Re: FIC PT-2003 temperature issue

Posted on 2021-10-15, 14:27

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by Roman555

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Hi everybody, it took a while for the SB82437FX66 to arrive from China. I received it yesterday well packed in mint conition in it´s original tray, no legs bent. I couldn´t wait to fit it in so first I restored the lost soldering pad with a thin wire (see blue arrow in the picture), then carefully …

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Re: pc chips mainboard M573 resurrection

Posted on 2021-10-15, 11:31

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by Roman555

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Ydee wrote on 2021-10-15, 09:49: I don't think it's 2pin and 3pin - rather in the second photo there's a cap on one pin jumper and it creates the appearance that there are 3 pins. The third pin would conflict with the IC leg to the right of the jumpers. Yes, I agree 😀

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Re: Asus P3C2000 troubleshooting

Posted on 2021-10-14, 15:13

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by Roman555

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Regardless of the jumper settings, various memory chips and two processors (p3-550 and celeron), the board does not show any signs of life after being turned on. No bios beep sounds. The CPU does not heat up at all until I put the cpu without heatsink, naked die is lukewarm. The board looks perfect …

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Re: pc chips mainboard M573 resurrection

Posted on 2021-10-14, 14:50

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by Roman555

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I found some photos of two revisions of the mainboard. I'm posting them here. JP10 for the sound chip are different: 2-pin vs 3-pin. But the problem seems not in the BIOS. I agree with @Ydee. Maybe chip has loose contact or something similar. edit: correct grammatical mistakes.

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Re: pc chips mainboard M573 resurrection

Posted on 2021-10-11, 19:03

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by Roman555

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One more bios for the mainboard. Of course if you have a programmer. https://web.archive.org/web/19991009131907/ht … duct/mb5730.htm https://web.archive.org/web/19980524092055/ht … 5730_board_bios

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Re: pc chips mainboard M573 resurrection

Posted on 2021-10-04, 14:36

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by Roman555

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all are missing the sound card option from the bios. Is any way to inject the sound card enable / disable option in bios with a bios editor or anyone has this model to extract the bios? Because there is a jumper JP10 to enable onboard sound. The bios option is not necessary. http://www.win3x.org/ …

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Re: Help to set up a NAS server

Posted on 2021-08-31, 18:21

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by Roman555

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Implications: I live in Brazil, everything here is very expensive, and I don't have the money to buy a raspberry, The raspberry Pi is a poor choice for a NAS anyway, due to having terrible local storage options, even the USBs are questionable. I agree. So I've ordered Banana Pi BPI M2 single-board …

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Re: Biostar MB-143350UIV-A & HDs

Posted on 2021-08-20, 05:17

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by Roman555

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Hi I had similar problem with my VLB IDE/MIO controller. Mine is different model TK 8237 (based on a chip UM8672F). I described problem and solution here on vogons . But I have very limited experience with 486 and VLB equipment to advise you something. Good luck! P.S. If you add photographs of your …

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Re: Aureal Vortex AU8820B2 - Windows 98 soundcard advice needed

Posted on 2021-08-17, 10:20

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by Roman555

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For me, the A3D 2.0 implementation in Quake 3 is absolutely amazing. I will never forget how breathtaking it sounded to me when I first heard it at a (very rich) friend's house in the year 2000. Unfortunately, newer Quake 3 patches have removed the A3D support, so you need the original game (or an …

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Re: Aureal Vortex AU8820B2 - Windows 98 soundcard advice needed

Posted on 2021-08-16, 13:36

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by Roman555

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Also, in Half Life, EAX is much better IMO, so a SB Live will sound better even when compared to an Aureal Vortex 2. bloodem , in your opinion what games A3D Aureal Vortex 2 sounds excellent (I mean maybe the highest level that can be achieved) in? I liked how A3D sounded in Half-Life, Unreal and …

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Re: gigabyte 8s655fx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-11, 08:48

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by Roman555

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Well they did, so it may be doable with home equipment and the right experience (which I lack mostly). So we can rule out the FET from the list. My hope is that the bios is bad, my fear is that the nb is bad, that's because since I took off the heatsink (which had an adhesive pad) it never booted …

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Re: gigabyte 8s655fx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-09, 13:52

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by Roman555

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What to do if proper soldering equipment is unavailable? Ukrainian bloggers composed a video 😀 (Russian language) https://youtu.be/34TVuBfiDHg P.S. Although they had replaced the southbridge they couldn't repair the motherboard because the problem was also the northbridge.

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Re: gigabyte 8s655fx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-09, 12:18

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by Roman555

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I tried to kept some pressure on the nb with the fingers, no success, good idea trying something else. I distrust aliexpress for that kind of stuff, honestly... Also if the problem is the model, maybe there is a better replacement, if I understood what Roman means the whole apm3055 series is bad. …

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Re: gigabyte 8s655tx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-08, 19:05

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by Roman555

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Nemo1985 wrote on 2021-08-08, 18:33: ... I'm out of ideas, what would you do? I would replace the APM3055 just to be sure - hot airgun is useful for it. If there's no change maybe I will try to buy another mainboard.

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Re: gigabyte 8s655tx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-08, 18:20

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by Roman555

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Edit: I just bought a hot air gun, ready to make some disaster here... Edit2: I took off the heatsink from the northbridge, it had adhesive tape instead of thermal paste, anyway after doing that the motherboard doesn't boot at all, this make me suspect that the culprit is the nb? Edit3: I took off …

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Re: gigabyte 8s655tx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-07, 14:16

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by Roman555

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From what I could see it only stucks after I changed the date (day, month and year), I managed other options (in other menus) without issues. I missed your mention about the date settings. It can point to trouble with southbridge itself or its soldering balls (of course :-) ) or maybe with …

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Re: gigabyte 8s655fx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-07, 13:40

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by Roman555

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It was a joke ;) Proper diagnostic requires a lot of knowledge and a lot of good quality material. I hope he can solve the issue fast. Ha, good joke :-) I don't see your country and I've really thought you are in my country too :) Also anyone can download schematic manual for this or other models …

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Re: gigabyte 8s655fx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-07, 13:23

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by Roman555

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Nexxen wrote on 2021-08-07, 13:13: Roman555 wrote on 2021-08-07, 11:55: Anything else demands proper diagnostic at a workshop. Can we have your address? Sorry, no. I stopped working at a workshop years ago. Now hardware is just a hobby and not more.

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Re: gigabyte 8s655fx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-07, 11:55

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by Roman555

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Thank you for the tips. Typo fixed, I checked the voltage it is: v1.883, so I guess it is ok... The board boots less and less, during last try it booted just once and it did after some time it was turned on, I was busy pushing chips and it suddenly started. Anything gets hot, cpu, nb and …

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Re: gigabyte 8s655tx no post but once it did!

Posted on 2021-08-07, 07:57

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by Roman555

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First of all I wish to thank you all for the educated guess. So we have 2 main suspects: the bios and solder joints. Eeprom damaged: When I tried to flash the bios with the utility provided with the bios I had this error, then I used uniflash and everything went fine, it may help to troubleshoot …

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