Re: Which is the best and cheaper way to use a SSD or a SDCard as a hard disk on a pentium 3 motherboard?

Posted on 2024-04-03, 19:26

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by Repo Man11

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I also like these because of the tidy installation. Have you had any trouble with the floppy power connector with them? I have one of those and the power connector gets so incredibly stuck in it I once had to pull it off with pliers. I've had those where the Berg connector is a very tight fit, but …

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

Posted on 2024-04-02, 14:01

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Maybe it was arcing on the power rail. I also noticed that these interposer Tualatins are not a very deep fit. It is still possible to replace the socket, if that's all it is. I realized my mistake: with the less than perfect fit of this modified CPU I should have removed the heatsink and made sure …

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Re: FIC 503+ super socket 7 with no cache

Posted on 2024-04-02, 02:39

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by Repo Man11

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I wonder if this was just a quality control issue? If those chips were removed, someone did a very neat job of it.

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

Posted on 2024-04-02, 02:34

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Beating my head against the wall... I decided to put my Soyo 7VMA-B into my Lian Li PC50 case. I mostly completed the move, tested it to POST beep once, then just about had it finished and ready to install Win98. I have a Tualatin 1.26 that was working fine in this motherboard, but suddenly it …

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Re: Which is the best and cheaper way to use a SSD or a SDCard as a hard disk on a pentium 3 motherboard?

Posted on 2024-04-02, 01:48

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I also like these because of the tidy installation.

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Re: How to mod AOpen AX34 to make it support Tualatin 1400S?

Posted on 2024-04-01, 21:46

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The Korean vendor has the PCB for $10.00 and 1.26 GHz P3s for $46.00 (of course with applicable taxes and shipping added). If you have a known good Tualatin and are handy with a soldering iron, you can't beat the $10.00 adapter.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-29, 17:28

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Tempting, but I will resist the urge. This is basically fluff surrounding the video card. I wonder why this place doesn't sell on Ebay? They have dropped the price to $150.00, so I'm being tempted anew. I actually briefly possessed a 5950 Ultra; when I upgraded my former employer's gaming PC from a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-29, 17:23

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I bough one of my Unicorn Motherboards today, a Epox EP-MVP3G5 Super 7 motherboard with a full fat 2Mb of L2 Cache . The board has been tested by the seller who is a retro collector themselves with some rather rare parts and I have bought parts from them before. Been hunting for this board for a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-24, 16:14

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Look what I bought yesterday for a whole $15! - ECS KT-600A + Athlon XP 2600+ - ASUS A8N-E + Athlon 64 3000+ - Sapphire Ati Radeon X800 GTO 128MB - Two DDR400 512MB memory sticks - One DDR400 256MB memory stick - Two optical drives with cool ASUS cables I picked it up today and everything works …

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Re: Should I flash my FX 4000 to a 6800 Ultra BIOS?

Posted on 2024-03-24, 15:05

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To put it another way - if you were me, would you flash this card to a BIOS for a 6800 Ultra, or leave it as is? Added pix of the before and after of the Half-Life2 water.

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Re: Problem to updating BIOS on ASUS TXP4

Posted on 2024-03-24, 11:38

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Asus used a customized version of Awardflash called Aflash. I believe I used Uniflash when I upgraded the BIOS on my TXP4, but this version of Aflash should be the correct one if you want to try it. https://theretroweb.com/drivers/190

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

Posted on 2024-03-24, 00:47

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Although a correct stock look for the era, I don't like having those sinks on anything I'm taking further than 100fsb... because they are as effective as a random scrap of tinfoil... when vendors put them on with thicker pads, some said they insulated more than they sunk. So I go for something at …

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Should I flash my FX 4000 to a 6800 Ultra BIOS?

Posted on 2024-03-24, 00:31

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As mentioned in the retro hardware thread, I recently purchased a Quadro FX 4000 AGP card for $10.00, and other than a slightly less robust cooler, it appears identical to the EVGA 6800 Ultra that I have. I initially tried it as is, and while it worked fine, it had an issue with water in Half-Life …

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

Posted on 2024-03-24, 00:08

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I've had no complaints with this motherboard since I recapped it - I bought a Tualatin 1266 from the Ebay vendor that mods them, and it has easily overclocked to nearly 1.4 GHz. But the northbridge heatsink was gone when I got it, and it looked better in the photos I saw with it installed. I bought …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-23, 14:43

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Tempting, but I will resist the urge. This is basically fluff surrounding the video card. I wonder why this place doesn't sell on Ebay?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-22, 02:12

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I stopped by my local computer store today and they had an PNY Quadro FX 4000 AGP for $10.00; I couldn't pass it up. It works fine, but when I looked at the old reviews on Newegg there were warnings that there might be weirdness with some games since it wasn't really meant for that. It ran 3D 2001 …

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Re: Computer Won't Turn On

Posted on 2024-03-21, 02:56

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by Repo Man11

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Was this computer working until recently, or did you just assemble it?

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Re: VIA KT133 boards not working with DirectX in 98SE

Posted on 2024-03-19, 16:45

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Has your Thunderbird got all it's corners? Ppl used to report all kinds of weird crap happening back in the day for minor die chips... though "no noticeable problems" and completely inoperable seemed to also happen for what looked like the same amount of damage. Years ago I set some friends up with …

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Re: VIA KT133 boards not working with DirectX in 98SE

Posted on 2024-03-19, 04:39

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Also, you ought to run DXDiag and see how far you can get with the tests.

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Re: VIA KT133 boards not working with DirectX in 98SE

Posted on 2024-03-19, 04:36

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Not mentioned, but based on the Direct X versions you're using Windows 98? If it were me, I would put in a spare hard drive and try Windows 2000 or XP. This would either narrow it down to something wrong with the OS/drivers, or if there are issues with either of those operating systems then you …

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