Re: PCI-X Compatible Sound Cards

Posted on Yesterday, 08:41

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by dionb

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Just to double-check: you really mean the big PCI-X slots, with 64b, 66-133MHz operation? Not PCI Express (PCIe)? PCI-X is backwards compatible with regular PCI, but with two caveats: 1) voltage is 3.3V only. 2) as it's a shared bus, the clock and features will drop to the level of the slowest card. …

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Re: Running 2x audio cards in one machine

Posted on Yesterday, 07:56

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by dionb

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But a lot of us have 2 cards in a PC like this. PCI card for windows and ISA card for dos. My Slot 1 actually has 3 cards Onboard Yamaha YMF, Audigy 2 and AWE64 and all play nice. Can I know how your end device, the speakers, is resolved? Each soundcard its own set or some sort of mixer? I have …

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Re: Motherboard G586IPV

Posted on Yesterday, 07:49

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by dionb

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Yes, that lokes like a linear VRM, two in fact - one for 3.3/3.52V, the other for split voltages down to 2.8V. The board should be able to supply 2.8V, so go right ahead with the P233MMX. There is one more risk - it's possible the VRM (and indeed the whole board) isn't rated to deliver the current …

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Re: Intel AA-654850-206 motherboard lost part

Posted on 2022-05-18, 19:43

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by dionb

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Can't help with the transistor, but can help you with the name. That's an Intel Advanced/ML "Marl" board. Perhaps you can find more with that, or others with the same board might recognize it easier.

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Re: Motherboard G586IPV

Posted on 2022-05-18, 18:13

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by dionb

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There's a brown slot that is supposed to be cpu cache but I have no idea how to get one compatible. Any COAST stick will do. Your board already has 256kB L2 PLB cache soldered onto it (those two UMC chips next to the 88243VX chip), so the only benefit of a COAST module would be to increase that to …

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Re: New guy find "Pentium 3 Slot 1 733"

Posted on 2022-05-18, 14:37

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by dionb

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I guess the Apollo 133 is the better. Intel never really succeeded with pushing RD RAM. Real world performance SD RAM could keep up or even outperform RD Ram based systems so the extra cost was never justified. These days though where cost/performance isn't rally an issue (just get a faster PC if …

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Re: Cirrius logic cl-gd5428 ram upgrade.

Posted on 2022-05-08, 10:48

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by dionb

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Could you clarify this statement: but it doesn't seem to be enough for win95 What in your Windows 95 experience seems wrong? When talking old-fashioned 2D stuff, pretty much the only thing video RAM affects is max resolution and colour depth - but it can be (and in this case is) limited by chip …

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Re: Anyone here own an Aladdin 7 based board?

Posted on 2022-05-07, 01:23

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by dionb

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Found something that may be a similar thing to the Aladdin 7 chipset, the SiS 540. It's single chip unlike the Aladdin 7 but like the Aladdin 7 it does have an iGPU which is the SiS 300 , and based on the Wikipedia the 3D was likely ok for non 3D-intensive apps and maybe some games. Another thing …

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Re: Argh! Think my Packard Bell is dying?

Posted on 2022-05-05, 18:37

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by dionb

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So the caps all look realy good to me? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/924/wOqLvp.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/923/rKyDpe.jpg Hang on... that's not the PB850/GVC FR500, it's the Biostar M5SIB ('Pegase' in Packard Bell code terms). Doesn't change much else, same …

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Re: Argh! Think my Packard Bell is dying?

Posted on 2022-05-04, 20:39

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by dionb

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If PSU is oem design I would refurb it but only if it isn't standard design (you can't put a square in an oval shape) These boards should use standard ATX pinout. Or at least mine did iirc. I don't know about the formfactor, because I intended to use it with a different case because I didn't like …

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Re: Sound Drivers for my Motherboard - Chaintech 6ATA2

Posted on 2022-05-04, 20:26

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by dionb

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If you have a Audigy, that would be vastly superior, both in terms of SNR, lower CPU load and positional audio. STAC 9700 drivers are tricky, SigmaTel never offered direct downloads, so you need drivers from a product they were included on. Most links are to malware sites. But I believe the Gigabyte …

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Re: Argh! Think my Packard Bell is dying?

Posted on 2022-05-04, 17:08

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by dionb

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What motherboard does that thing have? 1999-2003 era PB systems used motherboards (mainly MSI) that were rather vulnerable to capacitor plague. If you have some bad caps around your board's power regulation, it could cause this kind of stuff.

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Re: Case Intake Fan

Posted on 2022-05-04, 13:19

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by dionb

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[...] So my question is, do I need for a Pentium 4 pc a front intake fan or can I just put one on the side panel? Neither. If you need one fan, it should be an outtake fan and it should be high in the case (either behind the CPU, or straight out the top). It's important for airflow to have …

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Re: Windows 95 ,98 and ME systems...

Posted on 2022-05-04, 11:30

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by dionb

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Firstly, sorry dion i realized I never answered your question of what I want to do. Having grown up at the end of Win 3.1 era and most of my games came from the DOS-Windows XP era, I'd like to be able to play mostly a mix of DOS games (star trek rites, doom, wolfenstein, civ etc) and then windows …

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Re: Windows 95 ,98 and ME systems...

Posted on 2022-05-03, 20:56

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[...] Some general comments about what I've been reading: For PC1: The video is S3 964 chip PCI. A GXE64 PRO #9 Card, with 2MB onboard. If its worth it to hunt down extra chips to up it to 4, I can do that. Worth it for what exactly? The extra RAM doesn't win you any performance, just allows higher …

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Re: SC-55 Japanese import vs Dreamblaster X2GS

Posted on 2022-05-03, 14:39

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by dionb

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Tbh the big question here isn't specifially how the devices sound, but how you want to use them. An X2GS module connects to a single sound card in a single machine. That means no external wires or figuring out how to get sound from two different devices to your speakers. But of course it also means …

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Re: Windows 95 ,98 and ME systems...

Posted on 2022-05-03, 14:34

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by dionb

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Ooh, I like the MU440EX. Used a system on it with Celeron 333 in the office 2000-2001, until some IT manager decided to replace it with an i810-based system with Celeron 766. The 766 was actually slower due to UMA eating half the memory bandwidth, and Windows ME eating more of the 64MB RAM... then I …

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Re: Sound Drivers for my Motherboard - Chaintech 6ATA2

Posted on 2022-05-02, 22:20

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by dionb

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You're the one with the board, you are probably better placed to say what chip it is exactly than we are. It's an AC'97 codec in any event, but I've not found any pics good enough for a positive ID. It's the small square chip to the rear of the AGP slot. My guess (based on logo) is it's one of the …

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Re: Help getting two ISA soundcards work

Posted on 2022-05-02, 22:09

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by dionb

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^^ That. Otherwise: don't run before you can walk - get a single card working before you try with two. I'd be surprised if the two cards together are the problem, but I'd not rule it out until I know the two cards show the same issues separately.

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 issue...

Posted on 2022-05-02, 13:00

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by dionb

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[...] I think I have one of the model numbers mentioned on the wiki as a SB 16 PCI, but back then everybody (including CT itself and the store that put this sound card into my first ever PC back then) called it a Soundblaster PCI 128 🙂 Not sure what the deal is with this info being on the wiki. It …

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