Re: Diamond 3dfx Voodoo 1 problem!

Posted on 2018-05-29, 01:26

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by Ozzuneoj

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All of the missing capacitors are simple bypass caps that can be generally ignored while testing any card/part. Note that those capacitors are grouped by two and are randomly connected in parallel, so specific cap number on PCB tells nothing about its value. My guess is that brown caps are rated …

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Re: NVIDIA Fermi is now officially retro (or atleast unsupported)

Posted on 2018-05-23, 18:00

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by Ozzuneoj

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If an FX5800 Ultra had a cooler like the ones used on a 290x or GTX480, it wouldn't have been hot. A GTX 1050 Ti would probably have run hot with a chintzy little leaf blower like the ones used on cards back in the early 2000s.

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Re: A tale of two PSUs

Posted on 2018-05-22, 16:26

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by Ozzuneoj

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If it's working, passes basic PSU tests and doesn't having swollen or leaking caps, I wouldn't bother recapping it. You're more likely to introduce problems to a working unit unless you recap boards all the time and are very experienced. It'd also depend on the brand of caps. If they're a decent …

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Re: NVIDIA Fermi is now officially retro (or atleast unsupported)

Posted on 2018-05-22, 14:07

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by Ozzuneoj

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Well the GTX 480 is already a collectable card that is in demand for the same reasons as the FX 5800 but thankfully very easy to find and cheap, . The FX 5800 is insanely collectible because they were a running joke and no one bought them, but they also have plenty of retro gaming value due to high …

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Re: 9800 Pro Low clock speeds

Posted on 2018-05-20, 03:16

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by Ozzuneoj

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Those cards just don't look right, regardless of reported specs. ATi never used stickers that looked that cheap (one color printing), and the logo is wrong. There should be a red rectangle around the letters, not a solid red background. Also, the caps on their high end cards were always the flatter …

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Re: S3 AGP Cards (and possibly others) Too Bright

Posted on 2018-05-20, 03:02

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by Ozzuneoj

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I just checked the Stealth 3D 2000 Pro I have, and it actually has the 3.04 BIOS (its identical to this card , except 4 of the memory modules are in sockets). What is the easiest way to dump the BIOS from this card and upload it here? I prefer a method that can be done on a PC. I have a very old …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-20, 01:10

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by Ozzuneoj

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gbeirn wrote: A57E96A0-EBC6-45BD-8B4C-6FC8CED36D93.jpeg Hit the jackpot (hopefully)! 30 new old stock socket 3 UMC motherboards. I saw these on eBay. If I didn't have 50+ motherboards laying around here waiting to find homes, I totally would have bought those.

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Re: S3 AGP Cards (and possibly others) Too Bright

Posted on 2018-05-19, 04:24

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by Ozzuneoj

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I am attaching the POWERCOLOR BIOS in hopes it can be patched :) Thanks! don't bother with patching, it's v.1.01.03, so flash more recent v.2.01.07 BIOS or try these DEBUG commands ;) oh yeah! this worked perfectly and without patches needed... thanks!!! Is there a reason that you linked v2.01.07 …

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Re: My journey to a bearable Sound Blaster 16 model

Posted on 2018-05-18, 04:06

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by Ozzuneoj

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Interesting comparison. I think I have all of the cards mention, except for the AWE32. The SB16 I've had the longest is the old CT2230 though. It seemed like a good card but the last time I used it I remember getting some weird squelching and crackling sounds from it at random when playing sound …

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Re: A tale of two PSUs

Posted on 2018-05-18, 03:35

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by Ozzuneoj

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I'm certainly not an expert on power supplies, but bulging or leaking aluminum electrolytic caps are fairly uncommon on devices made before 1999 or so... I've only seen them on a few very very low end Micronics SS7 AT boards. Anything with visibly defective caps before they were common may have been …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-15, 20:55

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by Ozzuneoj

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Wow, I've never seen anything like that... especially from that era. Its strange, in the US its incredibly rare to see any hardware that was intended for Asian markets. Most of the hardware we have was made there, but it was all made for western markets. Makes me wonder if there are any hidden gems …

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Re: ATI cards for retro builds... any benefits?

Posted on 2018-05-15, 19:13

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by Ozzuneoj

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This is what I get for mentioning ati Rage... 🤣

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Re: Screen resolution on OLD retro laptops

Posted on 2018-05-15, 19:08

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by Ozzuneoj

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No fixes exist outside using a monitor on the VGA output (if present at all), you either live with the small box in the middle of screen or ugly badly scaled full screen image. This is not always true. A user here provided a TSR that fixed this very problem on my 720CDT: https://www.vogons.org/ …

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Re: PS/2 Ball Mouse smoothness?

Posted on 2018-05-15, 13:30

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by Ozzuneoj

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I'd be interested to try one of the original Razer ball mice. I haven't seen one since reading about them back when optical mice were too slow for competitive gaming... that's a long time ago.

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Re: Video Card: FX 5xxx for Coppermine 800 - Need input

Posted on 2018-05-14, 03:26

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by Ozzuneoj

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I'm still curious which card would pair best with a coppermine though. I expect it would significantly bottleneck the 5900 as it is. I havent found much in the way of benchmarks. i have to check the rails on the power supply, it's about 12 years old but most likely heavy on the 12v as standard …

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Restoring a trashed Quantum3D Raven PCI...

Posted on 2018-05-13, 21:48

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by Ozzuneoj

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I spotted this card laying on top of a heap in a scrap lot listed online and purchased it along with several other cards. It was a really nice lot, except for the physical condition of the cards. The Raven PCI looked bad... I mean, REALLY bad. I could tell in the seller's picture that the back plate …

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Re: Anyone here uses SD to IDE adapters? (for notebooks and Desktops)

Posted on 2018-05-13, 21:04

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by Ozzuneoj

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Another option for cloning it is to create a virtual hard disk (in Windows) by going to Disk Management > Action > Create VHD. Tell it where you want to store the file on your computer. Make it roughly the size of your SD card. Once it is mounted, you can use something like Minitool Partition Wizard …

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

Posted on 2018-05-13, 20:25

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by Ozzuneoj

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Today I installed Hercules Stingray 128 / 3D from the 3Dfx Voodoo Rush family and flashed a newer bios into it. Tried an absurd number of reference drivers and played the first level of Tomb Raider countless time trying to iron out the kinks. Getting that son-of-a-gun working properly was a CHORE. …

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Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2018-05-12, 03:14

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by Ozzuneoj

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JSO wrote: My 688F is on the attached photo and has many jumpers! And CD-ROM works perfectly on the 386 build! That LS-212 chip sure looks a lot like a YMF262. 😀

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Re: Dell XPS, Half Life 1, TNT1 confusion

Posted on 2018-05-12, 03:10

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by Ozzuneoj

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For what its worth, my first PC was a Gateway G6-400 with a PII 400Mhz and an integrated Velocity 128 (Riva 128), and I had no idea that it would even provide hardware acceleration until a few years later when I repurposed the system and installed the OS and updated drivers. Absolutely nothing I ran …

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