Re: Christmas of 96 Ultimate PC!

Posted on 2018-01-24, 23:38

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by feipoa

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1996 was probably my favourite year as well. I never did understand the push for 33.6 modems compared to 28.8. Did many dial-up ISPs even bother to upgrade their systems to 33.6? The gain was so small. I had a 33.6 modem but never was able to connect above 26.7.

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2018-01-23, 04:21

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by feipoa

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Anyone know what the difference is between the revisions, e.g. E/E vs. E/D?

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Re: Anyone else collecting specific brands?

Posted on 2018-01-23, 03:53

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by feipoa

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Consumer computer hardware from 386 to PIII, but with special attention to Cyrix-designed hardware. I used to have an interest in the Apple SE/30, but the analogue boards kept dying and so did the hard drives. I am also partial to Matrox.

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Re: PS/2 to Microsoft Serialmouse Adapter Converter

Posted on 2018-01-21, 06:39

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by feipoa

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Sounds like the fix is on the back burner. Aw well. In due course 😀

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Re: Dual PIII-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz Success Stories

Posted on 2018-01-15, 21:14

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by feipoa

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You running it at 1.4 GHz? 1.5 GHz usually works across the board and without needing to adjust the voltage. I have 3 setups now. One with a GF4MX, another with an FX600, and my favourite setup (MSI MS-9105 DDR motherboard) contains a MSI MS-8871, which is a Ti4400. All are setup with 3-4 GB of RAM, …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2018-01-15, 04:38

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by feipoa

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Too bad it didn't work in the VLB board. Maybe there is a pin to set GND to disable the FPU which might make it work? Not much point though if you have a non-PF chip already. Any idea what freq. the PF110 runs at? It would be neat to see some Quake benchmarks with that and compare it to the Am5x86, …

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Re: Dual PIII-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz Success Stories

Posted on 2018-01-13, 18:16

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by feipoa

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I don't see any Tualatin adapters on eBay except for the Lin Lin adapters. Anyone try those?

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Re: Dual PIII-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz Success Stories

Posted on 2018-01-13, 02:17

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by feipoa

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think the best approach is just to find a Tualatin-native motherboard. Is there a step-by-step guide on doing the mod?

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Re: Dual PIII-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz Success Stories

Posted on 2018-01-12, 21:48

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by feipoa

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For the VIA Pro266T, did the 266 MB/s V-link between the PCI bus and the chipset really help much? Luckybob, each Voodoo card on a different bus?

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Re: Dual PIII-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz Success Stories

Posted on 2018-01-12, 21:38

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by feipoa

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I also had 133 Pro board, I think it was Asus CUV4X-DLS. It was kinda flakey. I find the 266T to be in a different ballpark. Was curious about memory and cache performance between the two chipsets. I'm going by memory here. AIDA64 reported cache performance to be roughly the same (no surprise here, …

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Re: Dual PIII-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz Success Stories

Posted on 2018-01-12, 21:37

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by feipoa

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I finally found and paid for an Asus TRL-DLS. I'm so excited to get it. Spent better part of a decade looking for one. It is essentially the same as the Intel SDS2. Expect a full thread about it. I'd really like to see a dual Tualatin which functions properly with the Matrox Parhelia PCI-X 256 card …

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Re: Dual PIII-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz Success Stories

Posted on 2018-01-12, 21:27

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by feipoa

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I also had 133 Pro board, I think it was Asus CUV4X-DLS. It was kinda flakey. I find the 266T to be in a different ballpark. Was curious about memory and cache performance between the two chipsets.

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Re: Searching for redemption with my LS-486e (need help with MB repair)

Posted on 2018-01-12, 18:46

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by feipoa

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Is it the keyboard controller which adjusts timing for turbo, the BIOS itself, or the chipset (via command of the BIOS, via command of the KBC?)?

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Re: Upgrading Opti 495SLC

Posted on 2018-01-12, 17:55

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by feipoa

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Isn't the limit 4 primary partitions? I'm not sure what the limit is for logical drives in an extended partition. I tend not to use more than 4 partitions, even today. As Dos only supports 1 primary partition per physical disk a normal IDE system would be limited to 4... Thanks. I must have been …

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Re: Upgrading Opti 495SLC

Posted on 2018-01-12, 04:10

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by feipoa

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There exists a Microsoft-provided TCP/IP executable installer you run for Windows 3.11. You also need to install the Windows 3.x drivers for the ethernet card, which are provided by the manufacturer. Then you use Windows Explorer in Windows 3.11, or in your more modern Windows OS to connect to Win3. …

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Re: Dual PIII-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz Success Stories

Posted on 2018-01-12, 03:08

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by feipoa

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The thread is alive! I wonder how the Apollo Pro 266 compares to the 266T and the 133 when using Tualatin CPUs...

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Re: Upgrading Opti 495SLC

Posted on 2018-01-12, 01:30

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by feipoa

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I have a 386 board with a 486SXL (like the DLC, but with 8 kb L1 cache). I transfer files via ethernet in Windows 3.11. I don't mess with IDE unless it is on a test system, in which case, I limit the HDD size to around 500 MB. On my cased system, I use SCSI with its own BIOS and don't worry about …

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Re: Upgrading Opti 495SLC

Posted on 2018-01-11, 07:25

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by feipoa

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Doesn't FAT16 in DOS have a partition size limit of 2 GB? I think NT4 can get away with 4 GB by using larger cluster sizes. You will need to use FAT32 if you need larger partitions.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-10, 20:32

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by feipoa

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Ahh, so it works with the motherboard's onboard SCSI ports, similar to the RAIDPort II slot on some old Dell workstations? Same card really. Because of the triple pci busses, the ZRC only will work if it's on the same bus as the onboard scsi. The Intel and Tyan boards I have work identically, but …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-10, 19:58

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by feipoa

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Ahh, so it works with the motherboard's onboard SCSI ports, similar to the RAIDPort II slot on some old Dell workstations?

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