Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2015-09-01, 08:22

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by Tetrium

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Found a FTP with a treasure trove of old drivers, it may be worth mirroring: ftp://ftp.brain.it/public/ Took a quick look, it does have a lot of old stuff. Any way to download the entire thing in a single click? If I have to download everything manually, it'll take forever lol editreason: I typed " …

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Re: Heatsink on PGA370 socket

Posted on 2015-08-31, 08:49

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by Tetrium

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I have seen that exact heatsink on 3 or 4 Socket 370 Celeron setups before. They work great as Super Socket 7 heatsinks for a k6 :) lol, this is exactly what I did a lot :P I use the more crappy Socket A HSF's on Pentium 3's and the more crappy Pentium 3 HSF's for Socket 7 (I swap around the fan if …

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Re: What is a normal temperature for a 1.4ghz tualatin PIII?

Posted on 2015-08-31, 08:42

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by Tetrium

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Hm, there should be a way to reinforce these latches. :neutral: I don't think this is possible. Best way to go is to bend the mounting lever a bit so it stresses the latches less. Additionally I always try to use a HSF with a mounting lever that uses 2 or all 3 latches as I found the HSF's that …

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Re: Disposable hardware packaging

Posted on 2015-08-29, 16:53

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by Tetrium

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Packaging can be thrown away if theres no marks or written "anything" on the packaging (like some HDD's that came with plastic clamshell "boxes", they seemed to be all the same for all the HDD's from that manufacturer). Usually I keep the packages, but with for example cardboard packages which have …

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Re: Heatsink on PGA370 socket

Posted on 2015-08-29, 13:39

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by Tetrium

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Could you remove the HSF from the CPU socket and take a pic of the underside of the heatsink? Also a pic of the top of the CPU would be nice so we can ID it. Also things you might find suspect, you could upload a pic so we can take a second look :) If you tried your board with the one same memory …

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Re: The Nostalgia Bug

Posted on 2015-08-29, 13:20

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by Tetrium

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These days I'm mostly cured of this bug (alas :( ), but whenever I walk into my attic and see all that stuff and look at it for a full 30 seconds or so in amazement...then I say out loud "This is soooo cool!! :D " It's just that I'm so busy with doing other things and I've been doing this off and on …

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Re: Has anyone tried mating V3 TV with DVI?

Posted on 2015-08-29, 13:11

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by Tetrium

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Sorry for the necro :P I found this thread from a private message I received with a question regarding these connectors and the V3 3500. I basically mentioned everything relevant in the older thread here http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=27699 (this thread is already linked to a few messages …

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Re: Power on a board without the case

Posted on 2015-01-11, 11:00

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by Tetrium

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@ Keropi: But I like your post better 😉

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Re: Power on a board without the case

Posted on 2015-01-11, 10:55

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by Tetrium

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That board is a baby-AT board, it uses another type of PSU and the power switch is directly on the PSU instead of being triggered from the motherboard.

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Re: Installing XP on ga-g33m-s2 using 2TB drive

Posted on 2015-01-11, 01:23

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by Tetrium

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if this is a recent model hard disk then it will have 4KB physical sectors with 512 byte emulation. WinXP doesn't know anything about this, so it will think the sectors really are 512 bytes. For the best performance, the partitions should be aligned with the physical sectors, but WinXP won't do …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-10, 14:45

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by Tetrium

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Bought a nice 7800gs agp that will arrive today. Had to have it since it is the fastest Nvidia agp (except for a special gainward version wich uses the 7900gt core). Also bought a lot of four boards and some parts including an awe32 and a p3b-f (extra spares for my existing ones), i hope it arrives …

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Re: Need help in finding this PC case

Posted on 2015-01-10, 14:02

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by Tetrium

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Could you please take a couple more pics from it's back and one from the side with it's side panel installed? I've found that often a manufacturer would use the same chassis but a different front bezel, it would be nice if we found the manufacturer which would help narrow things down :) Edit: I …

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Re: Installing XP on ga-g33m-s2 using 2TB drive

Posted on 2015-01-10, 01:59

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by Tetrium

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Cheers! I guess I can start working on it tomorrow then 😁

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Re: Evert's Super Socket 7 Build

Posted on 2015-01-10, 01:16

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by Tetrium

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Nice build! But it takes me a bit getting used to using such a modern case for such an old motherboard 😜

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Installing XP on ga-g33m-s2 using 2TB drive

Posted on 2015-01-10, 01:05

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by Tetrium

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Is this possible? So this is my situation: My old backupcomputer is non-functional right now and I'm planning on rebuilding it. The problem is that the original motherboard will have a hard time with SATA-3 drives (this I presume, I had to jump through some loops to let the SATA-1 controller see the …

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Re: Anything special about AWE64?

Posted on 2015-01-08, 12:56

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by Tetrium

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Also if you have a non-Pentium processor like a Cyrix6x86 or a K5, the "extra polyphony" software driver won't install anyhow Sounds like something in need of a quick patch :) I'd be lying if I said I have knowledge of old sound cards, but I've always wanted to build a gaming rig using a Cyrix MII, …

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Re: You Know You're a Hopeless Retro Geek When...

Posted on 2015-01-08, 10:34

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by Tetrium

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...you see a cardboard box while walking on the street and go take a closer look...it just might be a computer case! (antistatic bags always in my backpack 🤣 )

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Re: How many PC compatibles do you guys own?

Posted on 2015-01-07, 19:28

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by Tetrium

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I used to have over 20 rigs completed, but these days I'm down to I guess around 10 rigs or so. 3 multicore systems 3 A64 systems running XP (one is down atm though and will be rebuild soon) 1 Sempron sA 2600+ (I might rebuild it though, or at least change the specs (CPU upgrade perhaps)) 1 P3-s …

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Re: Asus P5A don't boot

Posted on 2015-01-07, 19:20

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by Tetrium

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Have you tried resetting the BIOS? (I do this by removing the battery for a day or so)

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Re: Just curious..what is your oldest computer still in daily use for actual work?

Posted on 2015-01-07, 19:19

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by Tetrium

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The only computer I use daily is my main rig (a Phenom 2), but I do use one older A64 XP rig on a regular basis for playing movies (it got regulated to that role after for some reason my SC4 install on that rig got knackered), Athlon 64, 2GB DDR-400, 80GB SATA drive (with only 2 or 3 GB free space …

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