Re: Choosing the right capacitors for a recap

Posted on Yesterday, 19:20

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by Boohyaka

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Thank you! Well I understand that my precious vintage motherboard won't see heavy load, but when electronics are still kinda like voodoo magic to you, you don't know where the cursor precisely is between "not optimal but it's not that important" and "it just won't work". But thinking about it, as …

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Choosing the right capacitors for a recap

Posted on Yesterday, 18:20

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by Boohyaka

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I've looked into recapping many motherboards over the years but always delayed it in the end, just set them aside to fix them "later". Now I'm ready to get into it. I've searched vogons and the internet on information about how to choose the right capacitors and I'm a bit overwhelmed with the …

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Re: What can you tell me about this old PC?

Posted on 2023-09-27, 21:40

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by Boohyaka

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In any case it will work without drivers for basic function. But to reach faster PIO modes and therefore faster transfer speeds, drivers would be necessary.

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Re: What can you tell me about this old PC?

Posted on 2023-09-27, 20:36

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mmm.... gosh I have also other old PCs on the loft under the roof.... 😥 But I'm not equipped right now to do this kind of job... and don't have the time... Is there a way I can at least 'wrap' it in something so that it doesn't keep leaking on the mobo? Thanks! If you're not ready for a desoldering …

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Re: What can you tell me about this old PC?

Posted on 2023-09-27, 20:32

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My understanding of VLB BUS Mastering is that it doesn't really matter. I usually put the VLB IO card in one of the BUS Master slots, and I believe for VGA it doesn't really matter (but may be wrong). The VLB IO card, according to the FCC ID is a Holtek LCMVIO-3A . All jumper configuration are …

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Re: What can you tell me about this old PC?

Posted on 2023-09-27, 20:22

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by Boohyaka

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Motherboard is SOYO-025P1 https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/soyo-sy-025p2 Hard to tell from the pictures but the green barrel battery may show signs of leakage and needs to be removed asap, and if there's any corrosion clean it with white vinegar hoping it didn't start to eat stuff up!

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Re: Trouble doing a BIOS recovery on ECS P4VMM2 V7.3

Posted on 2023-09-27, 19:03

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by Boohyaka

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oh and additional info I just thought about, to be clear: without the ctrl-home boot to restore BIOS, when it starts and freezes when Checking NVRAM, there is absolutely nothing I can do. No access to BIOS or anything. The "press del to open setup" is the next step in BIOS routine I believe. And of …

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Trouble doing a BIOS recovery on ECS P4VMM2 V7.3

Posted on 2023-09-27, 19:00

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by Boohyaka

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Hi there, I have an ECS s478 board I'm trying to get running (P4VMM2 V7.3). Physically it looks good, I know this card is notorious for its bad caps so a full recap will be in order, but right now everything looks good, no bulge, no leak, super clean - even if I know good looking caps can fail …

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Re: Vogonians , how do you deal with fatigue?

Posted on 2023-07-30, 10:58

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by Boohyaka

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So you say you're still chronically tired. So what has changed? Better sleep ought to alleviate that. One would think. To clarify it is still heaps better, I would never go back, and wouldn't do a single night without the CPAP. What I meant is that when I was reading online about the whole thing …

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Re: ASUS V3800 (TV) WIn98 black screen

Posted on 2023-07-28, 19:57

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by Boohyaka

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Hey man, let's reboot. I came out as irritated, that's kinda out of character for me and for this I apologize. I definitely don't consider myself highly knowledgeable on the most technical aspects and internal hardware dark magic, yet I have enough experience for some troubleshooting and applying …

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Re: Vogonians , how do you deal with fatigue?

Posted on 2023-07-28, 14:44

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by Boohyaka

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CPAP gang chiming in, and was great to read your take on it @BitWrangler, really resonates with me as I feel pretty much the same. I've been diagnosed with serious sleep apnea something like 8 years ago (I'll be 41 in 2 weeks) after past girlfriends going "you're the worst snorer I've ever heard" to …

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Re: ASUS V3800 (TV) WIn98 black screen

Posted on 2023-07-28, 08:32

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by Boohyaka

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ok VGA sync, front and back porch, I've learned something new. I still don't think that has anything to do with my problem though. But as said, happy to test anything.

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Re: ASUS V3800 (TV) WIn98 black screen

Posted on 2023-07-28, 08:25

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by Boohyaka

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No offense but that's a lot of assuming without asking questions first, and stuff that was previously addressed. The exclamation mark means that the ASUS driver failed to load. That is why you are using Windows xp's default driver instead. No way!? The issue with the black screen sounds very much …

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Re: ASUS V3800 (TV) WIn98 black screen

Posted on 2023-07-28, 08:12

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by Boohyaka

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Hey, thanks, but the idea was really to try and "save" (or at least understand the issue with) this specific card. I was using XP as a test only to compare with my 98 results. I really doubt the exclamation mark has anything to do with the card being old for XP...card was released in 99, XP in 2001, …

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Re: ASUS V3800 (TV) WIn98 black screen

Posted on 2023-07-27, 19:08

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by Boohyaka

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Yup you must be right. I wasn't exactly sure how, but as the card appears with an exclamation mark and says the hardware cannot be started (code 10), I suspected something like this to be happening. Oh well...as said, not the worst loss but it's a cool little card, with all the optional connectors …

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Re: ASUS V3800 (TV) WIn98 black screen

Posted on 2023-07-27, 14:58

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by Boohyaka

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The plot thickens...kinda. Installed a fresh XP on the same hardware, card is detected, installed the official XP drivers off ASUS' website. Card is identified correctly in device manager, but has a yellow exclamation mark and "device cannot be started". Yet it works, and under XP has no problem in …

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Re: ASUS V3800 (TV) WIn98 black screen

Posted on 2023-07-27, 08:11

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by Boohyaka

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I'm not sure whether it can help but I've got the official driver CD that came with my ASUS AGP-V3800 Ultra Deluxe. It is labelled with "Drivers & Utilities Rev.2.08" and V083. (...) Are you sure you have installed the GART Driver too? Thanks for the offer but don't think that's necessary, I have …

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ASUS V3800 (TV) WIn98 black screen

Posted on 2023-07-27, 06:59

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by Boohyaka

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Hi there! I have this TNT2 based card from ASUS that I like and that is giving me headaches. To summarize: - In Win98, anything but 640x480 in 16 colors will produce a black screen on login. It works fine as a standard vga adapter before any driver is installed, but as soon as the drivers are …

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, P3V133, CUBX, CUBX-E/L and P3C-E

Posted on 2023-07-21, 08:03

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey Deniz! Just wanted to let you know that I've restored my P3B-F and programmed the latest BIOS, the -5V rail monitoring error is gone as expected - can choose between Ignore and N/A in HW monitoring, guess that's the desired result 😀 big thanks as usual!

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Re: Cool things to do with an Adlib Gold/GoldLib

Posted on 2023-07-15, 10:27

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ Sound

@mods thinking about it maybe it would be worth merging dionb's post and this post? I believe they're similar enough in content and goal Re: AdLib Gold 1000 games support

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