Re: Not Very Retro Motherboard question

Posted on 2018-03-29, 00:37

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by Ozzuneoj

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Around 2008-2010 is the time sound cards became redundant. Main reasons were lack of support for hardware sound features in windows 7 (technically since vista, but who cares about vista) and the quality of onboard sound stopped being shit. Also Audio over HDMI became a thing. The death of …

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Re: Never seen this type of "screw-in" heatsink before

Posted on 2018-03-27, 03:35

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by Ozzuneoj

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I have an old CPU with a screw-in heatsink somewhat like that. Not as long though! That's an interesting idea. Can't be a secure enough mounting method for modern CPUs though...

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Re: Possible Vintage Graphics Card Repair ?

Posted on 2018-03-27, 03:21

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by Ozzuneoj

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Look over every single tiny component and every pin\leg on each of the chips. Often times the legs on the large chips get dented or crushed and will touch other legs which causes problems. Straightening them can be a pain, but its a fairly easy fix (I usually use a razor blade or something else that …

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Re: Windows 98SE - Disc drives causing crashes

Posted on 2018-03-26, 02:45

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by Ozzuneoj

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845 chipset is smack dab in the middle of the capacitor plague era. I'd check the board for any caps that look swollen or leaky. If they all look okay, make a note of the brand names on them and post here as they could still be junk and just aren't showing problems visibly.

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Re: Centronics Parallel Printer cables... any other uses?

Posted on 2018-03-24, 20:51

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by Ozzuneoj

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Wow, its not looking good for the 'ol centronics cables. Has anyone ever seen any other device (parallel or otherwise) that isn't a printer and uses one of these cables?

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Re: Retro computers and noise

Posted on 2018-03-24, 01:02

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by Ozzuneoj

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Whatever you do, don't get an old Globalwin fan for Socket A/370: http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=684 My brother had one of those and I'm sure the performance was great but it was so loud you could hear it 3 rooms away. On top of that, the clip was so tight that he sheared the …

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Centronics Parallel Printer cables... any other uses?

Posted on 2018-03-23, 21:00

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by Ozzuneoj

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It seems every couple years I have to look this up again because I come across an abundance of what appear to be very high quality (and fairly long) centronics parallel cables. Is there ever a practical use for these cables anymore aside from running an old printer that uses this interface? Consumer …

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Re: Best cooler for SECC processors (Slot A Athlon to be precize)

Posted on 2018-03-23, 01:55

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by Ozzuneoj

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Wow, I have one of those exact coolers on an old PII 266 and I was just looking at it today and thinking "Man, that's a beefy cooler for such a slow CPU."

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Re: 80s oem PC.

Posted on 2018-03-21, 22:35

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by Ozzuneoj

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One thing I will say is that some old computers were apparently made with very high quality components because they still work. My biggest concern with older systems is tantalum capacitors because I've had one explode on me, I've had one short out (no fireworks) and I've seen two in the past few …

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

Posted on 2018-03-21, 18:47

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by Ozzuneoj

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Found another machine! Neat case, probably not going to keep it but it seem to be complete so I'm trying to get it to boot right now. Seems to have a Pentium 150 in it and it's running Windows 95. https://pre00.deviantart.net/efb5/th/pre/i/2018/075/5/3/untitled_by_mad_king_corduroy-dc627ul.jpg Just …

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Re: uneven?

Posted on 2018-03-20, 03:31

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by Ozzuneoj

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So I acquired a matched triplet of GTX 280 cards and a GTX 275. My thought replace my 7900GTX's in my X2 4200 939 rig. Would this be worthwhile or total overkill When you say matched triplet, do you mean 3x GTX 280s? That definitely would be massively CPU bound, but I guess it depends what you're …

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Re: Roland MT-200

Posted on 2018-03-18, 23:28

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by Ozzuneoj

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Thanks for doing all of those videos! If there is any possible way to get a copy of the 2.01 firmware from your MT-200, I'd love to get my hands on that.

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Re: Parallel Port Compact Flash card reader for very old PCs

Posted on 2018-03-16, 23:17

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by Ozzuneoj

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One more thing I wanted to mention... I had trouble reading the CF card in my IBM if it was formatted or partitioned on a different system (even when I used Minitool Partition Wizard to format it with FAT16 and 512byte sectors). I even tried running fdisk in DOS 3.3 and creating a partition and it …

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Re: Parallel Port Compact Flash card reader for very old PCs

Posted on 2018-03-16, 20:50

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by Ozzuneoj

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Just wanted to report back with some additional findings. I won a pile of old CF cards on eBay that will be perfect for very old DOS systems (7 32MB cards and one 128MB) for less than $10. The 32MB cards are all Pretec model CFL032. When benching the new cards, unsurprisingly, checkit's disk …

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Re: Something worth in this pile of cards ?

Posted on 2018-03-16, 20:17

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by Ozzuneoj

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Well I received the box, and this pile of "crap" was really worth !! :lol: Two Voodoo 5 A Voodoo Banshee A radeon 9500 A radeon 9200se (with the nice gold MSI heatsink) Several ATI Rage, geforce 2MX cards A Matrox card with a daughterboard attached to it A Sound blaster Live A Guillemot sound card …

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI graphics anomaly

Posted on 2018-03-15, 22:30

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by Ozzuneoj

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I get these lines on my old Dell 19" flat screen with certain cards at certain resolutions as well. EDIT: Also, the message about overwriting a file that is newer is probably related to the riched20.dll file that is used for displaying text on the 3dfx settings window. I posted about this recently …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-14, 20:37

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by Ozzuneoj

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did you really pay $6000USD for a sound card? No, not even close. Check the seller ratings and you get the right figure I believe (if you're that interested :confused: ) As long as you are happy, who am I to say anything, but at $4000 It must be nice to have more money than sense. Holy crap... I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-14, 17:52

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by Ozzuneoj

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Thanks! I would say 9 out of 10 are from eBay..Rarely something local. I see images are a bit off, may be something has changed. Need to fix those links later. did you really pay $6000USD for a sound card? https://www.ebay.com/itm/AdLib-Gold-1000-ISA-Sound-Card-Factory-Sealed-Ad-Lib-PC-DOS-1992- …

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

Posted on 2018-03-14, 17:46

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by Ozzuneoj

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1701 means there's no fixed disk (hard drive) present. Might be worth it to try the steps on this site: http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/5150_5160/hdd/1701_possibilities.htm If there is no hard drive in the computer connected to the MFM interface, you may have to disable the MFM interface portion of …

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Re: Slot1 Build Issues

Posted on 2018-03-13, 00:53

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by Ozzuneoj

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What exactly are the symptoms? I've noticed a lot of times I've had to reseat Slot 1 CPUs to get them to work right. I'd check the "teeth" inside the slot on the board to be sure they are all aligned properly (you'll see how they move when a CPU is inserted... just like ISA\PCI cards). I'd also …

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