Re: Compaq iPaQ only boots from "Compaq" hard drives

Posted on 2014-07-18, 12:44

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by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I remember working on these in the mid 90's. Nice little things for basic office use. Cant remember if I ever completely rebuilt one from scratch or not. Which OS are you trying? I only ever used XP. Which Deskpro EN was that 2nd HDD from. I've never seen them needing special hard drives, Early …

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Re: Voodoo3 Pentium4 project (Cancelled for now)

Posted on 2014-07-18, 01:08

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by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I lack a dishwasher, would just running it under water do fine? I have always been hesitant and paranoid with washing electronics. This board has over 88,000 power on hours under it's belt and ran for years with an entire line of popped cpu caps. As long as it boots into the bios every now and then …

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Re: Will be available on ebay shortly.....

Posted on 2014-07-16, 14:02

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by shamino

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

Hmm, I missed this story. I bet the people at AtariAge must be freaking out. I remember they had a multi-dozen page argument thread about the whole subject. The problem is that they could never specify what the legend actually is. The goalposts of "true" and "false" have never been well defined. …

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Re: Compaq iPaQ only boots from "Compaq" hard drives

Posted on 2014-07-16, 13:13

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by shamino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Forgot to mention, I also flashed the BIOS to the latest version from the HPaq site. It had no apparent effect other than changing the version number. It still hates my hard drives.

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Compaq iPaQ only boots from "Compaq" hard drives

Posted on 2014-07-16, 13:02

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by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a Compaq iPaq, a very simple small form factor socket-370 i810 machine. I think the model is called "C500", which refers to the original Celeron 500MHz CPU (Mendocino). Mine has the legacy ports intact, it is not the "legacy free" version. I'll mention that the CPU has been replaced with a …

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Re: Asus socket 7 atx boards

Posted on 2014-07-16, 11:32

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by shamino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

SPAX-M I'm not sure that board has any Asus branding, it just says "SPAX-M" on it in the Asus font. I think it was made by Asus as the OEM for an HP machine. Does that count? I have no idea if a retail "Asus" version exists. SiS 5598 chipset. Doesn't look too interesting, it's a microATX board with …

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Re: Video card for Athlon XP?

Posted on 2014-07-16, 00:12

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by shamino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll add my 9800 Pro to the list - last time I tried to use it, it was no longer working correctly. I tried reflowing some solder joints on some surface mounted caps, because I thought 1 or 2 had been cracked. At first I thought that fixed it but not long after it began glitching again. It was part …

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Re: Voodoo3 Pentium4 project (Cancelled for now)

Posted on 2014-07-15, 11:35

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by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is a totally random suggestion, but make sure one of the silver barrel shaped clock crystal things doesn't have it's legs twisted so they can touch each other. My P4S Dragon was doing that no-boot, fan twitch behavior, and this turned out to be the reason. I had the thing for like a year before …

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Re: New K6-2 Super 7 Build with TNT2

Posted on 2014-07-14, 15:19

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by shamino

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Something must be wrong because this K6-2 550 should be ok. Maybe AGP drivers? The Nvidia Detonator 43 driver? Via chipset itself? Or just crappy FPU on the K6-2? The TNT2 Pro should be able to handle HL1 smoothly. Back when I had a GF2MX on a VIA MVP3 board, I found that the fastest NVidia driver …

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Re: Slot 1 Coppermine Need a Heatsink Fan?

Posted on 2014-07-12, 04:52

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by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Several years ago I got some slot-1 processors that came with very lightweight passive heatsinks which resembled folded up tinfoil. I wonder if that's the heatsink you have. It had to be the cheapest heatsink ever, I couldn't believe they were serious. These were all over ebay, and I think a bunch …

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Re: What to do with a 56.6k modem card?

Posted on 2014-07-10, 01:20

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by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think PCI modems are the most useless component in old PCs. There's a massive glut of them and nobody wants them. Rarely there might be an individual who needs 1, but that's it. No organization with a network of PCs, schools or otherwise, have any use for them in quantity. They might need network …

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Re: Getting a little long in the tooth, but still plays all new games wide open

Posted on 2014-07-08, 14:49

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by shamino

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Any idea what I should use as an archive medium, until a filesystem comes along to guard against bitrot? I *think* MS is coming out with one, but it's still in experimental/development phase. I wouldn't trust any particular medium to protect against bitrot, I think the better ideal would be to have …

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Re: New DOS System - Is it safe??

Posted on 2014-07-06, 16:10

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by shamino

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

If you want to bring back the other board with the bad flash: If you're careful, you can hot swap flash chips so as to program a chip for another board. This could be an option if you have another board that uses the same style of flash chip as the one you need to program. Although part numbers vary …

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Re: Getting a little long in the tooth, but still plays all new games wide open

Posted on 2014-07-06, 15:40

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by shamino

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I'm after RAID 10, purely because I have 4TB worth of data I just can't afford to lose, ever. Not counting the $5K+ software packages I use, I've been making images of every 5-1/4, 3.5, CD-ROM, and DVD-9 I've ever purchased. None of the current Windows OS's protect against bitrot. I want my …

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Re: The Death Throes of Radio Shack

Posted on 2014-07-04, 06:39

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by shamino

in Milliways

in Milliways

I'm amazed that Radio Shack has lasted this long. I can't figure out how they pay the bills to keep the stores open, at all, for at least 10 years now. Although they keep nearly no stock of anything I care about, they have occasionally been useful. I'll be sad to see them go but their survival …

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Re: WinXP-compatible motherboard and mini ITX case for Geforce GTX 285?

Posted on 2014-07-03, 05:35

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by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd like to suggest that you use software to control the fan speed on your PNY GTX285. I have a PNY GTX260 and in my opinion the fan is too lazy. It doesn't ramp up enough with increasing temperature, so it allows the GPU to get into the 85-90C range pretty easily. I've been using SpeedFan to change …

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Re: Just got a DX/4-100!

Posted on 2014-07-03, 04:48

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by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

archsan wrote: shamino wrote: To this day I don't know if my cache was real or fake. I kept the chips but I've never had a way of testing them. Maybe just snap it in two? 😁 Not a bad idea, actually... 😀

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Re: How is the: ABIT BP6 motherboard?

Posted on 2014-07-03, 04:43

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by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@shamino Thanks, that's what I needed to know. I didn't know anything about capacitors back then. At least ASUS supposedly had used better/decent caps for the P2B series though? I've read somewhere that the P2B-F has Chemicon and Rubycon caps. Yes, Abit's main attraction among the BX boards is …

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Re: Super7 Build for DirectX 7

Posted on 2014-07-02, 12:13

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by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had a Geforce2 MX on a K6-3 MVP3. At the time, the 3DMark 2000 benchmark database had results showing scores leveled off with the GF2MX cards. There wasn't much gain (at least in that benchmark) with anything faster than that at 1024x768. It's memory speed becomes an issue at higher resolutions …

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Re: How is the: ABIT BP6 motherboard?

Posted on 2014-07-02, 05:36

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by shamino

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Likely to need capacitor replacement. Abit boards of that time usually do. The Abit BP6 was an excellent board back in the days. I had one, and it was fast, stable and well designed, but as somebody else said, watch out for dried out caps. What's the make of this board, 1999-2000? Are those …

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