Re: What's that type of 40pin laptop ide connector?

Posted on Today, 05:26

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by ElectroSoldier

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Its a standard 40 pin IDC on a proprietary cable. I would say it was par for the course in old laptops. Its wired straight through too so while it will be almost impossible to find an official replacement any 40 pin cable could do the job if it fits. Is there any example that might fit? Do you mean …

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Re: Integrated graphics good enough for windows 98?

Posted on Today, 01:46

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by ElectroSoldier

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I have an Asrock 775i65G motherboard that has intergrated graphics. I have an X800XL in it at the minute, but at some point I when I get a chance I would like to see how the onboard performs with a Voodoo2 or 2.

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Re: What's that type of 40pin laptop ide connector?

Posted on Yesterday, 23:05

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by ElectroSoldier

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Its a standard 40 pin IDC on a proprietary cable. I would say it was par for the course in old laptops. Its wired straight through too so while it will be almost impossible to find an official replacement any 40 pin cable could do the job if it fits.

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2025-01-10, 07:24

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by ElectroSoldier

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What does an EVs range drop to when it gets cold?

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Re: PCI ssd adapter?

Posted on 2025-01-09, 13:41

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by ElectroSoldier

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I thought i board with the notch on the rear of the slot, (close to the PCI bracket) was the indicator of a 3.3volt slot. If it doesnt have that notch then it is a 5volt slot. It is rare to find a board with that notch, I have only one board with it.

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Re: PCI ssd adapter?

Posted on 2025-01-09, 00:37

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by ElectroSoldier

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I have a PCI 4 port SATA controller with a Silicon Image Sil3114CTU chip on it. It has Win98 drivers I believe. I havent tried it yet, I only got it a few weeks ago in a bundle of other boards. That should allow a 2.5" SSD to work and be bootable in Win98. Win98 should be OK, but check PCI slot …

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Re: PCI ssd adapter?

Posted on 2025-01-08, 22:00

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by ElectroSoldier

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I have a PCI 4 port SATA controller with a Silicon Image Sil3114CTU chip on it. It has Win98 drivers I believe. I havent tried it yet, I only got it a few weeks ago in a bundle of other boards. That should allow a 2.5" SSD to work and be bootable in Win98.

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Re: Ideas for a DOS machine?

Posted on 2025-01-05, 20:14

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by ElectroSoldier

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Pentium MMX was where I was leaning. Huge Intel fanboy, never had a Pentium MMX (or any Pentium) on a main computer. But... maybe other things make more sense. This is a very good choice. You can slow down a Pentium MMX with ease to 386 and 486 speeds by using SetMul to toggle the test registers, …

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Re: Can the motherboard affected after it was touch by rainwater?

Posted on 2024-12-30, 19:56

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by ElectroSoldier

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Fibreglass soaks up water like a sponge and it can take a long time for it to dry out completely.

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Re: Help to choose GPU Optiplex 170L

Posted on 2024-12-30, 03:15

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by ElectroSoldier

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If your budget stretches to it a Chinese FX5500 off ebay. But only because I dont know if you can get a Radeo 9550 on the PCI bus. Otherwise there is the FX5200 or Radeon 9200, both of which you can get as PCI bus cards. A machine like that I tend to see as a fast 98 system rather than a slow xp. …

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

Posted on 2024-12-30, 01:42

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by ElectroSoldier

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Tripredacus wrote on 2024-12-03, 20:58: It turns out that Super Micro builds their AS-2014S-TR 2U Server wrong at their factory. Ill byte. How, why?

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Re: ASUS PC-DL DELUZE to ASUS NCCH-DL

Posted on 2024-12-28, 13:41

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by ElectroSoldier

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So there is no BIOS update that can make the board support an 800MHz FSB?

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Re: ASUS PC-DL DELUZE to ASUS NCCH-DL

Posted on 2024-12-27, 18:53

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by ElectroSoldier

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off the top of my head, PC-DL was for the 533 FSB xeons, and the NCCH-DL was the one for the 800's. I have the ncch-dl when it was new (ish). And it was a FAST board. Those 3.8 chips FLEW. Yeah I would agree with that. I had some Prestonia core Xeons in my PCH-DL and it was one hell of a system. At …

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Re: ASUS PC-DL DELUZE to ASUS NCCH-DL

Posted on 2024-12-27, 14:24

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by ElectroSoldier

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nhattu1986 wrote on 2024-12-27, 14:23: I think there was a bios mod for the PC-DL to support the nocona Xeon, but i unable to located the bios. Would it work for the PCH-DL? There was nothing official to allow it.

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Re: ASUS PC-DL DELUZE to ASUS NCCH-DL

Posted on 2024-12-27, 13:48

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by ElectroSoldier

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I had a PCH-DL myself, it was a good system but No you cant. Its not an "improved" model, its a different motherboard.

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Re: AHA-2940 /GE

Posted on 2024-12-24, 12:37

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by ElectroSoldier

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Guess I will go for the UW then. But every picture I see of a 2940UW has that big empty space where I expect a BIOS to be present. Do they one, or do I need a 2940UW-PRO for that? How about linking to one of those "every' pictures you refer to when you make statements like this. As pretty much …

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Re: AHA-2940 /GE

Posted on 2024-12-24, 10:04

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by ElectroSoldier

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It has a 50pin HD external connector with a 50pin internal one. Depends on what hard drive you are going to be putting on it. All of the 2940UW cards Ive had have had the BIOS. It might not look like what you think it should. There are many versions of it. The Pro version adds features you dont need …

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Re: Thin client HP t5720 Win98/DOS experience

Posted on 2024-12-23, 22:41

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by ElectroSoldier

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On mine enabling DMA doesnt increase the transfer speed over 15MB/s

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Re: MSI 845PE Neo (MS-6580 VER 3.0) no post

Posted on 2024-12-15, 12:40

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by ElectroSoldier

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RetroWeb says they have bad caps. Either that or the VRM. I wouldnt have thought that board would be worth the effort of tracing the actual problem. Maybe in 15 years time it will be.

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Re: MSI 845PE Neo (MS-6580 VER 3.0) no post

Posted on 2024-12-15, 01:05

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by ElectroSoldier

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Did you swap the PSU?

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