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

Posted on 2025-01-16, 08:55

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by PcBytes

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What will you do with those dead PA-2013s? Planning to invest some more effort in resurrecting them? Or letting them go? I'll keep them as I have a semi-functional one which needs a cache transplant. The semi-functional one has had a thread here, and basically freezes with a blinking cursor in the …

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

Posted on 2025-01-15, 23:51

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Recapped two of my recently bought mainboards and diagnosed two PA-2013s as being dead. Mobos recapped: -1x FIC PA-2013 - the first sample I got in fully functional state (as in cache working properly) - recapped using Panasonic FL and FJ series -MSI 815EM Pro ver 5 - replaced 2700uF Teapos with …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-01-15, 11:25

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by PcBytes

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ATI did, nVidia at least knew enough to use heatsinks over them. Anyways, courier came in today.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-01-15, 08:47

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by PcBytes

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Any ATI card with a bridge chip IS REQUIRED to have a heatsink installed by their users. ATI's engineers were dum enough that they thought a bridge chip that runs hotter than the sun wouldn't need some form of cooling.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-01-13, 22:25

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by PcBytes

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Guess I'm not the only one who decided on a 694X board then 😁 - ordered a Soltek SL-65KV2 just yesterday. Will try to figure a way to get a pic for its TRW entry.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-01-12, 10:06

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by PcBytes

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Woah dude. Thanks for sharing, I've never seen a backwards-looking board like that before. Pretty cool! Good luck getting them all working! Thanks. As far as I can tell from the photo he used in the ad (which he sent me on WhatsApp beforehand), I can tell the following: -one of them is a 1MB …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-01-12, 00:04

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by PcBytes

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Won an classified for 3x FIC PA-2013 from a scrapper I frequent. If I get all three working I'll be amazed.

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Re: FIC PA-2013 hangs on POST, before device listing

Posted on 2025-01-10, 18:09

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by PcBytes

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Figured I'd update again. Won a local listing for 3x PA-2013 boards. Gonna be fun 🤣

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Re: Retro Consoles.... who plays them

Posted on 2025-01-08, 17:54

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by PcBytes

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Lemme join in as well: - Sega Dreamcast VA1 w/ GDEMU and 8GB Samsung microSD card - 7x Sony Playstation 1 (SCPH-1002, SCPH-5552, SCPH-7002, SCPH-9002, 3x SCPH-102) - will soon have a USA model join, a SCPH-101 w/ screen hopefully. - 5x Sony Playstation 2 (SCPH-39004 v7, SCPH-50004 v10, SCPH-70004a …

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Re: Just another typical Socket 7 build!

Posted on 2025-01-08, 17:32

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by PcBytes

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Guess I'll have to take my AB-TX5 out of the attic. Bought it and forgot about it until now. Maybe I can work something around a Voodoo 2 for a little bit of 3D action with it.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-01-08, 17:27

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by PcBytes

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Can also say that's a SQ2500. Mine looks exactly the same.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-01-07, 14:22

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by PcBytes

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Slot A boards with an ISA slot are neat and pretty uncommon... Slot A boards with two ISA slots are very cool and very rare... Slot A boards with three ISA slots? I didn't even know they existed. And, I think you have basically the only such design that exists. According to TheRetroWeb, this BCM …

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

Posted on 2025-01-07, 09:38

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by PcBytes

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Finally got my Matrox Parhelia 512 to display a proper image. Apparently it needs a CRT - thankfully I had my Samsung-built HP Ultra VGA 1280 laying around that could help. I have always had problems with Matrox cards entering various display modes that whatever LCD I'm using can't sync to. The …

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Re: ID motherboard

Posted on 2025-01-06, 15:46

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by PcBytes

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Dell PowerEdge 2400 mainboard. Yes, frankly enough, it seems to be BTX, or at least a predecesor of it.

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

Posted on 2025-01-06, 11:07

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by PcBytes

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Finally got my Matrox Parhelia 512 to display a proper image. Apparently it needs a CRT - thankfully I had my Samsung-built HP Ultra VGA 1280 laying around that could help.

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

Posted on 2025-01-05, 23:03

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by PcBytes

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Played around with my DOS machine for a bit today. Repaired a flaky 5V line going to the PS/2 port, I stole it (bodged) from the USB port right next to it. Problem solved. I've seen that happen where there's a re-settable fuse on the PS/2 power, and it gets "half blown" or doesn't reset properly or …

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Re: LuckyTech P5MVP3

Posted on 2025-01-02, 19:08

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

remove

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Re: LuckyTech P5MVP3

Posted on 2025-01-02, 17:39

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by PcBytes

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

remove

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Re: ABiT BX boards

Posted on 2024-12-31, 14:13

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by PcBytes

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Yeah, for the BH6 I just dumped a few golder polymers extracted from a ASRock Z77 Extreme4 (defunct due to some schmuck killing the socket with a screwdriver) on mine and it ran fine since then. Mine also had a mismatched BIOS chip from the previous chap I got it from - he mistakenly installed a …

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Re: ABiT BX boards

Posted on 2024-12-29, 03:53

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by PcBytes

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Let me add BE6-II to the club. Absolute trooper that eats 133FSB for breakfast. Paired with a 1GHz/133FSB Coppermine SL5DV and 768MB RAM, and a GF4 Ti4200, and it ran about anything up to I think 2002. There's like 20+ capacitors to replace on that board :). I counted 22. 24 if the little buggers ( …

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