Re: Gateway AMD K7 Christmas Build

Posted on 2018-12-14, 23:54

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by Tetrium

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Here is my Christmas computer restoration build. It's a Gateway Select with AMD Athlon 900mhz. Nothing says "All American Christmas" like a Gateway computer. These are true Americana. This computer is made of heavy steel frame construction. It is a tool less case and very easy to work on and repair …

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Re: Motheboard barrel battery.

Posted on 2018-12-14, 23:40

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by Tetrium

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.legaCy wrote: I never store any hardware with batteries, even CR2032. ^This

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-14, 23:32

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Picked up a beige case for a 5er a couple of weeks back, but I'll share it today 'cause I can. Was covered in a ton of dirt, like it was buried or something. Had a s462 motherboard with all caps bulging and tons of corrosion, so that was disposed of. Kept the 1GHz Athlon that was in it. The case …

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Re: ASUS AGP-V3800M Cooling

Posted on 2018-12-14, 22:57

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It was standard for graphics card makers of the time to include tiny heatsinks. Often they would even omit a heatsink altogether. TNT2 M64, Voodoo 3, MGA-200, these all had these black spiky heatsinks or heatsinks that were essentially chipset heatsinks mounted with these pushthrough pins. It's …

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Re: Pentium III Coppermine SL43E (600MHz) Build

Posted on 2018-12-12, 22:23

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by Tetrium

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There's a couple swollen caps on your board. You really ought to look at a possible swapout or repair of your board. As this board is kinda limited, this might be a good opportunity to swap it out with a board that can offer your build more flexibility?

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Re: Intel D815EEA2 based system won't post

Posted on 2018-12-12, 22:16

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by Tetrium

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I have a D815EEA2 which doesn't POST with a Tualatin. I've flashed every single BIOS version available and none of them worked. It does work fine with Coppermine though. Apparently it's D815EEA2U which has Tualatin support. I went ahead and found a manual for the D815EEA2, here and you are correct. …

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Re: Quick & clean K6-2 build, with some cool history

Posted on 2018-12-11, 22:08

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by Tetrium

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I love your system! :D Internal ZIP drive, ss7 that is not K6-3+ but just a plain jane K6-2, 20GB Seagate drive, V3, Turtle Beach, you seem to have picked all the right parts haha! :D The only thing I personally don't like is the case, but that's mostly because I have a personal preference for cases …

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Re: Mid-1999 GPU That Takes Rendering Load from the CPU

Posted on 2018-12-11, 22:01

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by Tetrium

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The M64 is an absolutely horrible card and will be the source of your problems for sure. For the 1999 period get yourself a Voodoo 3 3000/3500 or a matrox g400/g400 max. They would suit your machine very well. Also since you mentioned loading stutters, check that your HDD is running in DMA mode and …

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Re: Slot 1 Motherboard 3xDIMM slot Advice

Posted on 2018-12-11, 21:53

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I forgot to add one thing that may be important when following the guidelines as I written them down. If you end up using several modules of the same make, but modules which for instance have slight differences in binning. If you make it a habit to have the slowest module in the first slot, you can …

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Re: Athlon 64 X2 6000+ still fast?

Posted on 2018-12-11, 21:39

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by Tetrium

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A friend of mine actually used a A64 x2 6000+ as a main LAN rig for years, till the system gave out due to problems with the PSU and the system getting upgraded sequentially till the CPU was left without a system to run in. It's the 125W version and needed DDR2, but it worked pretty well for what it …

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2018-12-11, 21:32

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andrewrussel Spamming advertisement, please don't click the link @ everyone

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Re: Link Between Depression and 'Collecting'?

Posted on 2018-12-11, 21:28

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Some people collect money Some people collect houses Some people collect weapons Some people collect pots and kitchen utilities Some people collect cars Some people collect ships Some people collect clothes Some people collect shoes Some people collect humans ( it’s called a prison ). Etc, etc, etc …

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Re: What about this SIS motherboard?

Posted on 2018-12-11, 21:26

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by Tetrium

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I can't really answer your questions, but if it was me I'd be more concerned initially by the fact that the battery has leaked all over the place. It may not even POST without some extensive repairs. This was THE first thing I noticed. Get rid of it asap. #2 is that it looks pretty clean and it …

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Re: The World's Fastest 486

Posted on 2018-12-11, 21:18

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by Tetrium

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Are you aware that this CPU was also officially sold as Am486DX5-133? It was even written on some chips. 5x86 was just a marketing name. Ok derSammler, due to the relatively large request to consider the 133, but considering also the "aesthetic" requirement mentioned above (gotta read 486 on the …

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Re: Win95c vs. Win98se for gaming ?

Posted on 2018-12-11, 21:09

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I used 98lite on all my Windows 98 installs once I discovered it - on everything from a 486DX4-75 with 16MB RAM to my at the time daily driver Athlon XP 1800 that stayed on Win 98 until GTA-SA came out and I moved to Windows 2000. I did a couple of Windows 98 installs again for the first time in …

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Re: What use are old IDE hard drives for today

Posted on 2018-12-11, 21:06

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by Tetrium

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I don't know what special purpose real old harddrive could have. I used old harddrives mostly out of necessity, these were cheapest and I had them laying around anyway. I found it a challenge to pick the best one for my particular build (like how I picked my 1GB IBM drive for my DX4-100 build, it …

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Re: Slot 1 Motherboard 3xDIMM slot Advice

Posted on 2018-12-10, 01:40

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by Tetrium

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But of course you can also just grab a single stick of 256MB PC-133 that is compatible with your chipset, leave all other slots empty and be done with it 😜

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Re: Slot 1 Motherboard 3xDIMM slot Advice

Posted on 2018-12-10, 01:39

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But, i would simply like to know with these 3 DIMM or even 2 DIMM slot boards, whats better using 3 sticks , 2, or 1? im happy with any amount under 512 but over 256MB i have alot of ram so i should be able to do what ever you guys throw at me. There is no simple answer for this, but there are …

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Re: Found an Old Motherboard

Posted on 2018-12-10, 01:09

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by Tetrium

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I presume you do have some experience with building computers?

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Re: Intel D815EEA2 based system won't post

Posted on 2018-12-08, 13:39

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by Tetrium

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Tonight I finally found some time to boot up what hopefully will (soon) be my Windos 98 system for the first time, but unfortunately the system won't post. When switching on the PSU the CPU fan starts spinning immediately and the standby indicator LED on the motherboard is lit, so according to the …

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