Re: Socket 939 FX-60/Opteron 185 cooler recommendation for 110W TDP

Posted on 2018-12-13, 06:05

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by feipoa

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Yeah, sudden system shutdowns were also my symptoms. It came on all of a sudden. In the course of 1 hour you did the full relidding? The RTV I used took at least 24-hrs to dry. And I think it took me a good hour just to get the lid off carefully.

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Re: Socket 939 FX-60/Opteron 185 cooler recommendation for 110W TDP

Posted on 2018-12-13, 05:00

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by feipoa

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What does the Opteron 180 get to after 10 minutes of idle? De-lidding / re-lidding saved my Opteron 185. EDIT: Should the system hang before it gets to 100 C? Mine would hang at about 80 C.

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Re: Overclocking with a TI486 SXL-40 to a TI486 SXL2-50

Posted on 2018-12-13, 04:19

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by feipoa

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The most you will get out of a SXL2-50 is 55 MHz. 60 MHz was not stable. I tried two different SXL2-50 chips and both maxed out at 55 MHz. You can desolder the existing 40 MHz crystal oscillator and install a machine pin male-to-female socket. You should practice on junk PCB's first if you are not …

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Re: Batman's Revenge socket 4 motherboard - need manual

Posted on 2018-12-13, 03:56

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by feipoa

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Maybe there were issues with the controller, and the board was sold as ISA only for special use somewhere. ISA only Pentium motherboards did exist in 1993. I suppose that theory works if the PCI slots had already been soldered on, and then they found out they didn't have enough qualified PCI bridge …

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Re: Unknown socket 4 - need manual

Posted on 2018-12-12, 21:53

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by feipoa

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I'll photograph the carnage this evening. It is certainly disappointment from a collection standpoint, but irrelevant from a usability perspective. Attached is an image I found online for this motherboard which contains the extra VRM components. You can see the additional components are a toroidal …

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Re: scsi cards

Posted on 2018-12-12, 20:30

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by feipoa

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I run a 1542 card with a 486SXL setup. Off the top of my head, 2-3 MB/s in Speedsys sounds about right for this controller, but I'm using a much slower system than you are.

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Re: Unknown socket 4 - need manual

Posted on 2018-12-12, 19:27

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by feipoa

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My guess is that you have a newer revision were this feature was either built into the VRM or it was expected that the Pentium ran fine with 5V in both 60 and 66 mhz (as per the specification). I have never seen a voltage jumper on my Socket 4 boards. There were some early production problems with …

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Re: Unknown socket 4 - need manual

Posted on 2018-12-12, 13:05

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by feipoa

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Yup, that was it - thanks! It now boots up at 66 MHz. There are two jumper settings for the 60/66 Mhz option. One is for the freq. and the other is for 5.0 V (60 Mhz) and 5.27 V (66 MHz). My board doesn't have this curious voltage jumper. What is the 5.27 V jumper for?

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Re: ICQ revival

Posted on 2018-12-12, 12:49

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by feipoa

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I also have a 7-digit number, but it starts with a 2. Cannot seem to search for users based on UIN anymore. The servers cannot seem to handle offline messages anymore, and using different versions between people seem to cause some problems. I guess the UIN numbers were becoming ridiculously long so …

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Batman's Revenge socket 4 motherboard - need manual

Posted on 2018-12-12, 12:38

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by feipoa

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Does anyone have the manual for this socket 4 motherboard or have experience using it? It contains a sticker which says PBA 631022-103 . The board powers up, but it identifies my Pentium 66 as a Pentium 60, so I was hoping to find a jumper setting to set the FSB to 66 MHz. Thanks! Unknown_Socket4. …

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Re: I am a father

Posted on 2018-12-11, 23:25

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by feipoa

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I anticipate that your forum involvement will decrease dramatically.

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Re: The World's Fastest 486

Posted on 2018-12-11, 22:03

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by feipoa

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I also remember, even as late as 1995, the 486 was considered by some as fast and being excessive for one's needs. You may be able to edit the BIOS to read "Am5x86" as a"80486 DX5".

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Re: The World's Fastest 486

Posted on 2018-12-11, 21:43

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by feipoa

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In the end, I realised that people will build what they want to build.

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Re: The World's Fastest 486

Posted on 2018-12-11, 20:35

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by feipoa

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arias-mu, pretty much all my retro systems aren't used much. They reside in the closet until I have some idea I want to test out on them. The VLB SCSI system could easily take an Am486 DX4-120, but I'm intersted in the fastest it can go. I am not using solid state on the VLB SCSI system, just a …

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Re: AMD DX5-160, Asus PVI-486SP3 desktop system

Posted on 2018-12-11, 19:46

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by feipoa

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sunaiac wrote: I propose we create a new thread insteand of hacking that poor one If you started a new thread, could you paste the link here? aries-mu wrote: And what in the world would... "feipoa bit" mean? I assume this would be optimised cyrix register bits, e.g. LSSER set to 0, FP_FAST set to …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2018-12-09, 12:09

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by feipoa

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Not something I bid on, but was watching out of curiosity. I was shocked: $305 for a NexGen Nx586 PF100 I know they are rare, but ships from Hong Kong and just about every pin has corrosion on them. The corrosion doesn't always wash off entirely and sometimes it gets under the gold, making the pins …

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Re: I am a father

Posted on 2018-12-09, 07:46

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by feipoa

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Semoga bahagia sampai tua. Selamat ya!

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Re: ICQ revival

Posted on 2018-12-06, 02:14

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by feipoa

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Errius wrote: I just installed the current version client and logged on with my old number/password. No problems. Try adding people with version 10 based on their UIN.

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Re: ICQ revival

Posted on 2018-12-06, 01:51

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by feipoa

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Which version did you install? I wasn't able to add people via UIN with the latest version (version 10). Version 8 I think was OK for this, but I'm personally sticking with 2001b.

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ICQ revival

Posted on 2018-12-05, 02:12

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by feipoa

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What do you all think? Will it come back on its own? Should we start a trend to force it back? I started "chatting" with Internet Relay Chat (IRC) in 1995. I believe it came bundled with my ISP, Prodigy, GNN, and CompuServe. I don't recall the order anymore. Then in about 1998, I signed up for the …

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