Re: MB-4D50L doesn't hold date/time

Posted on 2019-11-26, 23:21

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by Horun

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Have you tried a jumper on the middle pins of the Ext. Battery connector ? Many of my older 286, 386 and 486 boards that have onboard battery need 2-3 jumped to use the onboard battery, it is removed for connecting external battery. You should not have to add any components to the board IF it …

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Re: Keytronic Trak 101

Posted on 2019-11-26, 04:58

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by Horun

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Never mind, I used some silicon micro fuel line of the right size from a local hobby store and cut my own. Works ! And yes that it a regular round toothpick to show the size I was working with,,,,,,,

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Keytronic Trak 101

Posted on 2019-11-25, 07:39

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by Horun

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I have one of these old KB and need to fix the trackball. The old rubber O rings on the metal rungs (best word I could come up with) that the ball rolls on are shot. Anyone know where to to get very small O rings ? They are so small they would easily fit around a toothpic with little room to spare. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-25, 05:11

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by Horun

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dan86 wrote: I over payed way too much for this pc. I just wanted the case as it's super clean is missing almost nothing. The case will be used for my whater cooled athlon XP system. It is a very nice case ! Very well built plus an Asus p4 478 mobo and Asus DVDRW too.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-25, 00:20

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by Horun

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I like this thread because: 1: it reminds me of times in my area when you got good deals on boxes or lots of old hardware. That changed 5 years ago with new recycle laws. 2: I see items that I have heard about/read about, but never knew someone who had actually found one. 3: I see items that I have …

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Re: Where to find cheap PS/2 brackets for AT motherboards ?

Posted on 2019-11-24, 17:23

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by Horun

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"We do not currently ship outside the UK" which is a bummer.

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Re: MB-4D50L doesn't hold date/time

Posted on 2019-11-24, 17:19

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by Horun

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it will not be Y2K compliant so have you tried a date like November 24 1999 ?

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Re: Gigabyte GA-P43-ES3G in short

Posted on 2019-11-24, 16:28

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by Horun

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Are you sure your power supply is new enough or at minimum ATX and EPS specs for the board ? I tried a generic older ATX PSU on a socket 775 and it would not boot at all until I changed to a newer PSU.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-24, 04:28

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by Horun

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How about this SOC 486 evaluation board? Should just be able to add a sound card and drives and have a fully functional "486 class" computer. Up to at least 100Mhz fsb and 128MB PC-100 SDRAM DIMM support. 66Mhz PCI support as well from what I can tell. This should be interesting. Seller's pics: …

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-11-24, 03:58

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by Horun

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Link works, thanks for that, will come in handy at archive.org for searching for old webpages on those boards you saved links too. Got my archiving, sorting, naming, etc. done. Total of 259 different boards manuals and bios, totals about 5Gb (5.02 to be exact) with everything.

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Re: Where to find cheap PS/2 brackets for AT motherboards ?

Posted on 2019-11-23, 21:39

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by Horun

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Ok, well was worth a try. I had some I/O shields shipped to me from Netherlands in a 5"x8" envelope and shipping was only 3 euro. I need to check what it cost for me to ship a 2 ounce small package to parts of Europe. If the mouse socket was removed from the backplate it would easily all fit in a …

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Re: Gigabyte GA-P43-ES3G in short

Posted on 2019-11-23, 21:24

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by Horun

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The socket looks good. Here is a pic that may help

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Re: Where to find cheap PS/2 brackets for AT motherboards ?

Posted on 2019-11-23, 21:06

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by Horun

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If you are in Europe see if this can be shipped cheaper: https://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-Connect … 74543154&sr=8-1

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Re: ASUS VL/I-486SV2GX4 PS/2 Problem

Posted on 2019-11-23, 20:50

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by Horun

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Glad you got it fixed !

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Re: drivers for PC Action Pad Controller. Logic 3 Jt264

Posted on 2019-11-23, 20:46

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by Horun

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Try this driver. It says it is for Win 9x in the readme. Unzip and be sure to follow the instructions in ReadMe.txt. I scanned it at Virus Total: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/bb0f62b96a2e0d279cbb298717b7268154b01dbc034b26e76b5a8638cf6ed69e/detection no virus found so it should be safe to try. …

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Re: ASUS VL/I-486SV2GX4 PS/2 Problem

Posted on 2019-11-23, 18:22

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by Horun

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https://www.philscomputerlab.com/uploads/3/7/ … 2gx4_manual.pdf page 3-13 do you have IRQ12 (ps2 mouse) Enabled ? I do not see any other references in the manual for ps2 mouse. Have you tried a real PS2 mouse (not a USB/PS2 compatible) ?

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Re: List of S7/ SS7/ S8/ Slot1 ATX mobo with +4 ISA slots

Posted on 2019-11-23, 06:00

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by Horun

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Micron M55HI soc7 has 4 ISA, do not think you will find any Slot 1 with 4 ISA due to the AGP but there could be some odd board out there that does.

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-11-23, 05:43

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by Horun

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One of the things I tried to save with the manuals and BIOS is a (crude) .TXT of the BIOS download page which contains as important info as the BIOS Release..pdf (as to what the files are). Now that those pages at Intel are down here is an example of one Archived page: https://web.archive.org/web/ …

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-11-23, 03:45

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by Horun

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Intel has already started removing these pages. They work really fast, probably are using some kind of a bot or automation software (or whoever is managing their site has nothing better to do). My download's list is incomplete and let's not even talk about saving all these links to Archive.org's …

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-11-22, 04:49

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by Horun

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Hopefully someone will save these downloads somewhere, in any third party service? Intel is going nuts if they will really remove them. I have a mini-ITX board which BIOS I have never upgraded, except the day I created my last hackintosh back in 2014. IF you would have included the model number of …

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