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Re: voodoo 2 - dead framebuffer?

Posted on 2023-11-25, 13:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've looked over those posts, and doing some probing with my meter around the DAC, clock and reset pins. Mine is a rev 2.0 card (picture attached) so the layout is a bit different. Where those threads reference a 74AC244 IC, my card has a 74LXC04 IC according to this diagram I found here https:// …

Re: Boot screen spelling mistake, cannot unsee!!

Posted on 2023-11-22, 21:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I guess now I need to recap and boot the Abit BH6 I have here to see if the same spelling mistake is present.... maybe it's specific to some BIOS versions? I'm curious to see now though

voodoo 2 - dead framebuffer?

Posted on 2023-11-22, 18:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey everyone, I have a voodoo 2 here that I've had since 2002. Recently pulled it out for a k6-2 machine and it's one of a matching pair I have, but it has issues. Part of it seems to be my own fault due to careless storage as 8-9 pins on the bottom right corner of the framebuffer chip were bent and …

Re: Help identify VGA GF

Posted on 2023-11-13, 18:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

google searched the part number and found this link. it seems to be a sparkle card https://nl.hardware.info/videokaarten.5/spark … -gs-ultra2.1279

Re: quirky Abit BE6 II repair

Posted on 2023-11-11, 05:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have an Abit BE6-II that I just got recently and recapped. I remember it showing some wild number on the -5v when connected to a PSU that doesn't have a -5v line. It could be -62v but I don't recall exactly, but it did show something that caught my attention until I looked at the ATX connector to …

Re: Artifacting in DOS game (shadow warrior)

Posted on 2023-11-10, 21:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

okay, so I've looped 3dmark 2000 for a couple hours and no artifacting whatsoever. I also tested Blood, another build engine game, and the same artifacting occurs. But artifacting only appears when using a vesa mode of a 640x480 or 800x600. at the default 320x240 there's no issue. At 640x480 the …

Artifacting in DOS game (shadow warrior)

Posted on 2023-11-10, 17:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey everyone, just looking for some opinions here.... I'm building a box with an msi k7t266 pro v1.0, athlon thunderbird 1.3ghz, geforce 3, sound blaster live as the main components on the bench right now Just got through sorting out the creative live drivers (sigh) and installed shadow warrior to …

Re: About NVIDIA TNT2 M64 (and other graphics cards)

Posted on 2023-10-27, 13:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

TNT2 was a great card. I have one here that was bought second hand 2 decades ago along with some other stuff to build my mom a new upgraded computer. Very vanilla card but they were a decent gaming card when they came out. I'd pick a geforce or geforce 2 anything over a tnt2 for any build of that …

Re: Asus P2-99 Bios updates

Posted on 2023-10-26, 12:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ah I must have missed that when I was looking at the manual. I spotted it on the motherboard layout diagram though and mine definitely does not have the hardware monitor. Thanks!

Asus P2-99 Bios updates

Posted on 2023-10-26, 11:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey everyone, Quick question... I got an Asus P2-99 the other night and I've updated to the 1012 to make sure it supports the 800mhz slot 1 Pentium 3 CPU I already had here. But there's a new 1013 beta bios on their website as well but there's 2 versions of it listed. One is listed as "Without …

Re: A7V266-E issues

Posted on 2023-10-23, 22:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

not sure if i'm doing something wrong with diode mode on my meter or if it's just really basic... it is a pretty old and basic meter though. but with diode mode and no power connected i just get inconsistent beeps out of the meter that said, measuring voltage on the crystal lets while the psu is …

Re: New motherboard, no branding

Posted on 2023-10-23, 18:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That green pcb and the front panel IO layout made me think of QDI but it definitely does look like that one that rasz linked

Re: A7V266-E issues

Posted on 2023-10-23, 17:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

just running my meter across different places on both of these boards to compare. Still can't get the one that turns on to post, but it powers on, unlike the other. Couple points of interest though On the board that powers, I'm not measuring any voltage to this crystal pointed out in the picture, …

Re: A7V266-E issues

Posted on 2023-10-21, 20:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had that thought earlier myself and interestingly, while both of these are the same revision of the board, the other has a soldered bios.... I really need a programmer for those because I do have a ton of them in a container that I could program and swap on this board

Re: A7V266-E issues

Posted on 2023-10-21, 18:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes I do have 2.62v reading there actually, might be mistaken on the post codes. the one post card I have shows 00 c2 on 2 different displays. I guess c2 is the previous step and 00 is where it stopped? I tried another post card and it passes C2 and stops at 00 .... not sure what that means but …

A7V266-E issues

Posted on 2023-10-21, 17:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a pair of A7V266-E boards here that I acquired recently, both 1.07 revisions. Both had bad caps and I found a thread here on that topic which was useful in finding suitable replacement caps for the four 6.3v 3300uf nichicons that popped. I've only replaced those 4 capacitors on each board Now …

Re: How many video cards / VGA cards or GPUs do you have?

Posted on 2023-10-21, 12:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just counted 41 cards but I think I missed a few. edit, make that 44. I missed 3 that were right in front of me....

Re: GPU Fan connector?

Posted on 2023-10-20, 12:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

looks like XH and PH are the ones I need. thanks folks

Re: GPU Fan connector?

Posted on 2023-10-20, 11:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

JST rings a bell actually. I think I've looked these up before for something else now that I think of it. That gets me on a path at least. Just need to identify the different sizing now to get the right pins and connector housings

GPU Fan connector?

Posted on 2023-10-20, 11:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does anyone know what these fan connectors are so I can order some from digikey, mouser, or elsewhere, along with pins to crimp on? I have a few older AGP cards here I'm replacing heatsinks and fans on because the old fans are dead or have bad bearings. I've found some HSF's that fit but the fan …

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