Re: Test and troubleshoot PC@LIVE motherboards

Posted on 2021-12-26, 11:27

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by PcBytes

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Seeing it's a QDI, I would urge recapping it. These Licon capacitors they loved to use in that era were horribly notorious of yielding POST issues 90% of the time. Worst issue is they go bad WITHOUT showing any signs. I remember ending up with a bag of at least 20-30 or so Licon caps, ALL failed, …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2021-12-26, 11:19

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by PcBytes

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Honestly I wouldn't even have bothered if these had Starter COAs. Most of the Acers bearing Starter COAs are very likely craptacular Atom based Aspire Ones that aren't really worth anything. The ones that I would aim for are usually those that have at least some form of Core 2 Duo/i3 CPU, preferably …

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Re: My experience with a weird VPD SATA adapter

Posted on 2021-12-26, 10:54

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by PcBytes

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First off.... 256GB? lol Second - replace the PSU, and while at it, try and replace those two caps above the IDE connector. I have a feeling these might be underspec'd (chinese capacitors are something I take with extreme levels of salt.) and hence why the shutdowns. Wouldn't count on the potato …

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

Posted on 2021-12-26, 09:11

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by PcBytes

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I happened to really like this era of laptops. A low TDP Core 2 Duo with dedicated GeForce 8 series is a powerful combination. I had a great HP laptop with this combination around this time. I asked a professional repair service if it was worthwhile getting one of these GPUs reballed and …

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Re: Elpina BA E-VO Socket 7 motherboard manual?

Posted on 2021-12-25, 17:11

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by PcBytes

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Didn't the 537 also have a DMA33 version? If so, how did that fare up against most VPX based mobos?

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

Posted on 2021-12-25, 17:02

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by PcBytes

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Honestly, getting 4+ years out of it after a reflow and considering it's still kicking alive, that's really impressive. At this point, if it's still gonna hold this good after so much time, it's a miracle. Back onto the 9000 - I haven't yet tried reflowing (it's Christmas) as I'm going to work on …

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

Posted on 2021-12-25, 14:54

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by PcBytes

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Well, it's an automotive heatgun 🤣, of course it sounds a bit terrifying. Though, it managed to bring a HP Pavilion DV6700 back to life and it's been running for 4 years without a crash already, so I guess that's something. Intel + Geforce 8400M GS though, not the AMD counterpart.

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Re: 🧟 Frankenstein's Radeon 9700 Pro - Help needed for indentification

Posted on 2021-12-24, 17:34

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by PcBytes

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Speaking of 9700s, anyone know a good cooler (even chinese will do!) that can fit it? The card is a Prophet 3D 9700 Pro. I have some DeepCool and random chinese cooler but both HSFs have the spacing for later cards like X1650/Geforce FX5900/6600GT. Considering how big the core is, I'm worried that …

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

Posted on 2021-12-24, 15:22

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by PcBytes

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Could very well be the GPU chipset that's dud. Oh well, time to crank out my old heatgun and some solder paste and see if I can get it working. I still think there's bad RAM BGA though, or at least the chips' leveling look sketchy to me.

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

Posted on 2021-12-24, 10:03

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by PcBytes

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Welp, following my post about that AIW Radeon 9000. Found it. Resoldered the joints on some suspect caps, made sure there are no bridges. This is what I get.

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Re: Think I junked my Slot 1 CPU cooler.

Posted on 2021-12-23, 08:07

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by PcBytes

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You could zip tie them or use long enough case screws to secure it. I did the former to an Athlon 750MHz Slot A and the latter to a P2 266MHz.

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

Posted on 2021-12-22, 08:03

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by PcBytes

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Mmm, that 7200 repair was nice. Shame that I (very likely) threw my 9000 AIW away, would've surely loved to fix it using your techniques. Please spread the word. If you're going yo throw these things away, there is probably someone here to who may be able to fix it or would otherwise be useful for …

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Re: Asus P2B Motherboard: No support for PIII?

Posted on 2021-12-21, 19:14

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by PcBytes

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I used brand new ASUS 80 conductor cables from a NOS 775 mobo, no dice with either. Also tried a whole lot of other 80 cond. cables with no luck.

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Re: Asus P2B Motherboard: No support for PIII?

Posted on 2021-12-21, 15:20

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by PcBytes

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Sorry if I hijack this thread, but has anyone ever gotten a 40GB HDD to work on their P2B? (as in P2B, no -F, -B or anything. Plain old P2B - not sure about the revision I have but I think it's 1.02.) I have this issue where EVEN after updating the BIOS to the latest I can't get any 40GB (and …

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

Posted on 2021-12-21, 12:17

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by PcBytes

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Mmm, that 7200 repair was nice. Shame that I (very likely) threw my 9000 AIW away, would've surely loved to fix it using your techniques.

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

Posted on 2021-12-21, 09:14

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by PcBytes

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Other option is to burn a new Flash ROM for it, but I need to figure out what options I have to do that with at this point since I don't have an EEPROM burner (at least, not yet). I'm going to see which board I can get to boot first and then probably sell the one that does not work to whoever can …

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

Posted on 2021-12-19, 11:44

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by PcBytes

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PcChips M590 Super Socket 7, 3xPCI, 2x ISA, 2x DIMM, 2x 72 pin SIMM, on-board sound and video. I have the same unknown PCI Video card attached to this one as well as I don't have a connector for the on-board video header. It has an AMD K6-2 333MHz CPU in the socket, and 64MB of DIMM memory in both …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-18, 17:05

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by PcBytes

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No, he's actually right. The SI5PI was before the PCChips merger so no issue with it. The K7S5A however, is one of the VERY VERY few boards that were actually decent in the post-PCChips merger. The other few I know of were the K7S6A (SiS748 I think?), K7VZA (KT133) and that's about it. Oh, and their …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-18, 16:38

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by PcBytes

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They surprisingily still exist. https://iomagic.com/ The funniest thing I saw on their site just now is that holographic keyboard. It's like yhey're keeping ECS, Deer, L&C and PCChips' tradition of being cheap, sketchy and yet never going out of business.

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Re: Test and troubleshoot PC@LIVE motherboards

Posted on 2021-12-17, 20:30

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by PcBytes

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Try Uniflash. It should very likely be able to find and flash the chip. The reason I say this is because AWDFLASH might be restricted to a certain range of chips while UNIFLASH supports all of them.

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