported" error when resolution set to 800x600 256 color

Posted on 2023-05-29, 22:14

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9000C is 512K, and no support for 15 or 16 bit RAMDAC. Usually 66MHZ in the RAMDAC. 8900D, WDC WD90C30 1MB or 31 1MB or 1MB cirrus logic is what you want. Cheers,

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Re: GeForce 4 vs. GeForce FX?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 19:47

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Reason people said 45.23 is the best compatibility with games (especially!) and speed, reliable. But this lacks support for later video cards and also using later drivers breaks the game compatibility as well. Cheers,

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Re: "Input not supported" error when resolution set to 800x600 256 color

Posted on 2023-05-29, 19:44

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This is not the problem you are thinking about, the reason is, trident series is poorly understood. 8800 is earlier while 9000 series is cut down version and cheaper, poorer. The best tridents to have is 8900C and 8900D and has best hardware and software comparability, performance. Hence the cost is …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-25, 23:51

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Did we all used to pull our desks a foot away from the wall for our CRTs to hang off? I feel like that was a thing. That Viewsonic is a pretty decent monitor. And it's showing a great demo :-D Good catch. Yes, we didn't push them close to the wall. And some placed the monitor in the corner which …

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

Posted on 2023-05-24, 22:10

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To all on corrupted data issue: Do not use this utility to scan the hard drive as it takes so long time to do in hours while the hard drive corrupts more data during that, worse, even storage actually die. When you suspect a data corruption, quickly open the gsmartcontrol utility and query the SMART …

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Re: 386DX-33 build video and notes

Posted on 2023-05-23, 23:39

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Also liked the 386DX, back in the day, I purchased 386DX 25 machine. And wanted to have one again so I have small collection of 386DX all are cached. And I have place for the 486DX, which I'll also experiment by down-clocking it to 10MHZ, as well as 12.5 and 16MHz. Just need to get to it but I need …

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Re: HP RP5800 GPU help needed!

Posted on 2023-05-23, 22:10

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Good news. See if you can borrow another low end PCIe video card? I stick full height video card in those SFF case and this works for testing. Cheers,

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Re: HP RP5800 GPU help needed!

Posted on 2023-05-22, 23:20

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PCI-e slot 12V pins is designed to be driven up to 75W. Yeah there could be a power limit somewhere, try something different. Cheers,

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Re: SBC with too high regulator voltage at 3.5V causing 430HX to run hot.

Posted on 2023-05-22, 23:19

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I have two different SBCs, both are 430HX, one is cooler, and this other one is hot and this actually browned the chipset's plastic package. I thought the 430HX core runs at 3.3V and some for 5V to be compatible with 5V interface. Right now datasheet is poorly documented. I need different …

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Re: HP RP5800 GPU help needed!

Posted on 2023-05-22, 16:57

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Explore rest of the bios settings. Most of it in security and last tab menu has some as well. I have many HP computers but not the POS machine in my herd. Cheers,

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Re: SBC with too high regulator voltage at 3.5V causing 430HX to run hot.

Posted on 2023-05-22, 16:35

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Thank you, like I said the regulator used on this board is fixed to 3.3V and no provisions for external components' nor any pads, I have to replace the linear regulator with the adjustable VRM either homemade module or use of these switching DC DC modules. The fixed EZ1083CT-3.3 "adjust" pin is …

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Re: HP RP5800 GPU help needed!

Posted on 2023-05-22, 16:29

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This has a TPM, you need to set up the security section and other items to allow GPU in the security white list sections. RP5800 was a POS system for cashier use. Cheers,

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