SS7 board with keyboard leds flashing/blinking

Posted on 2016-05-11, 07:02

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by kixs

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Hello, I have a SS7 board model NMC-5VMe (looks like EPOX MVP3C). When I power it up it POSTs fine only keyboard leds are blinking non-stop and so keyboard doesn't work at all. They are blinking from the power on. What could be wrong? I tried both AT and ATX power supply. Capacitors look good and …

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Re: Need some help identifying these two cases period

Posted on 2016-05-09, 15:21

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by kixs

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Case #1 is rack mountable. We used to have it (or one like it) at my first job ~2000 and it wasn't new back then.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-05, 14:59

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Got this baby after many years of searching... from a fellow Vogoner :D http://i.imgur.com/yyEXuVgl.jpg Already added FPU and 4x1MB SIMMs. It's pretty fast for 20MHz but will try to change the oscillator for a faster one (will solder a socket). I hope to get near 25MHz as I certainly won't (can't) …

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Re: How to test Gravis Ultrasound ACE

Posted on 2016-04-30, 23:17

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by kixs

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I'd like to test drive 1MB memory on my ACE now. Any suggestions what to run?

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

Posted on 2016-04-30, 22:54

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by kixs

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This has been going on for a while now... slowly packing things into larger boxes, labelling and moving everything for temporary storage to my parents house. I know I have loads of everything but this is getting ridiculous :lol: I'm beginning to wonder if I'll have enough space in my new place : …

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

Posted on 2016-04-30, 21:38

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This has been going on for a while now... slowly packing things into larger boxes, labelling and moving everything for temporary storage to my parents house. I know I have loads of everything but this is getting ridiculous :lol: I'm beginning to wonder if I'll have enough space in my new place : …

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Re: How to test Gravis Ultrasound ACE

Posted on 2016-04-29, 06:08

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SCC-1 isn't in my hands yet. The ACE is version 1.0 - but that's just fine. I'm just happy that it's working 😁 EDIT: Just noticed this is my 1000 post 🤣

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Re: How to test Gravis Ultrasound ACE

Posted on 2016-04-28, 18:55

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Never thought about triple combo 🤣 It's a possibility of course... This might be a tought one for me as I've never put much about music and I'm kinda lost in this field... but it's bound to change 😉

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Re: How to test Gravis Ultrasound ACE

Posted on 2016-04-28, 18:42

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Found the right memory chip and has 1MB of memory :happy: Now I have to decide what is the best combo for old games :confused: :lol: 1. SB + ACE 2. SB + Roland compatible daughterboard (like TerraTec SOWT-24 V2) 3. SB + SCC-1 4. All-in-one card (like TerraTec EWS64 XL) What is the recommended setup?

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Re: How to test Gravis Ultrasound ACE

Posted on 2016-04-27, 18:18

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Did as Great Hierophant suggested... 1. installed only ACE card 2. installed the drivers for DOS (I was missing this step - for Soundblasters I have the necessary files always on HDD) 3. run the Epic Pinball demo and YES, there is sound :D 4. installed the drivers for Windows 95. To do: 5. I have to …

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How to test Gravis Ultrasound ACE

Posted on 2016-04-27, 15:00

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by kixs

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Hello, what is the easiest and bulletproof test of Gravis Ultrasound ACE? Would like to see if it's in a working condition or not. At the moment I have a Pentium 133 on my desk. Should I install a Soundblaster along with ACE? Thanks

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Re: Good Pentium 3 Board with ISA and Tualatin Support?

Posted on 2016-04-26, 20:21

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It's hard to play with all the hardware at once and I barelly touched the Tualatins all this time... In the mean time I found a few motherboards that have T support and actually managed to acquire also the one with an ISA slot :D Good half a year later and I went through the boxes and upon quick …

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

Posted on 2016-04-26, 17:55

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I recently bought my first wavetable addon - Terratec combo TT-929 + SOWT-24 and played around with install and wanted to hear the difference with General MIDI. Tested with Doom, Dune2 and Warcraft2. Maybe I expected more :lol: Anyways... ended playing Warcraft2 for some hours... got to level 7. …

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Re: M396F motherboard

Posted on 2016-04-25, 05:21

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by kixs

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I tinkered a bit with this board again... and it seems all it needs is a jumper on the turbo switch (as many boards do but the difference between ON/OFF with this one is minimal, so it wasn't that obvious). But it's still weird that sysinfo would somehow turn the turbo on. Also tried to run it at …

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Re: Were to hide that CF-Adaptor?

Posted on 2016-04-25, 04:15

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by kixs

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I don't have that problem as I don't have any complete system 🤣 Everything is in parts and I setup my systems on the fly. Maybe I'll setup a few complete systems one day but most probaby never as there would be simply too many and I like to change parts a lot 🤣

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Re: again: recommend a good pci 486 board

Posted on 2016-04-20, 08:47

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by kixs

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there is one more question: many 486 speedsys screenshots reported the bios to have Y2K bug, does this mean that they can never set the date to the 21st century, or just unable to jump from 12-31-1999 to 01-01-2000? It won't jump from 1999 to 2000 but some other date like 1973. It works just fine …

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Re: Need help with dead CRT

Posted on 2016-04-20, 07:28

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by kixs

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I don't think it's viable to repair VGA monitors as they aren't rare or expensive - at least around here. Unless you have some attachment to it 😉

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Re: Amiga computers - which one to get?

Posted on 2016-04-20, 06:00

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by kixs

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badmojo wrote: I've never had an Amiga, but I've been tempted from time-to-time since seeing this image: http://www.cgsociety.org/cgsarchive/newgaller … 90763_large.jpg Nice picture... Cannon Fodder on Amiga 500 😀 and Slovenian computer magazine "Moj mikro" on the desk 😁

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-19, 17:42

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by kixs

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Of course, but I like playing on the balcony while smoking some good pipe. Would be quite uncomfortavble to do it with CRT on my knees ;-). But seriously, I keep my retro laptop because it's a nice little piece of hardware, but also because for its mobility. For CRT or big TFT monitor I keep my …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-19, 14:04

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by kixs

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You can always connect external monitor and have a great picture (CRT if possible). (Old) Laptop LCD's usually have very slow response time and aren't really suitable for gaming.

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