Re: what is the greatest old hardware find/deal you have ever come across when looking for retro computer parts?

Posted on 2024-11-12, 03:15

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by Grem Five

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A lot of Mac edition video cards, especially those at particular inflection points in Mac history, can be very, very valuable. I know very little about the 9700/9800, in particular how well-supported they are in the classic OS. The GF4 Ti4600s that are the last and greatest video cards supported in …

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Re: what is the greatest old hardware find/deal you have ever come across when looking for retro computer parts?

Posted on 2024-11-12, 00:44

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Not what I say is the greatest old find but a few months ago for $15 on ebay I found an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro for Power Mac. I'm not into Apple as I never owned one and was going to see if I could flash it for PC until I looked around and noticed there wasn't a ton of info on it. Seems these things …

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Re: Trouble installing Matrox G450 PCI on Win98(SE)

Posted on 2024-11-03, 02:16

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I had a different problem with my Parhelia 256 pci. If I remember correctly in win2k I had problems with my Parhelia 256 pci not being recognized by the driver as the pci bridge chip was not being properly assigned resources (win2k kept trying to give it resources already being used by motherboard) …

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Re: Trouble installing Matrox G450 PCI on Win98(SE)

Posted on 2024-11-02, 03:21

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From the Matrox Millennium G450 • G450 LE • G450 LX • G450 PCI • G450 DVI • G450 SH User Guide Matrox Graphics Card – User Guide 47 „ G450-based PCI graphics cards are recommended for computers with Intel chipsets. With non-Intel chipsets, features and performance may be limited. Specifically, the …

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Re: Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti500 - Fan not spinning

Posted on 2024-10-13, 13:41

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And I don't understand how that NPN transistor could not be present but also look so clean in that area if it was removed. There's no way that the fan can work without it because the fan's ground pin has no path to ground except through that. Yeah very strange there.... here is the exact same card. …

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Re: Need help with X800 Pro

Posted on 2024-10-13, 02:47

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Hi all, I currently have a X800 Pro AGP with a very suspicious capacitor (C68) It looks to have been installed by the last owner, and looks very improper Does anyone know what capacitor is supposed to be in place here (C68)? Need to know: Capacitance (uF), and voltage. Thank you for your help.... I …

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Re: Tyan Tachyon G9600 Pro

Posted on 2024-10-05, 21:20

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It looks like it might have been back in 2015 - https://archive.org/details/2015.10.06.ftp.tyan.com - I'm not going to d/l 35+ gigs to see what it is.

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Re: Tyan Tachyon G9600 Pro

Posted on 2024-10-05, 16:14

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Seems its all there on the Tyan Ftp server (I took time to look around their ftp site myself), thats lucky as most manufacturers sites dont keep that stuff online any more. Good on Tyan.....

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Re: Tyan Tachyon G9600 Pro

Posted on 2024-10-05, 12:31

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I deleted the link from my 1st post about the Tachyon Graphics Monitoring software on that 3rd party site to put in the Tyan ftp links here. ftp://ftp.tyan.com/Graphic/tgm330/TGM_3_3_2000_xp.zip ftp://ftp.tyan.com/Graphic/tgm330/TGM_3_3_98_me.zip (This helped me remember how to do ftp on a modern …

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Re: Tyan Tachyon G9600 Pro

Posted on 2024-10-05, 11:47

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BTW that quote I put in my post came from here. https://web.archive.org/web/20041010084402/http://www.tyan.com/support/html/faq_gc.html ftp.tyan.com is still up and following the archive link Grem Five posted to the driver page https://web.archive.org/web/20041204185156/http://www.tyan.com/support/ …

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Re: Tyan Tachyon G9600 Pro

Posted on 2024-10-05, 04:06

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Looks like it uses the standard ATI driver except for the Graphics monitor part. The driver d/l strings seem to point to that, I would try those ftp.tyan.com links to see if they are still alive but this computer doesnt have a program that works with ftp sites. General Tachyon FAQs Can I download …

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Re: Intel SE440BX-2 (Seattle 2) BIOS Update fails

Posted on 2024-09-29, 12:37

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by Grem Five

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I have quite a few different OEM boards and it is best to use the OEMs Bios over Intels in most cases. It is always best to check the OEM identifier in the bios string. https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/mobo_ident.php#Phoenix

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Re: Intel SE440BX-2 (Seattle 2) BIOS Update fails

Posted on 2024-09-28, 15:12

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The board seems to have been distributed by "Micron Electronics" (I do not believe there is a relation to the memory manufacturer). Micron Electronics was part of the same company that now makes mostly memory. Post a pic of the motherboard as if it has the included yamaha sound chips it uses a …

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Re: What screw threads are used on the Pentium II SECC cartridge?

Posted on 2024-09-04, 22:20

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by Grem Five

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Not sure how I missed these. Filename rivetscrew1.jpg File size 211.22 KiB Views 451 views File license Public domain Filename rivetscrew2.jpg File size 152.66 KiB Views 451 views File license Public domain

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Re: What screw threads are used on the Pentium II SECC cartridge?

Posted on 2024-09-04, 21:43

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Well it looks like M3 thumbnail_IMG_7780.jpg They actually use self tapping screws (aluminum), you can tell by the way the threads that engaged the metal are smashed down. Secc.jpg As you can see from the intel specs the holes are called out with a tolerance and a thread isnt specified. The holes …

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Re: What screw threads are used on the Pentium II SECC cartridge?

Posted on 2024-09-03, 23:03

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I didn't think to measure these before discarding them and they don't match anything that I have on-hand. I have found M3 and M3.5 to be too small, M4 to be too large, and #6-32 to be the wrong thread or slightly too large. Does anyone know what these screw threads are? Screenshot_20240903-034952_ …

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ATI 9700 Pro missing smds needed?

Posted on 2024-08-25, 22:42

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A couple of years ago I was removing the stock HS from a 9700 Pro to replace the thick yellow stuff ATI used with new paste and remove the shim. At that time I had just gotten the card checked to make sure it worked and then went to replace the paste, I have done this on more than a few cards. …

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Re: Is a Socket 7 CPU Cooler on a Socket 462 CPU a bad idea?

Posted on 2024-08-23, 14:10

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by Grem Five

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And which part exactly "kicked the bucket" whenever I turn on the computer the fans just don't spin. The connector was on. Best to check that the fan headers are still providing proper power. I have a motherboard where all the fan headers were working fine, I put it away for a few months and the …

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Re: Supermicro P6DGE Dual PIII Slotket Mod Issues 440bx

Posted on 2024-08-21, 22:37

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Never had much luck dual running on either of my SM boards (P6DGU & P6DBU) even though I was using the 'better' slot 1 adapters (tried both ABit SlotKET !!! and MSI MS-6905 Master 2.x) though a single processor always ran without issue...gave up trying and switched to slot 1 procs. Hmm.... never …

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Re: Cooling solution for an Athlon 1400C - Socket 462

Posted on 2024-08-20, 21:59

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How much ventilation had your 1400c? It was in a repurposed Micron version of this: https://www.anandtech.com/show/335 for much of its life, only the rear fan as it was the only one in the case not counting ps. I would focus on case air flow, its much happier in its Thermaltake Tsunami VA3000BWA.

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