Re: Cheapie pentium 3 retro rig build

Posted on 2013-02-05, 05:11

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By the size of that heatsink, I'm guessing that's a Katmai 600MHz (2.0V). If you have any interest in going to a Coppermine later, it's possible that board might support them. You'd need to check the part number on the voltage regulator chip. From the photo it looks like it's probably the chip near …

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Re: Advice regarding IDE to CF/SD adapters

Posted on 2013-02-05, 04:41

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The oldest system I've booted Flash with was a socket-7 Intel/Gateway 430VX board. It's old enough that it knows nothing about flash drives, and it just worked. As noted earlier though, that was with CF but I imagine it would be similar with an SD adapter. Probably not much difference between doing …

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Re: BIOS does not detect input devices in ASUS CUV4X board

Posted on 2013-02-04, 16:27

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This is a longshot, but make sure the CMOS battery is good. Some boards start to have weird problems when the battery gets weak. Other than that, I'm wondering if the 5V standby rail is having an issue, either on the board or PSU side is equally likely. This is also a longshot given that the PSU …

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Re: Advice regarding IDE to SD adapters

Posted on 2013-02-04, 01:34

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The issues people have with booting from CF is normally because of the formatting of the card, not the adapter. I think there's a "fixed disk" mode flag that needs to be set, and many don't come from the manufacturer in that configuration. If you ever turn up a CF that you can mess with, try hooking …

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Re: Is there any Socket 370 Board with 3 ISA Slots?

Posted on 2013-02-02, 11:33

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Just saw an interesting one. Adek MB-700 (440BX) FIVE isa slots. And an mPGA478 P4 board with 3 of them. http://www.adek.com/ATX-motherboards.htm

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Re: Is there any Socket 370 Board with 3 ISA Slots?

Posted on 2013-02-02, 03:05

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Anyone heard of a 3 ISA that uses intel? Anyone think the VIA is perfectly fine and that I'm just simply mistaken? I got very frustrated with VIA on my Super 7 board, especially with AGP. I'm sure they must have improved by the P3 era, but I think they were still known for being a bit of a pain. …

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Re: Putting old hardware to full time work

Posted on 2013-02-01, 16:22

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That's probably overpowered for the application, you could probably just use 1 CPU, not sure how much power that would save though. The RAM might not be doing much good either, but I don't know if Smoothwall has some way of making use of it. I have a dual slot-2 HP which uses way more power than I'd …

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Re: Intel-built 486/Pentium/PPro/PII motherboard guide

Posted on 2013-02-01, 15:52

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But why? Didn't the SL3XG already work on 440BX motherboards? I know the multiplier is locked but the FSB should still be selectable from the BIOS or a jumper, right? So shouldn't selecting the 66mhz fsb without the hardware hack give the same result? On the 440BX Intel boards I've messed with, …

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Re: Want to build powerful PII machine

Posted on 2013-02-01, 07:53

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I remember a long time ago seeing an article, I think on Tom's Hardware, which considered whether SSE and 3DNow would make 3D accelerator cards obsolete. Back in the day I got hold of an updated version of MASM just so I could try writing 3DNow code for my (then-new) K6-3, which they labeled as "K3D …

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Re: HP Vectra XU 90C

Posted on 2013-01-31, 08:15

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First of all, Socket 7 came along with the Pentium MMX. The older non-MMX chips are Socket 5, and those definitely are the older non-MMX chips. Thanks for the explanation. That's a strange revelation for me - I've gone all this time thinking the P54Cs were socket 7. I had no idea that was really …

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Re: HP Vectra XU 90C

Posted on 2013-01-31, 03:30

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The picture shows an SY022 - I have one of those and I'm sure it's a socket-7 Pentium 133 (non-mmx). I don't know anything about socket 5 so I'm not sure how it's plugged into that socket. I may just be confused all the way around I guess. 😀

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Re: Pentium Restoration Project

Posted on 2013-01-30, 00:50

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Looks very nice. I would like to suggest getting a different keyboard adapter. Those rigid 1-piece adapters like you're using have a tendency to either fall out, or get knocked out when they hit up against something. Every time the PS/2 port gets accidentally hotplugged, it's maybe a 5% chance of …

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Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?

Posted on 2013-01-29, 07:27

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It was a Conexant based modems and was the worst modem I ever bought despite "PCI being better than ISA, etc." It was only compatible with Windows, took up loads of CPU power as it was a software modem and worst of all, their drivers installed so much bloated crap such as Adobe Reader that you …

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Re: Tualatin "Beast" In progress

Posted on 2013-01-28, 07:56

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I just read your description of what the old board was doing. It's possible that was caused by failing capacitors. When they start to go, the board can start to act up strangely, especially with more load. I've heard of people putting generic Radio Shack caps on a motherboard, which are much higher …

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Re: What to do with an ASUS P2B-DS

Posted on 2013-01-28, 07:40

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I had one of those boards once and it didn't overclock the FSB very much, it got maybe 112MHz. It might have just been an old revision... Yep, old revision. The last couple versions properly worked at 133FSB, but versions 1.04 and below (IIRC) topped out at lower speeds due to a bug in the PLL chip …

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Re: What to do with an ASUS P2B-DS

Posted on 2013-01-28, 00:49

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Dual processors won't do much for most games. Writing a program that can get much benefit from more than 1 CPU is difficult. The game industry didn't put much effort into that until dual-core CPUs became mainstream much later on. In the late 90s, mostly just server software and high end workstation …

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Q for anybody who has an Intel 450KX "Aurora / Performance AU" motherboard (Socket-8)

Posted on 2013-01-27, 09:32

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I'm hoping somebody can identify a couple components on this motherboard, so I can replace them and hopefully get it running. The board is an Intel "Performance/AU" or "Aurora" 450KX for Pentium Pro. This board is also in branded systems - this particular one is from a 1996 Gateway. [the short …

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Re: Calling 440BX (and LX) users...

Posted on 2013-01-26, 01:54

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I think the TI4200 (and it's bigger brothers) is a 3.3v guzzler. I ruined a more modern 550W power supply with that card. Like many modern PSUs, it was strong on 12V but weak on 3.3V. An older board with the TI4200 killed the 3.3V rail after a couple weeks of use. That's the only system that ever …

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Re: SD-RAM PC-150, RARE?

Posted on 2013-01-26, 00:35

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Sorry for necroing this thread, but a stick of Corsair XMS150 256MB happened to come in my possession. PC150 info is scarce, is this stick worth anything? It certainly is the first time I've heard of SDRAM that is over 133MHz :P I don't know if it would be worth much or not. But PC150 isn't a real …

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Re: Calling 440BX (and LX) users...

Posted on 2013-01-25, 07:17

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And I am wondering about video card compatibility on 440BX. When I install Matrox G400 from HP Vectra VL600 to my ASUS P2B-F, it won't boot. What is the problem. Are you running an overclocked bus speed? If it's running 133FSB, then the AGP slot is at 89MHz. It's easy to forget that if you've had …

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