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

Posted on 2024-03-17, 02:56

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Put together an XT-IDE card. IMG_0862.jpeg Really good project for a beginner like me - a lot of repetitive soldering, just putting the reps in, trying to be consistent (and correct) with solder amounts, etc. Learned to not be too quick and make sure it actually flows properly. Probably should have …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-16, 16:58

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I'm on an ABIT spree. First this NF7, thanks to @Robert B. It's been armed with an 2800+ OC'd to 3200, 2GB worth of DDR400, a silver Spire cooler and a Hercules 9700 Pro. https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=188211 Then, two VP6s await me from the U.S.A, and a special episode :D. …

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

Posted on 2024-03-16, 03:50

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Messing around with Tulaltins for the first time. Picked up some PCB inserts from that eBay seller in Korea with the intention of doing the mod myself. Getting in to it, I started to get the feeling that my very novice soldering skills might not be up to the task. But I persevered! Eventually I ( …

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Re: Dual Slot 1 440FX build

Posted on 2024-03-14, 05:21

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Wow, great looking system! Def my kind of build. 😎 I really like all the little extra things you've done to make it just right. Also, I had no idea Slot 1 440FX boards were a thing - neat!

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Re: My Stupid Retro Builds [New: Dual Slot 1 P3-1100MHz!]

Posted on 2024-03-14, 04:50

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She is a beauty, A Real looker that catches you eye. Maybe add some white LED strips and lights. And White Fans or ALL Noctua Fans. But she is a Beauty. Thanks!! And it actually is kitted out with full RBG - I just had on a warm white setting in the pics I posted. If I wanted to I could crank it up …

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

Posted on 2024-03-12, 05:06

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Spent a bunch of the evening getting Quake 3 SMP support working. I noticed in this old thread that while someone offered to, nobody ever posted a Voodoo 3 score. So, I swapped mine out for a GeForce 3 Ti 200, which got it to at least display the id logo before crashing. Downgrading the drivers and …

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Re: My Stupid Retro Builds [New: Dual Slot 1 P3-1100MHz!]

Posted on 2024-03-11, 19:32

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Beautiful build! Which slotkets are you using, and did you have to mod anything in order for SMP to work? I have a P2B-DS and 2 SL5QW as well My slockets are branded SUPER SLOCKET III: IMG_0597.jpeg And yeah, they needed a small mod: IMG_0672.jpeg Just needed to connect pin N33 on the PGA370 socket …

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Re: My Stupid Retro Builds [All-new Socket 7 build!]

Posted on 2024-03-11, 04:32

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Never posted about this one, but I've had it on the go for a while. IMG_0841.jpeg Case: NZXT H510 Elite CPUs: Intel Pentium III 1100 MHz SL5QW Mobo: ASUS P2B-DS Rev 1.05 Memory: 768MB Graphics: Voodoo 3 3000 AGP 16MB Sound: Sound Blaster Live! Storage: Seagate 80GB IDE + Seagate 160GB IDE Removable …

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Re: Dead Compaq Deskpro XE 450 AT PSU

Posted on 2024-03-11, 03:26

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Took a break on this one for a few days. 😅 Anyway, since they were obviously very important to this and I didn’t trust myself, I tested those three caps around the SW1 again - still good. That green resistor.. is an inductor, no? Anyway, it measures 24.4Ω Looked at the optocouplers - a little …

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

Posted on 2024-03-10, 03:34

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Inspired by Shponglefan, I spent a bunch of the day messing around with BootIt. I like it! Really flexible without being too intimidating. The only thing that gave me grief was actually Win2k/XP installers - hanging right at the very first "detecting hardware" message. Don't really know what I did …

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

Posted on 2024-03-09, 00:33

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Installed Windows 2000 on my multi-OS Pentium 4. What's the boot manager? Was it easy to set up 5 OS boots? The boot manager is BootIt Bare Metal. It's both a boot and partition manager. It took a bit of coordination to install each OS. Part of this involved setting each boot menu item to hide all …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-08, 01:21

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With these it's usually a safe bet to check if there's a sticker, and the naming convention goes like this in that case: 6VIA85P - Apollo Pro+ 6ZX85 - 440ZX And it's not a near identical mobo. It's the same PCB used for both of the boards! They reused the PCBs and just changed the chipsets at their …

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Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

Posted on 2024-03-07, 22:34

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I was installing Descent 2 a month or so ago, and it specifically prompts to install the S3 ViRGE accelerated version. I happened to have a ViRGE card, and never used one back in the day so decided to check it out. And... holy moley it was bad. Bad to nearly unplayable frame rates, even for the time …

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Re: The LlamaBlaster

Posted on 2024-03-07, 22:18

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Yeah, been keeping an eye on this one since the first post. What's the plan - assemble a bunch and sell them? Assuming so, since you mention having a bunch on chip on-hand.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-07, 22:15

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Hrmrmrmrmrm.... I picked up (what I thought was) an Acorp 6VIA85 with an Apollo Pro+ chipset for a pretty sweet price. Pic from TRW: 6via85-f-607ef74e9bdca448558803.jpg It hasn't arrived yet, but I looked at the listing pic again and I must have been a little buzzed when I dropped the coin because I …

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Re: Dead Compaq Deskpro XE 450 AT PSU

Posted on 2024-03-07, 04:36

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Got as far as taking the rectifiers out. Don't mind if it was necessary or not, it was fun. 🙂 IMG_0829.jpeg Used diode mode on my MM. Voltage drop across the big fella was 0.16V (that might be bad?), and the little one on the left was 0.42V. Checked other diodes I saw on the board and they seemed …

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Re: Dead Compaq Deskpro XE 450 AT PSU

Posted on 2024-03-06, 03:45

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A lot to read and take in here! I'll probably get back to this tomorrow, just wanted to say thanks for putting in the time to help me out. 🙂

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

Posted on 2024-03-06, 03:40

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Had my mITX Socket 7 on the bench today, fixing a failed D: partition. I knew it was a bad idea using a 160GB HD, but it was all I had. Used SeaTools to lock it down to 128GB total, so hopefully that helps. Also swapped out the passive-cooled Pentium 90 for a Pentium 200. I keep flip-flopping on …

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

Posted on 2024-03-05, 03:58

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Had my mITX Socket 7 on the bench today, fixing a failed D: partition. I knew it was a bad idea using a 160GB HD, but it was all I had. Used SeaTools to lock it down to 128GB total, so hopefully that helps. Also swapped out the passive-cooled Pentium 90 for a Pentium 200. I keep flip-flopping on …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2024-03-03, 05:54

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After a long time of gathering parts together, i finally have my retro build. The idea was to mix old and new. Aopen AX59 Pro AMD-K6-2+/570ACZ 128mb sd-ram IDE-SD adapter Diamond Speedstar A90 Soundblaster AWE32 (CT3980) PCMIDI Roland MT-32 (old) Roland SC-50 Nice! Looks like the "dark" version of …

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