Re: WIP: No dollar unspent dual tualatin build.
Posted on 2017-02-13, 03:39
Very much looking forward to seeing the system completed.
Re: 1999 PC and the mystery of the Geforce 2 MX
Posted on 2017-02-11, 21:42
If your power supply is truly only 100 watts then I think that might be an issue of not getting stable power delivery.
Re: What machines did you use in High School?
Posted on 2017-02-11, 04:10
I was in high school from 01-05. Until 04 it was a k63 500 system I still have untill. My dad got me a few big tote boxes of random parts I ended up with a dual p3 500 system on a supermicro motherboard with a gig of pc 133 ram 6 9 gig 10k scsi drives in raid 5 on the on board ultra 160 controller. …
Re: Pci ata133 worth it?
Posted on 2017-02-09, 21:13
If you can pick up a 133 card cheap I can't see it hurting anything if you'll have a pci slot to spare. If your feeling even more adventurous you can go uw320 scsi
Re: Build Log: Dual Slot 1 440BX System
Posted on 2017-02-09, 21:05
Just had to comment on your Cisco gear I have 2 huge tote boxes full of 2500 and 2600 series routers, 1900 series switches and fast hub 400s. I love collecting old cisco gear. As for your system definitely dual boot ether NT4 or 2000 with 98 to make use of the extra ram and second cpu but that …
Re: Help me identify obscure Aureal Vortex card
Posted on 2017-02-09, 03:53
Would it by any chance have a fcc Id number on the board. Would it be possible to post a picture of the back of the card?
Re: Keyboard Recognized at Boot Only Sometimes
Posted on 2017-02-09, 03:45
How does the board react with a USB keyboard?
Re: Keyboard Recognized at Boot Only Sometimes
Posted on 2017-02-08, 04:22
Have you checked for cracked solder joints for the ps2 ports. Maybe by unplugging and plugging it back in your temporarily reconnecting the connector. Also have you tried a different keyboard with this system as well as this keyboard with other systems to rule it out as a possibility
Re: Help with jumpers on Cirrus Logic VLB card
Posted on 2017-02-04, 20:30
I have seen on some cards a jumper that will enable or disable the expansion ram if you populate it.
Re: 386 locking up after memory test?
Posted on 2017-02-04, 02:42
i would try the board again with a fresh battery i have a few older boards that wont post without a good battery or some that will act really strange
Re: Am I the only one with a PD-rom Drive in there retro PC?
Posted on 2017-02-03, 23:27
I remember when I was in middle school the shool server had one of those drives and I always wanted one and I haven't seen another once since.
Re: LS486e trouble booting with L2 cache on(2x66)
Posted on 2017-02-03, 22:54
With the L2 cache enabled does it post and fully boot at a lower fsb. If it does then your cache chips might be too slow to run properly at the faster speed so maybe 10ns or faster would be a better option.
Re: 386 locking up after memory test?
Posted on 2017-02-03, 22:51
Did you try a absolute barebones test minimum ram and hardware to see if it'll post. How's the bios battery as well some older systems act funny when there dead or almost dead.
Re: Here I was thinking my voodoo2 was bad and kill my windows 98 install...
Posted on 2017-02-03, 22:27
When moving into my new house last year I set up my desk and my main computer I go to turn it on and nothing so I checked all connections and still nothing. So I changed power supplies and still dead. It turns out the outlet was was on a switch and it was off I felt like a idiot and wasted 2 hours
Re: CPU Frequency ratio for SL6BY Tualatin 1.4/133?
Posted on 2017-02-03, 03:17
Could the mark on the Northbridge be from a glued on heats ink that got removed at some point
Re: IBM Aptiva E Series 175
Posted on 2017-02-03, 03:10
Just from a quick glance the chip to the right of the Northbridge with the TM on it looks like it should be a cache memory chip.
Re: Ageia physx card and sli
Posted on 2017-01-28, 03:25
I had one of those physics cards with my geforce 7950gt sli setups and it works amazing for the games that supported it. I really wish I still had mine.
Re: Need help reviving a V5 5500...
Posted on 2017-01-23, 21:07
Absolutely an amazing job repairing this historic piece of hardware. It's nice to see these saved instead of them hitting the trash heaps.
Re: HD3450 floppy power problem
Posted on 2017-01-23, 21:03
It sounds like your power connector on your card has a bad solder joint and needs to be resoldered or the molex connector is worn out and not making a good connection ether one should be an easy fix.
Re: Trying to get this MSI P4 board to work.
Posted on 2017-01-21, 03:13
To me it seems like a recap is in order I have had boards do similar things and the caps looked perfect but after pulling the caps and checking them they were all waaaayyy out of spec and a full recap saved them all.
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