Looking for Cardinal MB2400EX power pinout

Posted on 2023-01-10, 05:09

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by Y2KBazo

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi! I grabbed a 2400 baud cardinal modem from the thrift store but the power adaptor is a 5 pin DIN plug. cant find any info online about what the pinout is on said plug, or any info on voltage. wondering if anyone here has experience with this particular modem or similar modems can help me out. …

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asus p/i-p55t2p4 not getting past POST with above 16mb Ram

Posted on 2022-08-02, 02:47

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by Y2KBazo

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Hi! Ive got an asus p/i-p55t2p4 board with a p166 that works fine with 16mb of ram, but when i have more than 16mb installed it ends up crashing out when scanning for ide devices with the message BOOT FALIURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER. It will still hang on POST even if the ide devices are …

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Toshiba Qosmio G15 Service Manual?

Posted on 2022-06-24, 19:27

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by Y2KBazo

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Hi! I Cant seem to find a DL of the Quosmio G15 laptop repair manual online. Wondering if anyone had it? Thanks!

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need help disabling IR Thinkpad 380D with no boot

Posted on 2022-05-03, 00:58

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by Y2KBazo

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hi! i have an ibm 380D that wont boot due to a 1201 error. (serial b/ir faliure) the F1 trick will not work as well. there is a tool to disable that port at the BIOS level but since i cant boot i cannot use it. there is a great thread where someone has the same issue on a 600 and they show what …

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leaky laptop RTC batteries. what brands/models are guilty?

Posted on 2022-03-22, 00:48

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by Y2KBazo

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Hi all! Messing around with old laptops my worst nightmare are those evil nicad Toshiba backup battery packs. I dont think i have a pre 2000s toshiba without a layer of rot inside it. I have some laptops that im not sure will leak or not. Was wondering if someone could let me know. Ill list them …

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Re: Toshiba 480CDT - bigger HDD (>8 GB issues?)

Posted on 2022-02-22, 22:11

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by Y2KBazo

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i have a 320CDT and it seem to work perfectly with large disks without needing any fixes. its a bit newer than the 480 tho.

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Re: Looking for AX34 BIOS

Posted on 2022-02-22, 21:44

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by Y2KBazo

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Hi all! Im looking for a newer bios revision for my AX34 board (running R1.04) but i cant seem to find them anywhere. I can find them for the AX34-u or other revisions of the AX34 but not the OG, and Aopens ftp doesent allow me to download anything sadly. Wondering if any of yas had anything newer …

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Looking for AX34 BIOS

Posted on 2022-02-22, 10:30

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by Y2KBazo

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Hi all! Im looking for a newer bios revision for my AX34 board (running R1.04) but i cant seem to find them anywhere. I can find them for the AX34-u or other revisions of the AX34 but not the OG, and Aopens ftp doesent allow me to download anything sadly. Wondering if any of yas had anything newer …

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Re: Apollo Pro 133a performance woes

Posted on 2022-02-16, 21:45

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by Y2KBazo

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Now your memory score looks alright for MMX version of the benchmark. Sisoft Sandra 2003 also has SSE version of it, that's why my score is higher. A tuned VIA 693/694X with PC133 memory is about as fast as 440BX with PC100 memory. But the problem is you can enable memory interleave in Windows only …

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Re: Apollo Pro 133a performance woes

Posted on 2022-02-16, 19:07

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by Y2KBazo

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I installed 3dmark 2000 and 2001, here are my results: 3dmark 2000 - 5824 (640x480 16bit), 5974 (1024x768 32bit) 3dmark 2001 - 5554 (640x480 16bit), 5016 (1024x768 32bit) 3dmark 2001 benefits a lot from HW T&L supported by Nvidia FX graphics cards. I use 81.98 driver as I found no performance …

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Re: Apollo Pro 133a performance woes

Posted on 2022-02-16, 19:02

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by Y2KBazo

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Did you try the VIA Memory Interleave Enabler utility? Sometimes this makes a large impact on memory performance. this ended up making ALL the difference. i didn't even know about this utility. thanks a bunch! When it doubt run Sisoft Sandra memory benchmark. downloaded Sandra 2001 since i couldn't …

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Apollo Pro 133a performance woes

Posted on 2022-02-14, 18:54

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by Y2KBazo

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Hi all! My favorite early 2ks pc runs a P3 733 on an Aopen AX34 with the VIA Apollo Pro 133a chipset, 256x2 CL2 sdram and a Geforce 2 TI at AGPx2. I also have an older 3Com etherlink card and a sb live 4760 in the pci slots. My issue with the machine is that no matter how many drivers i play with i …

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Re: mystery late 90s pc case? (inwin with blaster pc decal)

Posted on 2022-02-14, 00:14

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by Y2KBazo

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Intel486dx33 wrote on 2021-11-18, 08:11: Can you take a close up photo of that case badge so someone can make copies of it. Ill try to clean it up and use a hand scanner to get a pic of the logo next time im around it

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Re: mystery late 90s pc case? (inwin with blaster pc decal)

Posted on 2022-02-14, 00:13

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by Y2KBazo

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EMPAC were an OEM system builder / integrator - the BlasterPC deal with CL is probably one of a number they had. If you look at their parts list on https://web.archive.org/web/19991013111135/http://empac.ca/Products.htm you can see what they were potentially offering clients - the cases / …

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Re: mistery late 90s pc case?

Posted on 2021-11-17, 14:32

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by Y2KBazo

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GL1zdA wrote on 2021-11-17, 08:43: In Win A500. Awesome thanks! Now im just wondering why it has blaster pc on the front. I dont think the inwin cases were used by creative

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mystery late 90s pc case? (inwin with blaster pc decal)

Posted on 2021-11-17, 08:36

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by Y2KBazo

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Ive had this case in my basement and i cant get my head around the blaster pc logo on the front. I forget the model of the case but i remember it being a quite common off the shelf chassis. The blaster pc is actualy dyed onto the plastic, and it contains a chinese celeron board of sorts. I dont …

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Re: will my 250w psu have trouble powering all my crap?

Posted on 2021-11-08, 22:47

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by Y2KBazo

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Thanks a bunch for all the tips and info everyone! Im going to test the old psu with a millimeter under load and make sure the voltages are proper like recommended for the time being but for the long run with how many hours have been put on this machine i think im going to grab a modern psu with a …

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Re: will my 250w psu have trouble powering all my crap?

Posted on 2021-11-07, 23:12

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by Y2KBazo

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Which AOpen 250W PSU is it exactly? If it's a 5V-heavy ATX 1.x P3/Athlon design, 250W is more than sufficient. It's likely to be manufactured by FSP, which (if the caps are still good...) is excellent. If it's a newer 12V-heavy ATX 2.x P4 design, it might not be able to deliver enough on the 5V …

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will my 250w psu have trouble powering all my crap?

Posted on 2021-11-07, 18:58

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by Y2KBazo

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Was thinking about swapping out my TNT2 Ultra in my millennium machine for a gf2 GTS or a 9700/9800 but im a bit worried about overstepping my 20 year old 250 watt aopen psu that is running everything under the sun already. In the machine ive got a pIII 733 on an AX34 board with 256 in all 3 slots. …

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