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Re: 440BX memory detection / SPD hacking

Posted on 2014-12-05, 03:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I looked at a 440BX datasheet a few years ago, but I can't seem to find the copy that I had in my files. As I remember it, I thought it said it supports a max of 4 rows of 128MB unbuffered, or up to 8 rows if registered (where 256MB modules are 2 rows of 128). So my understanding was that up to …

Re: 2600 cartridge buried for 30 years runs again.

Posted on 2014-12-02, 08:29

in Milliways

in Milliways

American Pickers is staged. All of those "reality" shows on the History Channel are. All reality shows are staged, but what I'm wondering about is the price valuation "Pickers" puts on old junk. They just seem hard to believe. These types of shows focus on the acquisition but it's rare for them to …

Re: The Parts Store Experience

Posted on 2014-11-30, 08:09

in Milliways

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Hmm... I don't remember them being there, but obviously they were. Unfortunately I don't remember much about that mall anymore, I just remember it being shaped like a giant "Z", the dumbest mall layout ever. :) The walking distances were marketed as "healthy exercise." I believe Computer City was at …

Re: 2600 cartridge buried for 30 years runs again.

Posted on 2014-11-30, 02:19

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I watch the show "American Pickers" all the time and one could argue most of the stuff those guys get on that show is trash, but trust me, to a lot of their clients, it is not. It's absolutely insane to some of us what some would pay for an old rusty oil can for example, but it is simply a material …

Re: The Parts Store Experience

Posted on 2014-11-25, 17:14

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I never really had any problem with small computer parts stores. The parts for my family's first home-builts around the mid-90s were those type of shops. They were fine. In the late 90s - early 00s, there were a couple small shops that I really liked. They had a larger sized shopping area with …

Re: Thrustmaster ACM Adjuster Dial Design Specs?

Posted on 2014-11-24, 01:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have one of these cards without the dial. I meant to post a picture of it after someone asked, but then I forgot about the thread. Sorry. Thanks for posting your findings on how the dial works. I lost that dial about 100 years ago. To see the effect of speed adjustments, I used to use NASCAR …

Re: Poll: parts that have spontaneously died?

Posted on 2014-11-24, 01:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Forgot to mention the strangest most recent hard drive death. I had a pair of Seagate 7200.11 500GB drives affected by the "BSY" firmware bug. They both had low hours, something like 4K for one and 6K for the other. I was able to fix both of them and update the firmware so the problem wouldn't …

Re: Socket 370 vs Slot 1 performance

Posted on 2014-11-24, 00:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wow, so literally the whole plastic comes off in one piece. So the pins can pull through the plastic and stay behind - I'm surprised, but that's excellent. I have a ridiculous amount of junk motherboards that don't work for whatever reasons. I don't have a CUSL2 but there might be some other Asus …

Re: Poll: parts that have spontaneously died?

Posted on 2014-11-23, 15:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Lots of hard drives of course, but most of those were gradual old age situations. The most sudden was a Maxtor 30GB. It was maybe 1yr old and working fine (as far as I knew), then suddenly the computer locked up and the hard drive was clicking infinitely. That's all it ever did after that. I lost a …

Re: Socket 370 vs Slot 1 performance

Posted on 2014-11-23, 14:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Slot-1 gives you some flexibility with slocket adapters though, and if you ever break the heatsink retaining clip, which happens easily on 370, then you'll only have ruined a slocket and not an entire motherboard. Yes and if the black Slot 1 cpu clips are broken, they are easily replaceable, unlike …

Re: POLL: What is your favorite x86 vintage processor?

Posted on 2014-11-21, 07:35

in Marvin \ System Specs

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SSE2 support is a big plus for the P4 nowadays. It's frustrating when you run into apps that won't run on an Athlon or a P3 because of SSE2 requirements. Steam has broken their game launcher app at least twice now with an "accidental" SSE2 requirement. It's getting common for programmers to turn on …

Re: Win98se + MVP3 issues

Posted on 2014-11-21, 07:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had some AGP trouble with a Tyan S1590 MVP3 board many years ago. I don't remember anymore what VIA AGP driver version I ended up using, but I know it was an older one. I found that I needed to install the driver in "safe" mode, which forced AGP 1X mode. AGP 2X (enabled by using "turbo" mode) had …

Re: PLEASE HELP ME FIND THIS CASE!!! :D

Posted on 2014-11-21, 07:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have you tried any local PC repair shops? They have lots of old outdated hardware, left behind from customer upgrades I suppose. Sometimes it's sitting out for sale, but I think they probably end up dumping most of it. BTW, those shops are also a great way to find miscellaneous brackets and whatnot. …

Re: Socket 370 vs Slot 1 performance

Posted on 2014-11-21, 06:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm not aware of any built-in speed difference, but I can imagine that 370 might have a cleaner signal path and be more overclockable. That's just speculation though, I don't have solid evidence of that. Slot-1 gives you some flexibility with slocket adapters though, and if you ever break the …

Re: Which Geforce 1-4 series card is equal to SIS 730s onboard graphics?

Posted on 2014-11-21, 06:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think even with an equal number of chips, a DDR card would use slightly less power than an SDRAM version, but I could be wrong about that. It should definitely be lower power if the DDR version has fewer chips. I don't know much about what configurations were offered on the 4MX series though.

Re: What are the best retro ISA and PCI slot network cards?

Posted on 2014-11-20, 10:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I hate installing network drivers. It's a major pain when you can't get them off the network because you don't have network drivers. Therefore, I have a strong preference for anything that has built-in drivers with the OS. For PCI desktops I like the Intel 82558 and 82559 based cards because, well, …

Re: Best Slot 1 CPU for a Voodoo 1

Posted on 2014-11-19, 16:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I never knew the P2-450MHz was uncommon. I have one of those but it came from an IBM workstation machine, so I guess that just reinforces the point. I haven't actually ever seen a P3-450 but I ended up with a bunch of 500MHz versions. Out of those, 2 out of 10 had the 300MHz cache chips in them ( …

Re: What is it with technical support nowadays???

Posted on 2014-11-17, 13:24

in Milliways

in Milliways

I've occasionally had to make late night calls to the ISP. Perhaps it was because of the late hour, but almost every time, the phone would get picked up by a network engineer in Texas. It was refreshing to get help from somebody who knows what's going on and can efficiently and intelligently address …

Re: Best Printers for 90's computers.

Posted on 2014-11-11, 17:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In the late 90s I had inkjets. I hate inkjets and never want to see one again. In retrospect I think they are the worst printing technology that ever succeeded in the market. I'd rather have a dot matrix than an inkjet. For all their limitations, at least dot matrix printers actually worked. Inkjets …

Re: Test Bench vs Cardboard Box

Posted on 2014-11-06, 04:28

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I just put a sheet of cardboard on the desk and lay the motherboard on that, with the expansion cards hanging off the side. 2 power supplies are sandwiched next to each other with outputs facing opposite directions, optical and floppy drives on top, and a KVM hanging there somewhere. It's a big …

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