Re: Searching for small microATX case

Posted on 2023-09-08, 12:00

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by ChrisK

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https://www.yycase.com/Mini-Tower-A2-Series.html https://www.yang-it.de/product-category/pc-cases/tiny-tower-cases I had one of those years ago. Sold it also years ago. Very good build quality, sturdy as hell. Don't know where to buy these nowadays. I bought mine from some german distributor, …

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

Posted on 2023-09-07, 06:12

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by ChrisK

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No worries, I had to look around for a while before finding it as well, for an XT PSU I have with a similarly broken bezel. Because my 3d printer is broken, i have ordered 2 bezels online yesterday. When they arrive i will post some pictures. [hr] Sometimes i have problems to make decisions. I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-08-29, 09:04

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I still don't know anything about running the 694D Pro with dual P3s. I'd be happy if anyone with experience lets me know whether: a) I need exact matching (same SL code) Pentium IIIs or same FSBxMultipler will be fine b) I need to do anything (ie. add/remove a terminator resistor?) before I …

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

Posted on 2023-08-24, 09:21

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by ChrisK

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Not sure if that's "retro" enough to be mentioned here but managed to add a NMVe PCI option ROM to some older AM3 mainboard's BIOS (AMI). That one was featuring just "slow" SATA-II ports for SSDs as the only bootable interfaces (besides some ancient less-modern IDE & floppy ports). But with a simple …

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

Posted on 2023-08-14, 06:46

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by ChrisK

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Did some internal cleaning and renewing of CPU thermal paste on an 2012 Thinkpad T420s. Those machines aren't build to be serviced. Both tasks require a complete disassembly of the unit with finding and removing of 30+ screws. Took me about 3 hours. Thermal paste of course wasn't much more than dry …

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

Posted on 2023-08-11, 06:35

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by ChrisK

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I recently managed to (separately) acquire two matching make and model Voodoo 2s and have been having pretty much no luck getting them working in SLI. They work independently just fine, but it won't detect SLI with both of them. I took them out and put them side by side and saw what I should have …

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

Posted on 2023-08-10, 08:24

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by ChrisK

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I recently managed to (separately) acquire two matching make and model Voodoo 2s and have been having pretty much no luck getting them working in SLI. They work independently just fine, but it won't detect SLI with both of them. I took them out and put them side by side and saw what I should have …

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

Posted on 2023-08-08, 10:54

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by ChrisK

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Speaking of explosions, I had that happen too to the 486 : IMG_4543.jpg I replaced all these little blue drops with something else, and hopefully the ones on the motherboard itself will not start going out like this anytime soon lol The PSU immediately went into protection so that probably saved me …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-07-14, 13:11

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by ChrisK

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You could put some logs under your sofa's feet. As a side effect you would gain space for some more CRTs (depending of the width by depth measures of your sofa of course). This technique could also be deployed to other furniture, such as beds, chairs, etc. Your imagination is your friend. Oh now I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-07-13, 10:44

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by ChrisK

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You could put some logs under your sofa's feet. As a side effect you would gain space for some more CRTs (depending of the width by depth measures of your sofa of course). This technique could also be deployed to other furniture, such as beds, chairs, etc. Your imagination is your friend.

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Re: Advice on broken Socket 7 Heatsink clip ASUS MS-5148

Posted on 2023-07-13, 10:22

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by ChrisK

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There are coolers which are fixed by some kind of spring that gets hold under the left behind posts (sorry, don't have a picture at hand atm). However, they are a bit hard to find nowadays since this technique was more common for 486 stuff rather than Socket 7. You could try to make one such spring …

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Re: I got an ASUS K7M 1.04 motherboard recently. Encountering issues

Posted on 2023-07-12, 05:52

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Correct, just do a read from the chip then save the file as .bin or .rom or whatever ending the new file has. It doesn't matter. There are some options in the save dialog but I remember the default settings beeing alright. Load the new image file, you can see the hex data in the left side of the …

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Re: Pentium MMX Ceramic VS Plastic version

Posted on 2023-07-10, 13:26

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Yes, you are right, it is (could be) a Data Matrix code (taking the bad quality into account), or at the very least not a QR code. I was just focused on the fact that there shouldn't be any type of code at all. Data Matrix codes must have appeared first on Intels PPGAs, AFAIK. But definitely not on …

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Re: Pentium MMX Ceramic VS Plastic version

Posted on 2023-07-10, 12:35

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by ChrisK

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Sphere478 wrote on 2023-07-09, 08:34: Oh that is interesting I also have a curiosity, a 200mhz sl27s ppga Would you mind posting a picture of that? Just for the sake of curiosity?

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Re: Pentium MMX Ceramic VS Plastic version

Posted on 2023-07-10, 12:32

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Hello, I’m new here but loving hardware since decades. I’m taking the liberty of digging up this topic as I came accross what’s seems to be a Pentium 233 MMX in a CPGA package (ceramic, then, not plastic PPGA) but its sSpec is SL27S which relates to a classical PPGA P233 MMX. Also, I don’t find any …

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Re: Problems getting Windows 95 OSR2 on a CF card

Posted on 2023-07-04, 14:58

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by ChrisK

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Not sure about that Enhanced IDE thing, but glad that it works now! 👍

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Re: Problems getting Windows 95 OSR2 on a CF card

Posted on 2023-07-04, 08:37

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by ChrisK

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Try to check its specs. Maybe it supports higher modes you wouldn't suppose. If you have a smaller card working in the exact same setup it likely is CF-card related.

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Re: Problems getting Windows 95 OSR2 on a CF card

Posted on 2023-07-04, 08:09

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by ChrisK

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Hi, could be a UDMA-problem. I had some similar effects with a board that supported UDMA-33 only combined with a harddisk that supported higher UDMA-modes. Normally the BIOS should set the highest possible mode in the harddisk but it didn't. So the harddisk assumed UDMA-66 (or UDMA-100, can't …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-30, 08:25

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by ChrisK

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Interesting... there's the BHC as well which seems to be a mobile variant of it? BHC is SQFP package. All other specs seem to be the same as for BGC variant. Not sure if that's a chip especially meant for mobile use, but could well be. But I seem to remember that it's also used on some tuning kits …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-29, 14:04

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by ChrisK

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Look for "Am5x86-P75". They have a second marking line saying "Am486DX5-133W16BGC".

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