Re: DVD drive won't open (it's not what you are thinking).

Posted on 2020-09-15, 06:10

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had one that was doing something similar. Ended up being that some plastic bit had broken off inside the drive. I ended up trashing the drive because it broke even more when I was trying to figure out where the broken piece came from.

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Re: Get XP application to work on Windows 7+

Posted on 2020-09-15, 03:10

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by cyclone3d

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Why are you wanting to use Wavelab? Why not Audacity, which is free? I used to use Wavelab back in the day. Haven't found any reason to not use Audacity instead. And that is a really old version of Wavelab (3.04). Looks like they have a patch for version 7 for compatibility with Windows 8 64-bit: …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-09-15, 02:08

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by cyclone3d

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Is this a going to be a limited run? I would probably like to get one at some point but have some other stuff I need to get first.

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Re: K62-500 overclocking

Posted on 2020-09-15, 00:23

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by cyclone3d

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Not a K6-2 500 but I had a K6-2 550 that ran at 660Mhz back when that was my main system. It was on an ASUS P5A. The K6-2+ and K6-3+ CPUs generally can overclock to 600+ Mhz

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2020-09-14, 22:57

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by cyclone3d

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I think I found them on the Win3x.org board along with an installation tutorial: http://www.win3x.org/win3board/viewtopic.php?style=30&t=19261&language=en Renamed the files to note the OSes supported: Ratoc-Rex-5570-DOS-3.1-95.zip Ratoc-Rex-5571-5571W-9x-NT4.zip Ratoc-Rex-5572-DOS-3.1-95.zip Ratoc- …

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Re: Best Socket A or 478 Chipset for Windows 98 Compatibility

Posted on 2020-09-14, 20:28

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by cyclone3d

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About the socket 478 SIS 651 board - I have the Aopen MX46 that works no problem in Win98. But the installed USB driver actually disables the onboard USB 2.0 controller in Win98, and looks like it's intentional, pobably because the chipset doesn't support USB 2.0 in Win98. So it's USB 1.1 only. If …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-09-14, 19:14

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by cyclone3d

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kolderman wrote on 2020-09-14, 18:32: appiah4 wrote on 2020-09-14, 12:14: I have an FX5800Ultra that was functional last I checked and to be honest I would never ever use it. I would easily trade it up for something more useful to me given the chance. You realize you could "trade it up" for a …

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Re: Photographing processor silicon - starting with a Pentium Pro

Posted on 2020-09-14, 18:46

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by cyclone3d

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35th week of 94 L4352836-0750 HOWTO: Read an Intel CPU FPO/Batch Code Example: L707A723 --- 1st letter or digit = plant code: (Malaysia) 0 = San Jose, Costa Rica 1 = Cavite, Philippines 3 = Costa Rica 6 = Chandler, Arizona 7 = Philippines 8 = Leixlip, Ireland 9 = Penang, Malaysia L = Malaysia Q = …

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Re: Windows XP on newer Systems (Intel >Haswell/AMD Ryzen)

Posted on 2020-09-14, 18:25

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by cyclone3d

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A couple years ago I did an experiment with XP. I built an XP system, left it unpatched and hooked it up directly to my cable modem. Within about 30 minutes the system was completely unusable due to so much malware being on it. That was with me doing absolutely nothing... Just booted it and let it …

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Re: Anyone sold their collections / parts on... any regrets?

Posted on 2020-09-14, 14:26

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by cyclone3d

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Miphee wrote on 2020-09-14, 12:27: Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2020-09-14, 11:44: There might be someone on the forum near your location who would be happy to take it off your hands. I can hear a guy screaming to his wife somewhere: "get the kids to your mother we are flying to astonsmith’s place right …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-09-14, 04:56

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by cyclone3d

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Now, HERE's the card you all secretly want ! 😆 https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-RARE-Geforce-Fx-5800-Ultra-AGP-GPU-Video-Card-Great-Condition-TESTED/292675932134 ..and if that leaves a bad taste in your wallet... (and if you can wait a couple of months for it to pass customs) - This thing should be …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-14, 02:28

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by cyclone3d

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I had one of those 7900gs cards when they were NEW and it was dogshit. How on earth are they worth $250 now? AGP. In any case, I had a PCIE 7900GS back then. I voltmodded it and put a different cooler on it and had it at a 50% overclock for about a year before it died. Was a pretty nice card with …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-09-13, 22:50

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by cyclone3d

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Surely someone will want a setup like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGHcX0YTPKw I've thought about getting a Select-a-dock IBM setup before. Never ran across one for a good price though. In the end I ended up getting a Gateway setup that has a similar setup.. except their dock supported all …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-13, 22:46

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by cyclone3d

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That looks like a 7800GS OC to me. I've got 2 of them. I could have had a 3rd one years ago but passed on it when I was buying parts from a recycler.... would have been only $5... Doh!

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Re: dogs in video games

Posted on 2020-09-13, 04:33

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by cyclone3d

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Thanks. Here is another mobile game that has dogs. Archero

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Re: USB2ISA? I'm Skeptical...

Posted on 2020-09-12, 05:45

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by cyclone3d

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Well, the noise is when the card isn't even playing anything. I have never heard a CT1350B output that much noise. It is like a high-pitched squeal. I went ahead and ordered one of the 50w power supplies from arstech even though the price was higher and they charged a dumb amount of shipping. My …

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Re: USB2ISA? I'm Skeptical...

Posted on 2020-09-12, 01:31

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by cyclone3d

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Well, the noise is when the card isn't even playing anything. I have never heard a CT1350B output that much noise. It is like a high-pitched squeal. I went ahead and ordered one of the 50w power supplies from arstech even though the price was higher and they charged a dumb amount of shipping. My …

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Re: USB2ISA? I'm Skeptical...

Posted on 2020-09-12, 00:41

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by cyclone3d

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Was looking on the arstech site and saw one of their FAQs - Can I use other external power supplies? If you know that your isa card needs additional voltages and consumes high currents - when you power it with a switching power supply it may introduce power noise , which may exceed the usb signal …

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Re: USB2ISA? I'm Skeptical...

Posted on 2020-09-11, 03:02

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by cyclone3d

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Ok, so to get sound card passthrough working I am going to have to do a custom build since stock 0.74 doesn't support passthrough.... or does it? I'll start with OPL and then see if I can get digital output to passthrough as well. I'll see if I can get MIDI passthrough to the USB-ISA adapter as well …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-11, 02:57

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by cyclone3d

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The smaller one has thin fins so it wouldn't surprise me if it cools better. The big one has a thicker base so it will probably take longer to heat up and the temps will probably stay more steady but the CPU will probably run hotter overall. Prepare to be surprised. I did a test, and the outcome …

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