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

Posted on 2023-09-05, 19:35

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I decided to treat my DOS/Win31 SS7 rig with network card. Wanted to have Fast Ethernet (TX) on PCI bus. I encountered this one (attached) on my local auction site. Initially it buzzled me with MPX EN5048 chip. Quick googling revealed link to Accton Technologies. I was back in the days Network …

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

Posted on 2023-08-21, 05:30

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Attempted to get my 980ti FE working. It blue screens during installing drivers, despite Nvidia driver setup identifying the card successfully. Windows insists that no display adapter exists.

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Re: How to test a lot of hard drives fast?

Posted on 2023-08-19, 00:47

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A friend of mine used a working scrap Core2 HP workstation that had 2 IDE channels and 6 SATA 2 ports onboard, along with a PCI SATA card to DBAN all the old hard drives getting scrapped at his work years ago, so he could do 4 IDE's at a time and 8 SATA drives. Had it running in a corner of their …

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

Posted on 2023-08-12, 00:32

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I was helping my mate with some new PC components today and noticed right off the bat that Windows -- the Pro edition, no less -- activated itself as soon as we connected to the net! is this a thing now? Are motherboards aimed at DIYers shipping with Windows licenses baked into the UEFI? The …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-08-11, 19:49

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Village Tronic MPDD Pro card (Trident Blade XP). Probably shit card , but I bought it mainly for being unusual (at least I haven't seen one before). Might be good for late 90's OS9 machine. My initial hypothesis was correct. This turned out to be total waste of money. Drivers on mac are so poor …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-08-11, 19:48

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Village Tronic MPDD Pro card (Trident Blade XP). Probably shit card , but I bought it mainly for being unusual (at least I haven't seen one before). Might be good for late 90's OS9 machine. My initial hypothesis was correct. This turned out to be total waste of money. Drivers on mac are so poor …

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

Posted on 2023-08-11, 04:59

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I bought a Logitech G502 Hero to replace the first new mouse I bought, in 2012. Cooler Master Xornet that was $15 on sale, USB Male connector finally just wore out, the contacts are barely there and missing in some places. Hopefully I can solder a new cable or connector onto it. With Logitechs …

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

Posted on 2023-08-02, 03:59

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It was worth the effort IMO, but I've just now discovered that they are picky about CPUs. I have a number of Socket A CPUs that I thought would work in this board, but it doesn't support Throughbreds. The Palomino core XP2000 I have won't post in this board - it ought to work, but this was the …

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

Posted on 2023-08-01, 07:26

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I finally got around to recapping the Soyo Dragon I bought last fall. I was holding my breath when I powered it on, because it had so many bad capacitors that I was afraid to even see if it would POST as it was. But the operation was a success! Now to build a system with it. Best looking PCB of …

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Re: Athlon motheboard recommendations

Posted on 2023-08-01, 06:47

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FX5200/FX5500 - useless trash cards for an Athlon system. FX5600 - more reliable, but somewhat slower in older games and horrendously slower in games with Shader Model 2.0 (DirectX9). FX5700 - same thing, 50/50 chance it would be DOA. 5900XT - more reliable, from my experience, but harder to find …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2023-07-31, 04:12

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Ah yes, here right? - https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=39993&p=1040752&hilit=winbook#p1040752 I did a forum search here a while back for "winbook" while researching the company for my website resources on their laptops and found that - that was a few months ago before I joined. Real …

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

Posted on 2023-07-31, 01:01

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I finally got around to recapping the Soyo Dragon I bought last fall. I was holding my breath when I powered it on, because it had so many bad capacitors that I was afraid to even see if it would POST as it was. But the operation was a success! Now to build a system with it. Best looking PCB of …

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Re: Another question about Windows XP videocard

Posted on 2023-07-29, 02:24

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8800GT sounds like it would be nice card for a XP era gaming rig, it's way faster than a 7900, it's not super rare or crazy on power, also it's just a more efficient evolution of the 8800GTX from late 2006. but, keep in mind, some games really push hardware on higher settings, with a HD 5850 I …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2023-07-28, 18:10

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The one I'm after but still don't have is a WinBook XP, which I see as a personal ultimate 486 laptop. They can go up to a DX4-100, have a built in ESS sound card option, plenty of ports, a very stylish design, and they have some other neat features too. You can find one with a 640x480 TFT LCD, …

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Re: Decent PCI video card for K6-2 platforms

Posted on 2023-07-09, 21:52

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"Super 7" SiS 530 chipset. check out this thread here.

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

Posted on 2023-07-03, 23:51

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Alienware Area 51 A11b bios successfully flashed to the XPS 730x. RX 480 4gb installed, and everything just works fantastic now. Guess it's time to try out a Xeon on it xD

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-07-03, 08:03

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Magic 8 ball says "No HVEC support" This is why RX480 with its HEVC x265 support is still an AMD FineWine GPU 7 years after release.. Ironically enough there was a 4gb rx480 in my dad's spare PC, that went with a TV that burned out. So that got swapped over and I get to keep the 980ti while his old …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-07-03, 03:29

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980ti FE hits 60% load and artifacts in 4k/60fps video playback. 1080p and 1440p is fine.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-26, 01:59

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Well it started out as not retro. But bought a cheap GTX 1060 6gb and came home with this when I commented "Cool XPS" and the response from the seller was "want to take it"? Dell XPS 730x H2C w/ i7-940, 2 500gb WD drives, a 8gb? Stick of Crucial Ballistic Elite 1866mhz, and a corrupt original A …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2023-06-17, 08:34

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Got the opportunity to “rescue” a Lenovo ThinkPad W510 from a trip to eWaste today. Seems a relatively OP laptop for early to mid XP gaming, so going to get it set up with XP asap. Might have to take out some RAM though as this thing has 24GB at present, and the Quadro FX 880M should perform …

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