ASUS VL/I-486SV2G(X4) Upgrade - I really need help on electronic components.

Posted on 2024-03-04, 03:42

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by SETBLASTER

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For some years now i have an ASUS VL/I-486SV2G board and i always wanted to mod it. I was reading these tutorials from people that modded their ASUS VL/I-486SV2G boards and made it an ASUS VL/I-486SV2G X4 by installing some components on the motherboard that from factory were not included. Depending …

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Re: Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum Build ?

Posted on 2024-03-02, 05:45

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by SETBLASTER

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had one back in the day i think it came with a sony Sony CDU31A and some games like battle chess, civiliation, mantis, battle chess, comptons enciclopedia

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Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?

Posted on 2024-02-18, 00:39

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by SETBLASTER

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i could only find 1 comment from an owner regarding MacSD on a retro PC and the experience is that he had issues. Does anyone else here owns a MacSD ? I would like to read comments from an actual owner, that has tested it on a DOS 6.22 retro pc (like a 486) and that connected MacSD audio out to with …

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Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?

Posted on 2024-02-17, 04:20

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by SETBLASTER

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I have sent an email to rabbitholecomputing They were very kind and replied my email. I explained them the situation that we currently have, because none of the boards they sell have an audio out connector, in order to connect it to a soundblaster16 isa card, and be able to emulate a mixed mode CD …

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Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?

Posted on 2024-02-09, 02:45

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by SETBLASTER

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Has there been any reviews of this new cd.rom ode ? If you mean Fixel's ide emulator, then no. Unfortunately, we're all still waiting for them to ship. yea Fixel's , thats the one that we all hoped it would work on really old computers. did you buy it? it seems strange that a year has passed and no …

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Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?

Posted on 2024-02-09, 02:08

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by SETBLASTER

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Has there been any reviews of this new cd.rom ode ? i feel we are so close to having something working finally are cdrom drives still being produced? i think nobody buys one now.

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2024-02-04, 05:49

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by SETBLASTER

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My first computer was a panasonic desktop, 8086 and i think it was 4mhz Used it a lot but I hated it because of the CGA monitor, normally i would go to visit some friends who had PCs with EGA monitors in their homes, one even had an ibm PS/2, then i would come back to my house and hate my CGA …

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Pentium MMX, how do you spot a fake and a real CPU ?

Posted on 2024-01-14, 03:30

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by SETBLASTER

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I know how to spot real vs fake pentium 133mhz cpus or 166mhz cpus. But i never knew how to spot real vs fake pentium MMX cpus (im talking about the black ones, non-ceramic) Is there any way to spot them by looking at the back? i know some say "A4" and some say "malay" but never found any info on …

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Re: Replacing old broken IDE hdd with more modern SATA hdd using ide-sata adapter

Posted on 2023-12-07, 13:33

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by SETBLASTER

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The quickest way to prepare an hard disk to make it bootable to then install Windows 9x is to use Rufus 4.x on a modern machine, chose Boot selection -> MS-DOS and DOWNLOAD next to it and then make a folder called for example W98SETUP and copy the content of the iso into it. This will make the …

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Re: Replacing old broken IDE hdd with more modern SATA hdd using ide-sata adapter

Posted on 2023-12-07, 06:04

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by SETBLASTER

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The quickest way to prepare an hard disk to make it bootable to then install Windows 9x is to use Rufus 4.x on a modern machine, chose Boot selection -> MS-DOS and DOWNLOAD next to it and then make a folder called for example W98SETUP and copy the content of the iso into it. This will make the …

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Re: Advice on CD-Rom drive to read old CD-Rs

Posted on 2023-11-30, 04:56

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by SETBLASTER

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i second that, i have a bunch of cds that are not readable anymore and an lg dvd drive was able to read them i think they went bad because of fungus or whatever happens to the layer after 30 years. i even have some burned in 1997 that cannot be read i was thinking about doing the toothpaste method …

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Re: Can Anyone ID This Case??

Posted on 2023-11-30, 04:47

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by SETBLASTER

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very popular thermaltake did the same with the xaser II, which looks almost the same

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Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?

Posted on 2023-11-26, 00:09

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by SETBLASTER

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I hope someone does a very long review youtube video about it playing a game under pure DOS games with cd audio tracks, maybe on a 486 computer then playing under windows3.11 games with cd audio tracks, maybe on a 486 computer too and then playing on win95 and win98 to see how it gets detected. …

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Re: Quad boot... is possible?

Posted on 2023-11-19, 05:54

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by SETBLASTER

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there was a program called vcomm system commander that let you do that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x2r2bZmN7o

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Re: Minimum hardware specs to enjoy Doom and Doom2

Posted on 2023-11-14, 04:21

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by SETBLASTER

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486DX2/66 shouldn't have any issues running Doom. Most people had machines like that when the game was released. The question here is: what's your video card? If you used an ISA card rather than VLB or PCI, chances are that's your bottleneck, not the CPU. Also the Cyrix 486 is probably slower clock …

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Re: Minimum hardware specs to enjoy Doom and Doom2

Posted on 2023-11-14, 04:17

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by SETBLASTER

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as i kid i also remember with my first pentium 133mhz how fas things were running like Doom and i didn't like how fast it was . You're probably misremembering. Doom 1&2 are capped at 35 FPS. Even if you were to play these games on a 1 GHz Pentium 3, they wouldn't run any faster than that during …

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Minimum hardware specs to enjoy Doom and Doom2

Posted on 2023-11-13, 23:30

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by SETBLASTER

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as a kid i spent hours on Doom and Doom 2 using a 486 dx2 cyrix 66mhz. some years ago i rebuilt that very same machine. Only to find out that doom and doom2 were super slow. Maybe it was because as a young kid i thought that was the way it should run and never detected that problem? as i kid i also …

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Re: IBM PS/1 Multimedia ( max restore ).

Posted on 2023-11-12, 21:28

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by SETBLASTER

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Here is a link to the hardware manual: http://ps-2.kev009.com/pccbbs/aptiva/63g2028.pdf See My other IBM Ps/1 restore posts: IBM PS/1 Multimedia ( max restore ). Cache upgrade info: I just used standard Cache ( 20ns ) 256kb ( 9 pieces , All the same cache type even for TAG ). Hey i have a couple …

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Re: Capacitor replacement for Asus A7N8X-E

Posted on 2023-11-05, 19:49

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by SETBLASTER

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So reading the posts, now it is fine to use Polymer capacitors near the VRMs? , if i remember correctly on polymer you need to use the same voltage from the original cap. but i did not know that you could change a 3300uf electrolytic cap with a 2200uf polymer cap! because the UF value is a rule to …

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Re: Capacitor replacement for Asus A7N8X-E

Posted on 2023-11-05, 19:47

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by SETBLASTER

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Here you go: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/kemet/A759MS228M0JAAE013/13420067 This is 10mm, has double the ripple capacity (7785mA) and the same ESR (13mOhm), but it's 2200uF. You do not need to match the capacitance. I would even recommend going lower than 2200uF. I hesitate to …

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