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

Posted on 2020-07-23, 17:25

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by jamesp15

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Just a guess, but it is probably a thermal fuse. Given its location, size and such. Cylinder or Radial type https://www.digikey.com/products/en/circuit-protection/thermal-cutoffs-thermal-fuses/146 Again just guessing here, someone else will probably chime in thats more certain. Not been very active …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-07-23, 01:25

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by jamesp15

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As a heads up, Malwarebytes is blocking vogonsdrivers for a Trojan. "Website blocked due to a Trojan Your Malwarebytes Premium blocked this website because it may contain a Trojan. We strongly recommend you do not continue." Possibly in one or more of the uploads, or possibly a false positive. What …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-07-21, 01:56

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by jamesp15

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As a heads up, Malwarebytes is blocking vogonsdrivers for a Trojan. "Website blocked due to a Trojan Your Malwarebytes Premium blocked this website because it may contain a Trojan. We strongly recommend you do not continue." Possibly in one or more of the uploads, or possibly a false positive.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-09, 17:36

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by jamesp15

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It's getting hard for the average man with a 30k a year salary to keep up. Keep up? Seems like you had a quite strange attitude then. A hobby is for having fun (and wasting time), not to keep up with others. I don't give a shit about owning rare or expensive stuff. I get what I want to have in my …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-06, 01:20

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by jamesp15

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Soak the board's affected areas with white vinegar then clean it with IPA and it will be fine, that board does not look like it got any battery leakage into the layers, it's all surface and via corrosion which can be dealt with. Thanks for the suggestions, I was also told by someone to mix baking …

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

Posted on 2020-05-30, 15:45

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by jamesp15

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Purchased a can of brake cleaner fluid on amazon which will be arriving tomorrow. I will be hosing down a grimy Abit AS8-V motherboard, which will be the test subject Definitely test a tiny small drop of it on some of the plastic parts before "cleaning" it all. Expansion slots, memory slots, cpu …

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Re: Maxigamer Voodoo2 Repair questions

Posted on 2020-05-24, 00:36

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by jamesp15

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No luck on ebay or digikey or mouser, anyone know of a reliable source for 512kx16 EDO for this card? I found some 50ns stuff, but I dont think that would take the clock speeds needed.

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Re: Maxigamer Voodoo2 Repair questions

Posted on 2020-05-22, 02:42

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by jamesp15

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Unfortunately no history, it was given to me along with a bunch of other cards that pretty much are all functional. It is a 12mb voodoo2 with 12 chips (only chips on one side, back of card is bare), instead of the more normal (in my experience) 24 chips. So the memory chips are 512kx16 instead of …

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Maxigamer Voodoo2 Repair questions

Posted on 2020-05-22, 02:16

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by jamesp15

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I was recently given this Voodoo2 with a very blown memory chip. Outside of the very obvious chip that is blown, I do not see any other physical damage (but my very tired eyes may deceive me, so asking second opinions here.) Should I replace all 4 chips in that bank? or would it be enough to replace …

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Re: Do i have bad CPUs?

Posted on 2020-01-14, 16:05

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by jamesp15

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Most likely: Crushed corner or edge on the CPU die from rough heatsink installation/removal. The dies were/are pretty fragile in that regard. If you notice chipping on the corners/edges there isnt anything you can do but make them into keychains or wall art... (some/many with chipped corners will …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-08, 03:16

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by jamesp15

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Just a note, not all the "complaints" are because of dislike of the redesign.. there are legitimate concerns as well WRT eyestrain and headaches, I am not the only one who had issues with that. I couldnt look at the site for more than about 2 minutes before I was on the verge of a migraine.. the old …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-07, 02:59

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by jamesp15

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Switching to Old School color scheme made it so I dont get headaches when viewing the forums anymore at least. Not a fan of the theme in general, and I find myself browsing the site a lot less recently because of the theme, but I am but a low post count introvert so not much will be lost.

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-04, 03:00

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by jamesp15

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Found it finally, its under color scheme. I thought it was a theme/etc. Was looking in the wrong place 🤣 Better now, at least I dont get a headache within 2 minutes of trying to do any actual reading now.

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-04, 02:10

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by jamesp15

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I may be blind or just the headache inducing scheme, but I cannot seem to find where to change to the "Old School" theme?

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-02, 20:53

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by jamesp15

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Any way to change back to the old theme or to any other theme on a per-user basis? This new look gives me a headache, not from change but from the color scheme and eye fatigue...

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2019-11-27, 23:29

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by jamesp15

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I have had over the years 4 or 5 "wall wart" power blocks that couldnt deliver near their ratings, and were suspiciously heavy... I took them apart and found a bunch of steel nuts/bolts epoxied to the case with a tiny small transformer and 4 4000 series diodes as a rectifier inside... None recently …

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Re: ECS boards not posting

Posted on 2019-10-19, 17:17

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by jamesp15

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Capacitors can go bad without leaking or bulging... if your comfortable/able to replace them it may well fix the board. I have had a few "capacitor plague" era boards that had bad caps that didnt leak/pop/bulge/etc.

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

Posted on 2019-10-11, 20:17

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by jamesp15

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bjwil1991 wrote: So, the TNT2 is a bit faster than the M64 version, right, or am I incorrect on there? M64 is right around the speed of the "original" TNT overall, not terribly slower but noticeable at higher resolutions.

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

Posted on 2019-10-11, 03:04

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by jamesp15

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FAMICOMASTER wrote: What's different between a normal TNT2 and a TNT2 M64? I have several of both but I've never been sure. At first I thought it was memory sizes, but then I realized that I have TNT2s with 16MB and 32MB, and TNT M64s with 16MB and 32MB. TNT2-M64 = 64bit Memory bus TNT2 = 128bit …

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Re: Help identifying this AGP card?

Posted on 2019-07-08, 18:59

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by jamesp15

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Part number has "NV34" in it, NV34 is Geforce FX 5200 series. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-nv34-a2.g698 Iris030380 wrote: How about this one? 48a.jpg 48b.jpg

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