Re: Nvidia 8800GT Repair [FIXED]

Posted on 2025-04-01, 10:15

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by ediflorianUS

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I am still trying to fix my 8800GTX-s , I cleand it today , they died on shelf few years back(was working badly ... with glitches/artefacts , no driver)... I hear it may be the img converter chip issue , not the gpu itself.

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Re: HP Brio BA 400 Upgrade Advice - Windows 98/Pentium III Machine

Posted on 2025-03-17, 15:37

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by ediflorianUS

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Prices for vintage parts go way up, especially online , best to ask a friend for a cpu, and if you have local Electronic Waste collector , try find parts there, finding online to order and ship stuff is a waste of time&$ , and you have to add at least a 0 at the end , at your current budget.

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Re: ECS K7S5A No POST/No Display, Troubleshooting Help

Posted on 2025-03-17, 13:31

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by ediflorianUS

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I also have a K7S5A motherboard, though I never really did anything with it (was a freebie from a PC repair shop about to throw it away), other than finally figuring out how to make it POST several years ago. In my case, the board would NOT POST with any DDR(1) RAM of any kind. I tried high density …

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Re: Electronics Guessing game , can anyone identify missing components on this GeForce 4 MX 440? black pcb

Posted on 2024-07-30, 18:05

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by ediflorianUS

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There a re markings on the PCB for everything C=capacitor, R=resistor, L=inductor... Look for a list of these abbreviations. Do you have any specific component in mind? Also note that not everything was necessarily populated, for example the components near the missing connector (DVI?) were not …

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

Posted on 2024-07-30, 17:04

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by ediflorianUS

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I played some Yoda Stories , 1(one) mission, for about 2-3h , on my 486, testing a old,yellowe AT kb,in the meantime...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-06-11, 17:56

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by ediflorianUS

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So I just got around cleaning the "9600 Pro" from my previous post, the one with fake Rubycons. But it wasn't just those fake Rubycons that came as a surprise :) https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=194991 https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=194990 Mobility radeon …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2024-06-11, 13:33

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by ediflorianUS

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Hi again, I've just revisited this thread and there's something that comes to mind. The old Sierra AGI titles do indeed make use of Hercules resolution, but perhaps not in the way that comes to mind first. What they make use of is the better text quality, they use a higher quality font for in-game …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2024-06-10, 15:05

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by ediflorianUS

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Anyway here is a question , if site says game is compatible with(M)CGA, why can't I launch it on my toshiba? That Toshiba has CGA, right? MCGA is a completely different video standard, supporting 320 x 200 x 256-color and 640 x 480 x 2-color. I see...tnx was thinking is monochrome cga It's not …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2024-06-10, 14:13

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by ediflorianUS

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What's about the aspect ratio of hercules? seems that lot's of games tend to be "extreme widescreen" in hercules mode on a real hercules crt-monitor? I guess you mean that a lot of games use the 640x200 CGA emulation mode, instead of the native 720x348: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p= …

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Re: Having Difficulties with XT-IDE on a Toshiba T3100e

Posted on 2024-06-10, 13:24

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by ediflorianUS

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Hello, sorry for the late replay, please check my old posts. I don't know about XT-CF-Lite, however I can help you upgrade the 40mb EIDE drive, I did the same with the connor, moved to pc(external enclosure),backed it up, and set it aside for safe keeping. Early WDC ide ATA drives seem reluctant to …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 200CDS 810 - troubleshooting and general info (KBC error - trying to solve, help needed)

Posted on 2024-05-22, 16:22

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by ediflorianUS

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what I miss? did you reflow stuff? bios did you ever found it? wasn't one on Archive org? I threw a temper tantrum caused by psychological fatigue. As of now I boxed the whole thing and stored it in the basement. In the future I'll try different things, in fact new ideas arose watching others …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 200CDS 810 - troubleshooting and general info (KBC error - trying to solve, help needed)

Posted on 2024-05-22, 15:14

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by ediflorianUS

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what I miss? did you reflow stuff? bios did you ever found it? wasn't one on Archive org?

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Re: Help / Advice repairing battery leak on Compaq Armada 7710MT

Posted on 2024-05-22, 14:44

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by ediflorianUS

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Did you clean it? Did contact cleaner or/& WD did the job? can you see if you pull KB cable+ screen cable if all 3 lights are up? can you use a V-meter on Ohm settings on a cap and see if it*s shorted? *That C542 Cap in 2nd image seems changed already.... that big chip next to the corrosion may be …

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Re: Problematic Pioneer CD-DVD drive. It's noisy and struggles to read discs.

Posted on 2024-05-22, 14:38

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by ediflorianUS

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I have a similar problem, but it occurs more sporadically, in general the drive slows down but is fully usable. In case the drive stops working, I have an idea. Maybe it is possible to transfer the head from a no-slot-in drive from the same period? For example, Pioneer DVD-114. These drives can be …

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Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades

Posted on 2024-05-22, 14:25

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by ediflorianUS

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For broken(leaky) Japanese screens - only YT video I found (with any relevance to a fix, it is for a mac but applies for old made in japan laptop screens).

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Re: Electronics Guessing game , can anyone identify missing components on this GeForce 4 MX 440? black pcb

Posted on 2024-05-22, 14:02

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by ediflorianUS

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There a re markings on the PCB for everything C=capacitor, R=resistor, L=inductor... Look for a list of these abbreviations. Do you have any specific component in mind? Also note that not everything was necessarily populated, for example the components near the missing connector (DVI?) were not …

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Re: Intel i945/GMA950 GPU

Posted on 2024-05-22, 11:17

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by ediflorianUS

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Thanks. I've got the last version of GMAbooster but it had a weird time limiter on it that was intended to force you to update by a certain date - doesn't actually do anything to the functionality but if the date is after some point in 2017 it refuses to start. I've just been switching the date …

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Electronics Guessing game , can anyone identify missing components on this GeForce 4 MX 440? black pcb

Posted on 2024-05-22, 11:08

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by ediflorianUS

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Electronics Guessing game , can anyone identify missing components on this Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 440-SE with black pcb? I think it is Sapphire.....

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Re: Intel i945/GMA950 GPU

Posted on 2024-01-10, 15:57

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by ediflorianUS

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I'm getting an old Dell D430 working for some projects, and I'd also like to know if anyone has a version of GMATweaker? The site was never archived and no longer exists. The GMABooster app is also date limited and it doesn't seem to be possible to get a serial anymore. I did all of that back 10 …

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Re: Minimum hardware specs to enjoy Doom and Doom2

Posted on 2023-11-14, 15:44

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by ediflorianUS

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wasn't CL settings of the MB and Write trough that made the DOOM slow on DX2? I use to play on the 486... seemed fine

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