Re: MT-32 completely silent after capacitor replacement.

Posted on Yesterday, 10:37

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I just replaced all the capacitors in my Roland MT-32. I replaced the caps with Nichicon FW series, except for the four bi-polar caps that were Nichicon MUSE BP. The capacitance is correct for all the capacitors and they are oriented in the correct way. I just used capacitors with a slightly higher …

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Re: Ti4200 4x not working on most motherboards

Posted on 2025-03-22, 20:58

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Probably not related to your problem but maybe worth a trying checking the same BIOS option with your K8T Neo Re: MSI K8T Neo / VIA K8T800 not posting with a newer AGP card

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Re: Nvidia 8800GT Repair

Posted on 2025-03-22, 06:06

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Not always, Im happy to be proven wrong. Im glad this time its working though ! Dont overclock or stress it and hopefully itll last a good while, perhaps look into adding some extra fans near the cards in the case to help get more cool air to them, Ive seen people build cardboard/acrylic baffles to …

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Re: Nvidia 8800GT Repair

Posted on 2025-03-22, 05:04

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hrmmm 8000 series card ... smells like bumpgate, have a couple of 8800 cards with similar problems and baking them both allowed them to work again for a while, but baking is not a fix and they will break again. I would say reflow the GPU die with hot air and see if it improves regardless of the "It …

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Re: Whats the most rare piece of hardware you own?

Posted on 2025-03-21, 20:52

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The Gainward Dragon was the first 3dfx card I ever owned in 1998. Mindblowing at the time! I'm hopeful it's still buried in my parents' attic somewhere. I was lucky enough to find an almost new-in-box one a few years ago for a very reasonable price. The box is branded differently as "2theMax VGA" …

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Nvidia 8800GT Repair [FIXED]

Posted on 2025-03-21, 10:52

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I purchased a bundle of 2x identical MSI NX8800 OC. One of them works perfectly the other has no image. I’ve cleaned the copper contacts of the bad card with IPA but no luck. Here is an image of the bad card. 9E1C0B0C-49FE-469D-9D72-BCAC7A180A4A.jpeg 52CCF476-50B0-474F-840C-AD10437FAD9E.jpeg With …

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Re: Ti4200 4x not working on most motherboards

Posted on 2025-03-19, 02:08

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Just a silly note, have you cleaned the graphic card contacts with IPA or something similar? That's strange HWiNFO could not see it, although sometimes HWiNFO does have that issue. Maybe try Astra http://www.sysinfolab.com/files/astra.zip

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Re: Ensoniq Soundscape Elite is broken. Can it be fixed?

Posted on 2025-03-15, 03:26

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You could also send it to a YouTuber. They may want to try fix such an expensive card and make a video. EG Necroware, Bits un Bolts or Tony etc.

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Re: Ti4200 4x not working on most motherboards

Posted on 2025-03-14, 22:43

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When I did some investigation as to why the Ti4600 worked on some systems… I found some motherboards with my modern PSU, reported the 5v line being 4.5v (out of spec). When I used the old PSU on the same motherboard the 5v line went to 4.89 (in spec). If I plugged the same modern PSU into another …

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Re: Ti4200 4x not working on most motherboards

Posted on 2025-03-14, 20:45

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I have a Ti4600 that’s very fussy. It will only post on certain motherboards. What did help is using an old PSU, 50amps on the 5v line (I was using a modern PSU with 20amps on the 5 line). Old PSU with certain motherboards worked better. I also had motherboards where the modern PSU worked fine with …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2025-03-13, 05:39

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I took the Worms (1995) CD out of storage to test some things with my new DOS machine, and then ended up playing it for a few hours before I knew what was happening. :D This game brings back fond memories of my childhood, as I used to play it together with my buddies. Everyone had their own team, …

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Re: LAN Games for 386 computers (DOS and WIN 3.11 for workgroups)

Posted on 2025-03-12, 10:26

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Warcraft 1 may run on a 386 DX25. I run it multiplayer on a 386 DX33.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-03-12, 10:10

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dominusprog wrote on 2025-03-12, 09:55: Nice card! But you should do a recap since it never used for past 30 years. Also, there's a tool on the utility disk called TVGABIO.EXE which can improve the performance. I’ll give TVGABIO.EXE a go on my 8900D as well. Do you know what the difference is …

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Re: How many "hobbyist" PCs do you have?

Posted on 2025-03-11, 21:59

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Today spreadsheet list is saying (starting from 486 and win3.1 to windows 10) : 165 full working desktop, 118 full working portable PC. I have to mention also 30 additional "headless" (display panel less) working portable PC. Handy because I can store a few of those on my desk and use them with the …

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Re: Athlon XP 3200+ Win XP build

Posted on 2025-03-10, 19:10

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Do you know if there is another tool to enable those features when Windows starts? I need to run CBI each time Windows boots. First thing that comes to mind, is to put a shortcut in the Startup section of the Windows Start menu. I wish it was that easy. The tool itself doesn’t automatically re- …

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Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2025-03-10, 07:36

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Just checking if you managed to make the changes? Not yet, no. I did the most challenging part just to prove it's perfectly achievable, and what's left is the easy-but-very-boring details. I still plan to get back to this and close it, but it's pretty far down on my list of priorities at the moment …

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Re: Recommend me some cache chips for a 486 motherboard?

Posted on 2025-03-10, 05:11

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Could you post a high res picture of the motherboard? Or at least a model? ASUS is pretty old. Here is one of their 386 motherboards I have waiting in queue for repair. Filename ASUS ISA-386U3.jpg File size 1.37 MiB Views 259 views File license Public domain

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2025-03-10, 04:20

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In relation to my post above, these sensors values from another application match what's in the BIOS. Filename Sensors.jpg File size 734.25 KiB Views 148 views File license Public domain

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2025-03-09, 05:19

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Can you provide the HWiNFO Debug File so I can check it? Managed to spend some more time on this. It's a very strange bug. I ran HWiNFO today and it worked perfectly, BUT... AWE64.jpg I then closed the app and ran it again but this time I got the Microsoft Sound System. MSSound.jpg Here is the …

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Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2025-03-09, 04:15

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I will implemented these two next time I will fiddle with ethersrv - probably within a few days. Just checking if you managed to make the changes? Getting the DOS version of ethersrv would be amazing. I want to mount ISO files from a network drive within DOS via SHSUCDX so I can play multiplayer …

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