Re: Disappointing DFI ITOX G4V620-B experience

Posted on 2024-05-23, 04:03

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i switched the chipset IC to RG82845G yesterday and... it's showing no signs of life, board is starting but on the POST card only dashes. i got the IC from aliexpress (looks like new) and changed in local laptop service center (30$ to replace IC) to avoid any issues. But it is not showing any post …

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Re: Nvidia Geforce FX5500 repair question

Posted on 2024-05-21, 10:07

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

you can use old MATS/MODS for DOS to test vmem on NVIDIA cards https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pFuLL … kJDv4TiJKE_GWNw it will show you which exact memory bank is bad. btw also check the capacitors/resistors around the memory ic.

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Re: Disappointing DFI ITOX G4V620-B experience

Posted on 2024-05-21, 04:18

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It's probably not even wired up properly for normal AGP operation, even if that was feasible. according to intel documentation for chipset 82845gv the signals for agp/ digital daughter board are mixed, and agp just disabled in this chipset. so probably replacing the chipset to normal 82845g may …

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Re: Disappointing DFI ITOX G4V620-B experience

Posted on 2024-05-20, 07:03

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

just got two of the same boards, rev b1. 1. pci video work fine, geforce 5200 , radeon 9250. 2. sound blaster 32 does not detects at all, crystal sound card magic s23a works just fine in dos, but immediately gets blue screen in windows 98 and no sound in XP. Another crystal based card works just …

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Re: AGP to PCI adapters - any PCB designers here willing to make one?

Posted on 2024-05-14, 06:00

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already did some tests i have a supermicro desktop board based on server e7505 chipset, model x5dal-tg2. so it has a pci-x slots which can work as a pci-66mhz. (266mb) anyway... paired with 3.2ghz server xeon gallatin cpu and pcie->pci66 radeon 5770 scored 26k 3dmark 2003 . same card in pcie and …

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Re: Socket-775 Clock Signals

Posted on 2024-04-28, 12:36

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just got the same board. Is there any lucky owners of the modded and not buggy bios? Can you share pls?

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Re: Extremely poor performance on specific Socket 370 motherboard. Chipset?!

Posted on 2024-04-16, 04:17

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

install via interleave enabler https://soggi.org/files/misc/tools/Memory-Int … Enabler_0.15.7z

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Re: Tualatin slotket mod on Intel BX chipset (rom.by edition)

Posted on 2024-03-31, 17:15

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i just use a silver pen and draw a connection between AN3 and AM4 directly on CPU to pull up the AN3 pin high.

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looking for vga bios GeForce 2 GTS 32MB DVI

Posted on 2024-03-15, 10:13

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Hello there Looking for a clear picture of DVI port smd's, there is a some capacitors, L , diode and two Resistors unknown values. Also looking for vga bios GeForce 2 GTS 32MB with DVI port. soldered the DVI socket and can't get a picture. so probably this is a vga bios, or resistors.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2024-03-05, 04:46

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Just got from my scrap yard. Please identify this dual slot 1 mobo, did not find anything like it on retroweb. labeling is HATTERAS Design by IBM 1997 Filename 20240304_181721.jpg File size 2 MiB Views 461 views * update IBM 03N2499 motherboard, from an IBM Intellistation M Pro Type 6889

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2024-03-05, 03:45

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Filename cpu.jpg File size 456.11 KiB Views 472 views scored 19 pcs of 800/256/100 cpu's w/o case and coolers 🙁 and one 1000/256/133 with cooler. just one cpu not working, some smd missing.

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Re: 440BX + ISA + P3 Coppermine: How is the Gigabyte GA-6BXC motherboard?

Posted on 2024-02-16, 03:43

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

my ga-6bxc running P-3S 1.4Ghz via modded slotket adapter just fine but have to switch clockgen to another model, 9248db or similar, almost any apollo pro 133 have this clockgen. it's up to 150mhz and pin compatible. default clock gen is unstable on 133mhz

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Re: True Mid Life Crisis PC Build

Posted on 2024-02-15, 03:56

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just a quick note i'm owner of PA-2013. And my board just does not work with nvidia cards ( fx5200 pci, agp 6200, etc). but work perfectly fine with matrox g450, savage4, ATI cards (9250 agp). make sure you have backup non-nvidia card. board support only 512mb ram max. do not install more than than …

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Re: True Mid Life Crisis PC Build

Posted on 2024-02-13, 05:26

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

just a quick note i'm owner of PA-2013. And my board just does not work with nvidia cards ( fx5200 pci, agp 6200, etc). but work perfectly fine with matrox g450, savage4, ATI cards (9250 agp). make sure you have backup non-nvidia card. board support only 512mb ram max. do not install more than than …

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Re: Is there a reliable way to discern a gimped gf mx 440 card from 128 bit mx440 card?

Posted on 2024-02-06, 10:31

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4 memory chips = 64bit wide 8 memory chips = 128bit wide there is also another issue some of mx440 were sdram based. (SDR labeled) make sure chips are ddr and 8 pcs.

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

Posted on 2024-02-02, 04:35

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1. a PCI latency patch from George Breeze. i have a couple of PCI graphics cards and they just won't work properly until i install George Breeze patch for PCI latency. Of cource it is not possible to use patch in case of Linux OS. 2. Tnx. I'll try this version!

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

Posted on 2024-02-01, 05:14

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i have a CUV4X-D mobo with ViA chipset. a few notes after i installed 1010 patched version. 1. is there any chance to fix a PCI latency issue with bios mod? 2. 2x memory interleave mode enabled by default. can we mod it to 4x w/o using windows path? ( +100mb/sec to ram bandwidth)

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Re: GeForce4 Ti 4200 with 8x AGP (NV28) does not output digital signal through DVI out?

Posted on 2024-01-22, 05:45

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1. In some cases DVI output will be enabled only after Windows load the driver. 2. Some cards with damaged dvi may detect display in windows but no output. 3. DVI output depends on the bios used in card. find another similar 4200 with working dvi output and flash bios from working card. (double …

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Re: Hitachi Flora DM2 P1 133 -No Video

Posted on 2024-01-19, 06:15

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Simm memory must be installed in pairs.

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Re: RAM for Asus PVI-486SP3

Posted on 2024-01-18, 09:11

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

you can convert EDO ram to FPM. It is much easier to find 32mb edo sticks. lift off from the pad OE pin and connect it to CAS pin (near by) on all memory chips

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