Re: Need help with old 286 PC: expansion card exploded and HDD CHS

Posted on 2017-09-03, 22:17

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by brostenen

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10u tells me that it is a 10 microfahrad or just fahrad, and so it must be a capacitor. Though I am not an electronics expert, so I might be wrong on this. Voltage would be exactly what you suggest. Again... I am not an electronics expert. For the LZone and WPcomp... Hmmm... If it is an IDE, then …

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

Posted on 2017-09-03, 22:07

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lazibayer wrote: Delidded an K6-200. No observable improvement in terms of overclocking. Just now, I realise that a delidded K6 looks industrial and mean. Good work by the way. 😀

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Re: Cirrus Laguna GD5464 or S3 Trio64

Posted on 2017-09-02, 22:26

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by brostenen

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Yeah.... Any Dos card, with compatibility and not needing any additional drivers loaded in order to work are a safe bet.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-09-02, 20:23

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Deksor wrote: Even though the board would be completely busted, I'm pretty sure a repairer could take the custom chips off True.... Think it will be sold as a donor-board then.

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Re: Cirrus Laguna GD5464 or S3 Trio64

Posted on 2017-09-02, 19:29

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All I can say, is that in real life experience, I see no difference in speed and compatibility when running eighter 5446, Trio64v/+ or Virge-325. It is only in benchmarking I see the difference. So uhmmm.... Yeah... It all depends on what you can get the cheapest in the end. What I do noice when …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-09-02, 17:36

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Yeah.... The old board was giving me too many issues, even after a recap. A full repair of the old, might cost me twice as much, compared to what I payed for this one. The old board was working fine after a recap, yet after a couple of days, the issues went from perfect to far worse than before a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-09-02, 15:53

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This... Tested and fully recapped with long lasting tantalum capacitors. RF modulator removed. Sellers picture. A bit expensive, yet these things do not come cheap anymore. 🙁 Filename a600-mobo.jpg File size 123.24 KiB Views 503 views

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Re: Recommend me some interesting parts

Posted on 2017-08-30, 21:32

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Apparently it's sound is very similar to the DB50XG wavetable. Thanks... :-) That was indeed the module that I have been told it sounds like. It's just my memory that was a bit vague... A shame it only works under windows and not DOS (however nothing is preventing you from playing those DOS games …

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Re: Recommend me some interesting parts

Posted on 2017-08-30, 21:21

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I am not a fan of the FX-5xxx line too. I find them a kind of last in line for Win9x gaming. Other than the obvious performance drawback in some cases, they really are picky regarding the correct drivers. And sometimes you need patches, and patches, and patches for some games. Finally, you need to …

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Re: Recommend me some interesting parts

Posted on 2017-08-30, 00:14

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YMF-724 is for a Win98 setup, with the need for a couple of late-era dos games (Duke3d/Doom and so on) YMF-719 is more like for a pure Dos machine, and with the header, a nice Dreamblaster will do well for midi. That is how I see them two cards stacked up against each other. Vortex2 are nice too, as …

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Re: Recapping service

Posted on 2017-08-27, 22:41

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Does anyone offer a recapping service. My TUSL2-M motherboard has been flaky and in storage. Some error to do with the keyboard port. Would like to ressurect it. There must still be tv repair shops in the UK. Manchester, London or something like that. I got my Amiga recapped last week at a tv- …

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Re: Why are old PCs considered lame and boring?

Posted on 2017-08-27, 22:19

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The Amiga was nice for platform games, but once VGA came around adventure, RTS, and really anything non platform was better on the PC. Having a cheap HD also made life nicer on the PC side. People say DOOM put the nail in Amiga's coffin but I think it came much earlier then that. Mmmmm... Possible. …

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Re: Dual Tualatin 1.4Ghz build... what cards to use?

Posted on 2017-08-27, 20:27

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V3 will give out some serious heat on this build, so you will have to add a fan to it. Another way to go, would be to use V2-SLI. Eighter way, V3 or V2-SLI you might only see performance differences when benching. How about TNT2-Pro-Pci anyone? How well does it perform compared to V3-Pci? How about …

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Re: Dual Tualatin 1.4Ghz build... what cards to use?

Posted on 2017-08-27, 07:54

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V3 will give out some serious heat on this build, so you will have to add a fan to it. Another way to go, would be to use V2-SLI. Eighter way, V3 or V2-SLI you might only see performance differences when benching. How about TNT2-Pro-Pci anyone? How well does it perform compared to V3-Pci? How about …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-26, 10:44

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They look decent but are indeed pretty flimsy, one more thing is that some edges are extremely sharp. I've cut my hands countless times working on my TT Tsunami. Speaking of flimsy.... Try to build first gen. socket 775 at 3ghz with a box-cooler. You might just as well live next to a busy airport …

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Re: ATI Rage 128 Pro with DVI on Windows?

Posted on 2017-08-26, 08:59

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Looks like you need to modefy. https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=938156 EDIT: I remember that on some Ati cards and Nvidia cards. You need to remove resistors and/or mod the teeth on the AGP connector. You need a special bios on some cards because Apple have allways wanted to lock stuff …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-26, 07:07

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not today but some months ago will keep this till i die, when heavy gaming started for me with athlon xp. I can´t understand why some people say it is ugly thermaltake Xaser III ...pure aluminum http://i64.tinypic.com/11h5rn8.jpg http://i64.tinypic.com/2v0fh3k.jpg http://i64.tinypic.com/15ocpkg.jpg …

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

Posted on 2017-08-25, 22:37

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Finding working drives is a whole other matter. I'm going to be using floppy emulators in my old machines as it is just not worth the hassle/money to try to find fully working drives anymore. Hmmm... I see 3.5 inch drives locally, everywere. Not hard to get a hold on these days. They are priced …

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

Posted on 2017-08-25, 20:50

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In 30 years time I doubt there will be any working floppies left to read anyways. Which is why I find it imperative to back up the floppies/Zip disks/etc. we've got before they rot out into uselessness. Sure, most of the disks I have are probably backed up on the usual sites somewhere, but I don't …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-25, 20:00

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Diamond Viper V550 (TNT) 16MB PCI. Looks VERY different from the AGP V550. http://i.imgur.com/doAeYYb.jpg And a quite capeable one for what it is. I was really surprised how it performed, when I ran 3D-Mark99 on my card. I do not see that many of those here on Vogons. By the way... The V550 has an …

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