Re: Can't get an ATX Socket 8 board to POST

Posted on 2018-05-04, 12:26

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Overall I like FSP PSUs but I pretty much expect them to need fresh capacitors at some point. Usually not hard to recap FSP and after that they pretty much last forever. Since bad caps can affect individual rails the symptoms won't always be the same between systems. Caps (even so called 'good …

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Re: Can't get an ATX Socket 8 board to POST

Posted on 2018-05-04, 11:29

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Same ATX350-PA PSU? - 2 boards don't work with it? No, it's like this: 1) FSP Group ATX350-PA 350W — bare Pentium Pro doesn't work, but Pentium 166 with a bunch of hardware does. 2) InWin PowerMan IW-P300A2-0 — Pentium 3 with bunch of hardware works. I just mentioned it for comparison, because …

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Re: Can't get an ATX Socket 8 board to POST

Posted on 2018-05-04, 09:45

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I got myself the ATX board I wanted from the start — the Intel Advanced/ML (TC430HX) with Pentium 166. Despite the shit ton of hardware I've put into it (Matrox Millenium, Voodoo 1, 3COM NIC, AWE32, GuS PnP Pro, MusicQuest) the PSU seems to be enough. So I guess the board was dead after all. Besides …

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

Posted on 2018-05-04, 09:11

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Got my Intel Advanced/ML board yesterday and started working on the Pentium 166 build. Absolutely love this board so far: - I wanted this build to be as different from my main Pentium 3 machine as possible. Somehow the TC430HX seemed fitting for that. So it's a high-end pre-Windows 98, pre-MMX …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-02, 00:08

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Got my own set of these iconic speakers (sold in many brand variations) http://i.imgur.com/d6P35gSl.jpg Also, they were tree fiddy euro :) I, too, wonder if these speakers are any good. I often see the 120W Primax-branded version of these and they certainly look cool and would probably be an …

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Re: My name is blackmasked and I am an addict.

Posted on 2018-05-01, 20:21

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Oh, there's one more thing — I often keep the stuff because I think that one day I might learn that it can do something really cool that I didn't know initially. Of course, in all two and a half years I've been doing this, this literally only happened once. That was when kanecvr discovered that my …

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Re: My name is blackmasked and I am an addict.

Posted on 2018-04-30, 21:26

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I blew a bunch of money this year, but I feel like my collection is almost complete. I was mostly interested with sound stuff and Voodoo, and I definitely got almost everything I could ever use in games. So now comes the hardest part: a) persuade myself I don't need any more hardware (because I …

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Re: What are your video cards of choice for (S)S7 systems?

Posted on 2018-04-25, 14:03

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- Matrox Millenium or Tseng ET6000 with Voodoo 1 for Socket 7. I have a Slot 1 with V5, so I don't need too much performance on S7, just compatibility. The choice of 2D card basically boils down to the fact that I like to make my systems more interesting and avoid S3 for that reason; - AGP Voodoo 3 …

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Re: Can't get an ATX Socket 8 board to POST

Posted on 2018-04-25, 13:39

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Maybe an easy to answer question: does it have dallas rtc module? If it has one and the battery is empty it might block the mobo from booting... No, it's a coin battery, and I've tried three different ones, including the one I knew to be working. The manual says EDO is okay but who knows if that's …

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Re: Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs for Retro Gaming

Posted on 2018-04-25, 12:52

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My main "modern" PC is a Mac, so I actually use Windows FLP in Parallels to run tools like WinImage (write floppy images), ImgBurn (CD images) and Dreamblaster software. To me it's just the most lightweight and relatively modern version of Windows, so it's a nice alternative to Wine. I've also …

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Re: Can't get an ATX Socket 8 board to POST

Posted on 2018-04-25, 08:57

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Murugan wrote: Have you tried it with less than 4 sticks of RAM? No, will try that. Are there any beeps from the speaker? Do you have a POST card? No and no.

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Can't get an ATX Socket 8 board to POST

Posted on 2018-04-24, 21:22

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Hi, all Today I got myself an InWin S500 ATX case with an FSP ATX350F PSU (originally came with a Celeron D) and decided to finally give my Asus P/I-XP6NP5 board a test. Here are the full specs: - Pentium Pro 200 Mhz; - 64 megs of EDO RAM in 4 sticks; - Matrox Millenium videocard. The problem is …

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Re: Help understanding soundcards and quality

Posted on 2018-04-23, 19:38

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Would this then be an ESS1868 with it’s own implementation of both sound and fm? And the other is a Genius brand, but would it be correct to say that this is one of the highly Regarded Yamahas? (And in this case, do the Yamaha’s also integrate both real OPL3 and sound into the 719 chip?) Yes, yes …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-23, 18:20

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The Intel board seems pretty interesting to me. It's a less common chipset (as compared to 430TX), a form-factor that will allow me to use a cheap PS/2 KVM and a working turbo function (via keyboard shortcuts). Intel's manual states that this board will work at "AT 23MHz system" speed in turbo, but …

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Re: Help understanding soundcards and quality

Posted on 2018-04-23, 18:16

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Ah ok got it. So in the case of the cards I added pics of above they should all be fine in that regard, being they all have separate (and yamaha) chips? Yes

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Re: Help understanding soundcards and quality

Posted on 2018-04-23, 18:05

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One thing I don’t get. You said: “Crystal-based cards, for example, have worse OPL3 implementation“. But the sound card I see/mentioned (not sure if you looked at my pics) are crystal based but have the yamaha fm chip tooas the “real” Yamaha one?? Yes, it does, and it's a fairly cool card by itself …

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Re: Help understanding soundcards and quality

Posted on 2018-04-23, 15:10

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There are typically 4 main points you need to consider when buying a soundcard: 1) OPL3 implementation If you plan to use OPL3/AdLib standard for music, then you need to look at the way your card implements it. Creative cards have three options: a real Yamaha chip (it's usually visible on the board …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-23, 14:25

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Ordered an Intel Advanced/ML motherboard (430HX chipset) today, gonna get it somewhere within a week: 4391351264.ETz2eCydLLSRFy7vaFDZ4ET5HMB4OKNS.jpg 4391351276.8NLGA7Sq5AGe4tdj9Z5Xmyz09J5W1EFM.jpg I've been working on a multi soundcard build for a while now. In short: I want a system that will be …

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

Posted on 2018-04-22, 18:05

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I am slowly cleaning out my "collection" by throwing out non-working items and finding doubles to put up for sale. Today I went through all of my ~15 CD drives just to find half of them to be broken (either not reading any disks, not opening or spontaneously closing). Some findings: - I was …

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Re: Building a socket 7 pc from scratch

Posted on 2018-04-20, 15:36

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If I find a COM port mouse can I just plug it in from the sound card? No. Soundcards have Gameport with 15 pins, COM port is 9 pins. You will need to find a COM port panel that plugs into the board — similar to the PS/2 one, but I don't think I've ever heard COM ports to have different pinouts, so …

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