Re: looking for Cache chips
Posted on 2019-10-22, 06:18
Good luck. Looks like TSOP and SOJ are readily available though.
Re: Decent ATX case?
Posted on 2019-10-22, 03:46
The power supply in the bottom of the case is actually an excellent design choice. The power supply pulls in and is cooled by cool air from outside the case instead of using pre-heated air from inside the case to cool it. The capacitors will last much, much longer like this AND the power supply will …
Re: Purchasing stuff is dodgy on ebay.
Posted on 2019-10-22, 01:26
How would the person who had a bad email for Paypal even have any rating? I guess they could have only purchased from sellers that accept credit cards directly. Seems really strange that you would have multiple sellers cancel sales to the same buyer for the same type of item in a very short span of …
Re: Purchasing stuff is dodgy on ebay.
Posted on 2019-10-21, 19:27
kolderman wrote: Are you checking seller ratings first? This right here.
Re: What case do you prefer?
Posted on 2019-10-21, 16:11
I use whatever case that I am sure will provide enough cooling for the hardware I am going to be using. Old cases are getting really hard to get for a decent price.
Re: Hardware experts, are we ever going to see replica 3D GPU's?
Posted on 2019-10-21, 15:51
Seeing some VLB cards using the VSA-100 would be pretty wild. I'm always impressed by someone in this community showing off some kind of neat homebrew expansion card. Even relatively simple stuff like that 8-bit ISA PS/2 card. I think at this point, we're only short of a homebrew Motherboard and …
Re: The risks of using period correct power supplies
Posted on 2019-10-21, 14:45
Thanks everyone for the advice. I didn't know that Allied was such a poor brand to use. Their stated specs always looked better than all of the other power supplies that I found. And the company stated specs on junk power supplies are ALWAYS way overstated. Take a look at some of the old Hardocp or …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-10-20, 03:46
Here is one of the more interesting things I have gotten recently. I had been looking for one of these adapters for a good price for a while. It came with a motherboard, cpus, ram, and a few cards. A Lin-Lin S370 adapter to use Coppermine CPUs in older boards as well as to use Tualatin CPUs in …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-10-20, 02:13
Nice.. I still have the Silent Tower I bought new when it first came out. Works a bit better if there is a second fan on the other side used as an exhaust. And you can get higher cfm fans as well. The stock one really doesn't move a lot of air. Edit: Here is one of the more interesting things I have …
Re: Last night I dreamt
Posted on 2019-10-19, 22:52
I would think that it would be a better idea for them to do some sort of royalty fee type arrangement. MegaHobby seems to have quite a bit: https://www.megahobby.com/categories/space-sc … -fi-models.html
Re: Looking for some win98 graphics drivers
Posted on 2019-10-19, 02:23
I just uploaded to my Google drive: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qzV0ewnJHPv … rJd6fuVzlPouBMH
Re: Help finding info on some cards. Warning, pictures
Posted on 2019-10-19, 00:21
Here is the combo card version of that Cheetah card: https://books.google.com/books?id=vcqI6sY2e-kC&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&dq=cheetah+PC-AT+memory+card&source=bl&ots=5Zh9ATwwHb&sig=ACfU3U1hlOQG5iFVS-xdrkKnV7mo8Zy-bA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwisw6WQhKflAhVSbKwKHSjACQUQ6AEwAHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=cheetah%20PC- …
Re: Why is Windows install ScanDisk lying about an error on my HDD?
Posted on 2019-10-18, 04:22
Could be a bad SATA cable.
Re: Feast of ATI / AMD HD2900XTX
Posted on 2019-10-17, 23:38
Don't tempt me to buy the FireGL cards.. 1GB on the v8600 and 2GB on the v8650... yummy. But what would that help me anyway? Would there be a point at all to even have them when I already have faster cards for XP?
Re: Voodoo 5500 cooling mod?
Posted on 2019-10-17, 13:06
oeuvre wrote: put a noctua NH-D15 on it HA! The V5-5500 I bought new from CompUSA was soon after fitted with a couple nice SS7 heatsinks. Don't have fans on the card as a single 80mm case fan mounted above the card and blowing down on it keeps it nice and cool.
Re: How to bypas Autoexec/Config in MS-DOS 5.0?
Posted on 2019-10-16, 03:35
ok.. wasn't having luck finding specifics... and haven't used 5.0 since the early 90's.
Re: ESS 1688F sound card
Posted on 2019-10-15, 21:19
yeah... if the FCC ID starts with LWHA it is a Labway card.
Re: How to bypas Autoexec/Config in MS-DOS 5.0?
Posted on 2019-10-15, 16:57
Can't you just make menus in config.sys and autoexec.bat to effectively do this? Just have a menu item in each that doesn't load anything. See here for an example of how to setup the menu. https://superuser.com/questions/242278/starting-ms-dos-in-safe-mode-via-config-sys-menu Once you select the …
Re: ESS 1688F sound card
Posted on 2019-10-15, 13:00
Well, It is a Labway card. Not finding any specific info on their archived site though. Driver archive from the labway site: http://web.archive.org/web/19981207074406/http://www.esstech.com/technical/drivers/downloadable/drivers/driver.htm Pretty sure these are the jumper settings: https://stason. …
Re: Trans-CPU motherboard ECS PF88 WTF?
Posted on 2019-10-15, 12:29
That's kinda cool. I wouldn't mind having one just so I could say I have it. Kinda further out there than the ASRock designs as those were all for the same brand of CPU.
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