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Re: k6-2 compatibility

Posted on 2016-12-27, 12:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

According to amd the absolute maximum voltage for the k6-2 is 2.5V and anything above that will for sure damage the cpu. It's a well known fact that after some time the cpu stops working at its default voltage and speed but it would take very long to kill the cpu.

Re: connecting psu wires to at power switch

Posted on 2016-12-22, 20:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I felt brave and connected everything, the machine it's working now. A wrong connection could kill even the wall plug.

Re: ASUS VL/I-486SV2GX4 - no post :(

Posted on 2016-12-22, 10:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Go bare bones, remove the graphics card and see if you get any beeps. If not, make sure the speaker is properly connected and then remove the ram and do the same.

Re: connecting psu wires to at power switch

Posted on 2016-12-22, 00:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Of course, thanks very much. I think the position of the wires doesn't matter as long as live faces live and neutral faces neutral (black faces black and white faces white).

connecting psu wires to at power switch

Posted on 2016-12-21, 10:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've been given a pentium mmx on an asus sp97-v without a psu, i've got a spare psu but i don't want to screw anything. I know the brown and black are the live feed and the blue and white are the neutral wires. In know brown must be connected to black and blue must be connected to white, right? The …

Re: Trident TGUI9440 memory upgrades

Posted on 2016-12-19, 10:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's not worth adding extra ram to that card, it would be useless. It was a pretty good card back in its day, pretty fast for a 32 bit card and very compatible but like many other ancient cards had a crappy ramdac. With a crt you'll be limited to 640 and 16 bit or 1024 with 256 colors, anything …

Re: Problems with new Main board

Posted on 2016-12-16, 13:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Disconnect the HDD cable from the mobo and remove the graphics card, with the pc speaker connected do you get a long beep followed by two short ones? Do ram sticks come in pairs?

Re: Work in progress: 486 VLB system

Posted on 2016-12-06, 11:37

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

jheronimus wrote: the Turbo button connector doesn't fit Obviously you don't know how to connect the turbo header, you need to connect two of the three wires and depending on which ones you'll get the high speed with the button pressed or not.

Re: Giving windows Vista a second chance

Posted on 2016-12-05, 21:07

in Milliways

in Milliways

Vista is not compatible with my asus via p4m890 motherboards, apparently support was broken since SP1. Aero crashes and the computer hangs in 3d games no matter which graphics card. Graphics cards appear as removable devices, tried a geforce 7300 and a radeon x550. Both XP and 7 run without major …

Re: Let's benchmark our systems with caches disabled

Posted on 2016-11-20, 13:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

To run quake just upgrade cwsdpmi.exe to a new version, download csdpmi5b.zip.

Re: Sound Blaster Live! DOS Drivers

Posted on 2016-11-19, 21:01

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I'm trying the livedos.zip package with a SB0220 and i'm only getting sfx in doom but no music. I get full sound in wolf3d. My settings are A220 I7 D1 H5 P330 and i've added the file 2mg4.ecw. EDIT: fixed, midi volume was set to zero in mixer. But music worked in wolf3d and was wavetable. If i …

Re: Duke 3D crashes when the sfx are enabled with a Yamaha YMF 724

Posted on 2016-11-19, 20:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/lsi/download/ DS-XG drivers for YMF724.

Re: Drivers for Dell Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Digital SB0220?

Posted on 2016-11-19, 12:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So does the SB0220 work good for win9x and DOS games (under win98 at least)? I've tried the Firtasik iso, thanks, and the sound blaster 16 emulation driver is not installed. Trying to install the ini manually does nothing. So i'm afraid sb0220 has no sound at all for dos games, apparently it's such …

Re: Slot 1 cpu slowdown???

Posted on 2016-11-18, 00:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That pentium ii cpu is probably unlocked so just change the multiplier in bios or via jumpers. You could run it @166 mhz or even 133 without l2 cache. Quick question about underclocking a Pentium 2

Re: Need help identifying a 486 board

Posted on 2016-11-17, 18:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

GPA wrote: The original CPU is 25MHz unfortunately, but the board lets me chose between 16, 20, 25 and 33 MHz. Then you just could have run the original cpu at 16 mhz, you didn't need the 487sx at all.

Re: Duke 3D crashes when the sfx are enabled with a Yamaha YMF 724

Posted on 2016-11-16, 11:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PC/PCI is only used from real dos, you'll need to configure the card with the dos drivers. Those yamaha cards had very crappy drivers, VXD not only didn't work with many dos games but also caused windows to crash. Also midi failed even on some windows games. Try the WDM drivers, those were more …

Re: identify 486 motherboard

Posted on 2016-11-12, 18:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mine were soldered.

Re: identify 486 motherboard

Posted on 2016-11-12, 17:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes but performance is good anyway. Mine had even DCA written on cache 'chips', for sure not an Octek board. Bios showed the typical 'write back enabled' message but no cache amount in the summary. To change cpu you need to configure a lot of jumpers.

Re: identify 486 motherboard

Posted on 2016-11-11, 10:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've just sold an identical or very similar board. Look at the back, mine was an unidentified PCI486 V1-HJ3 so no manual. Probably came with a DX4 so try with one of those, at least voltage configuration is written on the pcb. By the way crappy late board with fake cache but at least the chipset was …

Re: pentium 233mmx vs k6-3 @ 233

Posted on 2016-11-06, 10:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Pentium ii was much faster than pentium mmx in 3d but you needed fastvid to allow fast access to video memory in dos. Quake should be benchmarked with fastvid.

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