Re: Abit Ic7-G ssd compatibility, what drives work?

Posted on 2023-05-31, 11:40

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by Unrealdevon

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You may want to try an older Samsung, like an 840 or 850. Though I haven't tried them on i875, I can say that both 840 Pro and 850 Evo work with my PowerMac G5, a machine that's even more selective about the SDDs it'll accept than most PCs of the era. That G5 absolutely won't work with my MX500, WD …

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Re: Abit Ic7-G ssd compatibility, what drives work?

Posted on 2023-05-31, 11:36

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by Unrealdevon

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SSD not working on ICH5 or Silicon image controller? It seems to me that they are almost equivalent in performance. Therefore, you should not insist on working the built-in SATA in ICH5 The silicon image controller works with both of those drives. However i got the board because of its extra …

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Abit Ic7-G ssd compatibility, what drives work?

Posted on 2023-05-30, 23:01

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by Unrealdevon

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Hiya! I recently aquired a Abit Ic7-G motherboard. Strange thing tho, it doesn't recognise either my Kingston a400 120gb ssd or the Crucial BX500 120gb ssd. Both these drives work fine in my other 865 and 875 Intel based motherboards. Tried some other older sata drives and those show up so i know …

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Re: How to grease old gpu fan?

Posted on 2023-03-05, 13:12

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by Unrealdevon

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paradigital wrote on 2023-03-05, 12:32: The first thing I’d do is dismantle the fan to ensure the shaft isn’t pitted/corroded. If it is then you can polish it up using a ladies nail buffing stick, then reassemble and apply a small amount of a thin bearing oil. How does this spitted and/or corrosion …

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How to grease old gpu fan?

Posted on 2023-03-05, 10:25

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by Unrealdevon

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Hiya! I recently got another fx5900xt card and i paired it with a Arctic Cooling NV Silencer 3. The fan has some noticeable sounds that the other NV silencers i got doesn't have. Had to use Rivatuner and down the fan speed to around 55% for this to dissapear. I play exclusively older titles on card …

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How to clean soundcards line out?

Posted on 2023-02-23, 07:33

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by Unrealdevon

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If you got some noise from your analogue line out can you clean this somehow and then what is the preferred way to it? Might the connectors be getting old from use? And yeah im well aware these have noise as it's all analogue. But this is more than it ever was before. Or is there anything else you …

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Aureal vortex 2 + soundblaster live on same pc.

Posted on 2023-02-23, 07:17

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by Unrealdevon

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Hey! I wonder is it possible or even worth it to install both a soundblaster live and a Aureal vortex 3 in the same pc? This is on a windows 98se. asus p4c800 deluxe Intel 875 chipset. GeForce 5950 ultra And no other pci devices except the vortex 2 card currently installed. Vortex uses .vxd drivers …

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Re: How to repair VRAM connection fx5900xt.

Posted on 2023-02-10, 15:23

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by Unrealdevon

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I use this one : https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/1005004281494790.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.10.19f25e5b85khnE&gatewayAdapt=glo2fra To be honest, it was also driven by the budget. But it's OK for my use (a few times each month) I know there are electronics professionals here. They may …

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Re: How to repair VRAM connection fx5900xt.

Posted on 2023-02-10, 10:30

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by Unrealdevon

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Sorry, I don't know any video tutorials.🤷‍♂️ A soldering iron won't help you with BGA chips, sorry.😕 You can in principle reflow an SMD chip with a regular heat gun but most of them aren't precise tools. It's much harder and risky with high hot airflow and imprecise temperature settings. Do you …

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Re: How to repair VRAM connection fx5900xt.

Posted on 2023-02-09, 22:16

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by Unrealdevon

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Sorry, I don't know any video tutorials.🤷‍♂️ A soldering iron won't help you with BGA chips, sorry.😕 You can in principle reflow an SMD chip with a regular heat gun but most of them aren't precise tools. It's much harder and risky with high hot airflow and imprecise temperature settings. Do you …

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Re: How to repair VRAM connection fx5900xt.

Posted on 2023-02-09, 10:58

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by Unrealdevon

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Oh ok Nope i don't have a infrared thermometer. Are there any people out here on this forum who are known to fix stuff for others?

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Re: How to repair VRAM connection fx5900xt.

Posted on 2023-02-08, 15:21

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by Unrealdevon

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Press the chips to the board one by one with your fingers during POST or BIOS and see wether the patterns change. If they do you have bad connections on those chips where it changes when you press them to the board. If not you most likely damaged the card or chips in another way. To repair the …

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Re: How to repair VRAM connection fx5900xt.

Posted on 2023-02-07, 14:45

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by Unrealdevon

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Press the chips to the board one by one with your fingers during POST or BIOS and see wether the patterns change. If they do you have bad connections on those chips where it changes when you press them to the board. If not you most likely damaged the card or chips in another way. To repair the …

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How to repair VRAM connection fx5900xt.

Posted on 2023-02-06, 23:25

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by Unrealdevon

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Hiya! I just got a 5900xt card and it worked fine until i removed the old VRAM heatsinks. They were glued on so i heated them with a hairdryer and then very carefully applied pressure to get it to snap off. The sound it did when snapping off was kina scary. I used isopropanol to clean off the last …

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Re: LG GSA-H55L dvd drive (what does the text [reserved] over the audio 3pin input mean?)

Posted on 2023-01-30, 13:37

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by Unrealdevon

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Btw do you happen to know if there is any info out there on Wich of the last ide drives with analogue audio are the best?

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Re: LG GSA-H55L dvd drive (what does the text [reserved] over the audio 3pin input mean?)

Posted on 2023-01-30, 13:33

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by Unrealdevon

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Thanks for all the replies!

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Re: LG GSA-H55L dvd drive (what does the text [reserved] over the audio 3pin input mean?)

Posted on 2023-01-29, 21:33

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by Unrealdevon

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Reading the manual it does not mention any audio so it would have to be digital thru the ATAPI connection I would look for a NEC ND-3550A or similar if you want ATAPI/IDE interface, Analog audio out and is a fair 16x DVD writer. I have one that still works quite well... NEC manual back panel: …

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Re: LG GSA-H55L dvd drive (what does the text [reserved] over the audio 3pin input mean?)

Posted on 2023-01-29, 21:29

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by Unrealdevon

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3 pins? Should be 4, which if anything is evidence in support of that not being a proper analog audio socket :) (I thought first of a serial service connector!) In general 2007 is too new for an arbitrarily picked drive to have it- it was already gone on some drives of 2003 (in fact, the one I'm …

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LG GSA-H55L dvd drive (what does the text [reserved] over the audio 3pin input mean?)

Posted on 2023-01-29, 17:19

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by Unrealdevon

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Got this dvd drive i might buy. It's new in box and i could potentially pay a fair bit for it. But i want analogue audio from it to the soundcard. Without it the drive is useless to me. It has the 3pin input and it's an ide drive. Does LG GSA-H55L dvd drive have a working analogue input? It's an …

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Re: Modifying Nvidia drivers .inf.

Posted on 2023-01-25, 16:41

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by Unrealdevon

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Thank you 🙂 I did this yesterday on the fx5500 and it found it in the list. It's odd however that when opening the Nvidia panel it says unknown instead of the graphic cards name. I this normal or did i do something wrong? It's just what happens when modified drivers are used. I asked about that …

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