Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-02-08, 18:31

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40w max is likely about right seeing they really don't put out much heat and the rest of the card is often stone cold, typical or average load is likely 25 or 30w. No. The Voodoo5 5500 has two 15w GPUs so it's essentially two 15+ watt video cards built onto one PCB. - 30+ watts. We still have not …

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Re: New Retrorig advice

Posted on 2016-02-08, 18:28

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dondiego wrote: Well actually i'm not selling anything in this thread and was kidding a little, we live in the same city and could talk and see what happens. 😎 That's actually pretty cool! 😁 I don't know any regular here that lives anywhere near me 🤣, but that's ok 😀

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

Posted on 2016-02-08, 17:51

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Just got my little box of internal ZIP drives from upstairs as there was a nice thread about those here Re: installing an internal IDE zip drive in a 386?

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Re: installing an internal IDE zip drive in a 386?

Posted on 2016-02-08, 17:48

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Taken from here: http://pw2.netcom.com/~deepone/zipjaz/atapi.html There are at least four different kinds of IDE Zip drives - the original ATA version, the ATAPI version which replaced it, an ATAPI2 version which seems to have replaced the original ATAPI Zip, and an ATAPI3 version which will …

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Re: installing an internal IDE zip drive in a 386?

Posted on 2016-02-08, 17:35

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I went through my little box of internal ZIP drives and none appear to be the ATA ones. I do have a single ZIP 100 SCSI though and I never really bought many internal drives as I tried to concentrate on the 250MB models and I already had plenty external ones.

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Re: installing an internal IDE zip drive in a 386?

Posted on 2016-02-08, 17:10

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Just to clear something up: The common Zip drives are ATAPI (like CD-ROM-drives), not IDE. The difference does matter because there are also early Zip models which are indeed IDE. (It's possible that those were only used in OEM machines.) That means the drive/disk appears as a HDD to the computer, …

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Re: Pentium 4 RDRAM systems

Posted on 2016-02-08, 17:06

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All slots were filled. It was a completely dead board. Tried everything to get it running, different RDRAM sticks, CPU, PSU, PCI & AGP video card. Board didnt even want to power on, so it was most likely a short or catastrophic fault. Yea that board is toast, the only easier to find rdram boards …

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Re: PSU for Athlon XP 3200+, Radeon 9800 XT?

Posted on 2016-02-08, 17:00

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Are there any way to prevent that something will be burned when an older psu cap will fail? Like something to shutdown power supply before something goes wrong like overvoltage on some rails? I don't know. Or at least I don't know of any external measures you can take (except maybe for a fuse? …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-02-08, 15:24

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Jajaja yes, I've been really busy between retro computing and my studies. This is the Virge DX. I think it has 4mb. http://i65.tinypic.com/8vrlhe.jpg Regarding the nics, what you see are two 3Com nics. These are good quality cards. No Realtek crap. I have to test them though. The CPUS are three …

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Re: Interesting links

Posted on 2016-02-08, 15:12

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The "Virtual Floppy Drive" link in the OP is dead (this link http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html) Just fyi :) edit: Found this place today: https://th99.bl4ckb0x.de/ Could have some useful obscure info for some people? th99 is a great tool, possibly one of the best ones out there when …

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Re: Dos gaming with 233mmx rig?

Posted on 2016-02-08, 14:57

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a pentium (1) 233 mmx does not fit a SE440BX motherboard. So the confusion continues... With a hammer you can get anything to 'fit'...though you'd need one hell of a hammer to fit a Pentium 1 MMX in there :D edit: Well...actually seeing as the MMX chip is a lot smaller, some duct tape or hot glue …

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Re: New Retrorig advice

Posted on 2016-02-08, 14:38

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dondiego wrote: Don't buy any of them. 😉 Well, he can't buy any from you as trading is prohibited on Vogons and for good reasons (stuff with someone paying for stuff and never receiving anything, it happened a few times, not so great). Use amibay instead.

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Re: PCI Video Card for Pentium Pro 180MHz

Posted on 2016-02-08, 14:32

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I'm a bit confused with what you guys are saying about combining cards. You're saying use more than one video card? I don't believe I ever did anything like that back in the day. Voodoo 1 and Voodoo 2 were 3D-only cards, they only do 3D stuff. So if you intent to use either of those, you'll need a …

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Re: Pentium 4 RDRAM systems

Posted on 2016-02-08, 14:29

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I still do have my VC820 build with a Slot 1 Coppermine in the upper pre-1GHz range with I think 256MB RDRAM (both slots filled). From the outside I never noticed any significant performance difference with any of my other 1GHz Coppermine rigs though. And the problem to me was not about finding …

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Re: Trying to run Voodoo 1 mac on pc

Posted on 2016-02-08, 14:26

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keropi wrote: ^ these 2 are the GAL chips op mentions, they are not bios ones in this case Ahh, thanks for pointing that out! 😁 Anyway, I don't know what else to do about this card, this programming stuff is beyond me 😊

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Re: Quality of Panasonic 3,5" floppy disk drives

Posted on 2016-02-08, 14:21

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I don't know between brands, but I have noticed that newer ones tended to have been simplified (I think to keep prices down). Older FDDs usually came with jumpers and looked like they were engineered to last while the newer ones looked (and felt) like they were made to be cheap, but still work. I …

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Re: Will you ever build a Win7 retro PC?

Posted on 2016-02-08, 14:15

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I suppose if you asked in 2005 if you'd ever build a Windows 95 retro PC you might get similar responses. This. If I were to call back in time and tell my younger self that I'd be preserving old computers and stuff, my younger self would dismiss it as crazy. Mostly cause it is the last OS truly …

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

Posted on 2016-02-08, 14:06

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Finally brought all those boxes of hardware back up the stairs, went quicker than I had anticipated as I can easily lift 5 of those kiwiboxes at once (except for the ones willed with CPU trays, those are impossible to lift unless I want to have my back shrink by an inch afterwards I finished running …

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Re: PSU for Athlon XP 3200+, Radeon 9800 XT?

Posted on 2016-02-08, 13:58

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In the long run people will likely have little choice but to learn to re-cap these older power supplies if they want to use them. Actually...I think this hits the nail on the head. I've tried soldering a few times like 10 years ago or so, but it never amounted to much. I still have that old solder …

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Re: Trying to run Voodoo 1 mac on pc

Posted on 2016-02-08, 13:56

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Have you flashed the BIOS? It's my understanding that mac voodoos have a different bios from standard PC ones. I don't think Voodoo 1/2 even have BIOSes. I thought so too (I mean...why would they even need that?) but I took a look at the pics and it actually has 2 socketed squary ones right next to …

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