Re: DEC HiNote Ultra CT475 - A 486 "Ultrabook"!

Posted on 2017-10-30, 13:25

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by bjwil1991

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Interesting laptop. The ones I've seen used the crappy display, and no sound card whatsoever (ain't cheap), but I got a Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus that's fully loaded. So I got that goin' for me, which is nice. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/02/16/video-undefined-25BC7D0600000578-301_ …

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Re: PcChips sucks!

Posted on 2017-10-30, 13:13

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by bjwil1991

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On the weekend i tried the very same PCCHIPS m919 motherboard with the same PSU, same memory, and the same vga pci card. it boots, and now it detects the memory correctly 16MB. These motherboards are a lottery Then today i tried to boot it again, it hanged at the first boot screen that says the …

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Re: nVidia Riva TNT2 64 AGP gray lines

Posted on 2017-10-30, 12:18

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by bjwil1991

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Did my first desoldering job on an nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 card (VGA port) after purchasing electrical flux and a desoldering iron with the pump at my local computer store, and was successful. VGA https://i.imgur.com/kYroJsih.jpg GPU (upside) https://i.imgur.com/2eE5HOqh.jpg GPU (downside) https://i. …

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

Posted on 2017-10-30, 11:10

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by bjwil1991

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Decided to rebuild my K6-2/300 machine with almost every part I have last night. 1) Installed the new 60GB Maxtor HDD in the system with the drive bay adapter (3.5" to 5.25") and I'm going to put the cover back on it to protect the drive from water (and MacGyver 2-4 small fans to cool down the drive …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-28, 23:15

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by bjwil1991

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blurks wrote: I was missing a Pentium Pro in box, so I took the plunge. […] Show full quote I was missing a Pentium Pro in box, so I took the plunge. seller's picture Nice. I had a Pentium Pro 200 in a Gateway 2000 G6-200XL.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-28, 22:31

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by bjwil1991

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Bancho wrote: An important part of my SS7 Time machine build showed up today! […] Show full quote An important part of my SS7 Time machine build showed up today! A Roland MT-32. I already have a Music Quest PC Midi card to use with it. Really happy to finally pick one of these up! How much did you …

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

Posted on 2017-10-28, 14:11

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by bjwil1991

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Ahh man. Looks like one pad came off. How are you liking your new stuff? Are you replacing the connector with a fresh one, moving it somewhere else, or just practicing? I'm planning on swapping the connector from a working GPU to the TNT2 card (the working card is going to be used in a desktop …

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

Posted on 2017-10-28, 05:24

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by bjwil1991

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Did my first desoldering job on an nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 card (VGA port) after purchasing electrical flux and a desoldering iron with the pump at my local computer store, and was successful. VGA https://i.imgur.com/kYroJsih.jpg GPU (upside) https://i.imgur.com/2eE5HOqh.jpg GPU (downside) https://i. …

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Re: How to detect if cache is real or not?

Posted on 2017-10-27, 19:05

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by bjwil1991

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It's been a number of years but I dont recall ever seeing a socket 3 board with fake cache that was socketed. All of the fakes I used to come across had that write back bs on them and were soldered directly to the board, this way removing even the costs of the sockets. If it looks real and is …

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Re: Good Old $10 HP Vectra

Posted on 2017-10-27, 13:59

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by bjwil1991

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For a system like that, I'm quite surprised the system still runs with all that crap in the PSU.

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

Posted on 2017-10-27, 03:26

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by bjwil1991

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I decided to install an nVidia GeForce 6200 AGP with 512MB RAM inside my Socket 370 system (hit a snag since the aperture size was set to 256MB, it gave conflict errors, and changing it to 64MB made the card work), and Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius doesn't like the card at all for some reason. It liked …

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2017-10-26, 20:05

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by bjwil1991

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Speaking of Diamonds, I have a Diamond Multimedia Sound Impact S70 that uses the ESS Maestro-2 ES1968S chipset that is backwards compatible with Sound Blaster Pro (YAY!!!), but sadly, isn't working too well. The MPU-401 and Joystick port get disabled for no reason whatsoever. I had a Diamond Stealth …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-26, 19:40

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by bjwil1991

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Another R100 board for my collection - Radeon DDR 32MB. Now I'm only missing the original 7200 and possibly Radeon SDR with DVI. :happy: https://abload.de/img/radeon_ddr_16tsac.jpg https://abload.de/img/radeon_ddr_2f2s4l.jpg That's a cool card, man. I had a Diamond Stealth AGP card that was a clone …

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Re: New SSD and HDD installed, now system reboots occasionally

Posted on 2017-10-26, 19:28

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by bjwil1991

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I had an ECS nForce-6ma v3.0 AM2+ motherboard that lost a capacitor by the memory modules, would run for 20 seconds, and would shut off. I eventually got new guts for my main PC on my birthday in 2015. I have a Dimension 4550 that has 4 swollen caps by the CPU and it still runs efficiently, my Riva …

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

Posted on 2017-10-26, 19:18

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by bjwil1991

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My Gateway M685E arrived. Posting from it now. With 1.5GB of RAM and the mid end 1.66GHz Core2 Duo processor option this PC is still quite usable for a basic Windows XP web browsing experience. Sadly, the unit I received has some pretty bad light bleed near the edges of the screen when looking at a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-26, 19:01

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by bjwil1991

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Couldn't resist a 5950 Ultra for $10 and change on Ebay. Had a massive Zalman copper cooler on it that was bending the PCB. Removed it and replaced with the original cooler that I restored back to working condition as I prefer everything original. Ebay description stated the original cooler fans …

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

Posted on 2017-10-26, 16:59

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by bjwil1991

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Found this from the dumpster at my uni, I wonder if it works: https://i.imgur.com/IjrjUpPh.jpg Full res: https://i.imgur.com/IjrjUpP.jpg Test the capacitors with a digital multimeter just to be safe (if any of the caps read out as OL, it's bad) prior to installing it into your system. Also, replace …

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Re: nVidia Riva TNT2 64 AGP gray lines

Posted on 2017-10-26, 16:29

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by bjwil1991

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Diagnosed the card even further, and the one SMD cap by the VGA port is dead (Open Loop on the multimeter) and the other one still works. That, and Windows 98SE refuses to boot by giving me this error: Windows Protection Error. You need to restart your computer. MS-DOS boots perfectly without issues …

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2017-10-26, 16:23

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by bjwil1991

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@ bjwil1991 - from my experience you need a hot air station and some special solder to do it right. You might get away with a soldering iron but it's going to be tough. I did it a few times but it is best that you first try on a damaged part to sew how it goes. The soldering iron would have to be …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-26, 13:50

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by bjwil1991

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Can anyone ID this motherboard from seller's potato shots? I may be interested in getting it with the 800EB and RAM on it if it's a Tualatin board with ISA.. He asks only $10 for it, though it's "untested". https://img.letgo.com/images/04/ba/7e/a1/04ba7ea1ac478fc14117de0975832cd1.jpeg https://img. …

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