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

Posted on 2015-10-17, 22:28

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by HighTreason

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If it is any consolation to your high-school self, I was landed with an MX4000 for a while... You can bet I got shot of that pretty fast. Still have it, never use it unless I want to test an AGP slot I suspect might have killed a card. nVidia's numbering schemes suck. My friend argued with a lot of …

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

Posted on 2015-10-17, 21:27

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by HighTreason

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GeForce 4 Ti 4600 or a Quadro4 900 XGL... Basically the same. I do not have much faith in the FX series cards, I'd rather just throw production in the trash then resort to those to be honest. Never had one that works though ironically I am using a 5500 to test things with. They were fine under XP I …

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

Posted on 2015-10-17, 18:19

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by HighTreason

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I don't have any, they cost too much anyway. Doubt many would run well if at all in 98SE either. I think there were a few ATI cards which would run, but they have compatibility problems with some of my software. I think all I can do at this stage is fix the Athlon 1500, something which I guarantee …

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

Posted on 2015-10-17, 17:44

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by HighTreason

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I did that with a GTX 260 once, it had its own little Micro ATX Supply in the bottom of the case with the PS_ON triggered by a relay from the main supply. It wasn't pretty. That was different though, I don't think I could just connect two supplies like that. I expect I would need diodes at the end …

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

Posted on 2015-10-17, 16:32

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by HighTreason

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FFFFUUUU!!!!!!! I have had to give up on my Athlon 2800+ build as there is no way on this earth I can give the board enough power. As soon as the system tries to go into video mode or do anything intense (Depends how much power the video card tries to draw) it blacks out and reboots or gets stuck in …

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

Posted on 2015-10-16, 00:00

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by HighTreason

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Oh, dear. Oh dear oh dear. What a disaster. http://s26.postimg.org/9rjxwtxo9/vlcsnap_2015_10_16_00h47m39s560.png A fashion disaster that is. Mullet Man visits Hull Fair 2015... Anyway, today I installed my new Quadro4 only to find the same problem happens as does with the Ti... Given this is now …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-15, 17:33

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by HighTreason

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p5sd.JPG p5sb.JPG 6x86mx333.JPG More fuel for my Cyrix obssession. ECS P5SD-AS super 7 motherboard with SiS 6326, ESS Audiodrive 1896F soundcard on board, even has TV out. Seems to be a nice well laid out board, all jumpers are clearly silkscreened and it is running the PCi bus at 33 Mhz even when …

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

Posted on 2015-10-15, 12:54

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by HighTreason

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I have a board that will only report up to 400MHz K6 processors. They do, however, run up to 600MHz without any issue so it is clearly an issue with the BIOS. Guess strange goings on with faster K6 boards is "A thing" to some degree then. No doubt you will have seen a pretty significant performance …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-14, 16:41

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by HighTreason

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http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/19-117-314-TS?$S300W$ Not retro. But it has taken me what, years? Something like, just to get hold of one. I finally own something made this decade... Unfortunately, that means I am now committed so buying old hardware won't happen so often for around a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-14, 00:30

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by HighTreason

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Ugh... God I hope I never have children. Luckily, the odds of me having them aren't very good. Anyway, I bought a video card. Every time I think I have repaired my Ti 4600 something else stops working and last time it took the Windows installation with it, today it went out again and my patience has …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-07, 13:29

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by HighTreason

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SBCs don't really work that way. They are effectively going to try to run the ISA BUS in reverse. Did often wonder if I could use risers to make a couple of small backplanes at the bottom of a full-size case running a µATX or ITX mobo though. So yeah, the system generally expects to have a backplane …

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Re: Pentium 4 industrial motherboard ? Portwell PEB-7702G2A with ISA slots!

Posted on 2015-10-06, 10:39

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by HighTreason

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Reminds me of the P4SCA. Cool looking board.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-10-06, 05:44

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by HighTreason

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http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/OTAwWDEyMDA=/z/G94AAOSw6EhUPIMH/$_57.JPG And you can bet I am going to open it... Damn, that is going to feel good! I am hoping to replace the ISA 3C509 in my U5S system because it is a bit on the slow side. Only problem I can see is that it may not like the fast timings I …

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

Posted on 2015-10-04, 14:31

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by HighTreason

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In reality it was just a bunch of leftover shots from an old video and the song was what I happened to be listening to at the time so i just threw it at a converter so the Adobe Premiere would be able to read it. The video is only the length it is because I wanted to check audio sync didn't start …

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

Posted on 2015-10-04, 11:44

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by HighTreason

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Adobe Premiere Pro 4 (Can't find my Sonic Foundry VideoFactory disks), which would theoretically run on a 386... Might have to try that, but it was already painful on the 486. I currently have no ISA capture card so I would have to convert footage from other machines or use the Showtime Plus in …

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

Posted on 2015-10-04, 09:44

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by HighTreason

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2004 mode enabled... Filename vlcsnap-2015-10-04-10h42m09s365.png File size 1.04 MiB Views 2333 views File comment Editing a 4 minute video on a 486 SX Editing a video on the 486SX, just like I had to in 2004 though now I am doing it by choice.

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

Posted on 2015-10-04, 06:43

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by HighTreason

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For a while now my Pentium OverKill has smelled of burning when running... You know the smell, the one that causes palpitations, yeah, that one. I opened it up expecting the worst but it seems that it is only the case fan at the front. I thought it smelled funny when I put it in, it still works but …

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

Posted on 2015-10-02, 08:39

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by HighTreason

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Consumers = Free Beta Testers

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

Posted on 2015-10-01, 04:55

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by HighTreason

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Been quiet as of late because of the impending move. Still, I found time to fix a Sanyo DCX W18 I nabbed quite a while back. It has been sat in a garage for over a decade and did not work well at all. Nobody wanted it and the owner died so it went out to the trash, I grabbed it when his house was …

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

Posted on 2015-09-24, 00:13

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by HighTreason

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Unless they came down in price, they are the same cost or more than just obtaining another PS2. That's a good idea though and I'll look into it, as silly as it sounds, I rather like my PS2 and have been reduced to using my spare which is just made of parts from other systems. The spare is the one …

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