Motherboard recap : Partial or full ?

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Hi, I recently bought a dual Socket 604 (P4 Xeon) workstation motherboard. Quite a deal for 20€ with two 2.8Ghz Xeon, matching aftermarket coolers, 4Gb of DDR, a PCI SCSI controller and a GeForce MX... Unfortunately, with problems and some bad caps (no boot, beeps) Screenshot from 2023-06-06 09-37- …

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Re: For all you Radeon ATi RV350/RV280 R9200 / 9200SE/ 9250 /9550 /R9550 / R9600 /9600 /9600XT lovers DX9 , schematic h

Posted on 2023-06-04, 16:16

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Thanks. Very interesting for repairs. Options straps can be useful too

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Re: Sempron/Athlon64 - speed classification system

Posted on 2023-06-04, 08:39

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P-ratings can only be compared within the same range and same generation CPUs. AthlonXP 3000+ / Sempron 3000+ / Athlon64 3000+ are different and you can't expect equal performance. And this cannot be compared with a 3.00Ghz P4 either. An XP3000+ is generally considered slower than a 3.0 P4 while an …

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Re: Debian Live - recovery by image on early 90s PCs

Posted on 2023-05-26, 19:14

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I used a similar technique several times to clone a disk from a retro system. But I booted a lightweight Linux instead (from cd). CF will work too. You can DD to a file, but also through the network (using netcat) And md5sum is used to check that the saved image is identical to the physical disk.

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Re: 5" FLOPPY under modern linux

Posted on 2023-05-22, 05:53

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(100+ skill points on gcc, makefile and uboot are required to get your system running) I have to disagree. Creating a bootable Linux system is very easy with buildroot. The entire configuration process is menu based -- buildroot's, the kernel's, and busybox's. After that, buildroot automatically …

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Re: 5" FLOPPY under modern linux

Posted on 2023-05-21, 18:55

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If you're comfortable configuring a Linux kernel I would suggest using something like buildroot instead of trying to find a suitable existing distro. This not only lets you build a Linux system (kernel and userland) exactly how you want it, but it also means you can create something that is …

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Re: 5" FLOPPY under modern linux

Posted on 2023-05-21, 16:23

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Are you sure that your 5" drive is properly supported on a modern motherboard ? Is there more info returned by "dmesg" ? Just out of curiosity, why not using Linux on the K6-2 ? (I have a Debian 2.2 "Potato" currently on my 486 Laptop. It runs well)

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Re: Are prices for retro hardware slowly coming down?

Posted on 2023-05-21, 15:20

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To be honest, I never really looked at the prices because i (almost) never bought things at ebay crazy prices. I'm patient, browse a lot of local ads. I very rarely pay more than 50€/$ for a single piece. And I was still able to get most of the parts i was looking for. Since i bought most things at …

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Re: [Advice needed] Two EISA VGA cards : build a system or sell the cards

Posted on 2023-05-16, 13:13

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Thank you very much. I think i will follow your advices and look for a VLB / ISA / PCI system instead. I will keep them in the meantime, only in case i find a cheap EISA system. (i'm not in the hurry) Then probably trade/sell them later, when starting actively to look for this 486 VLB system.

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[Advice needed] Two EISA VGA cards : build a system or sell the cards

Posted on 2023-05-14, 17:48

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Hello Today i had the opportunity to buy two EISA VGA cards. This was not really planed, i was interested by some ISA network cards, and the seller also presented me two EISA VGA cards. After an hesitation, i finally bought them. Half because i wanted an early 90's system and half because they were …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-13, 04:55

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That weird baby AT Slot 1 motherboard I bought a while ago arrived and it works! IMG_4489.jpg I'm used to worrying about fans clearing DIMMs on Slot 1 mobos but.. not usually with the GPU. Gotta wonder why the practice of putting DIMM sockets immediately below the AGP slot never caught on. And.. …

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Voodoo5 6000 (yes, the one from ebay $15k) on LinusTechTips

Posted on 2023-05-07, 21:43

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It finally ended in his youtube channel. (but no, he is not the owner) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrWfhbqURC4

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Re: I remember a common windows 98/me troubleshooting step was to drag hw acceleration one notch below max. Why?

Posted on 2023-05-05, 17:18

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I remember doing this for both audio and video acceleration, and in many cases it worked... though there were usually some compromises. Does anyone here actually know what these sliders do? I don't know how it works on Windows . But i worked on the Linux graphic stack in a previous job. I can risk …

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Re: Looking for 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm cards bios

Posted on 2023-05-05, 13:17

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SUN XVR-500 and I'm also looking for a way to make it work on a PC. I have experience with different Sun XVR card and it was not possible to make it work in PC (at least not as primary VGA card) just with simple BIOS modification . the reason in my case was that with some resistors on the board …

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Re: Looking for 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm cards bios

Posted on 2023-05-05, 11:16

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Very interested in this topic. I was recently given a SUN XVR-500 and I'm also looking for a way to make it work on a PC. http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/cpu/item/407-sun-xvr-500

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Re: Matrox videocards - functional test (Mystique, G100, G200, G450 etc).

Posted on 2023-05-03, 21:24

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And I’m still curious to try a Parhelia « first gen », I have an AGP Parhelia-LX somewhere which is basically half a Parhelia-512. It's an interesting card. I have a Parhelia AGP 256MB with box, accessories and documents. Even if the card was said to be more "gaming oriented", they barely admit it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-02, 23:26

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Babasha wrote on 2023-05-02, 15:29: 1) Asus CUBX-L + Asus V7100 Good motherboard. I use a CUBX-E... I don't know what is the difference. Socket 370 motherboard with 4 ram slots are not super common. I think I read somewhere that 4 slots is off specs for 440BX but some manufacturers did that anyway. …

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Re: Help to Identify Adapter

Posted on 2023-05-01, 19:59

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zyga64 wrote on 2023-05-01, 19:10: This card above already have some memory (probably 1MB) - ZIP chips on the right side. Oh ! Ok. I suspected the components on the right to be memory bur was not sure. I'm not familiar with this form factor.

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Re: Help to Identify Adapter

Posted on 2023-05-01, 19:01

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It looks similar to this model : https://www.devicelog.com/output-device/vga/p … 86200-sis-6202/ The card is very unlikely to work without any memory. (These memory chips can sometimes cost more than the card itself. Depending where you can source them)

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[Link] 3Dfx Voodoo 1 & 2 Glide Linux Driver Retired, Other X.Org Code Officially Retired

Posted on 2023-04-25, 09:46

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Retired-Packages-2023 I use Linux as a daily driver for more than 15y and to be honest, i never tried 3dfx V1/V2 on it ! Their support is officially removed from Xorg.

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