Re: Presario CDS 520

Posted on 2011-04-21, 17:15

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by Tetrium

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nah, more likely that the paste has cooked itself stuck. Put it in the freezer or use a heatgun, if it's stuck good (or you're impatient) you can try to pry it apart with a flatbed screwdriver (you can use an old credit card to prevent the CPU from getting scratched if you want to). And if you have …

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Re: Did a big catch today!

Posted on 2011-04-21, 17:11

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by Tetrium

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For his defense (he is a new member after all 😉), Robin4, we have a thread specifically for "I bought this great "new" hardware today" 😉

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-04-21, 17:09

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by Tetrium

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

True about the ISA slot, though I don't use ISA that often, for me it's being able to choose an ISA card, if I wanted ;) The latest boards with ISA slots were boards with VIA SDRAM chipsets, though I do have an i815 board with one ISA slot, it uses a bridge chip. I still need to pick up that …

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Re: does anyone know the name of these cpu coolers?

Posted on 2011-04-21, 17:06

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by Tetrium

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have coolers that look almost identical to these, made by Spire. These coolers have a couple disadvantages compared to the standard square-shaped coolers: *They are harder to install/uninstall. Also I prefer to use coolers that have mounting clips with 3 attachment points per side. These coolers …

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Re: The Bus Mouse and Bus Card - Why were they overshadowed and replaced by PS/2?

Posted on 2011-04-21, 16:59

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by Tetrium

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is the need for the bus card that spelt it's own demise, whereas the PS/2 port preservered? I'd say this is part of the answer. For the rest, I don't know for sure. Back when PS/2 became standard IBM was still a pretty big name in computer business (everything had to be IBM compatible :P). Perhaps …

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Re: Carmageddon

Posted on 2011-04-21, 16:55

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by Tetrium

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You'll need to give us more information, like what system, what OS, give us all your hardware specs plz.

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-04-21, 09:00

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by Tetrium

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

But the CUSL2 doesn't have ISA either. If you're not looking for ISA, then you might as well get any Tualatin board. I don't know about the pin mod though, as I never did one myself. But it's supposedly more a matter of being accurate then it being something that is hard to do. You can mod either …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-04-21, 08:53

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by Tetrium

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I like the way you "modded" your cases ;) http://www.vogons.org/files/small_p-3s_1266mhz_back.jpg There cases are strange in a way. They were only made in the beginning of ATX and generally are only suitable for Slot 1/Slot A due to the mounting position of the PSU. If you install any socket …

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Re: Socket 370 mobo recommendation required - for a 1.4 GHz Tualatin

Posted on 2011-04-20, 23:14

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by Tetrium

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you want ISA and Tualatin, then the easy way out would be to find a dedicated Tualatin board with VIA chipset and an ISA slot. Many VIA Tualatin boards were made without ISA but many still have it. If you can't find one such boards, then using an adapter or pin mod on a Tualatin on a VIA board …

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Re: Question about caching memory

Posted on 2011-04-20, 22:08

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by Tetrium

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Edit: My PC's manual stated that the maximum cacheable RAM is just 64MB, although it uses Triton II. Is it abnormal? Which chipset do you have, though? The 430HX was the Triton II, but the 430VX was also often erroneously called the Triton II. The fact that you have a DIMM slot makes me think you …

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Re: 3D Accelerators Compared

Posted on 2011-04-20, 22:03

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by Tetrium

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there are two Rage 128 chips. There's the original "Rage 128" and there's the "Rage 128 Pro" refresh. The latter one has decent dithering whereas the original is a dithering artifact extravaganza only matched by a DX10 card running 16-bit color games. ;) Ow, that's new to me. I'll check which cards …

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Re: Any Virtualization for Windows 98?

Posted on 2011-04-20, 18:52

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by Tetrium

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uh no, that's not the same thing. That's strictly for JAVA . You could've suggested worse, like run Quake3 because it has a quake virtual machine code for the game logic. I don't recall if Virtual PC 2003 works on 9x ... but one of the earlier VPCs do i think. QEMU might even work. hope there's a …

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Re: Any Virtualization for Windows 98?

Posted on 2011-04-20, 17:26

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by Tetrium

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Found this on Ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem … em=260770842037 Apparently it will work for NT and Windows 98! No idea if this is what the OP wants, but at least I tried to help, riight? ;D

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Re: Any Virtualization for Windows 98?

Posted on 2011-04-20, 17:14

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by Tetrium

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Wasn't there somekind of Java Virtual Machine released in 1999 or something? I remember seeing an old MS disk with that printed on it. Maybe it's not what the OP needs, but who knows, right? I'll go check my box of disks and report back... Edit:Ok, found the disk. The disk looks like the old Windows …

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Re: Question about caching memory

Posted on 2011-04-20, 12:05

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by Tetrium

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Odd that your board won't take 32MB EDO simms, those were pretty common back in those days (though the 16MB simms were all over the place). And in general you could say that virtually all (non-Super) Socket 7's (and Socket 5's for that matter) have a maximum cacheable area of 64MB, except for the …

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Re: Cyrix 5x86-133 Testing

Posted on 2011-04-20, 11:53

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by Tetrium

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I went through my pile of hardware I have yet to test and somehow a 8433UUD-A version 2 made it into the pile. No idea how I got it lol, except that it must've been pretty recent. No idea if it works though, but it seems to look fine. Hehe, nice find! Very roughly, how many items have you got to …

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Re: What are your minimum Windows system requirements?

Posted on 2011-04-20, 07:14

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by Tetrium

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leileilol wrote: W31 - 386SX16 W95 - 486DX2-66 W98 - 486DX4-80 WME - P5-100 NT4 - 486DX4-100 W2K - 486DX4-100 WXP- PII-233 Vista - Quad Core 6GHZ […] Show full quote W31 - 386SX16 W95 - 486DX2-66 W98 - 486DX4-80 WME - P5-100 NT4 - 486DX4-100 W2K - 486DX4-100 WXP- PII-233 Vista - Quad Core 6GHZ with …

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Re: Question about caching memory

Posted on 2011-04-20, 07:06

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by Tetrium

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sgt76 wrote: swaaye wrote: Pentium II "Klamath" however has a 512MB limit. So this means no more than 512mb ram on a Klamath system then? Strange.... But an improvement non the less! 😁 And anyway, Deschutes > Klamath 😜

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Re: Cyrix 5x86-133 Testing

Posted on 2011-04-20, 07:03

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by Tetrium

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I went through my pile of hardware I have yet to test and somehow a 8433UUD-A version 2 made it into the pile. No idea how I got it 🤣, except that it must've been pretty recent. No idea if it works though, but it seems to look fine.

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Re: Do you have any odd collecting habits?

Posted on 2011-04-20, 06:59

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by Tetrium

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Does hoarding zip files of obscure shareware games count? And by obscure, I don't mean Apogee, Epic, Moraff, Id, and Soleau, kids... Soleau, almost forgotten about those hehe! :D And I say "Yes!" for collecting all kinds of files, like patches, maps, programs (in several different versions), …

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