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Re: Damaged voodoo 2

Posted on 2018-06-26, 17:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Okay, what about the missing caps? The caps may or may not be extremely necessary, i don't have idea of the purpose of those caps on the circuit but if it is one decoupling capacitor sometimes the IC can live without it, most of time it will present an unstable behavior, and sometimes it would not …

Re: ISA slot tester?

Posted on 2018-06-23, 00:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not sure if you can make a adapter from card edge to pins so you can hook up logic analyzer and/or a oscilloscope. Otherwise its not that hard to find ISA post cards. Edit: quick search revealed that ISA Bus monitor exists so i think it is more suitable for diagnosing.

Re: Did AC adapters / Power supply change a lot in the last 20 years?

Posted on 2018-06-22, 17:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some vintage equipment may not like switch mode adapters. There is a nice youtuber called Jan Beta that i follow and recently he bought one drop in replacement for 7805 but it is a switch mode power supply, and it went all nice except when he power off the c64 the sid chip makes a sound that he …

Re: RAM with TIN vs GOLD connectors compatibility

Posted on 2018-06-21, 15:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

oohms wrote: Gold doesn't corrode or react with the vast majority of substances - it only gets dirty Tin plating is used instead of gold plating to save on costs Google "gold tin reaction"

Re: Capacitor replacements ?

Posted on 2018-06-21, 12:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think that a dessoldering iron/pump is a nice tool to have and minimize the chances of anything going wrong, like ripping pads or damaging the board, some multi layered boards are quite annoying to dessolder. Sure you can "multiplex" the tip of the iron between the two legs of the capacitor but …

Re: The best 4:3 monitor?

Posted on 2018-06-20, 19:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

https://www.testufo.com/ Nice site for benchmarking monitors Common good 4:3 CRT 100hz refresh rate, better at multiple resolutions(heavier games you can reduce the resolution and enjoy better framerates and it will still look nice) Common good 4:3 LCD 75hz at it's best, scalling usually looks like …

Re: The best 4:3 monitor?

Posted on 2018-06-20, 17:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

But for older LCD i don't think that the black levels would even compare to a nice crt. That's long running myth. 58653766.jpg No thats not a myth, it just require basic knowledge of the "inner working" of the monitor. The back light of the lcd isn't totally blocked by the lcd black making it not …

Re: The best 4:3 monitor?

Posted on 2018-06-20, 15:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

mzry wrote: Damn 🤣 sorry! noob mistake. LCD / VGA Well nice blacks in flat panels i only seem in oled screens and i never seem one 4:3 oled display. There some high end 20" crt that supports 1600x1200. But for older LCD i don't think that the black levels would even compare to a nice crt.

Re: Good browser for XP SP3 w/ K6

Posted on 2018-06-17, 00:57

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

My pentium 3 can open vogons quite well, but i consider vogons a retro friendly site, opening other modern sites like msn, yahoo is just a big no no, i run firefox 2 on my pentium 4 and for all the retro friendly sites that i know it handle just fine.

Re: Help with dualbooting in this configuration?

Posted on 2018-06-16, 18:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

brostenen wrote: Why not give eXtended FDisk a go? This way, Win98 and 2K will not interfere with one another. It comes with a graphical bootmenu, that even has booting floppy as a seperate menuitem. http://xfdisk.sourceforge.net/ It just for me or all the download links are broken?

Re: Help with dualbooting in this configuration?

Posted on 2018-06-16, 15:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Based on past experience, I suggest you install Windows 98SE first and then install Windows 2000. If you want to avoid problems, I would configure your hardware as follows: Primary Master - WD80EB-28CGH2 Primary Slave - WD400BB Secondary Master - Hitachi CDROM Secondary Slave - WD80EB-28CGH2 I have …

Re: No beeps from internal speaker but computer works

Posted on 2018-06-15, 16:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dracolich wrote: Thanks for the quick reply. It's not connected to my SB16. It is the older style speaker, like the one on this page: http://www.suntekpc.com/htm-2/speaker-pc-inte … h-8-ohm-xxx.htm Do you have one piezo beeper (those new ones) to test with?

Re: No beeps from internal speaker but computer works

Posted on 2018-06-15, 15:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

which kind of speaker you are using on the header? My 486 had problems making a real pc speaker , i used those tiny piezo beeper and it worked, but i never seen anything like it The only thing that it could be is the pc speaker header connecting to pc speaker input on the sound card.

Re: XP Retro Build - LP GPU Advice

Posted on 2018-06-13, 02:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They made LP GeForce 8600 cards. If you found one with DDR3 it would make a good XP card. Although honestly I would go for something newer, more energy efficient and more powerful like a LP 750ti or HD7750. The games that are going to have issues with something new would probably be better played …

Re: XP Retro Build - LP GPU Advice

Posted on 2018-06-12, 02:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ahh good info. I just looked into it, apparently there is another big part of this is the motherboard being able to map into memory addresses above 4gb. So while your right:it's likely the OP will only lose 256/512mb of system ram because his system is fairly modern, that might not be true on …

Re: XP Retro Build - LP GPU Advice

Posted on 2018-06-12, 00:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't know if there is a workaround ( /PAE ?) but from what I recall if your using XP 32bit then vram will subtract from your total available memory. Example if you choose the 2gb R7 240, then you will have less than 2gb available for system memory. You could always run XP 64bit but from what …

Re: Mount ISO files in a real DOS machine?

Posted on 2018-06-10, 18:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ofc is possible. SCSI2SD is really compatible with anything, even the bugged Apple SCSI controllers, so I think it will even work with a Trantor adapter, or ofc an Adaptec, Tekram or Buslogic card if you can afford them. All them (except Trantor maybe) have bootrom to boot from them, and ASPI DOS …

Re: Mount ISO files in a real DOS machine?

Posted on 2018-06-10, 13:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Which device It is? https://www.amazon.com/Zalman-ZM-VE350-External-Enclosure-ZM-V350B/dp/B019C23H06/ref=pd_sbs_147_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B019C23H06&pd_rd_r=XQZX8N17TSK1A0SEESVF&pd_rd_w=492NT&pd_rd_wg=v3bfh&psc=1&refRID=XQZX8N17TSK1A0SEESVF There a some other brands, too. It does not work like …

Re: Building my retro PC

Posted on 2018-06-10, 00:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ohh i really enjoy these time machine builds one K6-3+ would make it really really really awesome.

Re: Any Iomega Zipdrive that does not break?

Posted on 2018-06-09, 22:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have one zip drive 100 lpt, after all these years it works great, to be honest this zip drive my dad bought for use at work, it had lots and lots of use and it works, after it became obsolete on the work he boxed and maintained it properly stored. It is awesome

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