Re: Motherboard for retro build

Posted on 2024-10-03, 19:14

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d00mo wrote on 2024-10-02, 13:33: I found some info about the Asus, but harder to find for the other one. https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/asus-p … -p55sp4-rev-1.4 Ooo! It's got an Asus Media Bus!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Media_Bus Got any cards for that?

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Re: List of VLB IDE Controllers

Posted on 2024-10-02, 19:24

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Does anyone have a VLB IDE controller working in MWDMA mode in Win9x ?

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Re: The fastest baby-AT machine

Posted on 2024-10-02, 16:57

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These look pretty good if you don’t need ISA https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/?page=1&itemsPerPage=24&formFactorId=5&platform1=27 The APC Phoenix AT has 2 separate ISA slots and one ISA/PCI combo slot. I see that, but it looks like they are attached with a bridge chip attached to the PCI bus. I …

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Re: Storage options for Windows 98SE?

Posted on 2024-10-02, 02:40

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I think I got misquoted a lot in recent posts. Lots of stuff attributed to me that I didn’t write. Anyway…. If you are really concerned about the life span, you can set “conservative swapfile usage” =1 in your system.ini but really, SSD’s were designed to handle XP level work loads without trim, …

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Re: The fastest baby-AT machine

Posted on 2024-10-01, 22:38

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These look pretty good if you don’t need ISA https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/?page=1& … =5&platform1=27

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Re: SSDs not working in any MW-DMA mode

Posted on 2024-10-01, 18:55

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Went from PIO to UDMA. When was the MWDMA even an option? During 1995 & 1996, MWDMA was the fastest option around. So historically? Pentiums that used PIIX or PIIX3 South Bridge can do MWDMA but not do UDMA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_chipsets#Southbridge_4xx_chipsets That's going …

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Re: Storage options for Windows 98SE?

Posted on 2024-10-01, 15:14

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The Samsung 970 Evo in my main PC is 4.25 years old and shows 39.2 TBW. Samsung rates its endurance has 600 TBW. So, at that rate, it would be good for 65 years. It has no moving parts, whereas the spinning drives do, so not only can the actual magnetic recording surface wear out, so can the read/ …

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Re: SSDs not working in any MW-DMA mode

Posted on 2024-10-01, 14:58

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Disruptor wrote on 2024-10-01, 13:39: I have two PATA (Controller) to SATA (Disk) adapters. Good working is the one using a Marvell 88SA8052-NNC2 chip. Problems do I have on the one using a Marvell 88i8030-TBC chip. Thanks for reporting that. It's a very interesting data point. Do you remember what …

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Re: Building a Thin Client Emulation Station

Posted on 2024-09-30, 18:51

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myne wrote on 2024-09-30, 03:24: Honestly, I can't see the point of all that given you'll be working with resolutions up to 640, but you do you, I guess I want to try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAzDcx_5T1U

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Re: Building a Thin Client Emulation Station

Posted on 2024-09-30, 16:51

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I still have not figured out why it keeps powering on at 11pm every night on a fresh Windows 11 install. I tried going into local group policy and setting the windows update power management, but no effeect.

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Re: VGA KVM with Professional video quality

Posted on 2024-09-30, 13:12

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http://www2.blackboxab.se/Manualer/S/SW/SW651A-SW652A.pdf Basically you solder together the cable on page 55 - gotta love BB for including special cable diagrams in the manual btw - and connect it between the computer's serial port and the PS/2 mouse port of whatever computer port on the KVM switch …

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Re: VGA KVM with Professional video quality

Posted on 2024-09-30, 11:12

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kaputnik wrote on 2024-09-30, 08:44: Haven't looked at anything else since I got my Black Box Servswitch Wizard (SW652A). Crystal clear picture, works with everything I throw at it, serial mouse emulation, etc, etc. Serial mouse emulation? How does that work?

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Re: Building a Thin Client Emulation Station

Posted on 2024-09-28, 20:41

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I wanted to get the system running at 4K resolution so that I consider doing CRT effects since the HP thin client supported 4k. Turned into a 3 hour time vacuum. 1) The DisplayPort to HDMI adapter I had didn't support 4K so I ordered a cable. Learned that finding a DisplayPort to HDMI cable that can …

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Re: Does anyone remember the Digital (DEC) Starion Desktop line?

Posted on 2024-09-28, 14:04

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I thought this thread was going to be about the rainbow 100 at first. Those were frustrating computers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_100

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Re: How to you setup CF Compact flash cards on 286 - 386 - 486 Computers

Posted on 2024-09-28, 13:20

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by douglar

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Are all 256mb CF Cards the same CHS settings or can they vary? “Geometries” will vary depending on the controller inside the cf, the flash memory used, and the internal firmware. Solid state devices don’t even have a real geometry because there are no spinning disks, so yeah, it’s all make believe …

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Re: VGA KVM with Professional video quality

Posted on 2024-09-27, 13:35

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I picked up an IP based HP branded Avocent KVM on the cheap about a year ago Positives supports two consoles at the same time using USB or PS/2 mice if the VGA input quality is good, the output quality is good Seems to eliminate "jail bars" on an LCD monitor. (https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t= …

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Re: 3D print topic?

Posted on 2024-09-27, 02:41

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Slot 1 brackets CPU brackets here for Pentium and Celeron Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

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

Posted on 2024-09-26, 17:32

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Lately I've been getting too many Slot type motherboards which are missing the retention mechanism or the mechanism is broken. So I've been making repair parts, here's the replacement for the top half of a "hometom" branded SECC 2 clip: replacement hometom folding secc 2.png That looks great! Is …

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Re: Identify this RAM

Posted on 2024-09-25, 18:02

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Holy Relabeled Ram Chips, Batman! That's just egregious. Filename Untitled.png File size 161.02 KiB Views 153 views File license Fair use/fair dealing exception

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Re: Help Identify ISA MPEG decoder board

Posted on 2024-09-25, 16:32

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I see your card made it up to TRW: https://theretroweb.com/expansioncards/s/unknown-3502401000 No one was ever able to identify it?

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