Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 19:10

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Also, opinion about my C-Media PCI card? Phil has done a review of this chipset some time ago: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/c-media-cmi8738.html He also has the drivers available for download. Since I don't have one of these cards myself, I don't have a real opinion, but it seems there are …

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Re: Best network cards for MSDOS / Win98

Posted on 2021-06-18, 08:55

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For ISA, I'd definitely go with the 3com cards because they have good driver support and usually just work. For PCI, I agree with the statements above. I try to stick with 3com and Intel, but haven't had any issues with Realtek either. Actually, the first Ethernet card I ever bought (for the sole …

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Re: Pentium III + Windows 98, Slow network transfers

Posted on 2021-06-14, 20:12

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If you want good speed do this. Install TCP Stack 1.4 Install VTCP.386 4.10.2223 "236926USA8.EXE" Install QFE Hotfix VIP.386 4.10.2228 "Q301453.EXE" Once you do that You can replace 98se winsock files with windows ME files (MSWSOCK.DLL, MSWSOSP.DLL, WINSOCK.DLL, WS2_32.DLL, WS2HELP.DLL, WS2THK.DLL, …

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

Posted on 2021-06-11, 18:27

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Today I continued putting together a 440BX Tualatin build: Asus CUBX with modded BIOS P3-S 1400 with "Korean guy" adapter soldered 512MB RAM GeForce4 Ti4200 128MB 2x Diamond Monster 3D II 12MB in SLI Turtle Beach Aureal Vortex 2 AWE64 Gold Intel NIC 40GB 7200rpm Maxtor HDD Lian Li PC-9F full …

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Re: Beige-Beast

Posted on 2021-06-08, 19:34

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That's a great system, especially the motherboard. Tualatin-capable boards are not easy (or at least not cheap) to find nowadays, let alone the Gigabyte ones. I have a soft spot for Tualatin systems, which is why I just can't stop building them (I have like 7 or so). If you feel the need for more …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-08, 12:13

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@Ydee: Beware of negative center. Most of these power supplies tend to have positive center. If the speakers do not have reverse polarity protection, you might fry their internal amplifier if you use one with positive center. Edit: imi was faster 😉

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-05-22, 20:45

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This card as part of a small lot: Quadro 4 980 XGL, basically a GeForce 4 Ti 4800 (= 4600 with AGP 8x). No artifacts during POST, have to test it thorouhgly some time next week. Whole lot was 23€ shipped, so if it's fully functional that's a great deal. Filename Screenshot_20210522-223944.png File …

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

Posted on 2021-05-10, 09:58

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I combined it with 8 MB RAM, a Tseng ET4000 graphics card, Sound Blaster 2.0 CT1350B, double speed CD-ROM and a CF card for storage. Fun little system :) Excellent setup. CT1350B with CMS support I suppose? Unfortunately my card lacks the CMS chips, but I might get the remakes from eBay one day...

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

Posted on 2021-05-10, 08:50

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... Some highlights from the test run: mobo00.jpg mobo01.jpg Seritech 386AS aka ECS 8517 aka FORCOM M396F. Love that one. It's cacheless but I take it as an advantage. 386SX-33 without any additional waitstates to disable the cache should be perfect for Wing Commander and similar oldies. Also come …

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

Posted on 2021-05-06, 16:01

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Talked with a friend who also collects... 001.jpg03.jpg Holy crap... that's a lot of computers. I might show this picture to my wife when she complains about me piling up too much retro stuff (around 15 machines currently). :D You can buy some IBM, the warehouse is only ~60km away from you ^^ Looks …

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

Posted on 2021-05-05, 08:19

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vad4r wrote on 2021-05-05, 05:25: Talked with a friend who also collects... 001.jpg03.jpg Holy crap... that's a lot of computers. I might show this picture to my wife when she complains about me piling up too much retro stuff (around 15 machines currently). 😁

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2021-05-03, 19:50

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I need a better PCI soundcard with green PCB for this PC, suggestions? Yamaha Waveforce 192XG is what I used for my green-PCB-only V5500 dual P3 build (search for „All things dual“) If you are patient, you can get these for 20-30€, they are quite rare but not as rare as the Aureal Vortex 2. And …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2021-04-29, 10:14

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CPU: AMD-K7 800Mhz Mainboard: Asus K7M-RM RAM: 3x 128MB Infinion 133Mhz, CL3 GPU: ATI Rage Fury Maxx NIC: 3com 3C905CX-TX-M Sound: Creative Sound Blaster Live! CT4830 FDD: 3,5" Disk HDD: Maxtor Fireball 3 2F040L0 40GB IDE ODD: AOpen DVD1648/APP pro PSU: Seasonic SFX 300W 80+ Case: Micro ATX Case …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-26, 17:24

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I drove about 45 minutes to pick up via facebook marketplace a new PC today. This is my 2nd retro rig. It is a Gateway model "500." It actually boots up into windows 98. It has I think a 10 GB quantum fireball HD. 2 optical driver that show up in the OS, but the trays won't open. A GeForce MX 200 I …

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-04-24, 08:13

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I have sent out the GFDs to everyone who ordered one on Thursday. Sorry for the delay again, my spare time is quite limited currently and soldering, testing, packing and posting took quite a while. I currently have parts for 11 more GFDs that I am willing to sell, but if you need it assembled please …

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-04-21, 14:57

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For the Innovatek OC Card (the design used by Doornkaat), I looked up the documentation, too: Website on archive.org (English): LINK Website on archive.org (German): LINK PDF Manual (German): Filename Innovatek OCDVr2 Manual German.pdf File size 453.98 KiB Downloads 13 downloads File comment OCDVr2 …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2021-04-20, 13:37

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- 2x Pentium III-S Tualatin 1,40 GHz, 133 MHz FSB, 512 KB Cache, inkl. Adapter aus Südkorea - 2x Cooler Master HHC-L61 mit Lüfter 60x60x25 ~3000 RPM - ASUS CUV266-DLS Rev. 1.03 mit Bios Rev.001 inkl. Tualatin Microcode - 2048 MB, 4x NANYA 512 MB, DDR-400MHz-CL3 @ DDR-266MHz-CL2 - ASUS ATI Radeon …

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Re: Biostar MB-8433UUD-A

Posted on 2021-04-16, 20:52

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That's impressive! I bought the same motherboard earlier this year, it came with an AMD 486 DX4-100, maybe I should start playing around with it 😀

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X and CUBX-E/L

Posted on 2021-04-16, 19:46

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Oh cool, I somehow missed this thread. Might give it a try on my CUBX-E. Thanks for sharing! Quoting myself here... In the meantime I got my hands on another CUBX (non-E/L) and tried your BIOS on it, works like a charm. I modified a PIII-S 1400 with the PCB-style adapter by "the Korean guy" and …

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Re: Making an AMD "goldfinger" clone ?

Posted on 2021-04-15, 13:46

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That's my listing. Welcome, stay awhile, it's pretty cool here. I have sold 14 total across here and elsewhere. So if you are US based and interested, let me know. I don't think I will make another batch unless there is strong interest. @Gex85 Attached is what you PM me about. I include that with …

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