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

Posted on 2015-11-07, 15:44

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by HighTreason

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Those keyboards (Or the PS2 version of them at least) used to be the go-to board for the City Council's Pentium III boxes some years ago. At some point they must have changed the design and build quality because the earlier ones were pretty good, the very last ones on the other hand, were some of …

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Re: Gravis Ultrasound Class Rev 3.74 Missing IC

Posted on 2015-11-05, 13:39

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by HighTreason

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Good work indeed. I considered dumping mine but I have a much earlier revision, the card looks different enough that I thought it was unlikely to be compatible and would probably not be worth it. Think I'm on either a 2.4 or a 3.4. I'd go with 3.4.

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

Posted on 2015-11-03, 06:52

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by HighTreason

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Wait till you have to network DOS... Without cheating and using mTCP. Ah, good old LAN Manager... Ah, good old LANTastic... Those were the days, it was so easy. Not. So far as I remember anyway, I haven't actually had to do that in years. Will have to soon though as I have a DOS only system I would …

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

Posted on 2015-11-03, 02:55

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by HighTreason

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Umm... my newest machine is over 10 years old. Spent hours trying to figure out why I couldn't enable all 256K of cache on my 386, only to realize that the tag was a 64K chip... Grr. I installed those chips ages ago but only enabled one bank so I never caught the issue back then. I panicked when I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-11-03, 01:18

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by HighTreason

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I'd really like a YMF card with the QS1000 chip. I really like the YMF-71x line of chips and a one-card solution with broad compatibility would be a plus. I did buy an SB32 and an AWE64 for cheap recently, and I'm waiting for it to arrive. Failing that, the 724 is usually cheap and does a good …

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

Posted on 2015-11-01, 15:50

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by HighTreason

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Have you checked the slots for debris? Is there perhaps a certain slot that, when in use, causes this problem?

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Re: Odd Dual Boot Question

Posted on 2015-10-31, 09:05

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by HighTreason

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If we're on about boot managers, I use GAG; http://gag.sourceforge.net/

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Re: A couple of strange IDE cables.

Posted on 2015-10-27, 07:22

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by HighTreason

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Here is my IDE cable, the one i mentioned earlier in the thread; Filename vlcsnap-2015-10-27-07h20m22s637.png File size 1.53 MiB Views 473 views File comment A strange cable. That pink blanket was the only thing I had on hand that it contrasted well with in the poor light.

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

Posted on 2015-10-27, 06:55

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by HighTreason

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I dragged this out of my own trash pile. vlcsnap-2015-10-27-06h50m08s946.png I wonder if it can be repaired. Last time I used it it would run for a while then whistle and shut off or cause the system to randomly reboot. I suspect capacitors though it was not a high quality PSU - it did last almost a …

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Re: Anyone tested this PCI card with MS-DOS games?

Posted on 2015-10-24, 07:01

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by HighTreason

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Looks like a C-Media card to me... Mis-labeled CMI8730 perhaps. Of course, it could be a Crystal as advertised, but I have no experience with that chipset. The C-Media one is reasonable as far as low-cost cards go tough and will work with a reasonable percentage of applications, some, however, do …

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Re: Modifying the POD83's voltage regulator for overclocking

Posted on 2015-10-24, 06:56

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by HighTreason

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To me it really makes a lot of sense to remove the VRM anyway, because really...who is going to run a POD83 on a 5V system anyway? * Clears throat * Actuallym, i don't anymore as I have moved it to a PCI board, but I still have to run it at 5V as it won't boot with a lower voltage selected. The …

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

Posted on 2015-10-20, 17:48

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by HighTreason

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I still want to put my own Telnet server back online. It wasn't a BBS, it just played tic-tac-toe and later Tetris. There was also a third option which displayed a random ANSI picture to test the terminal at the other end, the user would see glitches in the 'image' if their terminal did not support …

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Re: Asus A7V266-E... Usefull or not?

Posted on 2015-10-20, 15:46

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by HighTreason

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Meanwhile, it was a different story here. The PCChips M830/K7S5A was a very common board and the bane of every technician's existence. They were unstable, slow and lacked correct support for anything better than the Athlon 1400 which it could not provide with adequate power anyway, regardless of …

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

Posted on 2015-10-20, 04:04

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by HighTreason

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Manual multipliers only go as far as 12.5 on this board. Though the reported multiplier is incorrect with this CPU (Probably due to the BIOS having no real support for it) so perhaps one of them will actually be higher. I doubt it. I don't really like overclocking anyway, I expect there is a good …

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Re: A couple of strange IDE cables.

Posted on 2015-10-20, 00:05

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by HighTreason

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I have a 40-Pin cable that allows for four devices. I have a feeling it might be an MKE cable as used by Panasonic CD-ROM drives. MKE stands for "Matsushita Kotobuki Electronic" which is basically Panasonic and is also used to refer to their proprietary CD-ROM interface. I will post a pic if you …

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

Posted on 2015-10-20, 00:01

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by HighTreason

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I have been beating my Athlon XP machine to death with a few applications and it is running fine with the XP-M 2400+ so far. It actually feels more responsive despite the slower CPU, perhaps due to the fact it actually has enough power to run. I might be brave and try a faster XP-M soon as I think I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-18, 22:48

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by HighTreason

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I have that card. Mine does not run at 50MHz and presents a flashing red screen. I suspect it is a case of some will, some won't. Orchid made a version of the Trio 64 which proudly stated on its silkscreen that they had "Certified 50MHz Operation" apparently. I do not have a photo, so you'll have to …

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Re: A handy way to disable Windows keys in 98SE?

Posted on 2015-10-18, 18:10

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by HighTreason

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Make an 'n' shaped piece of card and place it over the key. It should sit in such a way that it prevents the key being easily pressed by accident without first crushing the cardboard.

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

Posted on 2015-10-18, 02:20

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by HighTreason

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It is not my day. I finished playing with my lovely working Athlon system and was shutting it down when I noticed I had left my GTA box on the shelves next to the desk. "486 DX4 huh? I wonder if my Pentium OverKill will run that?" Installer crashed, Windows 95 does not start, throwing an error …

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

Posted on 2015-10-18, 01:28

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by HighTreason

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D-D-D-DOUBLE POST!!! I have gotten it working. The board is happy to go as low as 1.56 Volts which is just low enough to run a 1.45 Volt Athlon XP-M Barton 2400+ (1800MHz) without issue. It saves just enough power that the system can now run without issue. I may try with a faster model later as I …

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