Re: My 486 Box

Posted on 2009-06-01, 17:27

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by Anonymous Coward

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The Mach64 really isn't the worst card in the world for DOS stuff. When compared to the last generation VLB cards, it is about in the middle of the pack. However, it is quite excellent for windows accelerated graphics. If you are considering to upgrade your VLB graphics board, you're really going to …

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Re: Upgrading and Repairing PCs by Scott Mueller (book on Google)

Posted on 2009-05-27, 23:36

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by Anonymous Coward

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What I would really like is a 3rd edition. Over time they slowly removed all the good stuff.

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Re: Seed to new socket 8 powerhouse

Posted on 2009-05-23, 16:02

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by Anonymous Coward

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You think that's bad? You should see my XT counting all 32MB of EMS memory.

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Re: Who wants to buy 128kx8 (1 meg) cache chips for their 486 or pentium board?

Posted on 2009-05-03, 22:01

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by Anonymous Coward

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How many do you need? I have a lot, but I can't guarantee they'll be around forever.

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Re: P55c at Overclocked to 300mhz?

Posted on 2009-03-27, 15:41

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by Anonymous Coward

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I have one of those 266MHz Pentium MMX chips. I didn't think they were all that rare. A few years back sellers were unloading them on ebay. I think they were all desolders. My bigger problem is finding a motherboard that supports them. From what I can tell, they will only work on systems with Intel …

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Re: Your most unreliable retro hardware?

Posted on 2009-03-25, 01:31

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by Anonymous Coward

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I used to have a lot of Maxtor hard drives. They were never really fast, or really quiet...but I always found them reliable. That is until Maxtor bought out Quantum. Quantum used to make the best hard drives on the market...that is until they came out with the Quantum Fireball KA. I believe that was …

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Re: Your most unreliable retro hardware?

Posted on 2009-03-22, 02:55

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by Anonymous Coward

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Vintage PC things I hate: -Most things from PCChips -double sided 72-pin SIMMs -proprietary CD-ROM drives -Super 7 motherboards (but more specifically anything from VIA) -Most board with OPTi chipset -Trident Graphics cards -Anything Plug 'n' Play -Creative Labs cards based on "vibra" -software …

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Re: Keyboard error or no keyboard present

Posted on 2009-03-12, 02:05

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by Anonymous Coward

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Actually, you can just use a wire and solder the the two ends of the fuse together temporarily. While you shouldn't leave it like that, in the short term it will at least tell you if the fuse is the problem or not.

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Optivision OPV9100 MPEG2 decoder for EISA bus

Posted on 2009-03-11, 03:38

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by Anonymous Coward

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I bought one of these on ebay several weeks ago. I guess they were made between 1994-1996. At one point optivision was a pretty huge company and they made very costly professional grade MPEG hardware. In 2000 they were bought out by Amnis Systems Inc, and the support evaporated. I have tried …

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Re: Keyboard error or no keyboard present

Posted on 2009-03-11, 01:28

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by Anonymous Coward

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Checking the fuse should be possible using a regular multi-meter.

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Re: Keyboard error or no keyboard present

Posted on 2009-03-10, 14:15

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by Anonymous Coward

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When my fuse was bad, for some reason the lights on the keyboard still flashed. I'd check the fuse anyway.

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Re: socket 4 cooler

Posted on 2009-03-10, 02:30

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by Anonymous Coward

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I once had a dell optiplex P60 that only used passive cooling. I think the IBM P60 systems were like that also. Just get a bigger heatink 😁

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Re: Keyboard error or no keyboard present

Posted on 2009-03-10, 02:20

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by Anonymous Coward

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I had this happen on a few of my boards. It turned out to be a blown keyboard fuse. You might want to look into that. They are usually small yellow cylinders located beside the keyboard port, though they may come in other colors as well.

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Who wants to buy 128kx8 (1 meg) cache chips for their 486 or pentium board?

Posted on 2009-02-28, 03:20

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by Anonymous Coward

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I can supply these chips. They are from ISSI and are rated at 15ns. Price is $4 per chip. I estimate shipping to be about $7 to most places in the world. Send me a PM if interested.

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Re: socket 3 system on stereoids *Updated*

Posted on 2009-02-23, 23:48

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by Anonymous Coward

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Wide SCSI is 20mb/s

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Re: socket 3 system on stereoids *Updated*

Posted on 2009-02-23, 02:48

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by Anonymous Coward

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This is why I favour the VL/EISA boards. I can run the VL bus at any crazy speed I like but still run high performance disk controllers in spec.

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Re: socket 3 system on stereoids *Updated*

Posted on 2009-02-22, 18:35

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by Anonymous Coward

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You mentioned an am5x86 system with SVGA performance you were really disappointed in.

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Re: socket 3 system on stereoids *Updated*

Posted on 2009-02-22, 17:15

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by Anonymous Coward

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See if your 120MHz 5x86 chip has the 4x multiplier. Some of them did. In that case you might be able to run it at 4x33MHz. Is your am5x86 system with the slow SVGA your VL/EISA system? In that case, I strongly recommend ET4000W32P. At least on the VL bus it is much faster than any S3 product I have …

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Re: CT1920 AWE32 Upgrade, Music volume

Posted on 2009-02-22, 02:24

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by Anonymous Coward

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Where did you get the damn software for this card? I've had one for several years and couldn't use it because I didn't have the appropriate software. I looked all over for it. The software for my regular AWE32 didn't like it.

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Re: New 486 rig assembled *Updated, again*

Posted on 2009-02-19, 02:00

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by Anonymous Coward

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I have a Hercules Graphite DRAM that uses the Trio64 (S3 764) chipset. It's basically an integrated and enhanced version of the 864. I found this card to be quite a lot slower than the W32P in real world use.

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