Re: Is there a way to backup a clicky HDD?

Posted on 2019-10-15, 12:22

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Maybe remove the circuit board, clean the contacts on the board and on the drive where the board connects to the drive itself. Make sure the MOLEX plug on the drive doesn't have a cracked or broken solder connection. I have actually opened up drives before to help them start spinning when they were …

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Re: Help identify hardware.

Posted on 2019-10-15, 02:34

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

yep, looks like the TX97-E.. but what CPU is that?It looks like a delidded Tualatin.. but that would of course not fit in a Socket 7 board.

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Re: VIA MVP4 Slow RAM Problem

Posted on 2019-10-13, 22:38

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Could also be because of the stick of RAM being single sided. I would try with a double sided stick AND with a PC100 stick. Are you sure there isn't a jumper on the motherboard to select between PC66 and PC100? What front side bus are you running for the CPU? What CPU do you have?

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

Posted on 2019-10-13, 21:08

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This was beast was thrown out at the office today: https://i.imgur.com/ItQGrTX.jpg https://i.imgur.com/9YJYKHm.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/7OKzbdN.jpg?1 I'm thinking this will make one hell of an XP box! Specs are: -i7-2600K which was actually overclocked by the previous owner to 4.3GHz (and it's …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-13, 04:41

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by cyclone3d

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Some of those old LCDs have excellent scalers in them. Guessing that this is one of them.

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Re: Cannot find specified path

Posted on 2019-10-13, 02:17

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by cyclone3d

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

What game?

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Re: Radeon HD3850 vs GeForce 7900GS - fastest AGP cards comparison

Posted on 2019-10-12, 12:14

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Video

Nice... This makes me want to run some benches with a 7950GT AGP which was the fastest AGP ccard released by nVidia. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-g71.g47

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Re: R. Loew's GeForce 7800 512MB VBios patch

Posted on 2019-10-11, 22:32

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

That is awesome news!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-11, 19:26

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Media Concept 16 isa sound card boxed - not finding ANY information about this soundcard on the web.. only their older 8-bit card - seller's pics: Filename box front.jpg File size 393.66 KiB Views 1301 views Filename box_back.jpg File size 458.57 KiB Views 1301 views Filename card.jpg File size 369 …

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Re: ULTRA-X Professional Hardware Diagnostics P.H.D.16 - Made in U.S.A

Posted on 2019-10-11, 19:23

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ok, no problem. Thanks for the disk images.

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Re: Improving x86 emulation speed(optimizations)?

Posted on 2019-10-11, 17:34

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by cyclone3d

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

One other thing that helps a lot is that if you have case statements that the compiler can't automatically turn into jump tables is to make jump tables manually. (anything that is NOT in exact numerical order) You can reduce needed CPU cycles by around 20% that way. This is something I am planning …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-11, 17:27

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by cyclone3d

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derSammler wrote: Not really today, but almost. 😉 IMG_20191011_184039873.jpg Roland MT-300s. What a nice unit. It combines almost every feature a MIDI device can have. I have one of these I got a few years ago. Pretty sweet unit if I do say so myself.

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2019-10-11, 14:50

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cuphead - Noobs go home. I grew up when games were actually difficult!

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Re: Help to Identify this MT-32

Posted on 2019-10-11, 12:09

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Sound

I think only the reverb is changed a bit as far as DOS games go. I really am not sure as I don't have a modded one. Pretty sure that a few people on here have/had them though as I know I have seen posts about it before. I think the sticker indicates that when you use the extra outputs it will output …

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Re: GeForce FX5900 ULTRA - no power through molex, fan not spinning

Posted on 2019-10-11, 04:43

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I noticed the solder joints power connector was replaced with different one, not the right angle type, (4 pin power connector drive style) also, said connector was replaced has solder joints on the video card is very sketchy. Also make sure the orientation of the connector's voltages are correct: …

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Re: Everex Ram 8000 AT configuration help

Posted on 2019-10-11, 04:31

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by cyclone3d

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Here is the old everex download page.. but of course it goes to an ftp... http://web.archive.org/web/19961104093708fw_/http://www.everex.com/supp/techlib/techlib.html During my searching, I discovered that FIC took over the Everex brand.. or maybe Everex turned into FIC? In any case, none of the old …

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Re: Everex Ram 8000 AT configuration help

Posted on 2019-10-10, 23:55

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Lol... I misread what you wrote... looking some more.

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Re: Any fix for old zalman copper coolers?

Posted on 2019-10-10, 23:32

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah.. that works as well.

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Re: Everex Ram 8000 AT configuration help

Posted on 2019-10-10, 23:30

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What about EV158A.exe.. available here: ftp://retronn.de/mirrors/metropoli/MISC/EVEREX/ If the cards EEPROM is configured, you should be able to use it even without the configuration utility. See here: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-34252.html

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Re: Help to Identify this MT-32

Posted on 2019-10-10, 21:16

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Looks like a Gen 1 with the RWI modifications done to it: See here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=57492 http://www.houseofsynth.com/roland-mt-32-hardware-hack-to-improve-sound-quality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_MT-32#A_third-party_solution https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php …

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