Re: HELP UNIPO TFT PHILIPS MONITOR

Posted on 2018-01-18, 11:34

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by dionb

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and how to use them for personal use ( arcade game ) or just to make the work, please reply That's a mono tube. You don't really want to play arcade games in b/w, do you? Trash it, seriously. You could just as easily say 'that's an ancient XT, you really don't want to play arcade games on that, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-18, 00:20

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by dionb

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Arr testicles :( That beautiful XP55T2P4 motherboard is completely dead. I hooked up a minimal config with (underclocked) CPU, RAM, VGA, PSU and a POST-diagnostic card, fired it up and... 00 code on the diag and a smell of very, very unhappy electronics. After testing all the peripherals on another …

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Re: HELP UNIPO TFT PHILIPS MONITOR

Posted on 2018-01-18, 00:11

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by dionb

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i just found out it's not a tft i didn't know names and types of monitors at all, the only wire (not even attached) is vga no other input or power, but i have 3 others that i haven't looked at. I'll post a reply with detailed picture tomorrow. If there is only one connector, it needs to supply both …

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Re: HELP UNIPO TFT PHILIPS MONITOR

Posted on 2018-01-17, 23:28

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by dionb

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That, sir, is not a TFT. If you're not trolling here, please take a picture of the inputs for this device. It looks significantly older than the VGA standard, so almost certainly accepts something else. I once installed the mini (black and white) CRT-monitor from a 1970's era Philips video camera as …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-17, 23:08

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Good news! The postman came today at last, here's the haul (not just today's, but coming in in drips and drabs over the last few weeks): https://tweakers.net/ext/f/HjgwLintbUyOTb4o3hPIPzop/full.jpg From right to left Iiyama HM704UTC flatscreen Diamondtron CRT Aztech I38-MMSN824 (Sound Galaxy …

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Re: New 486 build. What are the best motherboards?

Posted on 2018-01-17, 14:58

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[...] Not necessarily. There were a few Socket 4 and Socket 5 boards with VLB slots as well. My understanding is that the VLB implementation was not as good because VLB was closely tied to the 486 architecture. The issue is that VLB runs at full system speed, supposedly connecting directly to the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-17, 14:37

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[...] I can not for the life of me identify the Socket 370 motherboard. It's a PLE133T chipset, so it can run Tualatin, which makes it fairly interesting to me despite the lack of AGP (I have enough well performing PCI cards) but I can't seem to find out what it is. The only markings I can find are …

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Re: Socket 3 heatsink - any place to get for cheap or should I make my own?

Posted on 2018-01-16, 21:56

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One thing you could try is chipset (northbridge) heatsinks. They are similar in size to 486 CPUs and dissipate similar amounts of heat (if not a bit more). You can get them with adhesive thermal tape, which should suffice. That said, looking for those I came across perfectly reasonably priced 486 …

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Re: Trying to find drivers for a Zenith Data Systems laptop

Posted on 2018-01-16, 10:05

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Well, the dos sound drivers and the windows 3.x drivers for sound, video and whatever else. I'm really wary of going into the thing's innards. Unless the documentation is excellent, you probably can't be sure of what you have without physically checking it. And my experience with Packard Bell / ZDS …

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Re: Modern PC with K6-2+

Posted on 2018-01-15, 22:24

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I run Beos5 upgraded to nmightly Haiku on my K62+500 wth 512mb ram and G400MAX. (I dont run windows on it). Its sluggish for sure. Remeber too, the problem of caching so much ram. I dont know an MVP3 motherboard that can cache 768mb ram Marginally off-topic, but do you have sound working and if so …

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Re: Modern PC with K6-2+

Posted on 2018-01-15, 19:53

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I imagined that not being supported and patched there could be problems, but realistically are these old 16bit kernel based os still target for any possible sw bugs out there in a world of arm based linux based machines? One way to find out... It's a valid question in fact, but I wouldn't suggest …

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Re: Modern PC with K6-2+

Posted on 2018-01-15, 14:21

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Here I am. Basically mine was more a build test to see if I could actually live with an office PC (mail,web,music etc) based on this architecture. I knew modern web would be impossible on this machines, but the original idea was to use some light browser like Midori or Epiphany from the experience …

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Re: What chipsets/devices took advantage of Enhanced EDRAM?

Posted on 2018-01-15, 13:41

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Octek's DCA range of motherboards with Headland HT340 chipsets took advantage of EDRAM for one. I know because I own a Hippo VL+ with that chipset and it uses EDRAM. I believe HT342 also uses EDRAM. Ah, that rings a bell! Thanks :) It also gave a good search term, which trawled up this: http://www. …

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Re: Why did AMD stop making their CPUs compatible with Intel motherboards?

Posted on 2018-01-15, 12:16

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why did AMD stop making their CPUs compatible with Intel motherboards starting with Slot A? I believe Intel patented Slot 1 in an unsurprising asshole move to make sure nobody could release CPUs for it. Nope, at least that's not the prime reason. AMD based a lot of the Athlon design on the DEC …

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What chipsets/devices took advantage of Enhanced EDRAM?

Posted on 2018-01-15, 12:16

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While digging around in my old toolbox I found some old SIMMs I had not given away when stopping with vintage computing last time round. Mostly they are very large (64MB) or fast (50ns) FPM and EDO modules, but I also have two Enhanced EDRAM SIMMs. Now, I know what this EDRAM is - it's a regular …

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Re: Trying to find drivers for a Zenith Data Systems laptop

Posted on 2018-01-15, 10:12

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by dionb

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Which drivers are you looking for? You're probably best off looking for the chips in the laptop for audio, video and anything else you need and then looking at the status for the individual chips.

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Re: Modern PC with K6-2+

Posted on 2018-01-14, 17:26

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Exactly what do you intend to do on this 'modern' PC? If that involves web browsing to fully featured websites: forget it :o The amount of processing any form of Web 2.0 site requires is far more than your CPU can handle in anything near real-time. I have a Dell D430 subnotebook with 1.2GHz Core2Duo …

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Re: Socket 7 CPU change not recognized?

Posted on 2018-01-13, 09:54

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In other words, any board that has a setting for 166MHz can also do 200 and 233MHz with a suitable CPU. Yes, except both the K6-2 or newer and the P55C require split plane I/O and core voltages. Older socket 7 boards sometimes used a common voltage for both. Which I already said was the bigger …

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Re: Forgot how much old hardware I had

Posted on 2018-01-13, 09:37

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Recognizable... I thought I had sold/given away all my old stuff before moving from a large(ish) house in a small town (with shed and cellar) to a small apartment in the big city over a decade ago. Now I'm getting an So7 system together again (excuse: to build one with my son) and just after …

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

Posted on 2018-01-12, 22:50

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Not actually mine yet, but I have first dibs on it when my oldest colleague (who refuses to part with it even though is has never been used for over a decade) retires: An MPEG analyzer system based on an Asus CUV4X-DLS and a single P3 coppermine (why this board if you never intended to do SMP??). …

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