Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-12-27, 05:19

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Same happens or even worse sometimes with vacuum tubes, two decades ago were junk, now some prices are impossible. OK, vacuums tubes might be an exception? Aren't they like one of the most fragile things ever to be used in electronics. I'm guessing you're referring to the ones used in top end audio …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-12-27, 03:39

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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I had just recently started a topic here about my desire to build a socket 7 system but I ended up abandoning that idea. I've been looking for weeks now to get a mainboard to build on, but it seems anything decent is in a cost range of around $100.00 to $300.00 I just can't see spending that. So …

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Re: Can anyone find a mac matching these for me:

Posted on 2016-12-26, 23:38

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Personally, I think that all-in-one Macs look pretty cool. Such as this Performa 5200 I've recently seen on Reddit: mVDFXaM.jpg Agreed, I have the G3 Slot loading iMac and it is the most interesting machine in my collection, unless you want to count my overclocked 486. I have a dead g3 tray loading …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-12-24, 04:17

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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I needed a bunch of NICs and modems, and ended up getting this whole lot for $40 - beginning to think I overpaid. Nice 30 grand sports car....... Jokes aside, what's the model of that compaq in the middle of the first image? It looks alot like the early p4 with an OEM SB-24bit i had when i was …

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Re: Soundblaster Live CT4780

Posted on 2016-12-23, 03:24

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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According to another thread on vogons (http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=27740) It's a Dell OEM. this would make it the third Dell OEM SB Live that I know of alongside SB0200, which is a butchered Live with a cutdown EMU101 chip that does most things in software, and the SB0220 which has the …

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Re: Geforce 5950 Ultra

Posted on 2016-12-21, 15:18

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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I own a 5950 ultra, I was wondering what they go for on ebay. Saw one once and it was more than $200 made me feel good about my nostalgia :D I had a lot of fx 5950 ultras. There not worth anything close to 200$. People can ask whatever that want. One of which I now own. Specifically the ASUS …

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Re: Trident TGUI9440 memory upgrades

Posted on 2016-12-19, 16:58

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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I sent you a PM regarding my dead TGUI9440-3

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Re: Trident TGUI9440 memory upgrades

Posted on 2016-12-19, 04:23

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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I have a dead PCI TGUI9440-3 you can have for a couple bucks + shipping. Just grab the ram off it? Idk offer is there

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Re: 1994 PCI Video Cards

Posted on 2016-12-15, 03:44

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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I have a Trident TGUI from 1994. Please check my post history for further information (a whole threads worth).

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Re: Asrock AliveNF6G-DVI can't boot!

Posted on 2016-12-11, 12:14

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Hi, I found this motheroard with Nforce430 chipset support AM2 cpu up to 64FX/X2 cpu to build something a bit more modern but as usual, it can't boot. On board there's a Sempron 3200, there're no strange config or jumper to set, I tried two different psu, on board and external gpu, changed bios …

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Re: What are the most demanding Win98 exclusive games?

Posted on 2016-12-11, 03:47

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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"Modern" audio solutions is something I admittedly know almost nothing about. The world of EAX etc is daunting. I barely managed to gather enough knowledge to settle on a DOS sound card. Aren't there wrappers to do whatever these cards did, in software? Like Alchemy, or that Russian A3D one ?I …

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Re: Call me crazy, but i think this card is a hybrid ISA/PCI card?

Posted on 2016-12-11, 00:14

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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I see why you started to doubt if these were real PCI cards. I once had the same thing with some old SDRAM slots. It was so hard to either install or remove any DIMM into or from any SDRAM slot (was a P2B btw) that it had me worry about me doing something wrong also. But right now the best you can …

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Re: Call me crazy, but i think this card is a hybrid ISA/PCI card?

Posted on 2016-12-09, 16:46

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Agreed with the rest (obviously). The contact traces are a bit longer, but there isn't any special slot just for that. If the cards don't work, have you tried cleaning the contact traces? This resurrected many cards. Most people use either rubbing alcohol or a pencil eraser and reported success :) …

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Re: Call me crazy, but i think this card is a hybrid ISA/PCI card?

Posted on 2016-12-09, 04:54

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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sprcorreia wrote: Plain old PCI card there. My S3 Savage PCI also has longer gold contacts. The fact that you can't get it working doesn't mean it's not made for PCI, or does it? I just put 2 and 2 together and decided I would ask before going to my 2nd guess (I've got a rare card, but it's broke)

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Re: Call me crazy, but i think this card is a hybrid ISA/PCI card?

Posted on 2016-12-09, 04:27

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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firage wrote: Doesn't look like anything to me. Could just be a broken PCI card. Got any memory on it? There's (2MB I believe.) of on-board memory just out of frame.

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Call me crazy, but i think this card is a hybrid ISA/PCI card?

Posted on 2016-12-09, 04:07

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Ran across something interesting while testing 3 cards i received as untested. The card in question is the Trident TGUI 4440-3 which Wikipedia lists (and this is relevant for later) "TGUI9440-3 - PCI/ISA bus, similar to TGUI9440-2.[26] Differently designed Trident logo, rare" Now, i first searched …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-12-08, 16:33

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Didnt you scrap like 50 2GB sticks of enthusiast DDR2 not that long ago (along with some nice ass controllers) for there gold just because nobody would buy them?... And now you're buying more DDR2? Yes and no. I scraped a few 100 sticks of cheap 1gb ddr2 sticks for the heatsinks and not gold. They …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-12-07, 20:32

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Don't most boards have problems with 4gb DDR2 dimms? Or is this registered RAM for one of your Xeon systems or something? Yep its registered ram. It for a 1207 system. I bought 2 6 core CPUs for 4$. There only 1.8ghz but there 6 core and pull 40 watts. I have a few 2.3ghz quads for the system too. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-12-03, 04:03

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Bought a lot of 3 unknown chipset PCI Video Cards for $13 shipped. I'm also currently bidding on an another lot (Sound Cards) http://i.imgur.com/V0gQaVC.jpg Not sure what these cards are. I THINK the top is a Trident I'd BET the Apac branded card is an S3/Virge And the other, well, if anyone has any …

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Re: Strange Radeon 9x card

Posted on 2016-12-03, 03:41

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Well, just after I made this post I removed the cooler, cleaned the thermal grease and took a look to the actual chip and, surprise, surprise, it's a R300, so it's totally logical that windows sees a 9700 card because it's what it is. The mistery remains, though, on why a 9700 chip is in a 9800 …

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